Easter

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Shortbread variations

This year, in addition to the lemon zest and fresh ginger shortbread i've come to love, i tried sour cherry cocoa nibs shortbread.



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Hand sewing

Eily has been making pictures with fabric from my scrap pile, doing piecework to plan out projects (like a scarf), and collecting fabric for his own scrap bin.

In honour of this recent delve into textiles, i introduced him to hand sewing today. He's making a star ornament which we'll stuff and gift to the grandparents.

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Hot cross buns

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Easter Eggs

Spring faeries

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Easter chrysalis

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Now that the new slippers are done....

....i can retire my (felted) space boots (see here; while they were the warmest slippers i've ever worn, i still wore holes in the bottoms since they did not have leather soles.
So I've cut hearts out of them and Eily is having fun making garland.

Sour cherry shortbread hearts

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Valentine's card-making

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What we've been up to this holiday...

Besides riding horses, eating fondue, watching kids run circles around us, and washing lots of diapers, see here for what we've been up to this holiday.


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Stars and lights, stuffing and ice

Making sesame stars with the boys

I've never liked stuffing...all that soggy bread and dried fruit, i don't get it. So when it came to Christmas, the first chez nous in three years, we decided to skip the big turkey and each picked a dish instead, and i chose stuffing. (Me and it have to do right after all.) The recipe i found had dried ciabatta, sauteed leeks and fennel, artichoke hearts, spicy sausage, chilies, and orange zest.

We had it with spaghetti and drumsticks, and for the first time, it wasn't all that bad.

We finished our Christmas meal with lemon ice, an old food & drink recipe that involved lemon juice, sugar, eggs, whipped cream, and double/triple churning. My favourite way to make ice cream - no need for an ice cream maker...it turns out just as fabulously by hand.

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white lights in the crab apple tree

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Cookies 2010

10 variaties baked, 2 disasters semi-adverted, and enough treats to last for weeks.

grapevine

Eily and I finally managed to finish the wreath from day 5's activity on the advent calendar...well, actually I did while Eily waved from the window. We had gathered grapevine from the iron horse trail and I added cedar boughs from the backyard.

Next to the door sits our grapevine tree which I made a few years ago from wrapping vine around a tomato cage. This year, I filled the inside cavity with big white Christmas balls that had been left draped along the back overhang when we moved in.

The advent calendar is done. Although the pockets are not yet stuffed. I have a feeling Eily would have trouble emptying just one at a time.

I've also sewn together a felt floor basket from a fabulous ultra-felted sweater that was donated to me. I've been wearing the sleeves as legwarmers for weeks, since from the moment I tried them on on a whim, I could barely take them off. They're ultra warm. Now me and the yarn holder match.

tonight