i'm alive...

barely. I had the flu pretty bad this past week. It must have been all the cleaning I've been doing. Yeah that's right. I'm allergic to cleaning! Not doing it anymore.....

Its been uber busy over here between being sick and needing to get everything finalized before our trip back to WI. We've had a great month with Jack and Till through Etsy and doing a few little craft fairs. I'm excited for the last week of December. I will have a full week off with Jack to plan/create/expand our business. Its hard to nail him down with him having a full time job and all. So it will be nice to work on some upcoming projects for etsicle that we have.

Right now, my computer is full of printed Holiday cards that need to be signed, mailed and delivered. I'm hoping that I can use my time on the flights to do address Christmas cards. I am always so late with this I need to get my act together next year.

There are so many things that I wanted to do this year that I haven't even gotten around to doing!

1. Watch my favorite holiday movie - Rudolph The Red nosed Reindeer from the 50's



2. Try to make fattigmand. I might do this one back home with my grandma the expert.



3. Go Ice Skating


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4. Watch Elf


5. Make Christmas Crafts


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but I have been doing lots of this-this week.


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1 more day till I board an airplane to a frigid place. The weather is predicting a high of 37 with a low of 12 degrees during the time that I'll be back in Wisconsin. Le Burr is all I got say.

XOXO

Raech

Lazy Days..not!

Today has been one of those days where apparently I had a bug up my ass because I've been deep cleaning my kitchen and bathroom all day. Now we just made homemade marshmallows again and now melting moments cookies and there is cornstarch and flour all over the place. Oi Vay. Why clean?

Looking through my photo's last year to see what I was up to and apparently I was making Krumkake's. A traditional norweigan cookie. So nummy. Maybe I'll be making a batch of these tonight as well....Hee Hee.




Cheers!

Raech

OHHH EMMM GEEE

Just got one of my early Chrimmy presents! Jack is taking me to go see the Nutcracker this Sunday! I absolutely can't wait until Sunday. I've wanted to see this ballet for a really long time because 1.) i'm obsessed with ballet 2.) its like one of the most classic ballets that everyone has seen 3.) I was a sugar plum fairy when I was little ( but have no memory of it besides a purple tutu.



To top it all of Jack drew these insanely cute little ballet people ( the backside says -good for 1 nutcracker ticket). Love it! Hopefully will have some pictures from the show this weekend to show!

XoXo

Raech

You might remember

this post. Well apparently this blogger had completly redone her blog and has put up some more new art. I am in love with her style and adore this snow white pic! ahhhmazing.



You can check out her other work here.

Cheers-

Raech

Tuesday Night Ritual

I'm a big fan of pizza. Something about it to me is like the perfect combination of stuff. Bread, cheese and some form of tomato. Narm. Usually on Tuesday evenings we have pizza and watch Biggest Loser ( the irony is killing me). Normally the pizza consists of evoo, fresh mozzarella, fresh tomato and a sprinkling of fresh basil and salt as soon as its hot out of the oven. Last night the earth must have shifted because I had a taste for a greek pizza ( probably inspired by the nummy looking one our friends got on Sunday). So we tried to re-create it and it tasted pretty darn yummy.


So we snagged a boboli crust at the store because I'm too freaking lazy to make my own and we like a crispier crust rather than a super doughy one. Also, we steamed up some veggies to make it a little bit healthier. Though I'd rather just have pizza. Yeah that's right I'm a semi vegetarian who doesn't like vegetables ( maybe I'm just bored with them!)

Raechel and Jack's Greek Pizza

1 Pizza Crust ( a sweeter whole wheat crust is awesome!)
1 Tomato
1 small container of feta, green and black olives preferably soaked in evoo with Mediterranean spices (We picked ours up from the olive bar at the grocery store . This is what gives the pizza the flavor. A good sub would be flavored feta and olives that are in flavored oil or you could try to concoct your own type of herbs to put on the pizza)

Prepare your crust ( if you made your own-cook it / if you're using a premade - take it out of the bag). Strain the evoo from the olives onto the pizza and spread around the crust. Crumble the feta generously around the pizza and then chop/crumble the olives. Top with sliced tomato and cook pizza on a **stone at 425-450 for about 10 mins.

** now I realize that not everyone has a pizza stone but if you make your own pizza even 1x a week then buy a freaking stone! They're like $10-20 depending on what model you get ( ours came with a lazy susan and a pizza cutter) at Bed Bath and Beyond. Its totally worth it and makes your crust that much better on a pizza.

Now it works...

So the picture I was trying to upload yesterday is now able to be uploaded!



This is a pic from the backdoor of my house looking towards the garage. I love the rain and miss it so much. I love how green and fresh everything looks after a rainfall. I love the smell of the rain, dewey, fresh, and grassy smell. Rain feels like a fresh start here in LA where the days all seem to run into each other and start to blend.

Cheers-

Raech

Did Saint Nick visit you?

He came to our house and brought us both lots of goodies! Incase you don't know what Saint Nick's day is or as the Netherlands call it Sinterklauss. Click here.



For me he brought some pretty red flowers, a half bottle of La Crema Pinot Noir, some nuts, a big piece of chocolaty caramel. For Jack, he brought Tim Tams, a Barnes and Noble gift card and some vanilla flavored almonds.

Its raining cats and dogs in LA today. I absolutely love it! I'm trying to upload a picture on blogger but its keeping on giving me an error. WTF. Sigh.


Cheers-

Raech