"Papas con Mojo",...my latest craving...

Yep..I remember eating this in Lanzarote (Canary Islands) every summer at my aunt's house....So I called her, asked for the recipe and I loved going back in time to those AWESOME summers....So in case you are wondering, it's a typical dish from the Canary Islands: potatoes with a very special vinaigrette...so yummy...

Downtown Farmers Market

Today Mike and I made a quick stop at the farmers market..I love going there and buy delicious fruits and veggies!...Look at those black berries!

...those are "goose berries"...It was the first time I've seen them...they were great, very sweet..

...yummy foccacia bread...

...red potatoes...

...sweet corn...

...these I don't remember the name...we didn't like them that much...

...and we bought the best peaches ever!

...and of course Mike had to choose the only weird ones on the baskets...

...two of them were attached and well they look like....oh Mike...

Family doilies

Finally I got this project done!!...I had family doilies that I wanted to hang up....they were made by my grandma, my great grandma and my great great grandma!...to me they are a treasure...

So there they are, by my door... I love how little by little I'm dressing my walls!...there are so many in this house:)!

Mirror, mirror....

I'm done with it and I love it!....too bad that you can't really see how cute the dark purple that I panted it on is!..I guess you'll have to come and visit to see it in person!:)

Work in progress

So excited about my mirror!!!..not done yet!

Espejito, espejito.....Mirror, mirror....

...I have big plans for you!!!...I found it at the D.I for $10

...and why not, I'll throw some belly pictures in this post...

I wish all the people in my neighborhood did this...

(photo by AP/Peter Dejong )

More info here.

look what he prepared for dessert...yummmm...

Enjoying Spanish pastries...

Grocery shopping in Spain

In Spain, we usually walk to the closest super market to do our groceries, and we use these kind of hand carts that you leave close to the cashiers to take your groceries home...love it!

These are my fav. kind of doughnuts...note how the name of the product is "donuts", spelled exactly how you pronounce it in English...funny..

I love how in Spain you van find tons of very affordable and good olive oil everywhere....

I love how the milk that you buy it's not refrigerated, and we buy it in tetra bricks...

to buy meat, fish, and other kind of produce, you pick a number and wait until they call it...note: check those yummy jamones (pig legs) hanging in there...delicious!

chocolate aisle: my fav.....Nocilla is the best spreadable chocolate ever!!!

cola cao!!!!!!!!!!!....the best chocolate mix...

petit suisses...we used to eat them a lot when we were little!

chorizo, salchichon, lomo....yum...

all kind of cheeses....

empanada!....I love the tuna kind....

...and chuches, or candy...I love grocery shopping in Spain..

Another favorite corner....

my new fav. wall...

Today I love....

Sock Monkeys...and I think I might try making my own for the baby...instructions here.

Have you ever tried this????

...if not do it!....my grandma used to give us a doughnut and a chocolate bar for a snack when we were little...today I introduced Mike to this sweet treat and he loved it!!!

Visiting Teaching Project

I saw this in a blog and I thought it was cute, so I decided to try it for my girls!!!....First you bake some cookies....

...then you find boxes, or tubes (the ones I used were the Crystal Light ones), and you cover them with cute scrapbook paper...

then you put the cute cookies in, and ta-daaaaa!!!!....Love it!

I'm going to try these for Easter....

Instructions here.

More D.I fun!

...yesterday I found these cute ceramic frames for 1 buck each!..Love them!

Candy Buttons, cake and a boring Friday night...

While Mike is at work and I'm sooo bored at home on a Friday night, I baked a cake for my friend Rene, whose b-day is tomorrow....I decorated it with button candies that I made with a mold that I bought online here. They look cute and they are also yummy!...

Mike está trabajando hoy hasta tarde, así que gracias al aburrimiento de encontrame un viernes por la noche sola en casa, decidí hacer una tartita para mi amigo René que cumple años mañana. Esos botones son de caramelo, y los hice utilizando un molde que compre aqui. Quedan chulos y además, están buenísimos!

Bulletin Board

My friend Marta asked me for instructions to do this bulletin board...here they are :

(Marta, perdona que esten en ingles...hace un tiempo una amiga me las pidio, y se las mande en ingles, pero si alguna o alguno quiere hacer este "corcho", y no las entiende o las quiere en español, decidmelo y las traduzco en un "plis-plas", ok???)

Paint your bulletin board (with normal paint) with a neutral color that matches the one* (spray paint) that you want to use for the lace pattern (*this is the color that it's going to all over your bulletin board. I did mine in black)
Let it dry, and then, buy some cheap lace curtains in Savers, or D.I. or some place similar, and staple it to your bulletin board, very close to the edges (you will remove the staples later, but the lace fabric has to be very tense).
Spray the bulletin with the spray paint, be very generous. The more you spray, the darker the color will be.
Let it dry for a day or two, and then remove the staples and the fabric, and...tada!!!!!!!!!!!...