St John Quilters made these today

The St. John Quilters made these quilts today!!!

New wind chime I got today from friends

Yard stick holder I made from hubby's old jeans

Yeah, he is 6'4" so a pant leg of his is looooooooooooong...

December 31, 2011 Second Tamale Project

I'm making 6 pounds of masa worth of tamales by myself.

I'm making Veggie,

and Bean & Soy Chorizo,

and Cheese & Jalapeno,

 and Chicken for hubby.

Yum!

These are ready to steam.

I was watching "Bramwell" mini-series on Netflix and didn't want to get masa all over my remote and xbox controller. SO, I put them into a ziploc bag. Also put my cell phone into a plastic sandwich bag. Worked great!!! Sometimes I come up with amazing ideas. lol

Happy New Year 2012

At the stroke of midnight I kissed my hubby, hugged my sis and bro in law and completed my
TWO YEARS of NO NEW CLOTHES

Salvadoran tamales

Buy this book for all the awesome recipes.

My new book.

I rec'd this book AFTER I made tamales for the second time in my whole life. I made vegetarian tamales by not adding LARD in my masa (dough) and not using meat as a filling. YUMMY!!

I love being a VEGETARIAN.

Quilt for Driscoll's Children's Hospital

My aunt asked how much I would charge for a quilt like this.

I told her I would never sell my quilt. It's for a baby in the hospital.

If I were to sell another, it would be too expensive for anyone to buy.

Too much work went into this quilt.

The baby who gets this quilt will be wrapped in love and prayers.

Making tamales again....posted from my new ipod

Today's menu:

Bean with soy chorizo

Veggies

Cheese

Cheese with Jalapeno

Chicken

I put my controller and remote control in plastic, in case I needed to make changes to the Netflix BBC series I am watching. Don't want all the masa clogging up the buttons. LOL

Chopped veggies and mushrooms.

The first time I made tamales, with help, I used 2 borrowed tamaleras. (steamers)

Then I read online about a girl using an upside down metal colander.

Great idea. Worked just fine.

My veggie filling is three of these boxes of veggies, cooked as per box, and slightly chopped. I added a small can of sliced mushrooms and chopped those too. That's it!! Nothing else but what is in the box and the drained chopped can of mushrooms.

Fruit Fly Trap

Got fruit flies? Here is a trap, but you have to be patient. Put the coffee filter on jar with a rubberband and watch the fruit flies enter, and get trapped. If you get impatient and try to swat the fruit flies that land on top of the filter, they will just fly away.