I found this picture of a snack I've made a long time ago:
Vaguely, I recall being very enthusiastic about it. Enthusiastic enough to take at least 20 pictures of it. A good idea, as it turns out, since most of them are blurry. And messy, but even sharp pictures can't solve that.
But what it was? Dunno. Okay, let's take a look at the topping. What exactly is that on the plate?
Looks like some mixture. Of chopped black olives and basil. And sun-dried tomatoes, or normal tomatoes. Or both. The tiny beige specs look like pine nuts. I probably threw in some olive oil, sea salt and pepper too. And garlic, it sounds like garlic makes sense in this context.
And then all of that on cracker. Sounds tasty. Not very original, but tasty. Hmmm. Maybe I should make some.
...even though I made this hand-sewn and hand-embroidered lavender bag.
Because the lavender has been growing like weed.
Because I'm currently spending near all my time on nerdy/design activities. Which means I still have a few 'grandma' credits left before turning into a full-fledged 'doilies, bears and kittens' person. I'm still cool.
But mostly because it was too ridiculously hot and sunny to move and/or concentrate, while I still needed something to do on my day off. Forgive me, for I had nothing better to do. The weather report weaves tales of a continuing heatwave, so more embroidery might follow...
Since my previous post I have been über-busy with all the preparations and first steps of my web design business. But alas! The long days of working and sweating over design mockups and programming training are almost over, and the long days of working and sweating over client design mockups and debugging are almost starting. The main difference: I'll get paid. At least I hope so.
In case you were wandering "did you really need three months for that?" well, I did plan the launch to be in only half that time. However, en route my body and mind performed their united "hey you there, get
back here!" routine again so I needed to take things sloooow for a
while. Yeah, life and health and sanity and such. The good news is that now I'm both rested ánd well-prepared, beat that!
Since all this work left little time for other projects, I'm slightly behind on pretty much all of my plans. I hope I'll be able to pick them up slowly the next weeks. There might also appear some older creations that I had already photographed and subsequently forgotten about. I'd tell you what kind of projects if I hadn't forgotten about them.
One thing I do remember is going to the textiles market with a friend. Though the reason I still remember it might be that it happened a few days ago. Ah well. In case you are now looking at me with the stern look that says "didn't you already have waaaay to much fabric while doing pretty much nothing with it?", it wasn't my fault. I was morally obliged to tag along for mental support to my friend who needed to stash big time for her sewing plans. And the reason I came home with a big stash of cloth as well was, ehm... Well you don't need an excuse for stashing really nice €1 per meter cloth, really. I just need to find more storage space, that's all.
Among the new supplies is a piece of unbleached cotton (Dutch: kaasdoek). Which is very convenient in the kitchen as well as for drying herbs as my friend told me. Herbs. Whenever I stumble across the word 'herbs' I think of Eddy Izzard's sketch:
The man is a genius.
*Disclaimer: I am Dutch but only speak two languages, the other six have long been forgotten ;).
