September 15 - September 21, 2013

I've started a new culinary experience out of necessity. The only same meal we have is the Sunday one. It's a no worry, no fuss, easy on the budget, leftovers for Monday lunch type of dins. I make pesto, enjoy the garlicy basily numness during the summer and freeze tons for that breath of summer in the cold frosty winter. We have pasta, sometimes with pesto, sometimes adding grilled eggplant, and fresh cherry tomatoes from our driveway garden. The tomatoes were going gung-ho and then they went kaputs. We forgot to buy some local ch. toms so I picked a bunch of green cherry tomatoes from our plants (and who doesn't love fried green tomatoes). Cut those little guys in half  and sauteed them with some mushrooms and onions and tossed them with the pesto into the pasta - tres tasty.

Look, surprise, 7 more brooches.

Looks like an Easter basket to me, maybe from Avon - do they sell brooches? Shortly after I was given this, the pin at the back broke. A number of years later and I'm doing a blog, and I have to resurrect a few brooches that need a bit of tender loving care. Thank heavens for goop or glue galore or whatever it's called, it has worked, it's wearable again.

I've never seen Fred Astaire in a sparkly bow tie like this but I think of him all the same. My feet start a-tapping when I wear this.

OK, who gave me all these Texas pins? Well, here's the Texas flag - hope you like it.

I've had this heart on that chain for many years. I've had that metal bow pin with an empty loop for many years. Duh - put them together and voila, me like.

How sad you cry, a one-eyed turtle. Wipe the tears away, this brooch has had a long and happy life. This is one of my childhood pins, in pretty good shape for a well loved and used brooch from the fifties. Back then, we had little turtles for pets - Lulu and Pokey. They lived in a small plastic home that had a ramp curving out of the water with a palm tree at the top. If there's anyone from that time reading this, you know exactly what these "homes" looked like. Lulu and Pokey were held and admired by many kids, and surprisingly I remember and love them still.

Quel surprise, un autre photo de vacance dans la jolie ville de Parie.

This was a hat pin that I never wore. I wear a number of hats in the winter - I love wearing hats, but I'm not a hat pin wearer, so I cut off the long pin stem, and attached a pin back. Voila, now it's a pretty flower brooch.