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You’ve got to go thru hell before you get to heaven… Top photo: At least we got fed! Bottom photo: I am never going home! (Hotel Locanda Orseolo, Venice, IT)

Espresso, barely sweetened whipped cream, and finely chopped nuts. Life doesn’t have to be any more complicated than this. http://blog.restaurantsinflorence.com/desserts/hot-chocolate-in-florence/ “Rivoire Hours: Tue-Sun 8am-Midnight; Address: Piazza delle Signoria 5R, historical center of Florence. http://www.rivoire.it/ Also ranked favorably on Tripadvisor, Rivoire is a Florentine tradition for all things chocolate and considered by many the BEST in town. I personally don’t hold...

Pretty happy with the contrast of the dark borders with the quilt top. I’ve been admiring the quilt blocks tonight and the design key I think is the diamond shape made up of 16 postage stamps. If it’s made if a strong fabric then it really identifies the block: and then in between those blocks, at the “4 corners” where...

… is what Barney Rubble called it. In one of my previous lives working for a major consumer electronics company, our business trips to Singapore/Malaysia put us at the Singapore Shangri-La hotel on Orchard Road. I had never stayed at a hotel this luxurious in my entire life but I took to it like a duck to water. I didn’t...

Mario Roll – battered yellowtail, crab and shrimp tempura inside, eel sauce and spicy sauce on top. Meaty, crunchy, and spicy. Better than the crunchy roll. And then when you also get someone’s leftover tempura, even better! We can all feel sorry for Mr A who is still slogging thru a 2nd month of Medifast: (insert sad trombone noise) Not...

I discarded the dark green block and made two more in mid to light tones. Now I have tan, lavender, green, and blue blocks: When sewn together, they look like this: Now we’re ready to add the borders to the top. The blocks above will be used in very corners. And again through the magic of PhotoGrid I can visualize...

Blue Water Seafood works well for Mr A’s Medifast diet so we hit it up again tonight. Not as busy as last weekend, probably due to it being Superbowl Sunday! Mr A tried the blackened swordfish salad tonight. Beautiful on the plate and tasty but he says he prefers the Wahoo/Ono in this preparation. Look at the generous fish portion!...

Playing with some corner blocks for the quilt. The lighter ones for the inner lighter border, the darker blocks for the darker outer border corners. But the little chicks were just the right size to fit inside the 1″ squares. So were the bees in this block: These light colored blocks are a challenge for me as I feel more...

I finally got a chance to go down to Rosie’s Calico Cupboard this past weekend to find some border fabrics for my rescue quilt top. I’m finding that one way to pick the right fabrics is to use my cell phone to take pictures of the color combinations. For some reason they look different on my phone then in real...

Knitting solves two problems for me – my OCD and my need for variety. Thank you Ravelry.Com for being an endless fountain of new patterns.

http://bluewaterseafoodsandiego.com/m/ Finally we have found truly fresh fish in San Diego. And how did we find it? By watching Mark Wiens’ YouTube channel! We had to find out about this place from a guy who lives in Thailand! At 615 on a Sunday night, the line was out the door. We waited a good 20-25 minutes just to place our...

Today I ordered a small with only 2 scoops. It doesn’t look like much, but really (by global standards) it’s quite a bit of food. PONH uses high quality food, very fresh veggies, and properly prepared sushi rice with that slight hint of vinegar and sugar. Best Poke bowl in San Diego. Recommend you check them out!

Our family seriously loves Pollo Loco. We go at least once a week and we rack up the Loco points and I’ve lost track of how many $10 rewards we’ve redeemed. In fact the girl that works there knows our order and punches it in as soon as she sees us! If you don’t already know, Pollo Loco chicken makes...

Yet another ebay find. There’s many, many quilt tops for sale on ebay but they’re not all of similar quality. It’s really a crime what these sell for (typically $25-150), it doesn’t represent, at all, the time put into them. This top was hand pieced from one inch squares. No sewing machine! It’s mind boggling, the effort that went into...

3 more crocheted blankets. The top one was made for Ms S, lots of yellow in it. Yellow’s been her favorite color forever. I’m not a yellow fan yet this color combination really works, don’t you think? With the remaining yellow (really a goldenrod) I whipped up another blanket in a color way that was again out of my comfort...

I’m really conflicted about wearing Camouflage. It’s extremely popular right now for jackets and pants. In my crazy family, we kids were pretty much forced to wear it and it’s not a memory I cherish. It literally took me 45 years to even start wearing the color olive or khaki green. So I found this jacket at Lane Bryant, it...

Just goes to show, California Adventure gets all the weird stuff… DISNEY CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE PARK Smokejumpers Grill “Share Your Ears” Cheeseburger – Angus 1/3 burger with American Cheese and cheeseburger slider “ears” Foodie Guide to Get Your Ears On – A Mickey and Minnie Celebration at Disneyland Resort