Look what arrived in the mail for me the other day (won as part of a giveaway on The Gifted Blog)! Even the envelope was beautifully done — delicate blue paper sewn up around the edges. It was so pretty I was sorely tempted not to open it. But of course, what was inside was [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Gifted Mail
Posted in personal, tagged gift wrapping, gifted blog on July 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Two Beautiful Prints.
Posted in personal, tagged art, jill bliss, tae won yu on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jill Bliss: Tae Won Yu: * * * I have been trying not to spend quite so much money on accumulating objects (other than on turning over my closet) recently. Moving back to South Bend next month will be a bit of a wrench, in that I plan on not bringing back most of my [...]
Blue & Amber.
Posted in crafts, food, tagged apple, baking, French cooking, jeans, pastry, sewing, upcycled crafts on July 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’ve mostly been revising my syllabus recently, but I still have two things to show you today. * * * Handmade present: * * * And something edible: The recipe is sort of a mix of the pastry technique from Chez Pim’s rustic fruit tart, and the way my French (now former) roommate M does [...]
Summer, so far.
Posted in bento, crafts, food, personal, photography, tagged baking, infinity scarf, Megan Nicolay, nigella lawson, reading, sweet potato crescent rolls, teaching on July 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
New Books. * * * New Recipes (Sweet Potato Crescent Rolls recipe from Land O’Lakes) * * * Cleaning out my childhood room. Digging up old treasures. * * * A couple of bento. (I finally convinced my parents to let me pack meals for them. The pear-ginger muffin is from Nigella Express). * * [...]
