new mitts

Busy busy, some mitts made and delivered... less than two weeks and I'll be on vacation for an entire month, very exciting!

alfajores

Baking away for a happy thanksgiving celebration with good friends. I'll be contributing my usual empanadas, baked cheesey potatoes and this year I'm adding alfajores. They're basically two cookies sandwiched with dulce de leche in the middle and toasted coconut on the border, yummylicious!

3 cups corn starch
2½ cups flour
4 tsp baking powder
4 tbsp butter
3 tbsp crisco
6 eggs
1 cup sugar
lemon zest
sweet coconut flakes -toasted in oven
dulce de leche

Beat eggs and sugar, add lemon zest. Mix dry ingredients, incorporate butter and crisco working until well mixed. 
Combine flour and egg mixtures to form a workable dough, add flour if necessary. Roll out to about ¼" thickness. Cut circles with cookie cutter. Bake for about 15 minutes or until golden at 350 degrees in preheated oven.
Let the cookies cool a bit. Spread dulce de leche on one cookie, take another and press together to make a little sandwich, spread a little dulce de leche on the sides, roll it on the toasted coconut. Makes about 35 alfajores.

thanksgiving

So many things to be thankful for... health above all. Happy Thanksgiving day to all!!

etsy treasury

My handwarmer mitts were included in a treasury celebrating North Carolina!

more promo items

Promotional items displayed and distributed over the weekend at Duke show in Raleigh, NC.

pooch measurements

promo cards

Promotional cards for my artwork and my hand knitted accessories. So happy with the pictures, thanks to Sophy for shooting nice photos and my beanies for being great models -Boogie the poodle- was the best pooch model, striking pose after pose :)

my knits

Available for sale very soon:
"handmade knitted accessories for guys, gals and furry pals"
My handwarmer mitts keep your hands nice and warm while keeping your fingers free for doing stuff -like typing on the computer, phone texting, tacking up your horse, etc.
Doggie sweaters and hats keep your little ones very toasty and stylish.

oil in progress

Working on small 8"x8" oil on panel paintings, some horsey, some not.

framed and delivered

Artwork donated to the Jump for the Children - Duke Children's Hospital benefit horse show - framed, packaged and delivered over the weekend.

my labels and hand warmers

Busy weekend trying to catch up and finish some projects. I'm happy with my fabric labels for knitted and fabric accessories in the works. Cooler weather makes me want to curl up and knit away, I'm obsessed with knitting right now and have been staying up waaaay late because I just can't put it down. I keep saying one more row, ok, one more, ok last one and so on. I guess it will soon pass and I'll be moving on to my next old lady obsession.
I have attached the labels to my hand warmers which will go on sale very soon. I'm also working on matching items for our very best friends :)