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Raspberries and sherry

08 Mar

Keeping with the fresh and light theme, I decide to make ice cream sundaes with raspberries and sherry. Sherry is WONDERFUL on ice cream. I know it sounds strange, but trust me on this. It is a perfect complement.

Take your washed and drained raspberries and place them in a bowl. Pour some sherry on them and let them sit for 30min or an hour. We played clue while we were waiting (Ms. White, with the bat in the dining room).

Then we just scooped up some vanilla ice cream, topped with a little chocolate syrup and the raspberries and sherry.

 
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Fresh spring pasta

08 Mar

After the snow last week, it has been a wonderful warm couple of days. Whenever we get spring weather I always want to switch over to light fresh recipes. This is so simple and wonderful.

Mix 4 roma tomatoes (diced) with some chopped fresh basil.
Stir in a little good quality olive oil, 1 clove of garlic, a little salt and pepper.

Let sit at room temperature.

Cook your pasta. I used whole wheat fettuccini. Drain the pasta and mix with the tomato mixture.

Top with a little shredded cheese.

This is so fast and delicious. I’m looking forward to the summer when I will have my own tomatoes and basil growing outside and I can have this any evening for a quick meal.

 
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One of my favorite things about sewing

08 Mar


I love sewing. I love making stuff. I actually love ironing the pieces as I’m putting them together. And most of all I love it when a cat comes in to be with me while I’m sewing.

 
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Wrap Dress

01 Mar

I just finished making this dress. I used Very Easy Vogue pattern # V8379 as my guide.

I used a super stretchy navy blue knit. And it was a very easy pattern. There were 4 pleats in the front of the dress, I think that was the most complicated detail in it. The pattern was good, except I thought it left out an important detail. This is a wrap dress, so there needed to be a place for one of the ties to come through the dress. I just left a hole at the seam on one of the sides and it was fine. I think the interfacing on the facing turned out a little too stiff. It will relax with wear, but next time I might use a lighter weight interfacing so it has more bend.

The dress also has a nice split cuff detail on the sleeves.

I would guess it took me about 12 hours start to finish to make the dress. I also overcast all of the raw edges so that added to the time.


Very Nice. I will likely end up with more then one of these dresses in my closet.

 
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