Happy Birthday

We like to get them drinking early on!  Happy birthday D; hope it's a great one.  Love ya lots.

The Reclusive Ruby

Ruby loves to sit under this blanket, even if it's just her head.

Embroidery: WIP

I've started a cool sampler project, The Princess and the Pea, from Follow the White Bunny www.followthewhitebunny.com.  The pattern looks like a great way to learn multiple stitches.

Random Chicago: the bike ramp

These are at the remodeled Grand red line stop on the El.  A ramp up the side of the stairs for your bike; much easier than carrying it up two flights of stairs.  Thanks for the thought CTA!  It's highly unlikely that I will ever take advantage of this feature, but it's still cool.

The Association of Beer Vixens: the cheesey details

Beer being barrel aged

The cheeses

I went to Rock Bottom Brewery for the beer and cheese pairing event hosted by The Association of Beer Vixens.   Dave from Cheese and Cheers www.cheeseandcheers.com provided the five wonderful cheeses.  All were very good, except for the most stinky cheese I have ever met.  The Grayson cheese filled the room like the locker room aroma Dave used to describe it.  The other cheeses clock wise were fresh goat cheese, a farmstead mountain-style cheese, 10 year cheddar, the grayson, and blue cheese.  The cheeses were paired with Rock Bottom's Seasonal Wheat Beer-Hefeweizen, Fallen Angel Abbey Ale, Erik the Red Ale, 15th Anniversary Ale, and Dry-hopped Oatmeal Stout.  The jam in the middle was a delicious raspberry and pepper combination, the pepper hit at the end and really added to the flavor.  I think it was Robert Rothschild Farm Hot Pepper Raspberry Jam.

Embroidery

Here are a couple projects I've made.

This one goes out to the ones I love!

My mother can sleep better now that I have a toaster oven that works.  It's a fancy Cuisinart with toast color options!

Halloween '10

the lovely Monarch butterfly

Pirate and Frida

Classy wine cube