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07/05/11--14:12: Summer Lovin' (chan 1143134)

So much to love about summer - like drying your sheets on the line. Icy cold root beer milk (Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!) for lunch. Picnics on the grass with homemade Chex Mix for snacki-poos. PIMIENTO CHEESE!!!!! and lemonade. Outdoor...


07/06/11--17:07: More or Less Marsupial (chan 1143134)

I've got pouches, little suede-y pouches. Incredibly easy to fashion. I used this tutorial. When I chanced upon a piece of real honest-to-goodness suede the other day, the die was cast, as it were. Had to make 'em. Nifty, thrifty...


07/07/11--18:27: Whatever You Do, Don't Make These Cookie Bars (chan 1143134)

Seriously. Salted Caramel Butter Bars? Who needs 'em? I mean, even when you stick them in the freezer to "save" them but you sneak one just to make sure they're still "okay" and they are waaaayyyyy better than okay....pfffttt? Yep,...


07/11/11--19:21: Plum Lucky (chan 1143134)

I know it's hard to believe, but actually - I don't know everything. But I'm all for self-improvement therefore it is with great pride that I announce to you that today I did my first-ever-in-my-life canning. Yeah, you're all old...


07/12/11--18:48: Knit Witless (chan 1143134)

Now that I am the new Canning Guru of the West Coast (see previous post), I can check that skill off my "to-learn" list. And so it is that now you'll find me trying to maneuver two unwieldy and very...


07/13/11--22:30: Made in the Shade (chan 1143134)

Having two months off in the summer is not something I take for granted but it is a time I like to take advantage of. I love setting my own schedule, doing projects at my own pace with the luxury...


07/24/11--12:46: Golly Gee, Look at Me (chan 1143134)

Using up buttons for all to see. Terribly fun, you see. Using up buttons; one, two, three. Happily With much glee, Using up buttons whoop-tee-dee. Surely ye all agree, I'm using up buttons, I'm on a spree. Large and wee,...


07/25/11--13:32: Sweet Madeleine (chan 1143134)

Checking off another accomplishment this summer - making madeleines. From scratch. Une madeleine, comme celle de Proust dans le rêve. There was a thought flitting through my brain that I could make the perfect madeleine - well, perfect in the...


07/26/11--21:23: A Little Wrist Action (chan 1143134)

Really enjoying the jewelry making this summer. No threat to Tiffany's, clearly, but it's so thrilling, when someone compliments you on your adornments, to say, "thanks, I made it." I took a one-evening class last Spring to learn to make...


07/29/11--07:57: Find a Wheel, and it Goes Round, Round, Round (chan 1143134)

"Find a wheel and it goes round, round, round As it skims along with a happy sound As it goes along the ground, ground, ground Till it leads you to the one you love" I loved singing rounds when we...