Something new I’m trying around here: spending at least one day of the weekend doing a project around my house.
The kitchen curtains kicked off the idea. In the last month I’ve painted the powder room, installed light fixtures in the girls bedrooms, and hung curtains in our bedroom. The light fixture boxes had mailing dates of 3/2005 which gives you an idea of just how long I can put things off.
This weekend I framed the beautiful artwork I received from Marci in our swap. Not only framed it mind you, I actually hung it on the wall too!
I covered the frame back with scraps of Etsuko Furuya linens from the Echino line. I noticed Superbuzzy is all stocked up these days (that place is just plain dangerous).
I’d like to make my own shadow boxes next time. Any suggestions about online sources for wood and instructions?
These three mama and child collages are so Marci. I’m in love with all 3. They capture everything I love about her work: humor, emotion, and a distinctly unique set of materials.
I hung all the pieces in my dining room along with a cross stitch sampler made by my Grandma:
Caitlin’s chair is on the right. She wasn’t very happy about it.
I don’t post much about food which is interesting given how much we LOVE to eat and how much we LOVE to cook. My food pictures never look as good as the food actually is so I usually hit the delete key and skip the idea. We cook dinner every night and eat at the above mentioned table every night.
Greg makes dinner on the weekends. He out did himself last night with a new recipe. Sicilian-Style Meatballs from the September 2007 issue of Food and Wine.
He skipped the sauce in the recipe and served the meatballs on a bed of croxetti pasta and pesto sauce. Yum. We all agreed it’s the best new recipe of the year.
It’s become such a cosy corner of the dining room with brilliant artworks from different decades. The framing of the crocheted ‘bears’ is very cool!
Too cute!!! Love those little bears!!!!!
That dinner looks delicious. We make dinner every night too and all sit down together. It’s one of those things that’s important to me so I just try to make it a priority.
I think I may be delurking. I love reading your blog!
I’m wondering if you can share where your drapes came from? They are exactly what I’m looking for for our new dining room!
Thanks!
Those drapes: I love them too! They’re from Ikea.
I’m also trying to work on one house crafting project every week. I love making things for other people, but it is also very satisfying crafting for your home. And those meatballs looks delicious. Appah does the cooking on the weekends and doesn’t food taste much better when you don’t cook it? Ok, maybe that’s just me?
Like I really need another reason to want to come over for a visit … YUM!
I love the artwork hung up in your dining room!
your artwork is beautiful! i LOVE those collage pictures!
Who doesn’t love a good meatball? Just made these from the recipe and, yes they are delicioius…the currants add a lovely sweet to the savory.
Try cooking your meatballs with this method:
Coat a large baking sheet with olive oil, then rub a coating of oil on each meatball as you place them on the baking sheet…bake in a hot oven at 425, turning with a spatula at about 7 minutes. Turn again if needed, depending on the size of your meatball. The meatballs get a lovely browning where they touch the pan, and they never fall apart or over cook on one side…just remember to turn. I make my meatballs slightly smaller and have had wonderful results with even cooking and nice heavy browning on the exterior. Remember the olive oil….the key to the browning.
[...] A bit dramatic you say, let me tell the story. Last year I posted about a meatball recipe and received a comment from Patty in Seattle that would forever change our lives. Well, at least how we spice our food and cook our meatballs, which is really changing our lives because we do one everyday and the other at least once a month. [...]