Savory Summer Tart

So today I was home alone with the girls and during their nap time I made a great tart that I adapted from this recipe.
Instead of tomatoes I used eggplant that I sauteed with onions until it was soft. I baked it 45 minutes at 375 and it worked out really well. I added fresh basil and green onion to the top, drizzled it with olive oil and peppered it. I used plain feta for the cheese. I had a ton of eggplant and I used about 1 1/2 lbs of eggplant chopped roughly.

New location. New recipe.

Best Birthday Cake & Quilt Day 2

This is a super cool monster quilt my friend Shawn made me

I made this awesome psychedelic cake for the girls~ they're 2 months today!!

Quilt a Day

So many beautiful quilts were given to the girls that I think I will post one a day for several days just to get back in the swing of things and blogging. I have been marooned on my living room floor for a month and a half (before that I was ship wrecked at the hospital). Quilts and crafts will lift me from the funk.

So can you believe this is a quilt? It's gorgeous and was made for the girls by Marcia Eygabroat
This lives on the wall in their room and is just amazing.

Room Improvements and a Great Trip

Upon returning from California and having a great time, Justin decided that Lily and Lila's room needed more. He took it upon himself to frame this 'love'ly Lewis Carroll poem that Gayle made for the girls and built a beautiful mobile. He also mounted birds in the trees and throughout the room, as well as butterflies, bees and ladybugs. The tree is much fuller and looks wonderful. He bought a new overhead light fixture and just really tied the room together.

This final picture is the cake from my baby shower in California. It's amazing! It looked wonderful and tasted great. Everything was really the best AND I got my baby shower punch!!

The Sweater that took Forever!

So Justin had work today and I was completely off schedule, I talked with my Dad on the phone and missed church. I also got compulsive and FINALLY finished this sweater. I bought the yarn before I knew I was having girls and I thought it was pretty gender neutral. It's aqua with a lime trim. I hated it for many months.
Today, I love it. I still have to do the blocking, but I wanted to post pictures since drying knit wear in the winter in Olympia can take a long time. Everything is damp!

I added the hearts on impulse and decided to use red buttons. I like the contrast, but we'll see how I feel about it tomorrow.

Update on Lily and Lila's Room

The curtain, lamp and part of the tree

The tree, I don't know how I feel about it, but I love the leaves everyone made for me

Ulysses is apprehensive about all the changes. He usually sleeps under the crib when I'm working in the room.

My awesome rug and table

The bumper pad

The hooks in the tree