Our favorite restaurant in the Petaluma area is Namaste Kitchen. The best Indian food ever. We have been ordering the same thing for the last year (or so it seems) – saag paneer, chicken korma, and garlic naan. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.
This evening, I decided to change things up a bit and cooked my first Indian dish at home. Chicken tikka masala. I used this recipe. It may not be authentic, but it was simple to fix and really, really tasty.
When my husband came home, he said, “it smells like Namaste in here”. Hehe. *grin*
Oh, and I received an another order via Etsy – yay!
On their way to the Netherlands….
This is one of my latest illustrations and now for sale as a square note card with a raspberry-colored envelope – take a look in my shop.
It could pair up nicely with homemade bath salts, soaps, or tea samples. A spa gift certificate, perhaps?
What do you think?
Also, an updated thank you note:
I turned this wedding menu wheel (so cute!) by Rifle Design into a Valentine’s Day card for my husband. A little silly and a lot of fun to make! It is obviously not a masculine-looking card, so I used blue and neutrals to help balance it out a bit. Placed in an envelope made out of red construction paper, sewn around the edges – leaving the top open for a punched hole and red + white baker’s twine.
A few photos from the annual Santa Rosa cat show – can I adopt all of them?
A butterfly exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco:
A trip to San Francisco is not complete without a visit to Kinokuniya Stationery and Gift in Japantown. My big purchase for the day: colored and striped mt masking tape.
Celebratory chocolate coconut shortbread hearts (weird combination?) – I used the ingredients for the chocolate dough from this recipe:
In love with my new, but thrifted, chipped ceramic container:
Handmade valentine (more photos and link in the next post):
We are heading off to the local cat show tomorrow and then eating at this Indian restaurant with friends of ours.
Quite the romantics, aren’t we? *grin*
Have a lovely weekend!
This post has been hanging out in my “drafts” folder.
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I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving holiday. We spent our holiday in Laguna Beach with my husband’s family. It was 80° outside – crazy! It is November, right? Okay. Just the wrong place to be when you want to wear sweaters, scarves, and mittens and feel the cool, crisp air hit against your face, and sip your favorite warm beverage by a fireplace. Ah… just daydreaming for a second. Back to the reality of it all: We had a delicious Thanksgiving feast at this restaurant, stayed at a hotel for three nights (and took iPhone photos of the interior textiles – what a nerd), had two mini family reunions (on the husband’s side), and drank enough coffee to make us sick. Have you ever experienced a Thanksgiving like this before?
My nerdy hotel interior textile photos:
We hit the road tomorrow for a short 10-hour drive home. Ha!
Autumn leaves from our neighborhood:
Yarn leaves for an upcoming project (via A Little Hut) – they are made out of empty paper towel rolls:
My dear dad is turning 60 this year and I made these Italian-inspired invitations for the special occasion. Why Italian? Firstly, that is one question you should never have to ask. *grin* Secondly, with a last name like Lavagnino, how can you not?
The cover. If you look close enough (I don’t recommend this), you can see our printer was getting a little tired at this point. This copy was in the “extras” pile.
The inside (smudged for a little privacy):
The insert:
