Mersydotes

Aha!  So this is what the little puppy does while I'm away, toiling at the kibble factory: Drinking champagne and reading Vogue!  What a squishy life for a little puppy!  Delicious! She's got it pretty good, ~Mersydotes

3 years, yesterday. It feels like a heartbeat. I want it to be the rest of my life. ~Mersydotes

Cooking gluten-free has become so normal and easy that Mr. Mersy and I have a hard time remembering the months after he was diagnosed with Celiac's when we actually had to think about what we could make for dinner.  I admit that I have to do a lot of home cooking, but it works out well- I enjoy the quiet time each day and the smells and rhythms of chopping and picking herbs, and we always make enough so that we can both take a nice lunch with us to work on the morrow.  Here are a few tasty, gleefully gluten-free dishes that have been coming out of our kitchen these past few weeks:   Mozarela-stuffed arepas with avocado and chicken breast   Roasted sweet potato medallions with queso fresco, black beans, and cilantro   Raspberries stuffed with white chocolate chips   Lemon oregano chicken breast with lentil salad (lentils, red onion, feta, and mint)   Mango-pineapple smoothie (frozen mango, frozen pineap...

I've been playing with this lovely yarn since last December, but I just haven't been able to find the right pattern to do it justice.  It was a bargain bin set of three skeins that I found in Brooklyn one drizzly winter afternoon, and the colors were so rich and the fiber so soft that I fell in love.   But every time I thought I had a great pattern, I'd get half way through and rip out all the stitches and start over on something else.  It needed to be small enough for three skeins, the tension needed to be loose enough to do justice to the softness, and there had to be plenty of opportunity to switch up the colors.   I finally found it- the perfect pattern.  Its by DROPS, and you can click here if you'd like to make your own set of wrist warmers for the in-between days of spring.  The only modifications I made were to do the wrist band in double rather than treble crochet and to add a matching edging at the end to tie in the third ...

Would you like to walk along with me for a bit?  Why don't we stroll through the coolness of the morning as I make my way to work.  It will do us a bit of good to quietly enjoy the new day... ...especially because an insane driver from Flushing just chased me, honking, and screaming while I looked for a parking space.  Whew!  I tell 'ya, sometimes I wish I was an undercover cop- that'd teach them! But the morning is bright, and the flowers in the tiny strips of city gardens are opening up for the day.  All the pre-war buildings are slowly crumbling in the most diverse, most animated, most densely populated part of the most intense city in the world. And I am just a little, tiny piece of it.  But that doesn't mean that anybody gets to push me around.  That nasty driver had no idea who was in the car in front of him.  He didn't know a thing about me.  I'd like to invite him to look me in the eye and treat...

Here is just a little dollop of sweet crochet for the weekend.  Is it a petit  gâteau ?   A petit four? A chocolat?  I'm not sure- all I know is that each one is packed with fiber! They definitely belonged in the kitchen, so with a bit of glue I attached some magnets to the back, and they've joined Mama Mersy's butterfly photos on our our fridge: If you'd like to make some scrumptious magnets of your own, just go to the Lion Brand website and search for the amgurumi bon-bon magnet pattern.  Bon  appétit ! ~Mersydotes

Here is what the well-dressed weenie ones are wearing this season: The season's collection includes dapper booties and subtly striped bibs: I hope that my cousin's little guy feels great when he dresses his best for springtime dinner parties! Love, ~Mesydotes