Entries from February 2008

February 10, 2008

Housewarming

Well, I finally finished my housewarming gift for my sister(hopefully she is not reading this) now I just have to get it in the mail to Texas. 

I made the embroidered and then quilted potholder and embroidered on two kitchen towels.  I add a few kitchen scrubbers and a welcome sign.  Hopefully they will bring cheer [...]

February 8, 2008

Gung Hay Fat Choy

Happy Chinese New Year!  The year of the rat.  Ok, so I am not Chinese but I thought it would be fun in honor of the Chinese New Year to put on a Chinese dinner this evening for my family.  Wow, was that a lot of work.  I made Bok Choy with bacon, fried wontons, [...]

February 6, 2008

Little New, Little Old!

I had seen a pattern for a purse in The Happy Hooker that I have been dying to make.  Yes, I know I have lots of other projects I should be working on, but I decided a little detour would be some good therapy for me (I was right).  So, when we got back from [...]

February 4, 2008

Crawfish Anyone?!

What a wonderful Super Bowl Party we had at my sister’s house.  My younger brother offered to put on a Louisiana style meal for us that one of his friends had done in the past.  Being the adventurous types we all said yes.  He had 100 pounds of fresh live crawfish flown in to LAX [...]