Oh honey, you made pie

Hello, friends!

I finally got the Halloween decor taken down on Saturday. Phew! It meant a million trips up and down the basement stairs, which for this 7-months-pregnant lady, meant that by the days' end I was absolutely knackered and even spent yesterday recovering. I'm just not used to being limited in the amount of physical work I can do in a day so I definitely overdid it. I'm going to try to be more careful from now on. The upside is that the house looks nice and empty again--even though I love my holiday decor, it's always nice when I take it all down.

The reason I worked so hard on Saturday was that I hosted a craft class at my home that night. We made this pretty box:

And I even got to meet Melissa from Andromeda Vintagehttp://andromedavintage.blogspot.com/2013/11/instagram-recap.html and her cute mom, Diane! They were so lovely and it was so much fun to turn an imaginary internet friend into a real, live person friend. :) I hope this isn't the last time we get to meet!

I cleaned and prepped all day on Saturday but simply ran out of time and energy to wash all of the dirty dishes in the sink. I had just run the dishwasher so it was full and I didn't have time to unload it and reload it with the dirties, and I didn't want my guests to have to look at (or smell) stinky dirty dishes in my sink since we would be working at my kitchen table. Of course I had the brilliant idea to stick all of the light plastic stuff in a big garbage sack and stash it in the oven. You can guess where this story is going, right? Yesterday afternoon we invited our neighbors over for pie after dinner. I forgot all about the dirty plasticware and turned on the oven to preheat while I made the pie.

And this was the lovely result: an oven full of melted dishes and a house completely full of toxic melted plastic fumes and smoke. At least there were no shooting flames--I did manage to catch it before that point! We opened all the doors and windows, turned on the fans, and decamped to the neighbor's house for a while so it could clear out. I came back long enough to finish putting together the pie, then we grabbed the dinner I had put in the slow cooker and headed back over to our friends' home. I'd made double the amount of dinner anyway and they hadn't made dinner yet, so it all worked out--I baked the pie there and we shared the food and the house was nicely aired out by the time we came home a few hours later.

Good dinner, yummy apple crumble pie, and fun company--not a bad way to spend a Sunday evening, it's just a pity that I had to melt my plastic bowls to make it happen! Today I get to find a way to chisel the melted plastic goo off the bottom of my oven. You can bet I won't be making this mistake again!