Green is the Loveliest Color

Well, the fresh asparagus inspired me. I remembered some of the greens I've enjoyed this summer.

Ferns from this spring. Sadly Vegas loved to eat them too.

My herb buckets -- sweet basil, chives, oregano, peppers, chili peppers, and wonderful sage. Look at them now!

My birthday girl.

Well, it's been a long time, but I'm celebrating the arrival of an organized pantry. I love old houses but it's a challenge to figure out storage for narrow, odd-shaped closets and crannies.

Oh, and a reward for our new-found organizations . . . mushroom turnovers from Trader Joe's and fresh steamed asparagus with chives from the herb bucket. Mmmm . . . .

I just posted a set of Kitschen Witch magnets on etsy. I made these awhile ago, but I thought they were pretty cute.

An Shabby Autumn Recipe Book

This is DaisyD's paper, but I 'roughed' it up a bit. I made 5-6 Recipe/Memory cards that are interspersed through the album.

I thought this album would be a good gift for traditional family recipes, ones passed down through the generations so that pictures and memories of times together could be added to the recipes themselves.

It's 4x6 inches. And I used recycled cardboard from boxes, etc. I also got to use a lot of flowers and fun stuff like that.

What I've Been Up to Lately

It all started with a Dinner for Two cookbook I found at St. Francis thriftstore.  I'd been wanting to do something vintage without feeling bad about cutting a book up -- this was perfect.  So cut I did.  

I tried to be intentional about not matching stuff, but I can't help myself.  When I started gluing things together, it actually made sense!  So one album is more red/orange/yellow/blue/green.  The other is a little softer with pinks, light blues, oranges, yellows.

Each of these little albums are 8 pages and there's places for pictures, stashing recipes, journaling, whatever.  They're made of recycled cardboard (you know cereal boxes), pages from vintage cookbooks, a book ring and lots of frou frou. 

Go Go Green Jello!

What Remains . . .

My Apple-glazed Chicken turned out very well, as you can see. I did have to call my mom for some advise on what to tie it up with -- yellow yarn, thank you very much. There really wasn't much of an apple taste to it, a little sweeter than usual, but overall very tender and juicy. Jen brought Carmel Apple Crisp which was perfect for an apple themed night. You'll have to ask her to send you the recipe.

We used the left over chicken tonight (Saturday) for Chile Blanca - the best recipe from the side of a can you'll find - with the Lethanders. Andy ate 3 bowls, so he must have liked it.

Let's see, what else . . . ? Oh,Amy and I did a craft show today at BCN. Amy wore her lucky socks (sorry, no pix). We did better than West Chester - she sold at least 3 bag books and I sold 3 accordian books. I'm happy.

Here's my latest paperbag album, for autumn. I also did paper piecing as you can see here. I'm planning to post this on Ebay tomorrow, as well as the round candy corn one and see how they do.