sewing? what's that?

Okay, I'm only mostly kidding.  I did sew a little this week.

What did I sew?

Okay, okay, technically this has not been sewn yet.  But it's waiting!  (Hopefully this afternoon?) And to get this 200 yards of fabric into this situation took some work!

(okay, okay, it's more like 10 yards, but it felt like 200)

The Clifford covers from last week are on this stack.  I didn't take a photo before this, but you can see the little green felt square on there identifying them as "medium" size covers.

I baked cookies...

The hubby doesn't like my usual chocolate chip cookie recipe (you know, the one that comes on the bag with the chocolate chips?) because they dry out and get crunchy too quickly.  I found a recipe on Pinterest with no link, but it had only brown sugar and less butter, which seemed odd, but I read the comments and it seemed like it would work.

It did!

But another of the comments (one that wasn't snarky), mentioned this is exactly Joanna Gaines recipe.  So I'll link that here!

Mr. PickyPants likes them and is eating them two at a time.  They didn't get crunchy, but I might have underbaked them a tad.  My new (not all that new any more, but compared to the old one) oven bakes however it feels like, so every new recipe is a bit of a challenge.  (Oh how I wish I'd just coughed up the cash to replace the broken glass top on the old one, but I stupidly assumed a new one would be just as good.)

I also harvested some rosemary from my garden to dry.

It's taking forever longer than the references I've used, but whatever.  This is a small, inexpensive machine, so I'm guessing it's not as good.  We're getting there.

And I went to ANOTHER used book sale!  This one is local and smaller than the one back home, but it's still fun.

I found myself grabbing faster at the start than at the end, but I can't say why.  I found a number of authors I like (books that I've not yet read) and others were just interesting.

Perhaps that the larger paperbacks were mixed in with the hardcovers?  (I prefer larger paperbacks, as they're easier to handle, but will read a hardcover if it's the only option.  For a sale like this, I don't even bother with the hardcovers)  That made it harder to shop.

Or maybe I just hit a vein of treasure early on?

Regardless, I'm excited to add a few new titles to my cart, but also a little relieved that I didn't find TOO much and overload my cart.

I didn't finish the book I'd just started last week.  It's not bad, it's just that life has been a little more chaotic this week.  (Our assistant manager at work took a store manager position at a new store a little south of us, which prompted the district manager to draft our receiver into the assistant manager position (I could not be more excited for her - she is going to be amazing beyond her wildest dreams) and we're still waiting for a second team lead to transfer in from a store north of us.  We have a new district manager (who is younger than some of my shoes) who is stirring things up a lot and while I'd like to THROW some of those shoes at him (ah, the ignorance of youth), he is also creating some good chaos.)

Here's to hoping for an equally productive, but less chaotic week ahead!

Happy...ummm...baking?

Katie

PS For that one reader who likes to roll her eyes at cover art - there is just one book here with a woman (actually two) with her back to us, staring off into the distance.  I hope you find that acceptable!  (*giggles*)