A little visual inspiration on a COOOLD day!

Happy Pi Day

This is how you celebrate Pi Day.

By baking tasty breads.. With a Posey-Pi (short for Pionus)!

Posey is my baking partner, she always demands to be on my shoulder while doing the mixing.

Today we made pumpkin-ginger bread featuring some locally grown and freshly ground whole wheat flower from Alprilla farm. I will tell you, you haven't had good whole wheat flour until you have had it fresh like this! I don't know if they just have an excellent product or if it always needs to be freshly ground, but man does it make for excellent baking! Not to mention the fresh, local duck eggs that somehow always make whatever is baking lighter and fluffier.

Do you like to bake?

It is snowing here today.

Again.

Although the sun is "trying" to break through and at this point it is much better than freezing cold and icy ground.

I do love winter, but I may be ready for spring to bound in... What's that saying about March? "In like a lion, out like a lamb." This is so true, especially in New England and especially this year!

The past few days had been springlike, but Mother Nature apparently likes to play tricks...

Anyway, I have been sipping tea, trying to catch up (on work, on reading, on knitting, on everything). Oh, and I have been snacking on the most delicious granola bars ever (homemade, of course)! I loosely followed THIS recipe that I had pinned to one of my Pinterest boards, but I added chocolate chips (which melted all over the ingredients, yum!), pecans, sunflower seeds, cranberries and currants. CAN'T. STOP. EATING. THEM!!!

So good, and waaaay cheaper with better ingredients than those found at the store. Next time I will add pumpkins seeds and maybe try using sunflower seed butter.

Do you have a favorite snack that you like to make?

How about a favorite tea?

Well, headed back to work.

Working on some new designs for screen printing.

Happy Thursday to you!

~xx~

Naughty Dog

This was the day where Mu was an ill-behaved pup.

Aside from her being gloriously happy to run around in the field we visited in Ipswich, she obviously left her listening ears in the car. As soon as she saw some ducks down on the river she was running through the mud flats towards the water. All the hollering and whistling didn't recall her. I watched as she joyously flushed the birds, sending them flapping over the river, Mu still running behind, first through the mud, then through the shallows of the waters edge... And then PLOP! Even from as far away as we were up on the bank we could see the shock as the edge must have dropped off and Mu was fully swimming in the frigid water! She sure turned and hopped out as fast as she could!!!

We finished the walk with a rather wet and soggy Mu, but her bad behavior continued. After barking at a woman walking on the road as we circled back to the car (the woman had no idea) we hopped in the car and continued with our errands which included getting dog food, meat for dinner and a sandwich for lunch. On route home, we stopped to fill the water jugs and when I went to get back in the car I realized Bessie Mu had helped herself to the other half of my sandwich, which I had wrapped up and was saving for lunch the next day.

BAD DOG!!!

She got quite the scolding and true to form express ZERO guilt!

It is a darn good thing she is cute, but we weren't really speaking the rest of the day.

Oh dogs.

Do your dogs ever do such naughty things?

Anyway, I write this as Mu lays sleeping, snoring with her head in my lap.

I'm a sucker.

A day at the beach

This weekend was a mix of weather, but all of it spring-like.

This means everyone is out and there isn't a place to steal away and have all to ourselves.

After much indecision on the sunniest of days, we settled on going to one of the beaches around here. The small winter parking area was FULL! But no matter, we managed to fit ourselves in

and it ended up being a wonderful adventure.

There were dogs galore which meant our pups were more than happy.

It was bright, sunny, warm and vivid.

Verdure: Anticipating Spring...

I just thought I would share with you my newest design.

You can find it over HERE.

Hope you are enjoying your day!

xxoo