More Crafty!

So I am totally addicted to working with chain and ribbon. I love the contrast between the rough and hard to the soft and delicate. Here are a couple more that I have added to my collection. If you are interested in having a custom piece made let me know holdtheonionplease @ gmail.com

Crafty afternoon

Since I decided today like everyday is a good day to bake bread. While the bread is doing it's thing I got all the chain that I had bought on clearance together and constructed a necklace. Using ribbon, fancy paper clips, a button, beads and of course the chain.

Food as Media

Food as an artistic medium enhances meal time. There are variety of colors, shapes, textures and when foods are colorful they are more appealing. I finally ramped up my cooking skills and have found I really like cooking and making food pretty. Taking pictures of food is a whole other artistic form with in the food experience. Every once in a while I will actually write down a recipe, since most of my cooking is rather random, and I will post it over at WillytheJackass. There are a bunch of great photos of the food we have cooked over the last few months.

Cucumber Vinegar Mix-Wife post

Here is a recipe and pictures that are posted over at my husbands site, please enjoy!

Cucumber Vinegar Mix-Wife post

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Delaware and Domestic Diva

While I was in Philly the first week of August I thought, I have never been to Delaware, I am going to go check it out. I visited an old mansion with the most beautiful garden, so picturesque there was a women who had set up an eisel and was painting on a perfect hot summers day! While I was looking at all the great places to visit in Delaware I realized something I had not known, it was settled mostly by the Dutch, the English and Swedes. In fact the first American Swedish Lutheran church resides here, in a run down neighborhood not many swedes in the neighborhood now.

I then headed down to Newcastle which is a really quaint seaport filled with history! Below is the Amstel House which resides on an old brick road surrounded by some of the neatest old houses I have ever seen.

On a domestic diva note, the garden has been baring fruit so there has been a lot of new recipes being had, using all the ingredients that we seem to have an abundant amount of. This weekend we emptied out the hot water heater to prepare for the winter that is soon upon us and have had the luxury of using my friends breadmaker to crank out some fabulous breads! Can't wait to get the house decorated for Halloween, the best holiday ever!

Facebook Flash Games are Addicting

I don't know about you but there are some really addicting games on facebook my favorite ones are by Playfish games especially the Restaurant City, I can hardly tare myself away I suggest you check it out if you have a facebook account because it can make your work day go so much faster!

Philly for a week!

The first week of August I had the luxury of going to Philly with my husband as he had business there for the week. He worked long hours as I strolled all over Philly. We stayed near Love Park where I spent many hours reading the in the hot hot sun. The restaurants were fabulous and very well priced compared to Boston. I had been to Philly and had the 10 cent tour from my in laws as they grew up there.

The one afternoon that my husband had off we spent walking around, eating and visiting the penitentiary. This place was amazing and also had a local artist who did a cat installation throughout the prison. To wrap up our trip we went to go visit his grandfather who is doing remarkably well for his age and still remembers Latin where he learned as an alter boy in the catholic church.

So Hard to Blog in the Summer

The last few weeks have been super, a nice mixture of work and play. We celebrated my husbands birthday for a week full of twists and turns and lots of surprises. Gotta love the fun. His birthday was on a wednesday so we just cruised around to a couple of places and ate a bunch then later we drank a bunch at a few neighborhood bars with friends. Then I surprised him with us going to check out the Harpoon brewery, without him knowing a friend was going to show up the night before, while us 3 were at the brewery a small crowd gathered out in the back yard for some hot dog grillin'.

Do you know how hard it was to get him to go out back? Normally not hard, this particular day, YES!

To fill some of my time and earn back some of the money we spent on the week long birthday extravaganza I decided it would be fun to partake in a focus group, food surveys and testing different hearing devices, I think for pilots. I have enjoyed all aspect of these crazy adventures. I have met some interesting people and made a little cash. All of this filled the end of July.