Mini S'mores

I've really gotten off-track with lunches. It's been a sleep-deprivation issue.

Don't worry. I have big, big plans to begin making lunches again this week.

Anyhooo, here is a flashback lunch idea, from when I was being awesome and original every day.

MINI S'MORES!!

They would have been even better if I had a tiny blowtorch, but, alas, such things are never around when you need them. I made due with the oven, and they didn't brown like I would have liked.

Let cool. Put in baggies. 

They didn't turn out beautiful, but they were delicious and unexpected.

Hangin' up Stuff

I've been meaning to hang these things up in the Cozy/Annika room since we moved in....picture of the girls....a Holly Hobby my Grandma Cozette made for me when I was little...and other lovely pictures....and now I'm thinking it might have been helpful to have someone hold things up for me, while I stood back and mulled it all over.

I think I'll just stick a lamp on the left to balance it all out. It's dark in that corner anyhow. ...and we'll just pretend that was the plan all along.

For Sofia, Love Grandma

Sofi got a surprise package in the mail. Her Grandma has been sewing...and I think sometimes it pays to have an obsessive interest in something. It makes people see a fabric and think, "Must - make - for - Sofia!"

So, Sof got a bag, complete with "emergency chocolate" (For those of us who have monthly chocolate emergencies).

Pretties!

I've been trying REALLY, REALLY hard not to buy fabric.

...cause it isn't as if I don't have any.

Then SewMamaSew went and put their Ruby Star Typewriters on sale...

...and I just felt I had to get some before they were gone again.

What do you know, some other cute things were on sale too, so I bought my typewriters some matchy friends.

...including my first cotton voile.

Rosh Hashanah

The kids had yesterday off of school. Jonny has been waiting for just such a moment to drag those teenagers to the aquarium. Don't they look thrilled. I just ignore their unimpressed complaining and assume they LOVE it.

That's us waiting to see dolphins - the coolest creatures ever!

Since we've bought our tickets to Hawaii for next summer, I told them they should start saving up for something awesome, like swimming with dolphins! We'll see. If they don't, they'll be inwardly jealous when Cozy and I are out there petting and feeding dolphins.

Sofi and James were great aquarium buddies. I totally called it.

They both like to take their time and watch the animals they like.

Anthony was more "give everything a quick glance and then chase after Cozy, who is twice as fun to watch".

Jon - trying to show Anthony everything cool he remembered from last time. :)

So, Happy New Year, and  Peace Out, Yo!

another change on it's way

 

I'm finally painting my buffet.

 

 

I've been putting it off, because I knew it would make  my kitchen look like this:

...and the color is a little lighter than I had planned (a definite first for me - usually I go the other direction! I must have over-compensated.) I'll just cross my fingers and hope I like it in the end.

My Quilt in Progress is Finally Progressing

Vital part replaced. Quilt construction begun. 

And it is a dang good thing! It's a lot easier to fold up a pieced quilt top (so we can eat dinner) than it is to try and stack the pieces in a way I'll be able to "decode" when I finally unstack it.

I was going to make a starry doll quilt out of the scraps, but Jonny was playing with them. He got very attached to the "broken dishes" pattern he made. Funny he ended up with that one. 

Jon made me hurry and put them together, because "people keep messing them up!"

(Um...been there.)

I made some more squares to go with them, but he wouldn't let me include them in the little quilt....and apparently it's for his Pokemon - not his cousin. 

Dang.

I guess I'll be making another one tomorrow.