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18 Tuesday Sep 2012

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Shortly after this pin made its way on to my Pinterest board, we were spending some family time wandering through our favorite spot for finding all the best junk.

I stopped, pointed, told the spouse, “hey, this is from my kitchen pin board!” and now it’s mine.

My chiffon cake almost became the cake that exploded in the oven, but thankfully disaster was averted and the cake was over the top amazingly delicious instead.

hooray for sewing day

07 Tuesday Feb 2012

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brownie, brownies, chocolate, chocolate chips, dessert

I get to spend the day sewing with friends.

I’m bringing brownies for everyone to snack on. The recipe can be found here, but I used 1 teaspoon of mint extract in place of the espresso powder.

teacher gifts and a tunic and a quilt

22 Thursday Dec 2011

Posted by mybricole in baking, sewing

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biscotti, granola

It’s red bag season, again.

I also finished this tunic over Thanksgiving break. It’s the schoolhouse tunic pattern.

Mine is made out of a fine wale corduroy. I did the shoulders with a french seam to give it a more finished look and did some extra top stitching along the waist.

I also finished this honeycomb quilt a couple of weeks ago. It was so long ago that you can see all the fold lines.

here’s the back

The kids start their winter break today. We are all getting ready for a fun weekend. This picture was taken this past Tuesday, this lack of snow is very un-Iowa.