Exploring Uptown

My daughter came home to visit for the evening. We all had an appointment to get our taxes done with Mr. Pace. We were pleased with the ending results. My daughter is the one that had the bigger smile at the end. She likes being a working girl.

Afterwards, we took a ride down main street. As we were driving, we noticed a new little Argentina Cafe with the lights on and decided to stop in. The name was “Elena’s”.

They had lots of pastries to choose from, so we each picked one to try and headed out. 

Once back on the street, we noticed a new Ice Cream shop in one of the basement entrances. It was actually called “Down Stairs Ice Cream”. They make their own ice cream by using local ingredients. 

I had the Lavender Sherbet.

This place as been several different things in the past from a coffee shop to a bagel shop. I think the ice cream will be a hit with the locals. 

It was fun and I now have some places to visit on my work breaks. They are actually walking distance from my office.

Emotional Support Pop Tart

Boy if this is not a random post. 

Well, there is a reason for such a silly thing. I mean, who knew a pop tart could bring emotional relief? I love eating pop tarts. My favorite are the cherry ones with white icing. I like the chocolate ones too. Growing up, mom often cooked a breakfast for us or we had cereal, but pop tarts were also thrown in as quick breakfast. Now I will eat them for a snack sometimes. 

I work in a field that we could all use some emotional support almost every day. Everyone is always looking out for each other due to the nature of our everyday job task. It is not rare to see someone randomly put a sweet note, candy, or flowers on someones desk, just to let them know everything is ok. 

We need that extra reminder of friendships and support. That’s when I got this idea to make a few of these cute Emotional support pop tarts to pass out to some co-workers. 

I like to make others smile and these pop tarts were so random and cute I couldn’t resist. They were immediately loved and you can see them propped up around computer screens as people would work, just to remind them, “You’ve got this”. 

These pop tarts were crocheted by making two squares using single crochet. The back side is one stitch and one row larger than the front side then whip stitched around and adding a little stuffing before finishing off .