Those of you who’ve been reading here for any length of time know about the plastic lime slice coasters that Tom and I received as a wedding gift and passed back and forth with Lynne for years–then Lynne’s daughter-in-law Laura got thrown into the mix. (I don’t mean we passed Laura back and forth. I mean sometimes, Laura got the coasters, too.) Eventually I upped the shock value by adding such items as lime slice candles, glasses, and melon and lemon slice coasters–and it was on. Lynne and Laura have been gifting me in kind for about five years now.
Last Christmas, Lynne stunned delighted me with a set of fruit slice dishes. Actually, they were kind of cool, though I didn’t want to admit it. I just don’t have room for more dishes. My dilemma was solved when I realized that Marika loved the dishes. With Lynne’s okay, I regifted them, taking them to Marika when Tim and I went to New Orleans.
I got the BEST thank-you card from Marika. I’ve included it on the upper left of the picture below. It’s all lime-slicey and glittery. I love the chick on the card, and I actually plan to frame this and hang it in my office. There’s a margarita recipe inside the card, and that’s how I chose the name for my most recent addition to The Compound Mattel Top Models, who’s pictured wearing a new dress I made just for her. She’s the Summer doll with the green streaks in her hair. I’m calling her Rita for the margarita card, as well as for Rita Hayworth, who I think was one of the most gorgeous actresses to ever pass through Hollywood–and if that’s not enough, Rita is a character in a Beatles song.
If you comment with a page number between 1 and 611, and another number between 1 and 25, lovely Rita will find something in this book for you to be happy about.
Yee hah! First! I just love that shade of green. No 202, 20 please. 🙂
I wondered if you’d be first since I’m posting in the middle of the night (here). From the book:
“stars outside the airplane window”
Ooh I like that one. I was a bit surprised to see you’d posted already.
Great, now I want a lime margarita. Only nine more hours until happy hour!
Page 523, # 11 please.
Affect a
MadonnaBritish accent, and it’s happy hour already!“catching the romance of the moment”
I def. need a dose of happy today.
I would like page 361 #10.
Thanks!
You’re welcome for:
“the purest potato taste imaginable”
How ’bout page 84, #25
“printing out photos of your last vacation from your digital camera”
p119, #12. Ta.
“a wool gabardine Baltic cap with commander’s ‘scrambled egg’ visor”
Okay, that was so specific that I had to look it up. Here’s what I came up with.
A Baltic commander hat:
Scrambled eggs on visor:
I love learning new things.
Dang. Who knew that’s what that was called…?
Rita’s purdy. Page 367 #3 please
I think so, too! And for you, she’s found:
“a birdwatcher’s path”
Uh-lurr-ing! Dying to see that dress closer. : )
So close that you’d sacrifice another chance at waffles?
A little handsewn gem. I would tiptoe around it, if I were there, and study. It’s so nice. I like the sleeves a lot. Is this a pattern you’ve created?
Nope. It’s a 2004 Simplicity pattern. I’m learning a lot from those patterns that I hope to be able to use if I create more of my own. I’m also learning, by following directions, the ORDER of sewing things to make it easier. Sleeves, for example (not in this case, as the sleeves are part of the dress, but separate sleeves) are not nearly as hard as I was making them be.
Anyway, your creations put my little frocks to shame. Are you interested in doing Runway Monday again? If I do, I’m hoping to be a bit bolder in my dressmaking.
…and I sort of forgot about waffles today. haha
page 422, number 24, please
“a level playing field”
Which means more to me metaphorically, but for all I know, you’re grabbing your soccer cleats and heading out now.
I DO love the dishes! In fact I ate buffalo off one of the plates last night. Please thank Lynne for the regift – because they have found a home that needed them.
Dash would like 523 number 13 and I would like 561 number 23
I showed Lynne your card last night.
For Dash:
“rising earlier than the others, puttering softly, and quieting the beasts”
For you:
“public-address systems”
I DO have a love of public address system! A hold over from my gate agent days. “Continental Airlines is happy to announce the arrival of flight 1678 inbound from Houston Intercontinental Airport … ” My tenure with the big CO was over by the time Houston George Bush ..
Dash believe it or not, is a late riser — and loves nothing more to roll over on his back and stretch out… he is the quiet beasts.
Rita reminds me a little of Kylie Minogue.
Page 10, number 11, if you please.
Yay on Kylie!
And you are welcome to:
“toast and honey butter”
be happy
1 0 1, 0 1
Re: be happy
“drafts scurrying like mice about the house”
Better cold air than mice!
Re: be happy
I don’t know… they were pretty much equal in the first year of my last apartment in Blacksburg. I did, however figure out that the so-called tarp the complex used to cover the AC that winter was just for show. I sealed it off with a trashbag and duct tape. Like Mark, I’m not keen on cold weather, unless it’s snowing and I’m home with a comforter and hot chocolate after the night time snowball fight on VT campus drill field.
Re: be happy
Most of the places I’ve lived with bad or inadequate heating systems also had mice. They seem to go together.