Saturday, June 13, 2009

lydia's birthday


As usual, we had Soup/Salad supper last wednesday, which happened to be the day before Lydia's 26th birthday.  So I made a card to wrap on top of the journal which features in my previous post, decorated my cupcakes, and delivered them to her in flaming glory.  We enjoyed using (or at least I enjoyed making people use) the Pick your Nose cups Brier gave me this year for MY birthday.  





Monday, June 01, 2009

sundry photos

Dinner tonight: potato salad (with our own parsley!), and Ben's special recipe of fried cabbage, apple, and in this case, back bacon, though it is also delicious with smoked tofu.  Flavoured with grainy mustard.  Limes were not consumed for dinner: they are for lime-poppyseed cupcakes on Wednesday.  I love these plates!  Green stuff looks so good on sea-blue plates.  Sadly every few months I break one of the sea-blue dishes.  I am a force of destruction :(

A present for a dear and wonderful person.   It's a journal cover made from recycled leather and I hope if she ever goes on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, she takes it along.  Aren't limes great!?

I have a major sugar addiction, which I fed the other night with these Brazilian candies made from condensed milk, cocoa, a bit of butter, and nuts (I used seeds, naturally, since I prefer my husband alive).   They are dead easy!  They are like the Rice Krispy Square of Brazil!