Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Some Fall baking ...and a few pics

Hello everyone! Well I was in the kitchen yesterday and started to get a whif of bananas. I looked in the bowl and sure enough the banana peelings were getting pretty brown. It was banana bread making time. Alex and I had a quick home ec lesson in bread making. We whipped up a simple but good recipe and tossed in some chopped walnuts. An hour later we had this wonderful loaf of banana-nut bread. I'm not a huge banana bread fan but it was really pretty good.


I finished my own strawberry a couple of days ago. It didn't turn out as nice as the one I made for Jolene. It will do though. I didn't take the time to make the pins. I may do that while the guys are away.



I've been working on a pinon pines quilt from designer/quilter Robert Callaham for quite some time now. I will get back to it, but I was in need of something for our bedroom windows. I made some valances using some of the same fabrics from the quilt to make prairie points along the bottom. I didn't want to make them very full as I wanted the prairie points to show nicely, however , I think that's why the header won't stand up nicely.I didn't realize until after I had taken the picture that I really need to clean the mini-blinds. Hopefully you can't see that in the picture!!


Here's a little closer look.

Well that's it today. Thanks for all of your nice comments. You all are great!!

'til next time,

Happy Stitching!

Sharlotte

9 comments:

  1. Your prairie points look great on that checked fabric. Yum, I can smell the banana bread from here!

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  2. cute berry
    mmm bread
    and nicely done valance
    dust will just return before you know it
    no worries....who can tell with the valance to focus on.

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  3. They look great! And your strawberry is so cute. And girl.. you don't even want to SEE my mini-blinds. yuck. lol

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  4. Yummy looking banana bread. Bananas rarely last long enough around our place for me to make any. Your curtains are fab too!

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  5. I don't see any dust on the blinds, but if I did, I'd feel right at home! Love those window treatments you made. And I can almost smell that banana bread right now. I think that my bananas are getting to the good stash now. Have you ever tried throwing in some chocolate chips into that bread? Ymmmmm.

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  6. You're supposed to dust mini-blinds?! ;) I don't see a thing, because I'm too busy admiring the valances. What a neat idea to include the prairie points! Very nice.

    The strawberry is adorable.

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  7. Yum!!! If I weren't dieting, I'd try my hand at some banana bread....I like it with some pineapple added. And Some nuts. Did I say *some* nuts? What I really mean is maybe some banana bread to accompany my nuts. I mean, they are so much more convenient when some carb-o-licious binding is holding them together. :D

    As for mini-blinds, why ARE they always filthy?? And why don't we know it? The world may never know...But, seriously, yours look fine to me. And, the window-dressings you made look more than fine. ;)

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  8. The bread smells good from here! Nice finish on the strawberry and the curtains look great!

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