Stitch, stitch, stitch

Working on my tea napkins, it's going pretty good...

jello shots with a twist

I saw a project on notmartha.org where she made jello wedges in citrus rinds. The first thing that popped into my mind was, "jello shots!" So I made them for New Years Eve. Yum!!


1 giant bag of oranges (10-12)
2 boxes of jello (I got cherry and orange)
2 cup cake pans

First, I cut an orange in half. Then I took out the pulp as carefully as I could. I was using a spoon to carve around the pulp. It took a while, and got a couple of squirts in my eye.

Once each half was sitting in their own cup cake depression I made the jello. A normal receipe calls for one cup boiling hot water, one cup cold water. Instead of cold water, I subsituted one cup vodka. oh dah!

After they became firm in the fridge, I cut them into 1/8s because quarters seemed to big. Next time I'll fill them up more because there was a small gap between the jello and the top of the rind.

They came out pretty neat looking, but the color of the jello bled into the whiteness of the orange. Maybe it was the alcohol.

Amsterdam!

So we went to Amsterdam in November. It was fantastic. So many shops and cafes. The space cakes weren't half bad either =)



We had a layover in Iceland. I would love to go back, it's seemed very beautiful. All I have to say is tall blondes.

I just bought a crap load of patterns from Sublime Stitching. Right now I'm doing two tea towels that came in a kit and am putting on a dragon on one and two lanterns on the other. I haven't done any type of embrodery since, geez, 1993 - 8th grade. It's pretty easy, but when I was ironing on the transfer I think I did it too long and it went through the fabric onto the ironing board. Also, it's an old board and some waterstains transfered onto the cloth. Hopefully it'll wash out. The second one I put some paper towel under the towel.