Italian Easter Pie, Resurrection Cookies, Peanut Butter Eggs, and more
Recipes We Traditionally Use At Easter Time
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Peanut Butter Eggs
Peanut Butter Eggs
Our daughter used to make hundreds of these each spring. She bought herself a new laptop one spring, with her profits! We do not compromise on the peanut butter for these - for us, it's Jiff only.
My favorite melting chocolate were the wafers from A.C. Moore, before they went out of business. I have never liked the brand from Michaels quite as well, although they do work. Chocolate chips can be used in place of the chocolate wafers, too.
Cutting Felt With Cricut....
Tips, Tricks, Projects & Resources
For Felt Projects With Cricut
I am always telling new cricut users to NOT try to learn everything at once. Choose one project you want to make. Learn how to make that. Then move on to the next thing you want to make. What you need to know to make 3d Paper projects is so different than what you need to know for cutting faux leather, and what you need to know for making a t-shirt is different than what you need to know for putting a name on a tumbler...
There are a LOT of great designers with free tutorials and free svgs to get you started, with every type of project, in addition to the projects and resources I have here on this blog. This series of blog posts is my attempt to direct you to the resources for each type of project.
Where To Find Free Heart Fonts
Free Fonts With Heart Glyphs
[Including No Character Map Needed "Easy Glyphs"]
[Including No Character Map Needed "Easy Glyphs"]
The Series I Read
Tracking the Detective Series, and Cozy Mysteries, on My To Read List
This list is, primarily for me. It's my attempt to look through all of the various series of books that I read, and see "where I left off". There are some series I read 20 years ago that still have new books being released - but I missed the new releases. There are others where I read a few, then didn't have access to the next in the series, so I "put it aside", and never got back to them.
In other words, it's a bit of an attempt to organize my To Read list. And it will take me awhile. As I work on this list, I have been making printable "read in order" lists, then checking which books I haven't read, checking the availability of those books...
Printable Book List - The Enola Holmes Series By Nancy Springer
The Enola Holmes Mysteries is a young adult fiction series of detective novels by American author Nancy Springer, starring Enola Holmes as the 14-year-old sister of an already famous Sherlock Holmes, twenty years her senior.
Printable Book List - The Meg Lanslow Series by Donna Andrews
The Meg Lanslow Series by Donna Andrews
I've only ever read a few of these - out of order. These are my "go to" Holiday Reads at Christmas time, I know they will be light and amusing. Looking back through the titles, I see that the series starts out MUCH differently than the series I am familiar with today! I've added the entire list to read list, planning to start from the beginning this time.
Meg Lanslow is a successful decorative blacksmith and an exceptional amateur sleuth. "She is extremely organized and reliable, with her notebook-that-tell-me-when-to-breathe, and her relatives and friends rely on her as much as they can get away with. She has forever gotten some vast project foisted upon her, and she always deals with it. A body generally turns up in the general proximity, and Meg ends up being the one to deal with the police, with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Partly, even if she doesn't really want to be involved, her sense of responsibility, and the tendency makes it hard for her to resist her curiosity."
Printable Book List - The Sherlock Holmes & Mary Russell Books In Order
"In the Mary Russell series (first entry: The Beekeeper's Apprentice), fifteen-year-old Russell meets Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs in 1915, becoming his apprentice, then his partner. The series follows their amiably contentious partnership into the 1920s as they challenge each other to ever greater feats of detection."
January Reads, 2024
What I read in January 2024, and a look at what's on my to read list for February
Moby Dick, The Big Read & A Sort of Sequel -
The Moby Dick Big Read - each chapter read by a different voice, including those of Nathaniel Philbrick, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir David Attenborough and many others, and also a "sort of sequel" to Moby Dick, new in 2024, by Tara Karr Roberts. If you like podcasts, there's also a BBC4 In Our Time podcast discussing Moby Dick, at the bottom of this post.
A Year Long Murder Mystery Quilt Making Adventure
All About my 2024 Attempt to Sew A Quilt, and Solve A Murder
"The Murder Mystery Quilt is a monthly subscription club that reads along together and stitches up a quilt to find clues and solve the murder. This is a mystery quilt in the traditional sense–you sew a block each month and the overall design of the quilt isn’t revealed until all the blocks are sewn–but it’s also a MYSTERY quilt: each month, along with the block pattern and design, you receive a chapter of a mystery story. Each chapter reveals clues as the plot unfolds, and it’s your job to seek out whodunit!"
Apparently Whipstitch has been doing this event for years, but I just saw it this year. It cost $100 for the year, so not inexpensive, but considering what we spend on our annual murder mystery parties here at the farm, this is a bargain.
AND I'm hoping it will get me back in the habit of using my sewing machine, which has mostly been collecting dust since I got my cricut back in 2017.
Extra Starter Sourdough
[printable recipe at bottom of post]
This "Extra Starter" sourdough is a recipe I've been making a lot recently. It's pretty forgiving. For this particular loaf, I did one stretch and fold, got called away to help a neighbor, then rushed off to evening plans, completely forgetting about the dough. I came home, HOURS later, did a second stretch and fold, left it sit on the counter for a couple more hours, then stuck it in the fridge.
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