Monday Makeover: Mousepads!

ETTING CRAFTY is one of my favorite things to do on the weekend when it's bleak and weary outside. My company moved to a new office recently and everything was so shiny+new that my mousepad looked weathered in comparison. I got it over 10 years when I won an art contest so it was definitely time to update it!

Here's what you need to get started on your own:

MATERIALS

- An old mouse pad (Ikea has some good basic ones for just $1 each.)

- Fabric*

- Fray check*
- Heat n' Bond*

*all available from your local craft store.

DIRECTIONS

1. Trace the mousepad onto your fabric, and cut a 1/2 inch of extra fabric around the traced shape.

2. Put the side of the fabric with the print face down, and put Heat n' Bond on it with the paper side up.

3. Iron for 10 seconds until bonded and remove paper backing from fabric when done.

4. Place fabric on mouse pad right side up and iron over fabric until bonded.

5. Trim extra fabric with good scissors and use Fray Check to make sure there are no loose threads.

... And voilà! Five steps later you have a pretty cheap, pretty easy, and pretty new mousepad.

 

From drab to fab.

Have fun!
Margaret

Holy Breakfast Pizza

ATHER THAN try to explain my penchant for breakfast, I'll just let the ingredients do the talking: veggie bacon strips which I lovingly refer to as fakeon (pronounced fay-ken),  a healthy handful of sliced tomatoes, a grip of fresh flat-leaf parsley, a sprinkling of chives, shallots, and onions, topped with a dusting of Parmesan cheese and... eggs?

Yes, eggs on a pizza. The result? Only one of the best pizzas I have ever had in my life. This recipe kicks all other "breakfast pizzas" to the curb—typically when someone says "breakfast pizza," I envision cold, soggy slices of pizza from the night before, but not this one. Getting a bite of eggs with bacon is sheer genius!

DIRECTIONS

1. Roll dough out into a 12" diameter. You can make your own, or you can buy premade dough (which is what I did).

2. Assemble pizza with thinly sliced onions, shallots, fake bacon, tomatoes, and cheese. You can brush some oil on the top if you're worried about burning.

3. Crack three eggs onto the pizza (You can break the yolk if you prefer,so that the egg isn't concentrated in one area--I definitely like it spread out), and bake at 375° for about 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown.

4. Remove the pizza from the oven, sprinkling minced chives and parsley on top.

Adapted from The New York Times.

xo,

margaret