simpletruths

string cheese, crab legs and cherries

This is what Big Mr said when in response to the question:

 

If you were on a desert island, what three foods would you want to have with you?

 

What about you?

Gawker

So craftgawker is one of my favorite crafty eye candy sites.  I was just browsing the other day and came across these beauties:

Awesome felted soap from SoFino

 

 Turn your mason jars into soap dispensers with an easy order from Post Road Vintage.

 

And you already know that I'm a fan of bitty nests so there's no way I could pass these by from Made in Lowell

 

This ring from MaaP studios is porcelain perfection - as is pretty much everything in their shop.

 

ohhh and these calendars

 from Olive and Ruby

 

Knitting in public

an interesting conversation starter.

toddler, job, pregnant, husband, house, food, craft ...... me

Most days I try to get a lot in.

There's the job...

The pregnancy...

The toddler...

The husband...

The house...

The food...

The filling of orders, prepping of materials and designing of new stuff...

Then there's the convergence of everything on this blog.

 

And, honestly, I try to do an amazing job and all of them...just not all at the same time. For example right now the house, while it isn't a full on mess, definitely looks like regular, busy people live here.   I'm fine with my house not looking like a page in out of a Pottery Barn catalogue, but I'll admit that it would be nice to see more than half of the dining table at any one time; one can dream.

As much as I love cooking, weekday meals can be a serious time suck so I've been planning most meals based on how many days of dinner (and lunch) I can get out of it.  I made something similar to this on Wednesday and we closed out the week with it. Just don't ask me when I got around to actually cleaning the pan...

(source)

 

My maternity leave officially starts on Thanksgiving and, more than anything, I'm looking forward to devoting a big chunk of time each day to doing nothing more than napping or going to a movie.

Mini Crustless Quiches

In preparation for Little Mrs. arrival I've been thinking of things that can be made ahead and frozen both for me and for the boys.

These little guys are my favorite so far:

Mini Crustless Quiches - one batch with just zucchini, another with zucchini and smoked turkey.

The recipe I ended up going with is actually a mini frittatta recipie  that was less recipe and more hmmmm what's in the fridge...

One downfall to going the muffin pan route (both mini and regular) is cleaning.  There's just no easy way to clean a muffin pan.

 

I've also gotten a bunch more button scarves finished and folded, and I just finished a couple cowls - one blue and one purple that aren't pictured. I feel like, come 10pm - I do nothing but weave in ends for an hour...and I haven't even started adding the hooks onto the earring yet...

 

Organized Chaos

This may look like a mess of yarn to most people

but to me, this is progress.  Take a look at the few close ups....

This little sparkly circles are going to be the brilliant focal point of a Christmas garland

 

One yet-to-be-stiffened snowflake

 

 

earrings galore

 

 

And I didn't even get into the assorted neck warming apparatuses....apparati?   

I also have a few new designs in the works.  No pictures yet but I can say that felt is fun :) 

Pizza Night

This is how we do pizza night!