Too Cute Tuesday allows at least one interesting thing to happen to me every week.
I stopped by Annie’s Pride Farmstand in Ellsworth. If you haven’t been, it’s a good stand/general store/bakery and you should totally go to it if you are in Downeast Maine.
Apples are definitely in season and those sweet ones fresh off the trees are perfect for homemade applesauce. So this Tuesday, we sure got cooking!
Limoncello couldn’t come at a better time. Lemons were on sale at the grocery store, we’re all trying to soak up that last bit of summer, and, well, who doesn’t like lemons?
Limoncello directions are fairly straight forward. You clean the lemons, zest them, stick the zest in some grain alcohol/water mixture and wait. Finishing it two to three weeks from now will be more involved. We’ll post full directions then (ie when it’s more relevant).
Of course, zesting eight lemons begs the question: what to do with the rest of it? Let’s make lemon squares!
It was a quiet night for Too Cute Tuesday as in it was just me crafting tonight. That said, I still had a great time making tonight’s craft: seashell Christmas lights à la Martha Stewart.
Christy, last week’s birthday girl, requested we do a special tie dye Too Cute Tuesday. “I’m going to tie dye everything!” she proclaimed. This we had to see!
Well, that and we enjoy those more passive crafts on occasion…
Materials
Rit Dye (by the way, if you are stuck on how to do your tie dying, check out their website)
Bucket
Hot water
Light colored items
Skewer (for poking)
Elastics (for designing)
Cocktail of the Night: Lemon drop martinis (mix plus lemon vodka, shaken to fantasticness)
1. Realize that you have nothing white you want to tie dye right before Too Cute Tuesday. Show up at Craft Central and figure other people will have things they want to tie dye.
This Tuesday we aren’t having our usual Too Cute Tuesday gathering. It was bound to happen sometime but everyone is either celebrating a birthday or working or out of town. I thought I would instead share a craft I did earlier this week. TCT resumes next week with tie dye, as requested by Christy, today’s birthday girl.
I shared a really neato image my friend Andrew found on the Too Cute Tuesday Facebook page.
Besides being cool looking and basically summarizing the TCT philosophy, the image has a creative commons license, meaning it can be reproduced so long as it’s not sold and is attributed to the creator. Fair enough! I just appreciate that there are people out there creating cool things for people to freely enjoy.
Can you just copy someone else’s work? Sure, but then you’ll feel kind of sleazy. Plus the image might not be high resolution enough to be useful. See, cheating doesn’t pay!
Instead, use the search function on the Creative Commons website and everything that pops up means you are good to go! I just did a search on ‘squirrel photo’ just to be silly and there were a ridiculous amount of options.
When it’s hot outside, it’s hard to want to do much, even on Too Cute Tuesday.
In Maine, temperatures hit 95ish degrees. I know this isn’t hot for you people in warm climates but let’s just say that we chose to live half way between the Equator and North Pole because we like cooler temperatures. Also, some of us don’t have things like air conditioners. All in all, the heat is making people lazy and a little cranky.
Since many of us are pet owners, Dorrie found a fun craft where we could recycle our old pet food bags and make ourselves something useful. And, with four steps involved, we were sold on an easy craft that wouldn’t have us sweating too much. Plus Dorrie is the Birthday Girl and as the rule goes, you really ought to listen to the Birthday Girl.