in beantown, sarah put me to work. 1st she demanded chicken pot pie. dough was made from scratch, although with her whole wheat flour, so the consistency was dry and a little grainy. thankfully, the flavor of the chicken filling was tasty. i used small ramekins to make us personal sized pot pies:
next up, she wanted a pizza for dinner. i didn't take pics of it, since i've made a million pizzas by now, and it was really nothing special. just spinach, broccoli, and chicken on top, with her mom's red pasta sauce (the best feature of the whole pizza) and some shredded 4 cheese mix. then, she wanted red velvet cupcakes, STAT. her local supermarket ran out of the red food coloring, so really i ended up making brown velvet cupcakes. however, to make up for the lack of red, i used sarah's pink cupcake wrappers. so perhaps we shall call these the pink velvet cupcakes! 1 of the 2 trays filled with cupcakes:
and finally, on my last last night, sarah had the nerve to request another batch of chicken pot pie! she bought regular unbleached flour, so this time the dough came out nice and flaky. this time i made a big pie and carved her initials into the top for steam vents, hehe: 
however, when the "joy of cooking" (my present to sarah for her bday!!!) said to use 2 cans of cream of chicken soup, i learned the hard way that this doesn't mean 2 cans of condensed cream of chicken soup. hehe. the filling was rather thick this time, although still tasty! 
and no worries, sarah isn't all that bossy and didn't demand any of these food items. well maybe just the pink velvet cupcakes. usually she asks and bats her long curly eyelashes at me and i'm a sucker. see, we're still friends: 
at home, mom suggested i make food for our road trip back to dc. i had successfully avoided preparing food at home all week until the very last morning. she suggested i use all the leftovers and concoct a meal. note: i hate cooking and really am useless unless an oven is involved. so, i did what my people do best: i took out the wok and stirred everything together. it tasted just ok but looked horrendous. 
and while in weston, i dug up the 2nd beaded project i made, 5 years ago, to snap pics. (the 1st was a cardigan i made for my grandma, but i have since lost the pics.) i used a black long sleeve shirt and beaded the front in the style of those victorian bib shirts (way before the bib shirt trend of 2 years ago). the 3 swirly chains have a gold eagle button in the middle and are meant to resemble necklaces, in a way. this was a mother's day gift for my mom that year.
the back has a continuation of the scalloped trim from the front. you'll have to look closely, as the black beads on the black shirt are hard to see.
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