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links for the wkend.

28 Jan
Here are some of my favorite finds from the week —
This made me so excited.  Now I can make my own scratch-off cards!  (I will admit that I found this tutorial over my lunch today.  I went snowshoeing and then had the supplies – under the Joanne Fabrics clause of my no-buy January – in my possession by 5pm.  I have attempted.  And it works.  Gloriously.  The wheels of creativity in Lindsay’s head are spinning.)
Do you like Nutella?  I think I first experienced Nutella while in Greece and since then, cannot purchase a jar because I eat it.  (I realize that’s the purpose.)  How easy and delicious does this homemade version look?  And how pretty packaged in mason jars.
The St.Paul Winter Carnival begins this weekend.  Who doesn’t want to sit in a chair made of ice?
Are you cleaning at all this weekend?  Maybe the bathroom?  Just grab your Kool-Aid!
Happy weekend-ing!

Project Etsy.

28 Jan
Jennifer Parker: It’s like Doc’s always saying –
Marty McFly: I know, I know.  If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
Jennifer Parker: That’s good advice, Marty.
I want to put my mind to something.  There’s something I want to accomplish.
But I’m fearful.  I’m fearful of failure.  And let’s face it – no one wants to fail.

I especially don’t want to end up riding in this boat.  No Regretsy, please.  (Thanks to jD for the link to that one.  Chicken poncho?  Really?  There’s a Regretsy blog too – go at your own risk and prepare to be thoroughly disturbed.)

By writing it here, by telling you what’s up, I feel like it’s real and there is no way to go but forward.  And maybe I need that push.
Next week – the week after J-term has ended but before second semester begins – will be the launching of Project: Etsy.  [What’s Etsy?  A homemade marketplace online.  Everything from wonderful to creepy.]  I’ll need a name, some sort of product, a dream of what is to come.  Ideas have been floating around in my head for the last couple weeks; it’s time to bring them to fruition. 
So I’m putting my mind to it and jumping [into a frozen lake, yes – see previous post – and into what will now be referred to as Project Etsy].  To land flat on my face?  Maybe.  But here’s hoping not.

a fabric friday.

22 Jan

A few weeks ago I heard of a mysterious place in a northern ‘burb of the cities.  A place where bolts of fabric are stacked high and cheap.  A place that will capture you in its aisles and only let you leave wanting more.  A fabric warehouse – 30,000 square feet of fabric warehouse.

Fake fur.  
Cotton.  
Ribbon.  
Barrels of buttons.  Vinyl.  
Paisley.  
Knits.  
Everything possible.  So wonderfully overwhelming.

Oh the joy of SR Harris.

We ventured.
We dreamed.
We lost Jenna.  (Only temporarily.)
We all made small but lovely purchases.
And we all picked out our ideal apparel fabric.  How hot are we?

link’in.

16 Jan

The sixteenth president of the United States.  Whose head should not be visible when checking the tread on your car tires.

Or, maybe what I was really going for —
Links.  (Kinda like ‘pimpin’ but ‘link’in’ instead?  No?  Never say those words again?  Okay.)  I’ve had a number of people ask me lately where I find blogs to follow; what follows is kinda how it works.  I find a blog or two that I like, stalk their favorite blogs (as listed typically on a side column), and repeat.  Sometimes, you can hit the jackpot of all link’ins — blogs will have a post of their current favorite links – often on the weekends – from the blogging world to click on, explore, and begin the blog stalking all over again.  This is where Google Reader comes in.  Add your new favorite blog to your feed and viola!  
(One great example: This site, OnePrettyThing, is actually a roundup of links to other blogs EVERYDAY.  Some of the projects are kinda ridiculous but there are some good ones/ways to adapt/the finding of wonderful blogs amidst the crazy.)  
Here are my current favorites, my weekend round-up.  It could also appropriately be called “The ways Lindsay avoided studying for her history test.”

I made this for dinner on Sunday evening.  An excuse to use my food processor.  (Always looking for those.)  It was pretty yummy … and crazy to think it mainly consisted of soybeans.  (I used to grow those. Rather, my dad did.  But I played in the gravity wagons that carried them and climbed up the bins that stored them.)

These are a possibility for Monday morning, an addition to an already delicious weekend.

My friend, Sara, and I made our way to northeastern Minneapolis on Saturday and checked two of three off this list.  City Salvage was closed for remodeling.  Bummer.  However, Wilde Roast has a DEE-licious mint mocha and super fun atmosphere.  And we found a wicked-weird “antique” store en route.

Creepy Santa in a cardboard box chimney —  an antique? 

Another link from the blog I’m a tad-bit obsessed with —  This looks like a good project to do while watching a movie.  Perhaps a great Christmas garland for next year?

I might try these to stick in people’s mailboxes this Valentine’s but with something else instead of tootsie suckers.  (Can you guess what?)  Also for Valentine’s … do you have extra candy canes still sticking around?  These are cute and fun.

Another food processor recipe.  Hummus with natural peanut butter instead of tahini.  I’m intrigued.

Are you a one-space-after-a-sentence kind of person or two?  I was taught two … and apparently I was taught WRONG.  gasp.  Read a witty article on the proper way to type and not waste space here.

My new go-to sugar cookie recipe.  Much needed because – I don’t think I’ve told you – I have alphabet cookie cutters!

this weekend I –

6 Dec
– made this.

– watched LOTS of movies, all having subtle or obnoxious Christmas themes.  Many of my favorites: Elf, Love Actually, Just Friends, Bridget Jones and The Holiday.  (No worries – I could never simply SIT and watch this many movies.  They were enjoyment while wrapping yarn balls, making cake pops, and conversing with my cotton-headed ninny-muggin friend, Sara.)

– The Cooking Pastor?, you ask.  In the post-production stages.

baby (quilt) excitement.

14 Oct
I talked to my friend, Deb, online today.  She asked me to read over her substitute teaching plans with the eyes of a former substitute and as her maternity leave will be here shortly.
Suddenly, I was so excited!  The maternity leave is in sight.  Baby will be here so soon and Deb as the mom is so excited to meet her daughter.  Hearing Deb’s excitement made me so excited … and thus, foregoing any obligation to homework or study, I went to work immediately on the quilt which will be my gift to the new baby and family.  I can’t wait to find more time to begin sewing and putting the quilt together.
I’ll finish this quilt for Baby I (as the baby is referred to – the name, beginning with I, is known only by mommy and daddy) and then need not worry about what quilt should come next — my dear friend from my first year at seminary, Kari, is due to have a baby in the first months of the new year!  I stood up in Kari’s wedding and we keep in close touch despite the distance that divides us from MN to Seattle.  I’m so very excited for Kari and her husband, Chris!

babies and blankets.

7 Sep
Remember this little guy born back at the end of January?  I made Gavin a quilt when he was born.   It was my first baby quilt, my second-ever completed quilt.  Gavin is the son of a Dancing Banana, the silly name for the closest of all close high school friends.  The Bananas and I have called ourselves that since our sophomore year of high school.  (The seven of us are still friends, stay in frequent contact and will buy anything banana-themed for one another.) Before that, we were the Oatmeal gang.  (It’s best if you don’t ask questions.)

I was tickled pink when Gavin came over with his daddy, Mat, of whom the baby boy is the splitting image.  Gavin came, roll-y thighs and all, with his baby quilt in tow.  So incredibly cute this eight-month old is – I didn’t want to put him down or hand him over to anyone else.  Gavin makes Lindsay feel maternal.  

My second-ever baby quilt was gifted to my cousin, Marissa, while I was home.  Marissa is due with her third child but first girl!  There is no baby yet.  Baby Girl Hanson is due to arrive on October 3rd.  I thought the pink might be a bit lacking in the hand-me-downs from Drew and Logan and I knew another baby quilt project would be fun to tackle.  
I had promised to show Karen this quilt before I left Dawson … and forgot.  Here it is for show-and-tell in photo form.  Know that it is soft, flannel and the backing is made from pink minky fabric (like this) … and that I’m short and unable to get the whole quilt in the picture.  But you get the point.  

suzy homemaker.

22 Jun
Tonight’s agenda: Sew apron. Bake pies.

Tomorrow night is a fundraiser at Grace for the young men going on a canoe trip to the Boundary Waters at the end of July. It’s a pie auction. I figured I would do my part and contribute a few pies, even if I am slightly bitter that I initially planned the trip but am unable to go on it because only males signed up to attend. (Over it. It’s okay. Still hope to canoe the BWCA some point soon.)

It was only fitting that I have an apron to wear while baking so that was the first thing I did when I arrived home. I fashioned myself a simple apron and then went to work creating my dutch apple pie with oatmeal strudel and chocolate pudding pie. They are both new recipes so I have slight anxiety allowing them to be auctioned off, not really aware of the quality and taste of them. I spruced the chocolate pudding pie up just a tad with some water, sunshine, and a canoe out of white chocolate to go along with the purpose of the evening.
Apron sewn. Pies made. Dishes done. All while wearing pearls.

Quilt accomplishment.

18 Jun

Another quilt behind me – a tshirt quilt for my sister that I have been working on since she delivered a bag of tshirts to me at Easter. I just kind of made it up as I went along, knowing that Emma wasn’t too particularly attached to the tshirts but thought a quilt for all of them would be cool. Pink sheets for the back and the sashing. Bright polka dots for the binding – yummy. I sent the quilt home with Ben and Emma received it today. I hope it keeps her warm.

project.

22 Apr

I love it when my office is filled with supplies for a new project. It makes me anticipate the day when the supplies will be put together to make something wonderful! These supplies will be put to work next Friday night at the 5/6 grade lock-in … I’ll keep you posted on the final product!

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