But in the meantime, thank goodness for family and good food!
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Ruffle top
Pretty sure nobody needs a tutorial for this, but I'm doing it anyway. Na! (In French, this is what kids say when they are being contradictory, sort of like "so there" or thumbing your chin at someone).
So I just took an old tank that I never wear anymore and cut up another old white shirt into strips, about three inches wide, maybe less (still having trouble with non-metric system...)
and ruffle them (see here for how-to). Just sew a 1/4 inch from the edge. If your strips are about 1 1/2 times as long as your shirt is wide, you're good. Make sure to leave plenty of string on both ends of the strips to adjust the ruffles if the strips are now too short/long.
Don't forget to put your machine's tension back to normal after making all your ruffles!
Now tack on and start sewing from the bottom up.
Your top ruffle will probably need to be smaller depending on the neckline, etc.
There you go! I like it best with a cardigan to give it some structure.
So I just took an old tank that I never wear anymore and cut up another old white shirt into strips, about three inches wide, maybe less (still having trouble with non-metric system...)
and ruffle them (see here for how-to). Just sew a 1/4 inch from the edge. If your strips are about 1 1/2 times as long as your shirt is wide, you're good. Make sure to leave plenty of string on both ends of the strips to adjust the ruffles if the strips are now too short/long.
Don't forget to put your machine's tension back to normal after making all your ruffles!
Now tack on and start sewing from the bottom up.
There you go! I like it best with a cardigan to give it some structure.
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Books!
I totally just stole this from the Laitinens :) And yes, now you shall see what little culture I really have...
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
Instructions: Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolken
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (What the heck? Has ANYONE seriously read every single thing ever written by Shakespeare? I seriously doubt it.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Mine
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Why so much freaking Jane Austen?!)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Isn't this one very, very scandalous?)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (Amazing!)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola (My people is ashamed of me...)
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (Again... I'm ashamed...)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
22 out of 100. This is pathetic.
I tag anyone who wants to. So there.
Edit: wait! I forgot one! it's actually 23. Memoirs of a Geisha was awesome.
Edit: wait! I forgot one! it's actually 23. Memoirs of a Geisha was awesome.
Poêlée Champêtre
You know you want some.
This was one of my favorite dishes back home, and you just buy it frozen premixed for dirt cheap. However here, it doesn't really exist. Lucky for me, it's super simple to make. I'll even share the recipe with you :)
- Diced potatoes (make it simple and just get the frozen kind, or here all I had on hand were some seasoned French fries that I chopped up; it worked very nicely)
- Sautéed mushrooms (in butter of course! Oh ok, if you really want to be healthy go for the olive oil)
- You can also put in diced ham (that would make it a poêlée campagnarde)
- Sauté it all in olive oil, season with salt and pepper and herbes de provence (a blend of savory, fennel, basil and thyme--lots of thyme)
- Right at the end, throw in some diced swiss cheese or provolone.
Mmmmmmmmmmm
Edit: wow that was my 200th post! Happy 200th post day!
This was one of my favorite dishes back home, and you just buy it frozen premixed for dirt cheap. However here, it doesn't really exist. Lucky for me, it's super simple to make. I'll even share the recipe with you :)
- Diced potatoes (make it simple and just get the frozen kind, or here all I had on hand were some seasoned French fries that I chopped up; it worked very nicely)
- Sautéed mushrooms (in butter of course! Oh ok, if you really want to be healthy go for the olive oil)
- You can also put in diced ham (that would make it a poêlée campagnarde)
- Sauté it all in olive oil, season with salt and pepper and herbes de provence (a blend of savory, fennel, basil and thyme--lots of thyme)
- Right at the end, throw in some diced swiss cheese or provolone.
Mmmmmmmmmmm
Edit: wow that was my 200th post! Happy 200th post day!
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