Care to Eat

While I was packing up my kitchen this weekend, I found something I forgot I was missing:

It was out of sight, up above my kitchen cabinets.  I wish the lighting in my house was better because this glass bowl is a lot prettier in person.  It’s a beautiful semi-transparent amber color and the middle glass has great earth tones.

For about three years, I took classes at a local glass studio.  I’ve done a couple of stained glass pieces, but I mostly worked with fused glass.  It was a lot of fun, but due to money and time issues, I stopped taking them about a year ago.  During those three years I was able to make a several pieces that I use on daily basis.  Most of my pieces are bowls and platters that I use for both food serving and storage.  I thought I would share some of my favorites with you.

The following three pieces I use for my fruit, onions, and root veggies:

The next two pieces were just for fun and I have them on display in my house.

I loved working with scrap glass I would find in the studio and this was my pièce de résistance.  I wish I could take credit for the design, but I saw something like this in a catalog and recreated it.

Anyways, I thought I would share these with you.  It’s fun to have pretty things to serve your food in.  I am a firm believer that presentation makes your food taste better.  Lately, all of my meals have been eaten on the couch since my dining room table has been hijacked by moving boxes.  I miss my placemats and cloth napkins.  Seriously, how old am I?

Did everyone have a fun holiday weekend?  I was expecting mine to be super intense, but it was kinda laid back!

This post isn’t going to contain much food, I’m afraid.  Since getting the keys to the new place, the move has been even more life sucking.  There’s all this little stuff to be done that is taking precedence over eating.  Case in point, last night for dinner I had rice.  Yup, a bowl of plain white rice.  I probably wouldn’t have eaten anything if Chris hadn’t made enough for both of us.  It’s just hard to want to have a nice meal when your dining room looks like this:

The old house. We haven't moved a damn thing.

Plus, the kitchen looks sad because all the cabinets are empty except for four glasses, four plates, four bowls, etc.

I did, however, eat my first meal in the new place!  We were working on the floors yesterday and I brought leftover pizza to have as my lunch.  I heated it up in my new-to-me stove…

Isn’t she a beauty?  Hey, she works and she’s clean, so I’m not complaining.  Chris and I went to IKEA Friday night and I lusted over the new oven and cooktop we’ll be getting one of these days.  I need to hold on to that dream when I’m cursing my ugly kitchen in the next few months.

Our goal this weekend was to get all the carpet ripped up off the main floor and all the nails and staples out of the floor so that they’d be ready to be refinished this morning.  So, basically, we spent all weekend, hunched over the floor with pliers in one hand and a nail pull in the other.  Chris did the majority of the work, but I still have the sore back to show for it!  And this picture.

See, I accomplished something this weekend!  The floors won’t be done until Thursday, so we’ll have to wait until then to do any painting and moving. 

You know what else I accomplished this weekend?  Looking like an ass.

Notice how I’m the only one who couldn’t be bothered to put down my cup of Miller High Life.  It is the champagne of beers, you know.  And yes, I really am that inflexible.

In case you can’t tell, the group collaborated and went as an aerobics class.  It was Rose’s idea, but I suspect she just really wanted to show off her pregnant belly in a unitard

Could they be any hotter?

I had no time to get a costume together, so I relied on my girls to find something for me.  I wore Rose’s Adidas shirt and Stephanie found me these sweet shoes at Goodwill:

Check it:

I know that title should officially go to Erin, but I’m taking it!