Spaghetti Dinner!

When we're stuck in the house in the winter, I get the urge to cook so often! I've been cooking up a lot of comfort food this past week. Might not be the most healthy, but it's sure yummy!

Days like this -

(Photo taken from our doorway.)
Are the perfect day's for cooking up a tasty meal for friends and family!

A few day ago, I decided to cook up a batch of Spaghetti and Meatballs! We had a couple of my boyfriends family members here, and it was really nice to cook while they were all busy with other things.

I started with some soft white bread, eggs, fresh parsley, salt and pepper-


Added a combination of ground Beef, Lamb and a little Pork to the egg mixture, and formed it into meatballs-


I gave the meatballs a quick toss in a hot frying pan, and then let them heat up in a semi-homemade tomato sauce, prepared some spaghetti, also had some extra sauce going on the side -


Sprinkled the dish with fresh grated Romano Cheese and Time to Enjoy!


More food photography on my food blog, of course!

It's Cold Out!

The last couple of days have been full of non-stop, heavy, cold snow! The big huge snowflakes you can catch or watch fall all the way to the ground. I don't really mind the snow, If I can stay home. So basically, the last two days have involved lots of hot tea, slippers and blankets, updating the Etsy shop, some cooking, kitty snuggling, and starting a new Knitting project.

I haven't knit in so long, I was a little worried I wouldn't remember how to cast my stitches on, but I managed to figure it out! Now my new cowl is knitting up nicely. There is nothing like cuddling up with a hot cup of Chai, and some warm Alpaca yarn to knit.

Yesterday I baked a delicious six-cheese Lasagna! I'm sure it's the best I've ever made, and it was the best I've tasted in a long time too! I love when cooking project go according to plan. I think The Boyfriend was pretty happy too.

Other than that, lots of new vintage in the shop this week, and stay tuned for another big shop update! Here's a picture of Norman, playing in a box - He is really bored, and I think he is wishing the snow would go away so he could go back outside to play...

Snow Days!

We've been having a couple really snowy days here this week! The photo above is from last year, the day after a huge snowfall, the sun came out and this was the view from our door. I think it's just beautiful, the snow looks so calm. The past few days here, we have had huge snowfalls, that came with dark days, lots of wind, and awful road conditions. Being from Oswego, NY - We're all pretty used to it. (The article I linked to is from a couple years ago, but it describes a typical winter here.) Anyway, all this snow just means one thing - SNOW DAYS! We stayed home and cuddled and watched some movies (Inception & Dinner for Schmucks), and half a season of The Office. I baked some homemade Mac. and Cheese, and we're drinking a lot of Chai Tea.

While we were hunkered down indoors, I had a chance to get some organizing and cleaning out done too - mostly in my etsy area. I filled a huge bag up with clothes that I am just not going to list or use, to donate at the Salvation Army tomorrow (If the weather is nice). Then I went through alllll of my jewelry stash. I gathered all my "I'll list this someday", "I'll clean this up and sell it", my "I bought this because I really liked it and it's not even vintage and now what am I going to do with it?", my "I'll use this for parts some day for another project", and the "This can totally be repaired" jewelry pieces and put them aside. I took several more pieces that I have collected that either aren't vintage or aren't quite the style I like to post at S.S.Vintage and put all this jewelry together. It weighs about 5 pounds! I listed it on Ebay and started the bidding at .99 cents. I figure someone else can surly get more use out of it than I have been, and it feels GREAT to have some extra space for new items. Then, any money I make will be fun to spend on things to fill up all that newly found space.

When Moags and Smeet heard about my Jewelry Clean Out, they were kind enough to feature me and the mega jewelry stash on the front page of their 'Etsy Daily News' online Newspaper. How cool of them!

Thanks, Guys!

In other news, I got my hands on six vintage camera's today! Photos of them and Etsy listings coming up soon. I have more camera's on the way after those as well. Most of my camera stock sold around the holidays, and I can't wait to fill my shelves/stock with them once again.

This cold weather is really giving me the urge to knit! I haven't knit anything in more than six months, and I found a beautiful skein of Alpaca Yarn today! I think I will dive into that later. What are you doing with your Saturday night? Have fun, and Stay Warm!