Fixin' Leaks and Leeks

A Sasquatch sighting, on my husband’s socks, derailed my crafting plans. I was tearing through the house, looking for crafting supplies, but I found something better: Nate, holding up a pair of socks he bought. They had a motif of Sasquatch running around with pitchers of beer. And that’s when I thought, to heck with… Continue reading Un-Crafting Day: Why I’m Thankful

A swishy gust of wind tried to whisk the fall leaves from the trees outside our house, but they held fast. And as long as those sassy leaves stayed in the trees, I would help hold them down by whipping something up better than what the wind could whip down (such as the beloved neighborhood… Continue reading Swish Go the ‘Shrooms

Rumors of maggots stuck inside chocolaty treats ran rampant on the internet this week, but they didn’t faze me. What really frightens me is doing math or art in front of other people. The people I work with are super nice, and they’re all artistic. They’re like, incredibly talented and enjoy getting together to create.… Continue reading The Thrills and Spills of Pumpkin Painting

The killer korn maze is no place to look for a cheap thrill. Sure, it might be oozing with horror-filled action, but it’ll cost you at least a week’s worth of groceries. Instead, there’s a much cheaper option, and you’ve found it! The Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks Team has a tradition of making up ghost… Continue reading DIY Ghost Stories: The Haunted Ghost Inspector Pays a Visit

From under the lid of the boiling pot…the pasta came alive, with olive eyes and garlic-basil innards. It formed a blob, picked up a knife, and slashed the bread into ghost and pumpkin shapes. But the Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks Team wrestled the knife from the pasta, ate it all, and breathed on the vampires… Continue reading Trick or Treat Creepy Pasta and Sandwich Night

Transform dessert into a whimsical crime scene! We’re definitely in the Halloween spirit at the Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks Headquarters, though we haven’t gotten our pumpkins yet, and there’s nary a spider web in sight. But I did find a recipe for apple crumble, and with a flick of the pen, it now has a… Continue reading Eerie Apple Crumble with Ghost Foam

The plants have picked themselves up and moved into our bedroom because it’s too cold outside. Also, they’re probably possessed, which makes sense. The bedroom is the first place possessed things seem to want to go. Then, they wreak havoc all over the rest of the house, shaking their angry petals everywhere, knocking plates from… Continue reading Plants on the Move!

Spotting a wild bear that’s roaming the neighborhood is exciting, and the Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks Team can cross that adventure off their list. (We presume the bear that neighbors have seen is still wandering our neighborhood and several others in the vicinity.) However, we’ve never spotted one by boat, so we headed out to… Continue reading Bear Necessi-Seas: Bear Boat Tour, Tofino

Visiting hours have begun for our furnace, whose flame is about to be extinguished. To send it off in style, Nate has called a number of contractors to traipse through our house, rattle the walls, and tell us how much they’d charge to replace it. Two contractors showed up yesterday, and they both said the… Continue reading Another Hole in the Wall

The shopping cart and I went off the rails this morning when I rounded the corner and found the Jell-O Lemon Meringue snack. I wondered if a mass-produced gelatin product would taste like the real thing. Would I save myself the “mistake” of going through the trouble of making a lemon meringue pie, just to… Continue reading Deviating from the Shopping List: Lemon Meringue Snack