Had a Happy Week

Well, I am having a run-away mom girl weekend with my best friend from college this weekend but wanted to do a bit of a weekly recap.

I think that Very soon I am going to try and do themed posts.

You know:
Made it Myself Monday
Tutorial Tuesday
WIP Wednesday
Thrift Shop Thursday
Fashion Friday

Or something less nauseatingly alliterated.
or not.

But back to the recap of The Week That Was:

Very decent Thrift-shopping:

• The 4 cup pyrex measuring cup... I only had the two cup.
• 5 mini fluted pyrex pie plates. These are fantastic. I will use them all the time!
• Handy dandy potato ricer/fruit press: appears to be vintage but unused, cute and handy.
• Nice vintage robe pattern: maybe a holiday item for Mr. Bitter.
• Red beads and a black patent leather frame handbag.

The table cloth was from a previous thrift-venture but it pulled the look together.

I think it is funny how what you buy from the thrift store usually has something to say about you current obsessions. Lately I have been cooking about a thousand times more interesting and complicated meals. Hence the small dishes and huge measuring cup.
But Betty why are you cooking so much more? Why, when there is sewing and embroidering calling out to be done? Why?

The CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Box. It is like an Organic Veggie Subscription.

This is a pic of some of the stuff we got this week.

Last week I made: fresh tomato soup, pumpkin bread from fresh roasted pumpkin, butternut squash soup, cornbread, eggplant dip and sauteed shrimp, margaritas, pita croutons for a salad made with mint and feta cheese, blue cheese-cranberry-pecan salad, apple crisp, pumpkin bread caramel sundaes, gingered lemon drops ( The cocktail, mind you.), tuna casserole with green beans, ceasar salad,

and tonight we will have almond crusted local salmon with creamy leek sauce, scalloped sweet potatoes with fennel, and mixed baby greens with pumpkin seeds and apple chunks.

Normally its just: pasta, burritos, pasta, grilled fish, soup, pasta.. and maybe an omelette.

I am going to have to find a happy medium someday because my craft time has been pretty sparse.. and the huge amount of dirty dishes.. aye-aye!

but for now we are fat and happy living off the CSA Box.

Weekly Gratuitous kitten photo:

Well, off I go to take my big orange cat to the vet. He hurt his paw trying to escape from this little terror.

Maybe I will get a chance to finish my New Vintage Shirt before I hit the road.
Well, a girl can dream, can't she?

There's no Place like Home

Back from the trip to the In-Laws in good old Orange County.
I know. No warning... but I had delusions of posting on the road.
I am nothing, if not delusional.
Our schedule was hectic and the laptop wasn't hooked up to the internet when it was in my vicinity so:
So home again after a family reunion, a good friend's bridal shower, cuddling cute nieces, and a mom and son trip to the land of Disney. No photos.. I left the camera at home. Doh.

I really enjoyed everyone's responses to the Personality profiling.. and there is only one I have to question.
Come on, Jungle Dream Pagoda... You have to be "dramatic".. It's in your job description!
.. And you own more than one Pucci!

We are in recovery mode here after actually watching commercial tv for a few days (!) and having all our socks dirty at the same time. I am excited though because I watched Martha Stewart silkscreen and even though I have carved a lino block for the swap.. I am all excited to silkscreen some fabric. I have almost everybody's addresses.. I will get my organizational bonnet on and get the remainder of the list.

But in the mean time... The garden is so pretty. And I just don't know what other post to share these on. So please enjoy my tiger lilies.





And the hydrangeas... The deer didn't gnaw them off this year and frankly I couldn't be more thrilled.



It is almost making up for the fact that the dang "napalm on the hoof" did desimate the summer kitchen garden pretty much entirely.

Snacking on the pepper plants and the chowing down on the early heirloom tomatoes. Aw, wilderness.