Sewn Cookie Exchange Packaging

"Have S'more Rockin' Reindeer Ravioli".

Handmade gifts are best!

Terri at work made this for her sister in Seattle. Apparently she cried when she recieved it.

no butter, no sugar, no eggs

These miracle peanut butter cookies were featured on the 101 cookbooks blog.

Hot Chips!

These potato chips are made fresh as you enter Albertson's grocery store, and with free samples are hard to resist.

thanksgoodness it's over

Thanks Martha and Todd English for this painful but delicious recipe!

these popovers took 24 hours to make

These are from "Cooks Country" magazine, Dec/Jan 09 issue, and they really are great--but allow time to make them--maybe make them on a sunday.

Here is my recipe research (including the muffin pan weeknight recipe (careful--you might burn your fingers on the pre-heated hot pan), summed up:

the 8 hour pie

From "The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, pg 577 and the crust (which has graham crackers pressed into it to make is crunchy, pg 575. I made a double batch for the 9x13 glass pan."

10 year logo tune-up

In the works

Using scraps

Front and Back

The silver flower on the right is a piece of costume jewelry I found in the Strib parking lot that had been run over by cars. It still sparkles.

Pin Holders

spectacular logo

looky at the cool logo I made for Vita.mn (Judy found the cool font)

Mrs. Spinske's Sand Tarts

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the butter in Idaho is packaged differently

Never thought I'd love Claude Sans Italic

Talking Volumes needed a new look.

now you can mess it up

Sammy's room is done--the fabulous curtain fabric is called HEDVIG from IKEA. The framed record albums are all from my childhood. Frames are from Michael's -- $5 each.

on the way up north

What's a blog with out a weekend jaunt to a country antique shop (in Clear Lake, MN)? I found fabulous posters (at least 4 feet tall, only $17 and there were many different ones). I had to pass, no where to put them--who has that much empty wall space in the kitchen/dining room, anyway?