It's delicious! Just about all restaurants in St. Louis carry it as an appetizer and even McDonald's served it at one time. You can get it in a few other parts of the U.S., but nowhere near as much as here. Whenever my out of town relatives visit they usually want to treat themselves to some while visiting.
He says they taste great and he'd like you to see his dog house...
He's very glad he doesn't have to stay outside in it. Look at the icicles all along it! 
And the cast is chock full of fantastic British actors. 
So different in personalities and far different destinies await for them. I relished every moment of sibling rivalry. I can't wait to see what happens next season!
And Maggie Smith...no need to note how fantastic she is in her role, she steals every scene she's in. 
A lovely shabby chic frame with vintage sheet music and a lovely silhouette.
A box I made while thinking of my Yiayia (Greek for Grandmother). She came to his country from a little village in Greece so I papered a box with vintage Greek book paper and stenciled a young girl on it. She grew up very poor and had to pick up olives in all kinds of bad weather, even the snow and cook and clean for her family. She was kind of a Greek Cinderella. She was the younger, prettier sister who was treated badly and whenever a suitor was interested in her the family said they had to marry off the older sisters first. It was a very hard life for her. 
She taught herself to sew and has remained quite crafty - even to her ripe old age of 89 today. (I posted a few months ago a quilt she made me). She still makes crocheted purses, hats, scarves, etc. She can't stand not to do something with her hands. 
Doesn't this look like a box of chocolates?? Only healthier, I suppose. LOL 
A Pink Dreamer
Isn't the bowl cute? I've been waiting for an excuse to use it - perfect for soups, stews and chili. I saw some really cute ones awhile ago at Target, too. They had little lion heads for handles, but they were too small and slick to be good handles, so instead of cute lions we have practical little handles on the sides.
A silhouette ornament with French text in the background. Gossamer white ribbon and on the back a cute crown.
And in honor of my brand new chair... A chair fit for the Empress Josephine.
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And last night I made my Mincemeat cookies. This cookie is everyone's favorite in my family. The slightly spicy mincemeat and apple coupled with quite possibly the world's best cookie dough makes for a big treat. These require two different cookie cutters per cookie as a smaller one is cut out for the top to vent. 
I made these ornaments last year - I don't think anyone is unaware by now I love silhouettes. I saw a tree full of them in a magazine a few years ago and wanted one of my own. This is my little white tree, which I think shows them off much better than my green tree did last year.
I made them on different shapes, backgrounds, colors, etc. to give them a varied feel like they've been collected. I love the different backgrounds of music and handwriting and even French text from an old French book I have. Each one of these is unique. I also stenciled them different on each side, a man on one side and a woman on the other mostly. 
Some of the silhouettes are children - so cute.
The white ribbon is so pretty! And the back has a similar page from the book, a big stamp of the Eiffel Tower and a postage stamp and mail stamp on it so it looks sort of postcard-like and I imagine an Austen lady that visited Paris one summer and sent back a silhouette to her special someone back home. 
