My foodie
Friday is sadly lacking in a picture, but I haven't figured out time travel back to when I was a new wife, 30+ years ago.
Being a brand new wife at the time and wanting to impress my husband I decided to make his favorite cake, pineapple
upside down cake. It all went wrong when I got distracted and the cake caught fire in the oven. I promptly went and got the fire extinguisher and sprayed it until it was no longer flaming. I managed to get the "torch in a pan" outside and opened all the windows to air it out.
Here is where the warning comes: DO NOT discharge a fire extinguisher in the house unless you are sure the entire building is going to burn to the ground! It snowed F.E. chemicals for days!!! Everything was coated and had to be cleaned, and I mean every single thing in the apartment.
I have since been more diligent in keeping an eye on what I'm making.
I had an experience to share about cleaning up those "Train Wrecks":
Several months ago I was invited by Elder A. to join them for their district meeting. Before the meeting began, Elder A. was asking me a question. He wanted to know how many times he
should run the self cleaning oven, to get the soot at the bottom to leave. (I had done an
apartment cleaning training the month before,
but forgot to go into detail on that).
I explained that it doesn't just go away but you just take a paper towel and wipe up the soot at the end of each cleaning
Then he started the meeting and the opening song he had chosen was "If You Could Hie to
Kolob". We got to the verse about "there is no end to matter..." and I just cracked up. I explained that by cleaning the oven he was a witness to a "correct doctrine", there is no end to matter, you can change it but you can't create it or make it cease to exist.
Have a Lovely Day~
Alicia
Thank you Diane for hosting this. How fun to see the Treasures!
I picked up these two little treasures in Fairfield, Ohio one day. This front one is my favorite because of the precious details.
The embroidery is so sweet on this one and I love the scalloped hem.
And the same scallops and embroidery with the tiniest of release pintucks on the top.
This is my favorite picture of her. We had this bridal blown up and displayed it on a beautiful easel that DH and I found at Tai Pan. She designed her dress and our DIL, Tricia's mom made it. Can I just tell you all how grateful I am for all those who helped us do this wedding. We usually like to do everything, but it just wasn't possible this time and there were so many who volunteered to help out.
Here is our cute couple. They are both energetic and passionate about the Gospel. Glenn is attending BUY and anticipate going into law.
Lori's Barbeque Beef
Evidently Matter has changed (see:If You Could Hie To Kolob) and my brain has turned into a colander! Stuff goes in, and leaks right out the holes in the bottom. 
Have a Lovely Day~
Here's our Little Audrey on her big day. She is also the baby on the left in the picture at he top of the side bar. Our Audrey was only 4 lbs. 14 oz. when she was born. She is 7 weeks younger than her cousin Hazel.
Her full dress. Mommy picked out the design of the dress, bodice with lavender embroidery, sleeves with smocked gathers, and the fancy band with lavender ribbon.
The fancy band with 5 pintucks, entredeux, lace insertion w/ ribbon, swiss insertion, lace insertion w/ ribbon, entredeux, and swiss edging.
Close-up of embroidery & pintucks
Her smocked bottom with lavender ribbon Bloomers and her booties to match that I made for her.
Well I finished 3 pairs of girls and 3 pairs of boys booties and they are ready to go! Just in time too, because our office couple just became the grandparents of another sweet baby boy. They can hardly wait to see him. Alas, they will do that soon because they will be finished here at the end of the month. (I wonder if they'll stay if I throw myself at their feet and beg!?! No? Ok, it wouldn't be enough to keep me from my grandbabies either ;-)
OK, so I think we've all had about enough winter. I tried dressing for spring, it doesn't work! So I started looking at my yard pictures. AHHH Green! I started this yard renovation in 04 and worked on it until 07, when I turned it over to our son and his wife and we left Utah and came on our adventure to Ohio. So here is the front yard with the new plantings, a cedar, red osier dogwood and bridal veil are in the kidney shaped planter close to the sidewalk. The tree by the front door is actually a sand cherry bush that I trimmed into a tree, because I wanted something there that would only get that big and had some color.
Here is the close-up as it all started to bloom. The bleeding hearts are a mothers day gift from the kids.
Here is my refuge where I go for some "swing therapy". You know I can never hear the phone ring when I am sitting there ;-) Love Love Love the smell of the Lilacs!!!
Here is my herb garden just as the perennials are coming up. Still needs lots of annuals to fill in. This is just to the left of the swing. Isn't the Lollipop crab apple topiary cute? Another Mothers Day Gift from the kids.
A side picture of the front porch. Chrissy begged me not to trim he ivy back, but it was taking over the porch and starting to reach out and grab people! OK now I'm feeling better, hope you do too.
