josie's dresses

I realize the posts this month have been more peripherally food themed than usual. Never one to break a trend, here's another.

My new favorite cousin, Josie Rose is going to turn one next month. I made her a pair of pinafores from a pattern I bought on etsy. Each is reversible and fairly easy even for a novice seamstress, such as I am. I wouldn't do it if it were too hard. The most pleasurable parts of sewing for me involve handling textiles and combining patterns, the moment they begin to resemble something. This teapot fabric is one of the sweetest I've found. Meant for quilting I assume, but the print is just large enough for a child's garment.

sookie, i'm too timid to order food from that Chinese restaurant--last time I only tipped them ten percent.

Recently renewed friends of mine made this video, True Blood - Confessions From Bill Compton. The title of this post is one of said confessions.

I came up with a few, more food-centric, of my own:

• Sookie! If you already know that one litre equals 4.2 cups, then why is this demi-glace so runny?

• Sookie! Where's the 12th page of my Skinny Bitch Cookbook?! Ahm trying to maintain mah figure, without sacrificing taste.
  
• Sookie! You know ah get farty and bloated with a foamy latte!!
  

That last one's from Zoolander :)

the butter to my bread

As promised, here is the fruit of my Valentine's Day crafting. Paul Child is quoted as saying this to his wife Julia. "You are the butter to my bread and the breath to my life." But my Valentine is more of the visual sort. Literal too. And "breath to my life" has an almost macabre undertone, so this suits us best.

I have a deep love for the folk aesthetics of paper cutout, or scherenschnitte, to the Germans, and to other people who can pronounce scherenschnitte. I've been playing around with paper cutting for about half a year, mostly holiday cards and monogrammed gift tags from black card stock. Clearly, I need a new Xacto knife. It's too dull for precision lettering but I'm still pleased with the general look of this one. It's my zero dollar Valentine.

tea, love

This morning, Design Sponge posted a tutorial for DIY tea bags, heart-shaped for Valentine's Day. I've been working on my own Valentine's crafts, which I'll post in a few days. But I'm going to keep this one tucked under my hat. I imagine I'll one day be the woman in the office who gives everyone small homemade gifts on holidays. Though I can't imagine myself actually working in an office. Weird.