Month: March 2006
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Mail!
Today I had the most wonderful mail day ever. I received my very first Japanese craft books! I ordered them a few weeks ago through YesAsia (ISBN4277311474, ISBN4579110439, and ISBN4579109724). These books are simply gorgeous. The ideas in them are just amazing, and the photography is beautiful. Here are a few images from the books…
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Birthday gift reveal!
I FINALLY gave my friend Lindsay her birthday gift, over two months after her birthday. It took a while to get everything together, and to get Justin to sit down and work on it with me. We created her own line of teas, which we named Lindstea. I gathered lots of ingredients, including dried fruits,…
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Music week
Austin is officially swarming with music fans. The traffic is insane downtown, and South Congress is teeming with long-haired, laid-back music types wearing all black and big sunglasses. It’s fun. It’s been great working at the shop with live music right outside our door. This afternoon Pam, the owner of Plume, sang her heart out,…
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Banana goodies
Today at the bed and breakfast, I made the banana-pecan biscotti that my sister posted here. The cookies turned out perfectly! They were just golden, but still crunchy, with lots of banana flavor. I doubled the recipe, since we need two cookie jars full (one for each house). I like that there’s no butter in…
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Beets and Beats
Whoa! Sorry, I kind of flaked out there on posting for a few days. I’m back with some beets. Usually we pass our farmer’s market beets to Lindsay and Chad, since Lindsay is a beet-lover of sorts. But this week we kept them, so I made this salad (which I then fed to Lindsay anyway).…