Posted in life on March 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I knew you were coming, so I made a cake!
Oh, okay, I didn’t make it–my cakemaster, Buffy, did. I just decorated it. Tonight was the last of a three-part cake decorating class that taught me how to ice a cake, to smooth the icing, to make roses and pipe letters, how to make buttercream and [...]
Posted in life on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A month ago, Sparks had the idea to throw a vodka tasting party and serve zakuski. Zakuski are just the Russian version of “little” nibbles, like tapas or hors d’oeuvres or ciccetti or dim sum or mezze or antipasto… every culture has a version.
He pulled together a lineup of six vodkas, which between them [...]
Posted in life on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Aaaaaand the “pink” daffodils are up! Once again, most of them anything but pink, and once again, at this time of the year I just don’t care, I’m so happy to see things blooming.
Posted in life on March 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve spent the past month skimming the celluloid and enamel jewelry listings on eBay. I love the cheerful vintage colors and happy characters and flowers that the jewelry comes in… and the idea of my earrings spontaneously bursting into flame is productive of a certain joie de vivre that modern jewelry just can’t match.
Some of [...]
Posted in life on March 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Happy Spring! Wow… I had gotten so used to the idea that winter would never end, it hadn’t occurred to me that it really would end.
Right now, my garden is gobsmacking me. All of those perennial plants I put in last year are… get this… coming back. Whodathunkit? Truth in advertising!
This is going to be [...]
Posted in life on March 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Oops, I did it again!
This time, I was organizing my work room and discovered most of an Allspice Tapestry jelly roll. I had bought it and made some patchwork tops for quilted cushion covers with it, then forgotten about it. What better to go with cushion covers than a lap quilt?
This is based on the [...]
Posted in life on March 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We went away from Sparks’ parents house, when we last visited, with this curious object.
It is a pie carrier that belonged to his grandmother, and so could date from the 1930s. It looks and is put together just like my tiffin cases, but on a larger scale. We wonder if perhaps the tiffin case design [...]
Posted in life on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two weeks after visiting my father’s mother, we bundled ourselves off to Sparks’ parents as a starting point for visiting my mother’s parents, who are another two hours of driving beyond.
It was the third time I have been down there, but always before the house was stuffed to bursting with visiting family, and Sparks [...]
Posted in life on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sparks and I got back yesterday from a quick jaunt to New Orleans. We arrived on Wednesday, the day after Mardi Gras, which to us was a great deal–it was cheap, and the French quarter was empty so we never had to wait for a restaurant.
We were even able to get a courtyard-facing room at [...]
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