Sublime….

A strawberry champagne cupcake from Cupcake Charlies!

 

Thanks Joanne!

2 More!

Two more readers looking for "frowny face": Dallas Texas the day after my post, and London England yesterday.

What the???

So my Feed-jit traffic feed shows how some of my readers arrive at my blog, either directly, or from another blog, or thru a google search. For some reason, I've had numerous hits-I want to say I'm getting close to 10 in the past month- from people searching for "frowny face" ?????
People from around the world, no less. Just when I think it's a fluke, another one pops up.
What's with THAT???!!!

Nappy Time…

More Stitching…

Progress on Beacon House:

The second tree took less time to stitch than the first.  There is actually 3 different flosses for the snow:  GAST “Oatmeal”, WDW “Light Khaki” & WDW “Snowflake”. The bottom of the piece is about 20 stitches below the bottom of the lower tree trunk.

I’ve been fighting off a sinus thing for 2, closer to 3 weeks now. It seems every other day I’m headachy and nauseous. It’s been very tiresome; I have to force myself to get up to walk in the morning , and I’ve been skipping riding in the evening (although I managed to ride twice in the past 3 days). My lawn is seriously overgrown- I HAVE to take care of it today, and all I want to do is take a nap.

Blech.

A Request for a Recipe!

Catherine wanted to know how I made the Lime Cream Cheese Frosting for my vanilla cake.  Here you are, Catherine:

Lime Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened
• 4 TBSP softened butter
• 1 (1 lb. Box) confectioners sugar (4 cups?)
• zest from 1 lime
• 2 TBSP lime juice (or from 1 lime, whichever is less)

In a large mixing bowl, whip butter and cream cheese together with a hand-held mixer. Gradually beat in the confectioners sugar until thoroughly combined and smooth. Beat in the zest and juice.

Yield: enough to generously frost a 9 x 13 sheet cake, with extra leftover for a few cupcakes.

Like these:

Heaven:

For the Birds…

Here’s Beacon House, after stitching Thursday:

And a little closer, for those of you who may want to critique my proficiency at stitching:

I’m enjoying my time with this piece, although I don’t seem to be progressing very quickly. Maybe it’s all the double-checking the chart so often? The difference between this photo and last post’s is about 3 hours of stitching time.

I’m picking up some Chinese for dinner with Bob at rehab.

We had one day (yesterday) of “dry” (as in not-humid”) air, and today we’re back in the soup. I’m really getting tired of feeling like a grease-ball and having the frizzy hair-do!