So its the weekend...

[supertinks]

Although because I've been off all week, I have completely lost track of what day it is!

Yesterday was very pleasantly spent making Christmas cards - I made 12 in total, and they're all ready to be written and sent. Just need to find out a couple of addresses that I don't already have.

I am very proud of them, and have taken photos of them all because they are very cool. I will share them with you, because I can. 

This is the card I have made for my Granny. When I was a child, she used to make us Christmas cards, and they would sometimes be cross-stitch ones. So I thought it would be nice, since this may well be her last Christmas, for me to make her a cross-stitch card. It says "...a very Merry Christmas!" on the inside.


And then this is the card I have made for Jamie's parents. The little fat ginger kitten wasn't particularly Christmassy (for some reason, i couldnt find the Christmas ones I did for Ros and Caro last year in the shop) so I added some sequins and a star from one of the Christmas card kits I had.


And then here are a couple of the other ones, made using a "make your own Christmas card" pack. I bought two, very different sets, and have combined them to create a variety of fun/classy cards. These are my favourites of the 10 like this.






The rest are on photobucket as well, if you want to see them.

 

 This morning consisted of a brief trip into town in the rain to buy food for tonight, and to have a look at bikes for Jamie. We managed to find a lovely looking duck (from Leaping Duck) in the crazy game butchers on West Street, where they have lots of weird carcasses hanging up (like a headless deer, and weird shaped/sized birds that I couldnt identify), where they sell guinea-fowl and pheasant and pigeon alongside the usual beef, chicken, pork etc. They had some enormous looking steaks, and the most gorgous looking pork joints ever. But we were there for duck, and lucky for us they had one that was perfect.

Then we've had lunch, and are watching the Treviso v Ospreys game (which the Ospreys are winning, but not by as much as we would have expected them to, after they thrashed them last week. Then there will be some tidying up of the living room and dining room, and I shall probably wash my hair, and then we shall start cooking the duck. For Ros and Matt are coming over for dinner, and I did promise Ros that if we did a roast dinner, we would do duck, because she said she had it once and she liked it a lot, and then she stopped eating meat, so she hadn't had it since. So we have duck, and posh sage and onion stuffing, and oranges to make a tasty orange gravy, and rooster potatoes to roast, and posh carrots and everything. and fizzy pink wine, as its kind of a post-exam, pre-christmas celebratory thing.

And then Ros and Matt will come over, and we will eat tasty food, and drink nice wine, and play Railroad Tycoon: the Board Game.

Comments

[lilbob1980.livejournal.com]

Those are really cool cards!

[hungry-pixel.livejournal.com]

Isn't Ros, erm, 100% vegetarian these days? Iknow she used to eat meat on the odd occasion but I'm sure she told me she only eats veggie food these days?

If that's not in fact true then there shallbe no special veggie food made next weekend, hur hur.

[supertinks.livejournal.com]

she made an exception, for the reason stated above. *shrug* I'm pretty sure she eats meat if its a) happy meat (which my duck certainly was) and b) if she doesnt have to see the actual animal in any stage of the cooking and c) if its poultry or fish.

I could be wrong, but that seems to be the case from my observations!

[black-faery.livejournal.com]

I only ever cook vegetarian food (okay, piscetarian? Whatever the word for 'eats fish' is...). I haven't cooked meat in two years (this may be where you got the above from - I certainly only cook veggie food, and Matt only cooked veggie food for me).

I eat meat about once every 4-6 weeks, usually as a means of not being awkward, and with the addendums that Tinks mentions (it being happy, free-range meat, me not having to see it in preparation or being carved, and only poultry or fish).

If I could be vegetarian fully without it causing a huge amount of pain-in-the-ass situations for meals out or friends cooking for me, then I probably would be. But not eating mushrooms or spicy foods makes that difficult, and I want to keep the few friends that I have :-)

[supertinks.livejournal.com]

pretty much every awesome vegetarian meal that I know how to cook and love to eat is mushroom based!

[black-faery.livejournal.com]

Also, the cards are awesome :-) I really should make mine next year, I keep thinking this and then having a creative fail.