My ring is slightly too big. But duh, I want to wear it right now. My crafty solution: I wrapped some embroidery floss round and round until it didn’t fall off my finger. Perfect.
orange embroidery floss
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best day ever
I now have something very, very shiny on my hand, and a very, very wonderful fiance.
these shoes
(photo from here)
making cookies: mocha shortbread
I made these cookies as a gift for the guy’s family for turkey day. We ate them over the weekend dipped in coffee with whipped cream on top. They were buttery, and crunchy, and you should probably make them soon.
lots of thanks to give
I am not sure which I like more- the actual food, or the memories made while preparing it.
Definitely the memories.
new in the shop: holiday coupon code
Some new colorful animals in the Little Amaryllis shop. Shop Nov 22-26 and use code HOLIDAY for 20% off!
little turkeys
Pre-Thanksgiving preparations at our house include baking cookies. The turkey cookie cutter waits all year for this moment to shine.
Instead of doing different colors of frosting for the turkey tail, we smashed some candy corns flat, and used them as tail feather decoration. What beautiful little turkeys. Happy Thanksgiving!
a new kind of pie
I am not super adventurous with pies. I like the apple/peach variety. Pumpkin of course. Lemon meringue, but without the meringue part. Just the basics.
A friend suggested a strawberry rhubarb pie. I have never tried one. I am not really even sure what rhubarb is, but I do know that the leaves are poisonous (thank you, Martha Stewart). Rhubarb to me equals pink celery.
But guess what? Strawberry rhubarb pies are yummy. Just the right amount of not too sweet. If you are still in need of a Thanksgiving dessert, and for some reason don’t want to go classic, I would recommend this delicious strawberry/pink celery combo. (I used this recipe from smitten kitchen.)
birthday(s)
I am pretty sure that each person is allotted one birth day, as well as one birth weekend. Mine was last weekend, and it was wonderful. Lots of desserts, a Christmas bazaar, food truck lunch, a very handsome birthday date, donut making, presents in bed, greasy cheeseburgers, and time to sew. It was perfect.
playing santa
I was looking at the Christmas angel tree for the Salvation Army, and there is one little boy who stole my heart. He is near 5 years old, and likes Spiderman and toy trucks. These little trucks are adorable. If the boy is still on the tree tomorrow, I think he should be ours!
guy and his girl 