Random on Friday

1) I am in love with Costco. It took a lot of willpower to not buy MORE stuff last night, but I know we can always go back. :) And we seriously only bought stuff we will eat--stuff that I normally buy anyway, just not in that much bulk!

2) Freeze dried strawberries = awesome. Not as good as real ones, of course, but awesome nonetheless. However, if the freeze drying process takes the water out of something, setting it in a little pool of water will not "reconstitute" your freeze dried strawberries. Yes, I tried. :)

3) I finally found non-dairy milk that I don't hate. YAY! :)

4) My trip to Kansas (#1) is officially on. I'm going to stay with my sister while I'm there, which is awesome, because that means lots of playing with my nephew time! :) Waiting for Jerome to get home to see if he will survive me being gone for 7 nights... if so, I'll get to spend the weekend with them also! :)

5) The trips to Kansas after #1 will be to not the part I want to be in in. :(

The weekend

So I had a pretty nice weekend, despite it not being entirely as planned. Got a lot of work done on my freelancing project on Saturday, moreso because Jerome ended up at work forever that day. Yesterday, I did my first I Heart Rummage, and I really had a lot of fun. I was neighbors with Jessie from CakeSpy, and had a lot of fun chatting with her throughout the day.

I also sold three of my Decapitated Dollies, which were the first three to sell! Lizzie and Patti went together, and Morticia went alone (but she likes it that way). People were apparently really amused by the little stories that I had to go with each one, so I think I'm gonna work on playing that up in the future. Even when I don't have time to do real writing, I can always come up with little stories to go with things I crochet. :)

I also learned that the little plush toys I've been making lately are just right for toddlers to pick up and hand to their moms, repeatedly. I had one little boy give his mom the strawberry and two fish, and a few other kids seemed to really like the plush things as well. I think I'm gonna work on more of those and find a little toy box that I can keep at floor level at shows for kids to spot and look at what's inside. (It definitely helped in terms of looking that the majority of the stuff for kids was on a box in front of my table, rather than up where they couldn't reach it.)

So now I'm just debating if I want to do two shows within a week of each other, and sign up for the May I Heart Rummage. I think I will. It was a fun show, not too pricey to do, and they have pretty tasty breakfast food at Chop Suey. :)

Mmmm, strawberries!

At the grocery store last night, we found strawberries. On sale. I was skeptical. No one in their right mind buys strawberries in February!

Luckily for me, I am rarely in my right mind. :) Jerome and I both examined the strawberries closely, but they looked like they would be okay. So we bought a package.

Got home and cut up a few of the strawberries. Right away, I had to taste one of the slices, just to confirm that we didn't have a package of gross strawberries. Definitely NOT gross--perfectly sweet and tasty. Which was good, seeing as I planned to use them in my salads this week. :) (Baby spinach + mandarin oranges + strawberries + dried cranberries + raspberry vinagrette = you call that a salad?!)

So now I'm left wondering--does strawberry season really start in February in Washington? Or am I eating exotic strawberries from who knows where? These strawberries are at least as good as the ones we could get in Carbondale if we waited until June or so. Possibly better, because they're here in February. :)