Well hello! I feel as though I've been away for awhile. This past week was quite hectic, mostly because instead of teaching one class a day, I taught two. So my evenings were spent making lesson plans, instead of kicking back and visiting my favorite blogs! But now I'm on winter break, and will get to catch up on everything here in blogland that I've been missing!
So how was your Valentine's Day? That just flew right by, didn't it? I never even showed you the house pillow I made my mom...
I made it out of some of my favorite rose fabric that was left over from Scarlet's bedroom curtains. The green roof is from an old fabric placemat!
So anyway: Winter break! It came at the perfect time. Just after I was able to put in a bunch of extra hours at work the last few weeks. I'm good and ready to relax now. Last night it began with Scarlet and I watching movies and making a big tray of snacks! This morning we lounged for awhile and then got to work on creating a book that Scarlet said she wanted to write and illustrate. She brainstormed her ideas in bed last night so was ready to go this morning. My job was to make the covers and type her words out to make it look neat. Cause this is a "real book" ya know!
It's called The Three Little Hearts. About three little heart friends that meet a bear, who they are initially afraid of, but then have fun with. Here are some pages....
She was so proud of herself when she got to sit down and read me her own book! Freaking cute! (as Vivian would say!)
So after bookmaking I decided to try out two new recipes. The first was simply Roasted Red Grapes with Thyme that Kai emailed to me...
So easy and addicting! These would be so good as a side to meat I think. Thank you Kai!!
The other was a variation of this recipe except that I used quinoa instead of amaranth because the store only had amaranth flour. Look at these yummy ingredients in the pot...
The end result was good: Quinoa Pumpkin Coconut Porridge!
I just love trying new recipes, and there are so many great food blogs out there now that I can't even keep up! But since I'm on break this week I'm hoping to get to a few more.
After a little cooking Scarlet wanted to drive down to the beach to feed the crazy seagulls donut holes!
She cracks me up because she gets such a kick out of it! She talks to them and names them the whole time!
So here it is evening and I think I will end winter-break-day-one with some reading and maybe baking...
I'll be back in a day or so, but if you are also home enjoying winter break I hope you get to realx and do what you love...xo
