Embroideries and Salad Faces

A row house for a swap




2 versions of a free pattern from Andrea Zuill. The blue one is a gift for a friend, the pink one is for me and I am going to do some quilting around it to make it into a wall hanging.



I use a lot of cloth totebags, but I hate advertising on them, so I've been covering up the ads with pieces of fabric.





What I did with some of the bot camp fabric



For lunch this week we made salad faces with cream cheese on corn thins and assorted toppings. Inspired by Mollie Katzen's Salad People.



this one is a salad alien, by Blackbird Jr



A little surprise Jr and I made for Mr Blackbird

New Favourite Meal on New Placemats

My new favourite thing to eat:



Mix cream cheese with dried ranch spices. You can add sour cream and mayo to the mix if you like, but I just use light cream cheese and don't add the sour cream or mayo.

Spread on a greek style pita bread (they are thicker and fluffier than the thin pita pockets)

Top with veggies- here I used red, green and yellow pepper, broccoli and cauliflower

Optional- lightly sprinkly grated mozzarella cheese on top

Delicious!

I made new placemats over the weekend as well for Blackbird Jr and myself. Blackbird Jr doesn't like his and asked me to make him a different one. Hmph.





I used this patchwork placemat tutorial.