Perfect day!

I had the most wonderful day yesterday! I finished the borders on the baby quilt early in the morning before Jim got up and left for work, cut the backing and it’s ready to load on the longarm.  Jon Bon Jovi kept me company most of the day, and I know I burned up some calories be-bopping around!

I split my sourdough culture and made a loaf of sourdough bread for last night’s dinner, and whipped up a pre-ferment for sourdough waffles for breakfast this morning.

The bread was fabulous, but I’m really looking forward to the waffles!  Buttermilk sourdough waffles are beyond compare, and take a bit of pre-planning, but they are worth it!

I finished another customer quilt yesterday… or should I say Albert finished it while I did laundry, baked bread… Albert and I are fast becoming best of buddies!  Albert is what I’ve nicknamed my IntelliQuilter.

Jim and I have to run to Little Rock today to return his rental car, so a trip to Williams Sonoma is in order, and I’m hoping we can go just a tad further south and visit Pinwheel Fabrics, I’ve not been there yet and still need a couple of blender fabrics for my Glacier Star quilt.  Lunch at the Flyin’ Fish!

I was SO very bad today!

My friend Candy and I spent the day in Little Rock today.  I honestly had no intention of buying a darn thing, I was just going along for the ride… oh and chocolate croissants from the Fresh Market, I forgot about those!

Clothes shopping?  Ugh.  I live in rags, I haven’t seen anything on the racks in quite a few years that appeals to me at all.  We decided to check out Dillards in the mall, and weren’t in there for five minutes before I was oooohing and aaaaahing my way across the floor.  Long tops, tunic style tops… are back in!  yay!  Oh and the shoes!  It’s a good thing I’m fat, gray and have deformed feet, or I would have cleaned them out.  Granny boots, seexxxxxxy pumps, yummy!

I know you can’t see these very well in the picture, but look at that gorgeous hemline on the beige top on the right, yum yum yum!  The black shirt is below the hip as well, gauzy and the wild tunic over on the left… well I just had to have it.  I also picked up a beautifully fitted black sweater (also below the hip) and well… let’s just say I won’t be doing any more fabric shopping this year!

We then went to a very nice shoe shop with a wonderful man from the deep south who had the most amazing drawl, and he was so funny!  I don’t know if we spent more time teasing him, or him us, but we were there for probably two hours.  I tried on some shoes, the brand was “Finn Comfort”, made in Germany, that were incredibly comfortable, only just just a smidge too narrow, and to the relief of my wallet, I passed on those.

We had lunch at a Mexican restaurant across the street from Williams Sonoma, and it was SO good!  I had a shrimp enchilada that was just to die for.

I was tempted to leave my purse in the car when we went into Williams Sonoma, I cannot resist a good kitchen store!  Nor did I!  I’ve been eyeballing the All-Clad 6 quart saute pan for months now, but they had this wonderfully deep 4 quart pan that I’m pretty sure I would get more use out of, and it was on sale.. a big sale!  And who could resist those adorable matching little measuring cups and spoons?

Last on our route was the Fresh Market.

Being totally stuffed from lunch, I didn’t really get much.  A yummy loaf of Ciabatta bread, more of those incredible cheeses I bought last time, one is cranberry studded and the other is decadent layers of ground walnuts and gourmandise… I had them box up four chocolate croissants and four almond paste filled ones… do you think Jim and I will gain a few pounds this weekend?