Top o'the morning to you all- I hope your St Patrick's Day is a really good one!

Yesterday, in preparation for tonight's dinner, I made Irish cupcakes and soda bread I had cupcakes in the oven, ganache on the stove, soda bread working on the other counter and butter getting soft for the frosting and I kept expecting Paul Hollywood to jump out at ( Read more... )

A lot has been going on lately- nothing horrible, just a lot. Part of that means that I have not been getting enough sleep and when I get a chance to get on the internet, I fool around on ebay, obsessively looking up things that I may or may not actually want instead of doing something (semi) productive ( Read more... )

Good morning!

I managed to accomplish all the outside-the-house chores Monday so I have a day today that I should be able to stay home and do pretty much what I want here. Today that's going to mean sewing projects ( Read more... )

One more week until I can see National Theatre's Frankenstein... I'm trying hard to be patient! Why, oh why don't they put it on DVD ( Read more... )

Work today- my subconscious knows it too because I had nightmares about palates and palates of vegetables all night long. Including one where an entire level of avocados was completely squashed by the weight piled on top of it. Guacamole, anyone ( Read more... )

Hobbit tablecloth finished- pictures after I iron. Napkin detail designed and I'll iron the pattern onto them as soon as I set up the ironing board to iron the tablecloth. I don't think they'll take very long to embroider and then I can set the table up with all the Hobbit things and have a new 'set the table' photo ( Read more... )

Everybody who knows me knows that I'm a coffee girl. Even people who barely know me know that and most people know my favorite coffee is Intelligencia's Black Cat ( Read more... )

The Hobbit does not follow the book. AT ALL ( Read more... )

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving... or a good Thursday for those who don't observe the US Thanksgiving. I said I was going to spend the day fixing the floor in Mom's laundry room which is exactly what I did.

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Bitsy is still gone- I think she must have run into something in the woods. Maybe even the same thing Simba ran into. I'm not really a dog person but I wish she hadn't gone, I miss her, even if she was dreadfully accident prone ( Read more... )