Recently, on some cooking show or other, (I watch a lot of them) we saw salt crusted potatoes. On friday, we attempted them. Super easy and very yummy. Start with some small potatoes. I think that the recipe I found called for fingerlings. I used some sort of small golden potato that Kroger had. Put […]
A livejournal friend asked me how I go about spinning wire. I took photos of the whole process from wire to bracelet. There are a million pics under the cut.
A few weeks ago, I saw a very lovely bracelet in one of the fiber/spinning communities on facebook. I loved it and thought that surely I could replicate it. I watched a couple of videos on youtube about spinning fiber onto a wire core. That was my project for the last Second Saturday Spin-In. Spinning […]
I’ve got a chicken in the crockpot, it’s been going for a couple of hours, still needs a couple. For the first time I am trying it without adding a lot of liquid to it. My friend Mari is the one who told me that I could do a whole chicken in the crockpot. We […]
I find myself craving Mexican food very often. Sometimes though, I really just want margaritas, the food is secondary. Yesterday was one of those cases. I had talked to the boyfriend about going out for tacos and when he asked me why I wanted to go I had to admit that I really just wanted […]
I’ve cooked three times since Saturday and everything has turned out great! There’s been a lot of happy belly rubbing in our house. On Saturday, I made chicken fajitas with Pioneer Woman’s Pico de Gallo and guacamole. On Tuesday, I tried a pasta dish I found linked on Facebook and on Wednesday I made the […]
I’ve been busting out the Trip Around the World quilts for years now. They’re super quick and easy and make a pretty, colorful quilt. However, I’m tired of the design. Each quilt is as pretty as the last, but I’m just ready to move on to something new. On the other hand, I didn’t want […]
I’ve let the depression rule my life for the last several months. However, in August I started feeling better and cleaning the house. Now that I had a nice clean craft table, I decided that it was time to put it to use. Several months ago, my cousin mentioned to me that her youngest child […]
So, I have been thinking for the last few days about starting a new quilt. Digging for fabric in the closet led me to digging out all of the fabric in the closet. But this is not all of the fabric that I have. There is some in the cedar chest of doom, but I […]
Obviously, I couldn’t just post a picture of it last week, I wanted to keep it under wraps until the birthday girl had seen it. And usually it’s my rule that the recipient must see the gift before the intarwebs at large. Tho’ sometimes, if you see me in real life, I’ll show you a […]