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Perfect Pot Luck Picnic Recipe ~ r

A fellow letterboxer brought a delicious pasta salad to our meet up in May.  I begged for the recipe and she sent it to me. Whole package of tricolor spiral pasta Whole cucumber, sliced up and cut in half Whole plastic container of grape tomatoes, tomatoes cut in half Whole jar of pitted kalamata olives (make sure to drain the brine well before using) Whole yellow or orange pepper, diced Whole red onion, diced Bunch of green onions, diced Whole package of kraft crumbled feta cheese (I like the one with oregano) Whole small bottle of balsamic salad dressing (for the picnic, I used the real olive oil kraft version with fig - I like the sweetness of it) Cook the noodles and then mix everything together. It's nice warm, too - but let it chill in the fridge if you like it cold. If you're making it the night before (like I did), it's better to leave out the salad dressing until the day of then mix it in - the noodles suck up the dressing like crazy and it d...

Some finished layouts I can share . . .

Because a lot of the layouts I am doing these days are for a manuscript I'm working on I can't share them.  But every once in a while I do a few pages just for fun.  Like these . . .

Paper Piecing for Sale: A Baseball ~ pp

Every year I do an All About Me album . . . this one is for 2010

This project is the result of a class I took through Big Picture Scrapbooking called i scrap .  I really enjoyed the process.  And my album is even more special because I used the papers Hal & the grandsons bought me for Christmas.

Paper Piecing for Sale: Basketball ~ pp

Another dishcloth finished . . .

If you enjoy making dishcloths, you should check out this group . . . http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MonthlyDishcloths/

A baby girl quilt

Another finish this past week . . . a baby girl quilt.  I don't know who its for yet.  My sister made the top.  I enjoy the putting together part. 

Mystery Dishcloth Knit-alongs

I just finished two more dishcloths.  I really like the second one.  I'm not a big fan of "picture" cloths.  If you think you'd like to participate in these KALs check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MonthlyDishcloths/

The London Regional Cancer Clinic is an amazing place . . .

Letterboxing Road Trip Part 2

We spent the night at the 5th Wheel Truck Stop in Grimsby.  I was so tired that I didn't hear a thing . . . that is until Hal started complaining he was cold at around 4 am . . . sigh . . . I was quite comfortable so chances are he really was cold . . . LOL . .  I suggested running the van for a while, putting on a sweater, and by 5 am I was suggesting he just suck it up . . . LOL . . . Other than that it was a great night sleep.  Except for the whole I could hardly move thing that happened when I did try and get up in the morning.  Maybe I should have taken the hint then that I was really hurt, but I had been looking forward to this weekend for so long, and I know Hal was too.  I really didn't want to go home so I popped a couple of muscle relaxers and Aleve.  I wanted to find letterboxes. We had a lovely breakfast in the truck stop restaurant and they had Internet so I went on Atlas Quest in search of letterboxes in the Grimsby area.  I ...