Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

In a previous post I remarked on the sorry state of my oven mitt. I mean, it was gross. It looked like I used it to dust under my couch. A couple of my favorite readers decided to remedy the situation and bought me the most gorgeous orange oven mitts ever! Clearly these ladies are artists, who else would know about my love of high contrast?

Thank you, thank you, Elsa and Chloe! I look forward to forcing you to help me with more odd french translations and letting Bee poop in your house.

This is one of my favorite, favorite cookie recipes ever! Danish Vanilla Slices. They taste like fresh, delicious bites of vanilla. Plus? Since you have to form the dough into logs and freeze it, you don't have to sit there baking all day. You can slice off 3, 14, or 25 and just bake those. I like to bake half and keep the other log in the freezer for emergencies.

Danish Vanilla Slices (from TheGreat Scandinavian Baking Book by Beatrice Ojakangas)

1 cup butter, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
powdered sugar

Cream butter and sugar. Add egg. In separate bowl, mix flour and baking powder. Add to butter mixture, alternating with the vanilla. Mix until stiff dough forms. Knead lightly. Divide into 2 parts, form into logs and wrap in plastic wrap. Chill one hour. (If you plan to store for longer, wrap in wax paper and foil, freeze up to 2 weeks).
Cover baking sheets with parchment paper. Slice dough into 1/4 inch slices and bake for 10-12 minutes until golden. Allow to cool, dust with powdered sugar.

But maybe I'm crazy...

These jeans drive me crazy.

I think they were made on the cusp between the Abercrombie Strategically Ripped (TM) and the new Dark and Skinny. They aren't old, they just have odd holes in them that I believe were there when purchased.

The other lameness about them is that the pockets aren't deep enough.

You can't slip your change in there and they also sort of drift out. So I end up looking like a political cartoon circa 1929. I had to fix them. I worked it out in my head, I wanted it to look sort or wabi-sabi, so I just picked my fabric and started pinning. I thought I was making the pockets deeper, I added some muslin on the inside and stitched it to the background fabric. But as my husband says, "They can't all be winners." Didn't quite work.

I ironed and starched the pockets and tried them on. Same problem. They fell out. Which I discovered was part design, part my big fat ass. (Two babies! Leave me alone). So I just went back to my sewing machine and stitched them closed. Problem solved! (And I didn't even need the Problem Solvers!) Here they are: