The recipient

It seams the recipient of the blanket has quite happily adopted it!

This was taken last week-end and he was only 10 days old! Quite perfect. My brother thinks I am going to find it hard to do better in a couple of months... His / her blanket will be quite different in any case... Actually that baby is getting 2 blankets. A crochet one of course which is over half done already, but has been put aside for a little while to work on a few other projects, including the 2nd blanket :

It's a quilt I started las winter when visiting my dear friend Barbara in Michigan. Quilting is not one of my skills, it is more a fantasy of mine and every time I visit Barb I want to make one. It is only my second one and the first time I actually get to the quilting stage, Barb did quilt the other one. It is progressing very slowly as I do it by hand as I really like the hand quilted look, and being alone with Jeanne all day till dinner time and in bed by 10 these days I actually only have little time to spend on it.

We have been rather busy doing things leaning more toward this :

Yes, her grandfather had a PINK wetsuit made for her... and she has the matching PINK and SPARKLY mask... What more can a girl ask for?

Well the weather has now turned for the worse and Jeanne has had a fever since yesterday... Which was the only excuse she needed to watch Kirikou for the 4th and 5th time since we have been arrived less than a week ago...

The to-do list? It is probably still on the fridge at home...

Taaa-Daaa!!!

I have been meaning to show you the blanket I finished last week, but was waiting for the sun to come out to take a decent picture, missed it when it was there and it is gone again... Not that I am complaining for I actually really enjoy rainy days, there is something peaceful about them. So here it is anyway, a bad picture will have to do...

It is made of one of my favourite yarn, the Rowan baby cashmerino. This is my fourth baby blanket, I make one for all my nieces, nephews, and babies. Well, so far I had one of each, and this one will go to my brand new nephew, Iwen, who was born last Tuesday!

And here is the little wonder with his very happy and proud older brother, I can't wait to see them all on Saturday :

And I already found another addiction to replace this one, in the form of another blanket...

The to-do list? Well down to 50 entries, which is quite rejoicing, and a couple of biggies ticked off! And I am now off to try to tick more!

Let's pretend...

In my quest to become the perfect housewife (bar the tidiness which is just so not going to happen!) I decided that my family needed, and deserved more desserts. So yesterday I made some really yummy banana sandwiches, they are the sweet version of the croque-monsieur, but instead of ham and cheese you use caramelised bananas and put them in bread soaked in a mixture of eggs. milk, sugar and cinnamon and cook them in a pan with a fair amount of butter. Might sound dubious, but frankly it hits the spot! You can even turn it into a somewhat posh dessert by swaping the bread for brioche and serving it with vanilla ice-cream and toffee sauce.
It turned out to be a real success, so I told Francois that tonight I would make a blueberry and peaches cobbler I had a first try at last week, to which he answered that it was a good idea because he had not been convinced last week (everybody had seconds but him, I had put it down on the large amount of alcohol in his system)... So, as I am only pretending to be a perfect housewife I decided he would not get any dessert today as he does not appreciate them anyway, I'll just get him a beer out of the fridge, a lot less work, and that I would serve this dessert to a much more deserving and decerning crowd, aka the girls :

And the verdict was? Well out of 5 persons, 3 small, 2 big, 3 had seconds! The other two had better things to do apparently! Oh, and I would highly recommend the use of bibs for this one! And here it is :

I chose a picture with a bit of mess around the dish, just to remind everyone I am just pretending!

And now I am off to try to tick something off my list, I have been trying all day but the god of to-do lists is not on my side today...

The list, still the same... I did tick things off but then had to add a bunch... Still working on clearing the 3rd bedroom, will get there though...