Gone To The Beach

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

I Can Always Use another Aqua Mason Jar, right?

The Sunday flea market was a bit "eh" this week---

...the vendors sparse and surly, the goods on sale running to socks and cheap new jewelry and stacks of tools. I think the weatherman jinxed us, with his dire [and wrong] predictions of rain and wind. Or all the good vendors went to Brimfield!

I did get this lovely old 1/2 gallon Mason jar, along with extra tops both zinc and glass from a friendly guy and his young daughter.
He had a bunch of these big jars and at a dollar each the price was really right.

Unfortunately his booth was as far from my car as it could be so I only took one jar, the only aqua one.

And a nice woman was selling Mary Emmerling books and a selection of lovely primitives. You all know how I love hearts...

so I finally haggled and begged and bought the set of seven tin cookie cutters or molds.

Wonderfully handmade, each different and showing various levels of skill in their making.

One of my fav blogs, Laura's 52 Flea has had a whole series on her glass jars from Brimfield....
http://52flea.blogspot.com/2010/05/few-favorite-brimfield-finds.html

http://52flea.blogspot.com/2010/05/decidedly-red.html

And what she put in them for display. I loved seeing her ideas! Sadly my hearts didn't fit into my Mason jar, so they are now residing temporarily in my early 1800s Sandwich glass apothecary jar, an inheritance from my parents.

And the Mason jar got green orchids! Later it will no doubt hold shells or sea salts.

A wonderful bead seller, very pleasant and friendly---selling silver and hand-blown glass Pandora beads!

Wow!

I stocked up on these babies, wish I got more!

What I didn't get---besides the rest of the Mason jars? There was a woman who had really great dolls. I estimated the dolls as repros, probably from the 1970s. Two were large Hitty wooden peg dolls---adorable! Though outsize and one had a broken leg.... And two small china head dolls, classic black painted hair and blue eyes. I seriously wanted to buy them all, but the man who was helping the seller whisked them away into the van before I could inquire! Guess she didn't t really want to sell them......?

No more Sunday markets now til probably October! Because in the summer.....

love

lizzy

gone to the beach......

Friday, May 21, 2010

Yay! Yogurt Heaven!

Hi! Just wanted to report that the homemade yogurt was finally a success.

Took two tries and almost a week but WOW! it is really amazing and delicious.

This is the strained result plus the whey which is supposed to be good used in baking bread. [?]

Not sure if I'd make it again....pretty labor intensive. And takes up a LOT of space in the fridge....

And I have a feeling that the next stop on our culinary journey will be artisan pizza made on the BBQ grill. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/dining/19pizza.html

The arugula-gremolata version looks and sounds delicious....

I'm just glad that when I got the inspiration one time to learn to make sushi...my kids very firmly said, No!...and handed me a takeout menu.

have a great weekend!

love

lizzy

gone to the beach.................

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Try, try again....

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,
"I WILL TRY AGAIN, TOMORROW."
anonymous, as far as I know

A teeny tiny bit dramatic, but I adore oddball quotes....
[You're welcome to share any favs, of course!]

junk from my pockets...

So okay, it is grey here and chilly ---cool verging on cold. My daughter and I tried to make this delicious looking and sounding Greek yogurt yesterday.

http://jchandmade.typepad.com/jc_handmade/2010/04/make-it-yogurt.html

It was fun to do, interesting, looked great, turned into, well, yogurt! Too bad I burned the damn milk, eeewww. I will try again tomorrow...since we bought the go-withs, the berries and the granola and the honey, and....