Moved.

This ninja was having a hard time keeping up with two blogs. And now, it's all condensed into one.

The Ninja Herself

This will have crafts, recipes, and personal blogs here and there. So, if you're a follower here, please be a follower over there.

I plan on keeping this and my food blog active, but..not active? I won't be posting there anymore, but I won't be deleting anything from them.

"Whoopehhh."

"Hey look! My mom's here!" 

"Whoopehhh." 

Name that movie.

Okay, so being from the northeast (Pennsylvania, to be exact) really instills a lot of things into your mind.

1. Amish people are people, too. This means that, yes, they deserve their own special parking area for their horses and buggies.

2. Knobles is a place you will never be too old to enjoy.

3. Turkey Hill sells THE BEST TEA EVER. If I could get my hands on a couple gallons of orange tea right now, I'd be a happy girl. But it has to be the Turkey Hill kind. None of the others taste right.

4. Whoopie pies are good anytime, anywhere. And that's a fact, Jack. 

I haven't had these babies in SO long. Honestly, I'm more of a fan of the cookie part, but that's just me. I've tried many different recipes for these, but the best whoopie pies you'll get are from random small restaurants...if you want to call them that. 

Here's the most recent recipe I tried. I LOVED the cookie part. The innards could use some work, though.

"It felt French."

I love Friends. Too much for words. I could probably watch that show 24/7. It's always hilarious.

Anyway.

Kyle, Selena, Gabe, and I went with my in-law's to my father-in-law's mother's house.

Mouthful, huh?

This was..in February. She had made us some food, and part of it was this french bread with about a half inch of garlic butter in the middle. Kyle's been going on and on and ON about it ever since. And it's almost April. Sheesh.

I was making spaghetti the other night and decided to give a try at some french bread with garlic butter.

It came out amazingly.

Until I screwed it up.

I had to bake this bread twice in two days. It was THAT good.

Fat Kid Night.

I posted..less than 24 hours ago about taking a blog hiatus. And I guess my choice of wording is wrong. It's more of a "come and go as fit" situation.

The amount of stress in my life is still at high, and *gasp* I'm out of crafts to do at the moment to take my time off of it. So, tonight I claimed myself to a Harry Potter marathon and baking.

And these cupcakes are totally worth not having a craft to do.

I guess they're a craft in themselves.

You know your mouth is watering.

Shadows = Temporary Hiatus

Honestly, I'm not gone from this because I want to be.

I'm gone from this from necessity.

We, the husband and I, are dealing with a LOT of things right now. More than I care to get into, actually. Also, our finances aren't the best. I'm limited as to what I can cook and bake. So I'm making repeats of cheap meals that I've already put on here, or microwave dinners. 

SUCH SACRILEGE!

I know. I"m kicking myself about it. I really am.

I promise, though, once things in life pick up and settle down, I'm back on this like white on rice.

I'm not built for the outside stuffs.

I'm really, really, REALLY not an outdoors person.

I don't do the whole camping thing. 

And here's why.

1. It gets freaking HOT in the summer. Pennsylvania wasn't so bad, but now that I'm in Missouri, it's like I'm walking outside to Hell. I prefer air conditioning.

2. There's no bathrooms when you go "real" camping. I'm saying "real" camping because Kyle, bless his heart, just gets into a tizzy when you bring up campgrounds. You should hear his rant. It's quite amusing.

3. There's bugs and things. Bugs are too icky for my taste. And skunks. And mountain lions. And armadillos. And possums. *shivers*

4. I'm a mosquito magnet, literally. If you want to walk outside with no bug spray on into a swarm of those things, take me will you. I promise that you won't get bit. They'll be too busy attacking me.

Now, camping food? I'm down with that.

Fire roasted hot dogs, I love. Jiffy Pop over the fire? Bring it.

And s'mores. S'mores are #1 on my fire food priority list.

In the summer, Kyle makes a fire in our yard to burn branches and random scraps of wood that I collect (because you never know what you can make from them!) and I can only stand about 2 minutes in the heat. And everytime I request a s'more, I hear the dreaded words...

"Make it yourself!"

*sigh*

But WAIT! I found the solution! Head over to Just Baked and find...

...THIS SUPER AWESOME RECIPE FOR S'MORES CUPPYCAKES!

^ Click above for recipe. ^

I'm serious. I don't kid about cuppycakes. Or s'mores. And these are as close as you're going to get to a s'more without having to fight the evils of being outside.

I'm not posting the recipe on here, but below are my photos of the process and end result. You'll drool, I promise.

Kyle and I are already fighting over them. :)

In like a lion. No sh!t.

March comes in like a lion, right?

Weeeeelll....

There was a HUGE storm that roared through our area. Luckily, we just got a power outage.

But I'm not posting a recipe today.

INSTEAD!

I'm posting a SUPERMEGAFOXYAWESOMEHOT deal on something your kitchen needs. Like woah.

KitchenAid Artisan Series 5-Quart Mixer As Low As $157.99 (After Rebate)

CHYEAH DUDE!

That's the same as MY lover on the side mixer! It's SUPER handy and, honestly, a necessity in my kitchen.

Details:

- Originally priced at $349.99

- On sale for $199.99 (White and Onyx Black ONLY)

- Super Saver Shipping = FREE!

- $30 post purchase mail in rebate

Just based on that alone, you'll get this thing for $169.99! That's SO EFFING CHEAP FOR THIS MONSTER OMG!

OH OH OH! Not even the BEST part!

As seen on on CouponDivas.com: 

There is also a FREE subscription to either Travel + Leisure or Food & Win Magazine available (the form is on the page). If you do not want the magazine subscription you’ll receive an additional $12.00 back on your rebate!

That makes the grand total....

$157.99

What a steal! Seriously, if you've been waiting for a sale to get one of these, now's the time to do it! I'm not sure how long it's going to last. Hop on this bandwagon!