Time For Ice Cream! @ Little Red Wagon

 This week at

it's Doni's turn to choose the challenge and she's saying, "It's Time For Ice Cream!" which just means she wants to see those ice cream treats on your project.

Ah, ice cream.  I LOVE ice cream.  But, I'm kinda fussy about my ice cream.  It think it stems from years of painstaking research to develop a discerning palate.  I'm aware that there will be few of you, Dear Readers, who will have the experience I do with ice cream.  So, allow me to educate.

The best ice cream is soft serve.  Now, before you quizzically look at your cone from McDonalds or Dairy Queen, it's not just any soft serve.  The best soft serve comes from Erie Drive-In in Stratford, Ontario.  And, yes, I am aware that their ice cream is probably not proprietary, and is most likely a purchased mix which they add to their machines, and could possibly be the same mix available at other soft serve serving restaurants, but, believe me, it's the best.  And it's the best to the point that I will not eat a soft serve ice cream cone from anywhere else because of the crushing disappointment I feel when it doesn't taste like the ice cream from Erie Drive-In.  [Full disclosure, I have eaten soft serve ice cream from Dairy Queen, in the form of a Blizzard, and I've made a Wendy's chocolate Frosty do from time to time as it's a 45 minute drive from my house to Stratford, and Erie Drive-In is open from April - (Canadian) Thanksgiving long weekend only.]

Before I continue, I feel like I need to verify my ice cream tasting credentials for you.  One Saturday, a number of years ago, when my middlest was in a ball tournament in Stratford, all I ate was ice cream cones.  I had five of them.  That's my record.  I've achieved three at tournaments before and after that, and two is basically a given if I'm going to be in Stratford for any length of time.  And, it's always the same order.....a Zebra Cone.

Now, if you're wondering what the frick a Zebra Cone is, you're probably not alone.  Heck, if you Google 'Zebra Cone' you won't even find out what I'm meaning, especially since this....

...is one of the first images that appears (which is completely awesome, but not relevant to this narrative).  Erie Drive-In is the only place I've ever heard it called a Zebra Cone.  It's more commonly referred to as a Swirl or Twist Cone.  You know, one of the ones where the ice cream is half vanilla and half chocolate... and all delicious.

Getting your cone dipped is not only an option, but an encouraged option (though I do allow myself only one dipped cone per day....which does seem to be a ridiculous limit to impose on someone who has no problem gobbling up multiple cones in a 24 hour time span).  Erie Drive-In has all manner of dipping options including the standard chocolate and butterscotch, to the more adventurous cotton candy or birthday cake to the one I always get....wait for it.....

Peanut Butter. 

And it is glorious.  Especially since the peanut butter dip isn't too thick, coz it's needs to allow soft ice cream to dip into it after all, so it's all the peanut butter taste, with none of the stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth texture.  Also, since the dip is warm it makes the ice cream a little more melty and that much creamier.  I'm telling you, My Friends, it doesn't get much better than that. 

Now, you're probably wondering with all this talk of ice cream, did I have time to make something that included ice cream?  I sure did.....

As you can see, I did not make this lil one's ice cream a Peanut Butter Dipped Zebra Cone.  It is hard ice cream, after all, not soft serve.  But, I did cover it in Stickles so it looks all glittery and delicious though.  Digi is from Mo's Digital Pencil.

So, why not give our challenge a go this week and join us?  And, if you'd like more inspiration, be sure to check out what the Girlfriends have made. 

Also for:

Classic Design Challenge:  anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore:  anything goes

Mix It Up:  anything goes

QKR Stampede:  anything goes

Creative Crafters:  anything goes

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie:  inspirational image

Colour Crazy:  anything goes

Crafty Catz:  anything goes

Creative Fingers:  anything goes

Ellibelle's:  anything goes

TTCRD:  anything goes

Cutie Pie:  little cuties

Corrosive:  anything goes

We Love Stamping:  hot sunny colours

As You Like It:  warm or cool colours - I like 'em both but I think I prefer warm colours.  They seem to pop more.

Aud Sentiments:  anything goes

Craft Rocket:  summertime

Simon Says:  for a child

Fab 'n' Funky:  anything goes

Addicted to Stamps:  any occasion