Thursday, May 31, 2018

...more W.I.P..the Parish Hall...

...well...I realized that I didn't do a proper Parish Hall update with the long pillow post yesterday...

...the new ceiling is almost done...
...so are the handicapped accessible bathrooms...
...the cabinets are in...the new kitchen looks so big now...
...and so if the new exhaust hood...

...really just about another week and it will all be finished...it's amazing what they can accomplish is 8 weeks...

~Have a lovely day!

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...I finished the sweet little star pillow...the baby shower is this weekend...

...instead of just stitching the little diamonds together...I sort of overlapped them and crocheted them together for a little bit more definition at the joins...
...here are both sides stitched (or rather crocheted) together...
...then I did actually stitch the outsides together...
...leaving an opening for stuffing...
...then I turned the star right side out...I didn't bother with weaving in any strings as they will all be on the inside...
...right side out and unstuffed...
...then to define the edges a little bit more...I did go back and crochet just a chain stitch over the edges I'd sewn together...
...ready for stuffing...
...stuffing complete...I stitched up the little hole I'd left...
...and then since I couldn't crochet this one little side where the stuffing hole was...I did an embroidery chain stitch over the seam...
...and the sweet little star pillow is ready for gifting...

...what's in your workbasket?

~Have a lovely day!

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

...Tuesdays with Julia...

...well...I did cook with Julia...but I didn't do a new post over at The Vegan Version...because I've made her caramel before...so you can go here to see the original Vegan Caramel post...

...I'm still astounded at how simple it is to make...both in process and ingredients...it totally transforms sugar and water...
...seriously...you put some sugar and water in a pot...2 to 1 ratio...
...and you start boiling it...covered...
...and Julia says you can lift the lid and 'peek' to check the colour...
...it just takes a few minutes...
...and you have to be careful to take it off the heat BEFORE it reaches the colour you want....
...because it continues to darken just from the residual heat of the pot...
...so when it had reached the right colour...I made my Vegan Buttercream Icing...and stirred that in...and then I added some chopped pecans and coconut...
...because I wanted to use this caramel to ice a chocolate cake...like German Chocolate Cake just made with dark chocolate...
...it was so delicious...

~Have a lovely day!

Monday, May 28, 2018

...Over the weekend...

...there was a big family breakfast...
...and soymilk was made...
...there was a bowl of apples...
...and a vintage apple peeler...
...that were used to make some homemade apple sauce...
...strawberries were frozen...
...and muffins were made...
...and some kale was dehydrated...
..and became delicious kale chips...

...it was a rainy holiday weekend...spent mostly indoors...but it was all good family time...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

Saturday, May 26, 2018

...Dinner and a Movie...

...we thought we'd give these vegan pizzas a try...
...nothing special...really...it was good...but I've definitely made better pizza...

...the movie was the Man's choice...and he found the new season of Midsomer Murders...so we watched the first one of those...they're movie length at 1 1/2 hours...and it was fun to reconnect with all the characters we know so well from the 19 seasons we've already watched...

...what have you been watching?...

~Have a lovely day!

Thursday, May 24, 2018

...W.I.A.Y. ...

...first thing was a smoothie/juice...just blueberries and cranberry juice again...
...yum...
...and I had an apple with that...
...a little later when I got hungry...I had a mango...
...so sweet...
...for lunch I originally thought I'd just have a spinach salad and some tofu...
...but realized that that was not nearly enough...so I heated up a bunch of leftovers...not very exciting I know...spaghetti, mixed veg, brussels sprouts and hummus...it was good though...
...in the afternoon I had a plate full of veggies...potatoes, sweet potatoes, cucumber, tomato and carrot...with a little cup of ranch dressing for dipping...
...and dinner was a bowl...but you were expecting that...right...

...pinto beans, salsa, spinach, sauerkraut and nooch...

...what did you eat yesterday?

~Have a lovely day!

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...it's all about the babies now...this is going to be a star pillow...
...I'm just making a bunch of these diamonds...(10 to be exact...front and back for a five point star)...and then I'll sew them together to form a baby sized star pillow...
...and over at the Parish Hall...the floors are finished...
...they're so shiny and pretty...
...a closeup of the textured epoxy finish...

...what's in your workbasket...

~Have a lovely day!