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Stealing a great idea from Mrs. Blanding's blog I made a silhouette pillow of Miss Sophie....I was so torn on whether to use solid material or this check .....I'm not a plain person.... I love anything checked, striped, plaid and dots!! After agonizing over it for days I finally broke down and asked the daughter her opinion, after all it was being made for the sofa in her music room....Like mother like daughter....she loved the check with the brush trim and I think it came out pretty well if I have to say so myself......

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! 10 Years ago today we welcomed into our lives a little, well not that little, furry ball of dog.....we named him "BOO"....not because he's white as a ghost but because it was Halloween and I knew someday his hijinks would scare me...............On another holiday note....38 years ago today while others were out Trick or Treating I was marrying the "Boss".......Yikes.

I found the most amazing blog by an artist called Sandra Evertson.....If you haven't seen it yet you need to take a peek. She is so creative in both her writing and her artwork and photo's.....it's like reading fairy tales with fabulous pictures.....The above picture was so kindly offered to her readers to download and I am in the process of making a pillow out of it......if you go over make sure you don't miss her Halloween tale of "Little Red Riding Hood"....her version...It's priceless, let's just say a dog is involved..... http://www.sandraevertson.blogspot.com/ sorry...I still don't no how to link....

Okay let me first say I do like Martha Stewart, first because she's a Jersey girl made good, she's Polish (I'm half and half)and the women is very talented............but poor Martha is becoming a caricature of herself.....I was just watching her daytime show when she announced that Rosie O'Donald will be on tomorrow doing Halloween crafts....and she actually said she will be doing...."Dee-Cu-Paj"....is she kidding? I've always been confused when she pronounces "Marinade"....because she says "Marinod"....I always wonder if she's referring to two totally different things? Can someone clear that up for me....and then she was on with Neil Cavudo yesterday talking about the election and the economy...Neil wanted to know what she thought about raising taxes on people making more then $250,000. a year and should a young couple where both people have good jobs be put in the same category as a "Martha Stewart".......her response.....

MISS JANUARY.... HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!! MISS MARCH....IN LIKE A LION..OUT LIKE A LAMB. TAX DEDUCTION!! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY....MAY 30TH. I'M AN IVY LEAGUE BABY...... JUST FOR GRANDMA....A SALUTE TO LADY LIBERTY GET ME THE SUNSCREEN......AUGUST IS HOT HOT HOT..... BACK TO SCHOOL.....OH, I'M NOT OLD ENOUGH FOR SCHOOL. MISS OCTOBER.....PUMPKIN TIME!! NOVEMBER.....GOBBLE GOBBLE... LITTLE MISS DECEMBER. With the end of the year fast approaching I thought I would share my favorite Christmas gift from last year.....My very talented daughter made a calendar of Miss Sophie and she made all the costumes herself....I hear this year will bring another one as they are on daily photo shoots....Miss Sophie is very cooperative and loves to have her picture taken but as someone just pointed out she's going to grow up with red spots infront of her eyes.....I can't wait to see this years issue and will share it with you all as soon as I get it....I think this kid needs to be a model,...

Tonight was movie night and to get through Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford is getting way too old to make movies......I had to cook up something exciting....What better then some fried chicken and fries....Did I mention that I did this at 11:30 p.m. We used to go to this great restaurant here in Atlanta called Mick's down on Peachtree Street but it closed under mysterious circumstances. Well, not exactly mysterious as we know why it closed but we would rather not put it in print....The food was fabulous. I would always get either their chicken pot pie or their chicken fingers with peach dipping sauce. I have managed to re-produce the fingers and dipping sauce....I'm sure it's very bad for you especially at 11:30 at night but if the movie didn't kill me I figured I was safe....here's how I make it..... Buttermilk chicken strips with peach/honey/Dijon mustard dipping sauce and homemade french fries..................... 1 pound of chicken tenders with that white string...

What in the world is the Rue Mouffetard? By now you have probably figured out that it's a street in Paris but what a funny name for a blog. Neabear asked me today where the name came from and what does it mean........Back when daughter was in law school she had the opportunity to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. At the last minute her would be room mate backed out and heavens we couldn't let her travel off to Paris alone so the Boss suggested I pack my bags and go along....Never one to argue with the Boss and one very expensive airline ticket later......have you ever bought an airline ticket with less then a weeks notice....... I was off to spend the summer in the city of lights!! Daughter had sub-let a studio apartment and that was our first glance at Paris life.....The day we arrived, with more luggage then two people have the nerve to own, we found ourselves climbing a small spiral staircase up many flights to reach an apartment two small for grown-up people....picture this....

served around noon........egg...potato...peppers and assiago cheese frittata........sausage, tomatoes and biscuits!!

I have been tagged by SimplyDecorated@blogspot.com and since I am a computer idiot I have no idea how to "link" things up...so that's the best I can do today....Somebody let me know the secret of including links.....Alice wants me to share 6 quirky things about me or 6 things I collect and list 6 other blogs.....well since I mentioned Sue isn't a linker I'll just go with the first 6 things... 1.) This is for sure the big one.....when ever I eat out I ALWAYS....have to either get alot of ice in my glass or get an extra glass of ice....This drives Miss D. to drink. 2.) Another restaurant quirk....I did make a spectacle out of myself once at Commander's Palace in New Orleans.....I have to be sitting in just the right chair. I have been known to switch seats multiple times in order to be "just right".....or to have a good view. Hence Commander's....I ended up with a great view of the gardens out back.....another instance when I embarrassed Big ...

Barnsley Garden ruins......Adairsville Georgia Fish Eye lens....... A BEE!! there were hundreds of these all over the ground...... Fancy smancy bathroom at the resturant on the grounds of the gardens.....I thought it was soap!! one of many vacation rental houses on the property...... beautiful scalloped roof on a purple house...... another vacation house.....

For the past couple of months I discovered and have been enjoying baking the No-Knead bread.....but just how much bread can a person eat. The Boss loves the cinnamon raisin and I prefer the seeded rye so we always have more loaf then we can consume. I do love to cook and bake for other people so what could be better then giving them bread.....everybody loves hot bread straight from the oven. The bread is so simple to make you actually make it in your sleep. It sits and rises all night while I doze and it's ready in the morning to be baked. When I make it for Necie to the left of me I just walk it over on my Boo's Block....but the other day I was meeting Mrs. Duval for lunch and needed to package it for traveling. A little parchment paper, some cord and a sprig of rosemary with a dried lemon wedge let Mrs. D. know what to expect.....I thru in some Plugra European style butter because what's a good loaf of bread without really good butter...She always appreciates everything I...