{quilt} while you're ahead

62**2013

If you ask your son to decorate a pie...

make sure your brief is tight and doesn't leave room to interpretation...

or you could end up eating Homer Simpson's head.

48**2013

When life gives you an obscene amount of delicious handmade chocolate ...

why not baking chocolate caramel shortbread?

I used the super easy recipe from Attic24. (Not for the first time, ehm...).

It's a real treat.

Just don't think about the calories... the butter... the golden syrup... the caramel...

 

Don't I said!

26**2013 - thrifted teapot -

A lovely find

Poole Pottery teapot in perfect conditions.

Tea, anyone?

12**2013

The snow still covers the ground

but that's mainly on the pavements... the roads are clear.

I'm seriously beginning to worry about the mental state of my fellow citizens:

(wouldn't you notice if suddenly only one of your feet started to slip around??? is it me???)

- No 3 dropped his Kindle Fire in the bath (he wasn't in it, but only showing something to his brother who was).

Tragedy.

I'm glad to report that 4 days in a bag of rice cured the device and it's now as good as new.

- Lunch:

(bottom of the cupboard/fridge soup.  Always the best ones)

- I got my first pair of glasses today (a part from a short stint during No 3's pregnancy - that was weird)

Feels weird.  Kids think it's hilarious.

143//2012

... Easy like Sunday morning...

(porridge and shashiko)

135//2012 {{Mr M Advent Calendar}}

A modified version of an idea unashamedly stolen from Ali

Not a beer a day, but carefully chosen bottles from small local breweries... or simply because they have a pretty label...

 

131//2012

wordless wednesday

129//2012

Once upon a time on a weekend

- I had a delicious breakfast with fresh blueberries

- I nursed a nasty cold kindly 'donated' by Mr M who, on previous days, had decided to work from home so not to infect his colleagues at work.

- ...

- Nice to know where one stands in his priorities.

- Because I'm not bitter I hired No 3's help and baked mini mince pies

- AND a jam tart

- I don't like mince pies.  They smell. Not in a nice way.  BUT they seem all the rage at this time of year and I bowed to peer pressure.  Actually, as I was bying a jar of 'mince meat' (nothing to do with meat... if you're not English you'll be confused, like I was when I first moved over here) a lady behind me told me it's bad luck making them before December.

- Also, my friend H told me I shouldn't be eating brussell sprouts before the first frost.

- Sigh.

- I've been living in England for 21 years and I still get things wrong.

- Speaking of being here for 21 years... I'm reading "Night walks" by Charles Dickens.  Oh dear.  I didn't realise there are so many words I don't know either.

- On the up side I managed to do a little bit of quilting, and crochet

- (cashmere how I love thee)

- and I blocked and assembled all but one sleeve of my record breaking sweater (more on that soon)

- I also bought some Christmas ornaments, YES, it's November ... AND?

- There was also lots of washing and big cooking, games of UNO and Monopoli... and I painted my toenails.

- Have a good week!

128//2012

1/2 squash, 4 red carrots, 1 red pepper, 1 potato, cubes of feta cheese = delicious soup

Incidentally this quote made me smile: "an idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concluders that it will also make better shoup". (HL Mencken)

Leaves:

Meet Larry:

Just because.

 

128//2012

1/2 squash, 4 red carrots, 1 red pepper, 1 potato, cubes of feta cheese = delicious soup

Incidentally this quote made me smile: "an idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concluders that it will also make better shoup". (HL Mencken)

Leaves:

Meet Larry:

Just because.