100 calorie potato chips!

I have been struggling to figure out how to honor the number 100 for this week. I was thinking about making a tutorial on making frosting roses in 100 seconds. Well, after 100 takes and 100 tears, I discarded that idea. My brain is a little scrambled right now-- lots going on here, so I finally came up with this.

I promise to step it up soon. School just got out yesterday and right after I get back from Mexico, I plan to try out some more heavy duty crafts! In the meantime, here is my salute to 100.

A single serving of regular potato chips (1 ounce) contains 152 calories and 9.8 grams of fat. I estimate that you could have about 3.5 ounces of these easy homemade potato chips for about 100 calories with very little fat!

You will need potatoes, sprayable oil or Pam (I bought a spray bottle for my oil and LOVE it!), a peeler or mandoline, and freezer paper.

1. Wash your potatoes. You can peel them if you want, but I usually don't.

2. Take out the glass tray from your microwave. Cut a piece of freezer paper to fit the tray exactly. Lay the paper on the tray. Spray it lightly with oil.

3. Slice your potato very thinly using the peeler or the mandoline. (Sometimes I just use a knife to do it.) You are trying to make them look like potato chips.

4. Lay all of the potato  pieces out on the freezer paper. They should not overlap. Lightly salt the chips. You can use other seasonings as desired. You could also give them a light spray with oil, but it isn't essential.

5. Put the tray back in the microwave and cook on high for 4 minutes. It will probably take longer, but it would be a good idea to check them. Cook for additional minutes as needed. When they are done, they will be golden brown and crispy. They will slide right off the paper.

6. Enjoy!

Note:  a small potato is about 5 ounces. The whole potato would be 131 calories

100 Marshmallow Fondant

If you couldn't tell from past posts, I like food and I like to make food. To celebrate 100 followers, my 100 items is marshmallows! Have you ever seen those beautifully iced cakes that look like they're not even cakes? Fondant makes the cake look so good. I found an easy and kind of tasty way to make fondant using marshmallows, powder sugar, water, and some good ol' shortening.

My mom and I found this website with the recipe a couple years ago and have loved experimenting with it. Click here for the link and recipe.

The website explains it better than I can so I'll let you readers explore the making. Now for dying the fondant, that's where the fun comes in. My mom and I had to experiment with how to do this without dying our hands. We found that if you take a baggy and put a section of the fondant in the baggy along with some food coloring (look on the packaging to see how to get a certain shade.) Knead the fondant in the baggy until the color is even. The fondant should absorb the food color and it shouldn't spread to your hands once you take the fondant out of the baggy. Roll it out, cut it out, twist it, do whatever you want to create your very own fancy cake.  First, ice the cake (also known as dirty icing) then put the fondant over it. You can use water to attach stripes, shapes, or whatever you want.

This is the cake Jordan and I made for Rebecca's 2nd birthday. Instead of frosting we used apricot jam on butter pecan cake. Super delicious!

Ok...so I didn't count the marshmallows but we can just say we did ;)

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Just Jaime is guest posting at Chica es Aristica today

She is sharing this $2 Wreath. Go take a look =)

100 Rosette Sphere

I'm SO excited to have so many followers!! I'm glad you are here and that we get to share our Wayward Craftiness with you.

To celebrate 100 + followers, I made this Rosette Sphere. I had seen examples here and here and decided to give it a whirl myself. I didn't have a Styrofoam sphere handy so I used what I had: a small toy basketball. I originally bought it to give to a friend's little boy...but decided not to since they were moving out of the country. Anyways, first I painted the ball white with acrylic paint.

Next I made 100 (or thereabouts) rosettes. See the above links for tips. Mine ended up really small so I had to do a LOT of them. I'd recommend making them bigger.

About halfway done.

Completed. It only took 4 hours and burns on all of my finger tips. I put it on an up-side-down candlestick holder which keeps it stable and cute. This sphere has made its home on my mantle, but it's great for party decor too.


DON'T FORGET to enter Jordan's giveaway. Comment on her entry below!

100 Followers, 100 inches of ribbon, and a GIVEAWAY

We're so excited: a few weeks ago we hit 100 followers! Thank you all!

To celebrate, we're featuring some 100-themed posts, as well as an awesome guest post in Brooke's slot while she's on her "maternity leave"--and a very fun new feature coming up Saturday!

My project was inspired by a square table runner I saw at Roberts, a favorite craft store. Their runner was made with two colors of 4" wide sheer ribbon with 4" spaces between each row of ribbon. I made it on a smaller scale to use only 100" of ribbon, so it's a side table runner or a candle mat.

After agonizing over the math, I realized that (as usual) I was over thinking it. For this project, you need 10 10-inch pieces of ribbon in a couple colors (I used two colors, but you could use one or more; also, it helps if your ribbon is slightly over 10" long):

I did five in each of two colors. The red is sheer ribbon--and let me warn you, sheer ribbon makes this much more difficult! It shifts very easily and can skew your project. That's okay; it's wayward!

Arrange the ribbon strips with all the strips of one color running one direction, and the strips of the other color running perpendicular. You can weave the strips if you like that look:

Or you can simply layer the colors:

Leave the ends overhanging a little. It'll make it easier to sew and trim later. Be sure to pin each square in place because they can shift around a lot. I eyeballed the positioning of the ribbons, but if you want to be more exact, you can use a ruler. 

Now sew it down. I sewed around the outside square first, then along the edge of each strip of the red ribbon. I used red top and bobbin threads, but you could also match the bobbin thread to the bottom ribbon for a fully-reversible runner.

If you love the look of sheer, think about using some water-soluble glue to hold each square in place. Let it dry completely and sew over top of it, then wash out the glue.

And as part of our 100 follower celebration, I'm giving this runner away!

All you have to do to enter:

• One entry for becoming a follower of our blog, and commenting on this blog post to tell me about it.
• One entry for following us on Twitter, and commenting on this blog post to tell me about it.
• One entry for tweeting this post, and commenting on this blog post to tell me about it (with a link directly to your Tweet).
• One entry for Liking us on Facebook, and commenting on this blog post to tell me about it.
• One entry for blogging about our new blog, and commenting on this blog post to tell me about it (with a link to your post!).
• One entry for telling us your thoughts on our new blog, or asking me a question in a comment on this blog post.

Just so we're clear: each of these should be in its own comment! So if you like us on FB, comment, Follow us on Twitter, you should leave 3 separate comments.

THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED. THE WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED HERE.

All comments must be in by midnight Sunday night (if it's still Sunday somewhere in the world, we'll take it), and the winner will be announced one week from today.