Olive Bread

For my bachelorette party, my bridesmaid, her husband, and my bridesman went all out making food from the Game of Thrones cookbook and the accompanying website. One of the favorites was the olive bread. I made a batch to take to a friend's house for dinner!

Yummy!

We also made churro bites... angel food cake rolled in cinnamon sugar!

Yesterday was the boss's birthday, so I threw this little thing together for her (it's just felt on the back, so it can easily be adapted to be a magnet, patch, Christmas ornament, whatever).

Ramona Flowers Purse

As you learned from seeing my welding goggles, I'm going to be Ramona Flowers for Halloween (after Damson goes home, sadface) which means I need a subspace purse... which means one of two options: spend over $100 or make one. So I made one. It's obviously not the same quality as one I could buy, but it works for a Halloween costume. Damson helped!

Assembling our materials

And skip straight to the finished product!

So far, we've managed to get the goggles, pink shorts, purple leggings, black boots, black jacket, and now the purse! All that's left is the hoodie, nail polish, and cutting/dying my hair (which will happen the week of Halloween).

Welding Goggles

I have my welding goggles for my Halloween costume!

I'm going to be Ramona Flowers... so it'll look better with the blue hair. But they're legit welding goggles, so if I need to do any welding anytime soon, I'm so ready.

Damson and the Dumplings

This week's challenge is to post a photo of our LVs participating in our hobbies! Since I'm a cooking fiend (go check out my food blog, Look I Made Dinner!) I let Damson help us make Chinese dumplings last night with my new bamboo steamer!

Here's a picture of the finished product, too!

Around Home

Damson and I spent the majority of last weekend cleaning the apartment, and he wanted to show off some of our hard work. Also a little bit of fun...

Can you find Damson among the knick-knacks? (Yes, a lot of our photo frames
are empty or still have the models in them... a few of them were wedding gifts
and I haven't ordered prints of the wedding photos yet.)

A shelf that has been plaguing me is now neat and orderly!
(If you're wondering about that thing on top, it's a cassette tape box
that my dad hand-lettered, probably before I was born.
It's upside-down because I can't make it balance on the handle.)

Gimli says we can't fold laundry just now. He's too busy shedding all over the black shirts.

After we rearranged where all the clothes go, we needed Post-It notes to
remind us where we put everything!

Crafting break! Damson is handy with a cross-stitching needle!

Another break, this time for WoW.

Towel Day

Happy belated Towel Day! Damson helped me clean the apartment all Memorial Day weekend, so for Towel Day, I let him help me dust with a washcloth... Still a pretty big "towel" for such a little Little Visitor!

I've been under the weather (kind of literally... pollen and storms causing weird air pressure have been ganging up on me to cause a general icky feeling) but I'm starting to feel better, so we can hopefully go back to having photographable fun soon!

Birthday Cookies

We did even more baking! These are for Husband's birthday... his favorite! I've never made them before, and Damson was very helpful.

Unwrapping all the Hershey's Kisses takes longer than I anticipated.

Delicious fruits cookies of our labor!

Piper and Damson pose with a few of each of the cookies we've made
together over the past several days.

Mothers' Day Cookies

I made cookies for all my moms (mom, stepmom, mom-in-law) for Mothers' Day this year. Damson helped me out with the tricky ones: gluten free chocolate-butterscotch cookies for my stepmom!

Helping me add the chocolate chips and butterscotch chips

No, Damson! Don't lick the beaters; that has raw egg in it...

Showing off the finished product.

Yum! There were also walnut butter balls for Mom (which had a lot of powdered sugar so he had to be careful not to get dusted) and raspberry cookies for mom-in-law (which were very messy and I had concerns about raspberry juice stains, so he kept his distance from those, too).

Colbert Talks Norfolk

The other night, I was catching up on the previous night's Daily Show and Colbert Report, and what do I see but Stephen Colbert talking about Norfolk!!! (Yes, I'm from Virginia Beach, but Norfolk is like downtown Virginia Beach. We might as well be the same city.)

There's a collage of our mermaids! I actually don't know where any of those four are.

It was very exciting, for an otherwise boring weeknight.

I promise we'll have good adventures soon... just getting lots of work stuff done for now.

Damson is Here!

Damson has arrived!!!

First, he was greeted by Piper, the other LV I'm hosting as an angel for the last swap:

They're going to be great buddies and share adventures!

Then, Damson met Gimli, my kitty:

And then, Piper and Damson helped me figure out which clothes I'm going to take to Toronto in two weeks!