Homemade Flower Pots ~ Hypertufa - Hypertuff - lightweight concrete pots

When Doris was in Escondido for a visit we (Doris and Irene) made flower pots using Martha Stewart's "recipe".

We had to have a toast to our/their creations! Armin is ALWAYS the man that cleans up, thank you Armin.
Hildegard had to come and put succulents into the pots since I have no clue on how to do that. Here are the results:

Since we have lots of leftover materials we (I need to recruit again) will make more pots to sell for a fundraiser for Rady Children's Hospital in December.

Dinner and a Movie - Timpano and Big Night

On May 8th we had our dinner and movie night at Dale and Irene's house. We ate two versions of Timpano and watched Big Night.  It was a great evening!

I used the recipe from the Tipsy Cook and Nick and Patty made their vegetarian version with roasted slices of eggplant, risotto, peas, mushrooms, spinach and herbs.

The next Dinner and A Movie night: Julie & Julia

Coasters, dishcloth and can cozy for At My House Group Exchange

I belong to At My House group on Yahoo and participating in the monthly coaster exchange. The rules are pretty simple: By joining this exchange, you are committing to
send 1 coaster made of either yarn or thread (to your assigned exchange partner. It can be either crocheted or knitted.

I crochet 4 coasters, 1 dish/washcloth and a can cozy out of Peaches & Cream, color 180 Peppercorn Ombre. They will go to Pam in Kalamazoo MI, hope she likes them.

The coasters are just 4 rows of double crochet and one of single crochet not really a pattern.

The can cozy/sox pattern can be found here

The Basket Rib Dishcloth pattern is here 

Great Recipes thanks to Becky and Alex!

We had a wonderful surprise on Saturday, April 3rd. Alex and Becky invited us to a cooking class at Great News in Pacific Beach. The class was given by Jean-Paul Weber. Jean-Paul is a native of Alsace, an Eastern region of France which has one of the richest and most varied cuisines in the country.

He prepared four salads, a marinated fish dish and Individual Wild Mushroom Pate in Phyllo Dough with Tarragon Sauce and a Pear and Almond Tart for dessert.

Everything was DELICIOUS!

We made three of the salads and the fish for friends on Friday, April 9 and everyone loved the food. Forgot to take photos but we will be making the recipes again and we'll take photos then

Check the RECIPE page above for the recipes.

Scarf for Superbowl XLVI in Indianapolis 2012

I knitted this scarf with instructions from the Indianapolis website.They are looking for 8,000 scarves for the 8,000 volunteers.

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I used the yarn the committee approved: Red Heart Super Saver, color white 0311 and blue 0385 and size US 8 needles. Other patterns are available on the website.
The pattern is Basket Weave. I knitted the neck part in Knit 2 purl 2 ribbing so the scarf stays in place.

Mid March 2010 KAL - Monthly Dishcloth Group

The pattern is called "Fruited Plains" and the pattern can be found at the Monthly Dishcloth Yahoo Group. I used Peaches & Cream 100% Cotton Yarn, color #184 Colors of Spring.

March 2010 Mystery KAL Dishcloth - Rachel's Knitting Room

This was a fun cloth to knit. I used Peaches & Cream, color #89 Camel and size US 6 needles.
You can find the pattern at Rachel's Yahoo Group