Dinner and a Quilt

And now... dinner's ready! Check out a nice, new dish I made... Stuffed, baked eggplant! It was yummy but time intensive - has 3 layers inside each eggplant shell. The recipe is from an older cookbook, the Vegetarian Epicure.

Here's the 'Bedtime Rituals' paintings sewn into a quilt - which was a family effort. Tried to choose starry, night time style fabrics. (including Eric Carle's 'Very Lonely Firefly' fabric :) Now, to finish the hand painted border with the lyrics to 'Blue Moon' on it and have it machine quilted. Then, we'll all have to fight for it to decide who's bed it graces first!

Bedtime Rituals by.....

Big brother in his room, putting on jammies while little sister takes a bath. Don't overlook the flushing toilet in the left upper corner... he thought that was pretty funny :) (by our 7 yr old son)

Here's happyface almost done!

Bedtime happy face in her fave color, purple... plus a night sky we drew togther... by 'baby girl' (3 1/2 yrs)

Well, everyone at our house got so excited about making an art quilt of our bedtime rituals... the kids and even dad wanted to draw and paint their own picture for the project! Here they are - didn't they do a great job? Of course, the drawing by Dad isn't done yet because he's always at work! We'll get him to finish :)

Feet in Front of the Fire

Our family's cold/flu has come full circle. I've got it and now the baby has it (well, she's 2). This was taken just a while ago... baby fell asleep in my arms, I'm knitting and my son's playing trains. We've got NPR's 'Golden Oldies' show on (don't know what the real name is, but it's big band, old-time singing and jazz from the 20's-40's). One can do just about anything in front of the fire and let the rest of the world melt away. Hopefully, I'll have something to share with you by the end of the weekend... have a good one.