Tuesday, January 31, 2012

January at our home


Dave has spent most of the month working on this 1000 piece puzzle. Now, I love puzzles, but this one is a wold scene in snow. Mostly gray tones. Insane, in my opinion! 73 pieces to go, he declared today! :)

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Several months ago, my mom asked me to keep her pink geranium plant in my upstairs (tons of sunshine up there) over winter. I'm delighted to report it is blooming like crazy! :) I may have to get one for myself, just to see lovely colors like this all winter long!


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We've taken in a few nephew basketball games.....


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And one of my favorite plants got a new pot. It desperately needed it!


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And, Dad celebrated his 71st birthday, receiving a Kindle, which he is very excited about! :) 


Welcome to February!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

I did it!!! {and great food pictures}

It sure has been a while since I sat down at the computer with the purpose of blogging. What has taken up my time, you say? I opened up an Etsy store about 10 days ago, and started a Facebook business page too!!! :) I'm so excited for my new adventure!

You can find me at either site by looking up Emmy Sew Happy (Emmy*Sew*Happy on FB).
I've always loved photography, especially newborn photography, but it just doesn't seem my season right now to start down on that career path. Maybe the future holds that? But for now, I'm enjoying making newborn hats and headbands for other photographers to use in their wonderful photos. Soon, I'll have some links on my page of my items being used in photos. :) I'm also making some other things I love....bags and scarves. Only time will tell how things go for me and this endeavor.

After Christmas, in keeping with the theme of a picture a day for December, the only thing I found most interesting to take photos of was food. Seems to fit right along well with me! :)

You know you have a good fermented salsa, when it rises right out of the jar at first opening. YUM!


Dave's Christmas Cake, as he calls it. Fruit Cake to those of us in America. He made it at the end of September and has been marinating it about every 3 weeks since. With Bourbon. It's best with a slice of this cheese on top. :) 


Dave made these chocolate chip crumpets on New Year's Eve day.....


One of the things Christmas brought me was this awesome red leather recipe card holder. I've been trying to figure out how to organize my recipes, and this seemed to fit me the best. Now the chore of copying all my favorites from their scrap pieces of paper to actual recipe cards. Good times!


Unbelievable that it's nearly smack-dab-in-the-middle of January already!!!!