Island Mama

“A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.”

Inspired by Soulemama, who’s been doing this for years, I’m going to start trying to do this every week.

“A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.”

Finally, three and a half years after beginning it, I finished the quilt this summer, just in time to enter it in the County Fair.

My goal when I started designing it was to get it hung from the ceiling instead of folded and draped in the quilt nook, and look — I achieved it!!

 

I got a blue ribbon, which I was happy about, too. And the judge’s comments were nice.

Considering this is the third quilt I’ve ever made, I’m pretty darn happy with it! And it looks great on our bed.

 

OK, so I got tagged a while ago by my friend Lisa. I’ve never been tagged before, never done a meme before, but here we go. I’ll answer the questions, but I don’t know about the last part, though, tagging 5 people… I’m usually a completely anonymous lurker on most blogs I read. And sorry, it’s going to be sort of brief…. I want to get to my quilt tonight too. Then I’ll have pictures to share. 🙂

The rules of this tag:

A. The rules are posted at the beginning

B. Answer the questions about yourself

C. Tag 5 people, let them know in a comment on their blogs that they have been tagged.

What were you doing 10 yrs ago?

Um, 1998. Learning about computers. I’d been living in a VW bus with my then-husband, working retail and being hippies. We moved into an apartment and I started doing office temp work because I was SICK of retail, and found I had an aptitude for computer stuff. I took a class in Multimedia and learned about HTML and the internet, and here we are.

Snacks I enjoy:

Five things on my to-do list today:

Things I would do if I became a billionaire:

3 bad habits:

5 places I have lived:

Jobs I have had:

Oh goodness. Many, but can be mostly summed up like this:

Things people don’t know about me:

I’m a synesthete. Specifically, my days of the week have colors associated with them and always have. There are other aspects of my life that are probably synesthetic, but I’m still trying to figure it out. I only just discovered that other people do this and that there’s a name for it — I always thought it was just me being weird.

I don’t think there’s much else people who know me don’t know — I’m a pretty open book, I don’t hide much.

I made this up one day and it has quickly become one of our regular favorites. Tasty, nutritious, and QUICK to prepare. Ben even askes for seconds. Amounts are approximate for now, maybe I’ll try measuring stuff the next time. 🙂

2 cups cooked brown rice

1 10oz bag loosely packed frozen spinach (I use Woodstock Farms)

6 eggs

1 cup grated cheese — cheddar and/or mozzarella

2 tbsps curry powder (or flavoring of your choice to taste)

salt and pepper

Optional: frozen vegetarian sausages, sliced

Preheat the oven to 400ºF.
Put the rice, spinach and a third of the cheese into a casserole dish and mix.
Beat the eggs together with curry powder and salt and pepper.
Pour eggs over mixture in casserole dish, stir to coat everything.
Top with remaining cheese (and veggie sausages if desired).

Cover and bake for 45 – 50 minutes, remove covering and cook for about 10 minutes more, or until eggs are set.

Christmas crafting galore going on here… more photos and details later, but here are a little pair of elf clogs hanging on the tree…