The World Surrounding Me

The green hills of the Dingle Peninsula? The crisp and bright how-many-shades-of-blue-are-there colors of the Bora Bora Lagoon? This field of Indian Paintbrush near Llano, Texas?* The Road to Hana, Maui? *(The mere idea that a field of flowers in the front yard of a modest home even makes this list is impressive!)

This pink Sock Monster is named already – Geof. Why Geof? Well, we were watching Ace of Cakes last night when I finished him, and despite looking for a better name (that might go with his punk/prep look) Geof just seemed right. (it was either that or Duff, and he just didn’t look like a [...]

Scroll –>   then scroll –> some more –> and –> more… This is a stitched panoramic with something like 16 photos, of a single field of bluebonnets, out past Llano on 71 (technically, between Fredonia & Mason for those who want to see it for themselves)

I think this is the best year I’ve seen for wildflowers in Texas! Here are some of the flowers we saw on our trip out towards Llano on April 10th. **Updated with additional photos from April 11th.** Entire album can be found here. Flowers identified: Helpful sites for identifying wildflowers: Texas Wildflower Index Texas Wildflower [...]

I think this is the best year I’ve seen for wildflowers in Texas! Here are some of the flowers we saw on our trip out towards Llano on April 10th. **Updated with additional photos from April 11th.** Slideshow: Entire album can be found here. Flowers identified: Helpful sites for identifying wildflowers: Texas Wildflower Index Texas [...]

I made these sock creatures for the Gateway Women’s Retreat Silent Auction. These little guys need names. Any suggestions? The matching two could be twins or best-friends (idea being someone would buy them both, keep one and give the other to a friend). They both have ribbon hair and felt hearts stitched on. One has [...]

Matt & I had a great time at an Easter party hosted by some friends today. We had cascarones, which I had never seen before. They are made from regular dyed eggs, broken open (on the top) and the egg-insides poured out. They are then filled with confetti. A piece of tissue paper is used [...]

Look what I did today! Inspired by a coworker on twitter, who suggested bacon-wrapped Peeps, I wrapped an innocent Orange Marshmallow Peep with a third of a slice of bacon and put it in the oven. The 2nd photo shows it after about 25 minutes in a 375 degree oven. I though they were actually [...]

Inspired by a treat somebody brought to the annual Pi Rho festival this year, I just made a batch of bacon-wrapped, cream-cheese-stuffed jalapenos. I made them for a party this weekend. I won’t have time to do the prep on Sunday, so I prepared them and put them in the fridge. I held 4 out [...]