Christmas presents in progress

Remember the felt of last post? Well my project has been started. Here's a little peak at some of the stuff lying on my dining room table. Hopefully I can make my way through the entire alphabet in time.

Day 8: Metroid Complete

So I spent a lot of time yesterday sewing together the metroid plushie and finished it this morning. As promised, here is a picture of the little guy. I think he's trying to eat my lamp but finding the plastic a little hard to digest.

I also busted out the slow cooker and made some pork chops in it yesterday. They were nice and tender (completely unlike the tough unchewable ones my parents made when I was a kid -- sorry mom & dad) and there's still leftovers for tonight. I probably should have taken a picture to share them, but I have to admit that they aren't all that pretty to look at.

In case you wanted to try making your own pork chops in the slow cooker, the recipe I used was modified from this one here at all recipes.

• 6 boneless pork chops
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• salt and pepper to taste

1. Arrange the pork chops in the bottom of your slow cooker. Mix together all of the remaining ingredients to combine the sauce. Pour the sauce over the pork chops.
2. Cook on low for 6 hours.
   

Day 6: Metroid plushie start

Today I've started work on a metroid plushie (pattern can be found here). I cut out all the pieces and sewed together the fangs. This will be the second one I'll have made. I have to say that they're cute furry warm things for being based off of terrifying video game creatures. I'll post pictures later after it's finished.