A 2-Minute History of England

This cool commercial was made as a celebration of the 122nd anniversary of a British company named Hovis. It begins with a delivery boy delivering Hovis bread in 1886 England and ends, well....today. All of you lovers of British history out there, for I know there are some others like myself, enjoy!

Official Mystery Pie Day

I am excited. It's the beginning of a tradition! Today my co-worker and I had a Mystery Pie taste-off at work. She brought her Mystery Pie, made from a recipe passed down from her grandmother, and I brought my Mystery Pie, made from a recipe I found on the internet last week. It was lots of fun for lots of reasons. 1) I enjoyed finding a new recipe that is quite yummy. 2) Everyone else enjoyed trying to guess the mystery ingredient. 3) It was good to have a reason to take a break from work and socialize over dessert.

We decided that September 23 will be Mystery Pie Day from now on. No matter where I am or what I'm doing on September 23 in the coming years, I will make Mystery Pie and share it with other people. Maybe they'll know the mystery ingredient, and maybe they won't. It's all part of the fun. :)

Feeling Healthified

Ok, ok. I seem to find more things to blog about on Sundays than on any other day....possibly because I actually take time to think and look for new projects on Sundays. I found another wonderful website called Eat Better America. It is no secret that many Americans need to eat better (myself included).

This excellent website offers "healthified" recipes AND even offers to "healthify" your recipes. How amazing is that? You also find the nutritional information for each of these recipes....and the healthified versions offer the regular recipe with the healthier versions/amounts of ingredients listed next to the old amounts. Underneath that, you'll find comparisons of nutritional information. For example, a recipe for Sweet Potato Casserole, an Aston family Thanksgiving favorite, is listed. The original recipe contains 29 grams of fat, while the "healthified" version only has 5 grams of fat. 5! Wow! Props to them, I say!

Ahhh the things you can learn on the Internet!

Once again my internet surfing has turned up more gems of inspiration. Burdastyle.com offers free sewing patterns....yes friends, you read those words correctly....FREE ones. And, to sweeten the deal, they are cute too! Cute, free, sewing patterns. Who could ask for more? Granted, not all of them are my cup of tea, but that's ok too.

One in particular caught my eye: The Urban Hammock. Check out the how-to video:


Pretty clever and easy to create, I'd say. I think I might make some of these lovelies for the nieces and nephews for Christmas (except for the babies of course, I'll get them something plastic and colorful that they can gnaw on to their hearts content).

Happy Hammocking Everyone!