We had an internet-free day yesterday. Sorry I should have forewarned you, but I really didn't know either ;o) It was J's suggestion. He is going for the whole weekend, so the pictures we took will be stalled until tomorrow. On Friday my brain was in Cartesian geometry-land, and wasn't much good for anything else. article
It was a pretty busy day. We got a lot of things done, culminating in a candlelit dinner with fresh-baked bread and wine ;o)
J changed the oil in the truck, and we took a long drive out into the countryside (to test it of course).
I cut J's hair. We used the wrong blade on the hair clippers for J -- he's not going to need another haircut for MONTHS! (think long velvet..eep!) Numerous loads of dishes and laundry went through the house. Two stuffed bunnies hopped into the world. We went to the library and stayed for about an hour. All of this not in actual order..
My pattern came! (Butterick 8 gore skirt, knee-length, 1950s), 2 yards of yellow-orange fabric (which is enough! YAY!) and a good matching spool of thread. Now for the work...
The Candlelit Dinner
We decided to break the normal weekend habit, and make a fancy dinner - complete with tablecloth, place settings and candles ;o) It was a good excuse to open the wine.
J made fresh whole-wheat bread. He's getting pretty good at it! That took quite a long time, and other things were done in between. We had roasted cumin-basted sweet potatoes and brown rice. The food was very good, but of course it didn't go well with this particular wine. This one was asking more for steak or chicken cordon-bleu, which of course would never be on the menu here.
Maybe we can cook with the wine next time, a nice mushroom dish or the like, as a marinade.
We decided to break the normal weekend habit, and make a fancy dinner - complete with tablecloth, place settings and candles ;o) It was a good excuse to open the wine.
J made fresh whole-wheat bread. He's getting pretty good at it! That took quite a long time, and other things were done in between. We had roasted cumin-basted sweet potatoes and brown rice. The food was very good, but of course it didn't go well with this particular wine. This one was asking more for steak or chicken cordon-bleu, which of course would never be on the menu here.
Maybe we can cook with the wine next time, a nice mushroom dish or the like, as a marinade.
Linky: Yorkers and Hirosophys' flickr : cherry blossoms
Linky: cute kangaroo softies
More softie cuteness.
wine article wine & food pairings
recipe
Simplicity 4013 six-gore skirt, keeping an eye out for next project.
5 comments:
Sounds like a great day to me! Productive and relaxing. Ahh.....
It does feel nice to get things done ;o) We made hummus and pizza today - but left the cookies for this week.
My skirt is cut out, pinned, and I'm threading a needle now to start on it!
Mmmm - I had some really good hummus last week - it had pesto in it. Yum.
Those 1950s pattern styles are a hoot!
I can't wait to see your skirt! I haven't forgotten about the kimono pics. Just haven't had a chance to do it! I'll shoot them tonight.
Pesto sounds good, we had black olive and sweet potato hummus, from the dinner leftovers ;o)
I can't wait to see the kimono!
I messed up in the pinning, had the zipper opening in the wrong place. Put it back right, and refit the skirt with the zipper in place. I'm planning to hand-sew the gores (to make the seams enclosed so they won't fray) then do the waistband and hem by machine.
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