I love me some chicken Marsala, so I thought I would try to make an appetizer along those lines. I also love stuffed mushrooms, so it was a perfect marriage. First of all, I go to the liquor store and […]
After wasting many hours today, with most of my evening spent figuring out how to install a database, it appears to be working. I believe we have a winner! Let me know if you can’t see anything or if you […]
So who likes pesto? *me, me, me!* I used to think that pesto needed to have the basic 5 ingredients: basil pine nuts parmesan garlic olive oil Not so! You can make pesto with many other greens and other nuts. […]
Hey, back to Pinterest! I know it is no longer August, but I made this in August. I just didn’t get any pictures taken of it. This is my take on this Desingual skirt I found and pinned. I did […]
This year we made the disastrous judgment call to go to the Renaissance Festival on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. It was the only day that it looked like it would not rain, and we also got there a […]
Although I have been sewing this week…unfortunately, I can’t show what I have sewn for a few months. It was all for Anya, really cute, and I used actual, honest-to-goodness patterns. I am hoping to get a few other things […]
I took these pictures when we picked up the kids after their week of fun at their aunt and uncle’s farm. They got to do lots of fun stuff (petting zoo place, trail ride on horses, waterpark), and didn’t have […]
This is a long overdue post, that I started at the beginning of summer. I was concerned that my children would just starve, since we were going to be running to baseball fields 4-5 days a week. We needed some fast and […]
So LAST YEAR at the Sewing Mama’s retreat I made this shirt. It was the first thing I made, and I loved how it turned out. I got home and the Little Miss tried it on. Too tight in the […]
The kids finished up their softball and baseball seasons, and we had our nights and weekends free for two whole weeks before football starts up on us this week. Kai’s team this past year was less challenging that the year […]
One of the things that I wanted to get done at the sewing retreat were some cargo shorts for Kai. They are time consuming to do, with all the pockets and topstitching, so I figured getting some dedicated sewing time […]
Today I am posting at the tail end of the Refashion Month Series on House of Estrela. This is a refashion of a dress of mine that I did at one point this winter. It was supposed to be for […]
