Surprise Blind Dates

While I was wrapping up the spring cleaning I found not one but two blind date with a books that I was unable to gift to the intended recipients. Since those two folks are now out of my life I could have donated them, but where's the fun in that? These became my reward from the Universe for finishing the spring cleaning. :)

Here's the first one, which was the Christmas paper wrapped bline date. Bit of trivia: one of the first novels I wrote was set in a carnival, and like haunted house stories I've always liked them. So, definitely looks interesting.

The second was this one, and now I understand the brown paper wrapping. :) I love a good farce, especially if it's spicy romance, so this one should be fun to read.

Thank you for my surprises, Universe!

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

The Mercantile

If you don't mind walking 33K square feet in retail space, The Mercantile may be the vintage/arts store you'd enjoy visiting if you're ever in Orlando. I certainly did. Because it was busy I didn't take any photos in the store, but it's absolutely amazing and chock full of antiques and artisan creations, most of which were pretty reasonably priced. For $21.00 I invested in a picture of sailboats for the guest bathroom I'm redoing, and a fairy mystery jar of cool stuff. The jaw was hand-painted and decorated, and utterly charming. I think I wanted the jar more than the contents. As you can see the contents were both generous and pretty cool, too. I finally have some vintage gloves to use for my art quilter bingo challenge!

Rayen

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