I love this being on holiday from schoolwork! It means that for now I can spend my Saturdays working on whatever project or recipe strikes my fancy. Friday afternoon, I spied this recipe for apple sharlotka on Smitten Kitchen and it looked so good (and easy) I thought I’d give it a shot. The recipe was [...]
I really meant to have this post up last night but then, to make a long and boring story short, I sewed a few pieces of my homework (a yoked bodice) incorrectly and had to practice my salty language tear out a bunch of stitches and start again. Saturday, the day before the great sewing [...]
This weekend was a fun blur. Saturday Joel and I celebrated my birthday quite belatedly with a fun lunch, shopping and coffee date. Just hanging out without being busy with computers, sewing machines, projects and homework was a treat. I got some pretty new clothes and this candle that smells like Christmas cookies (but in [...]
Goodness, my weekend is all out of sorts. I woke up Saturday feeling under the weather and wasn’t able to get all the schoolwork done that I wanted. So today it’s all tea and pattern drafting. I just don’t care for tea maybe because I only ever drink it when I’m sick. On a different [...]
This is not a very exciting post, because most of my weekend was spent drawing lots and lots for my design class and measuring and remeasuring and cutting for my construction class and taking care of other schoolwork things. I managed to sneak in a little knitting, too. I tell myself it’s good for homework [...]
Joel was out-of-town playing music all weekend so Cors kept each other company. I got lots done: errands, homework and I got to work on knitting projects and watch a few favorite movies, too. Cors mostly barked at squirrels and begged for belly rubs. He winks when he’s sleepy. I’ve realized lately that I have [...]
So what have I been doing while the blog was quiet last week? I was having a long weekend of adventures! Thursday, Joel’s birthday, was filled with exploring different part of Chicago that we had never seen before. After presents and coffee we drove down to the city to the Museum of Science and Industry. [...]
If you follow my flickr photostream (if you don’t, let’s be flickr friends!) you probably noticed that I had a super wonderful weekend! I got up early Saturday morning and met friends at Egg Harbor in the cute town of Libertyville. We had brunch outside and I had their amazing cinnamon roll french toast. I [...]
Monday is a holiday in the US so that means we have a three-day weekend! Tonight, we’re off to the land of cheese (aka Wisconsin) for a little visit to a college friend. I’m excited to get out-of-town for one last mini road trip of the summer. Before I go I thought I’d share a [...]
Sometimes, when you should be tidying your home, it is easier to bake mini peach pies and drink French pressed coffee instead. And when there’s a wonderful thunderstorm brewing outside and the wash is humming away, it really is the only thing to do!
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