what's happening?

Oh my! Oh my! July is here. Time past by so fast, I feel like I have wasted another month because I did not do reading and exams (sigh). I guess I really need to finish my everyday schedule and start living with it day by day.  Oh well last month I did finished my doilies.

 I wish July will be a productive and full of fun month. Tomorrow we are going to visit Berlin, Germany. Yay! I will keep you posted ^_^. I am  hoping that Berlin is a good choice and not disappointment for me, as my husband wanted to go somewhere else. Crossed-finger that the city visit will be fun. So the weekend will be a win-win weekend.

HAPPY WEEKEND!

what's for dinner tonight?

the harvest from my mini garden. not much but they can be good in fried rice ^_^ yum yum!

 

happy blogging :-)

goodies in the backyard mini garden

i started digging and planting so early this year. i guess because i was bored here. i needed to entertain myself.
Today, i saw some soon to be goodies in my mini garden. i feel so happy.

i found this one in the backyard too, beautiful purple flower :)

 i am enjoying the sun today:) after raining all day yesterday so i am thinking to run or have a nice and relaxing walk through the vineyards.
have a good day to all!

doily

i found doily photo in the internet and tried to make it. today i have finished it.
the detail on the edge  is my idea. i am not sure if this pattern has copyright, i just hope i will not be sue by the creator of this.
i can't share the pattern of this doily that i have learned by looking on the photo because it is not my original pattern, it is someone else design i am just a copycat! ^_^ but i can share the photo. so here is my doily.

i love crochet!

love my skirt

For the first I have worn the crochet skirt I made few months ago, I got the pattern from the crochet book stitch n’ bitch the happy hooker by Debbie Stoller. I bought that book when I went to North Carolina to meet my mother in law for the first time. I like all the patterns in this but the skirt pattern what made me bought it. I ordered the yarns online last November and started doing the skirt and finished it after few weeks, but the first attempt was too big for me. So I did it again. I did not follow the measurement in the book but still followed the design, it turned out pretty good. Today, during my doctor’s appointment I have received few compliments about my skirt and yes, I feel proud. Even though, the pattern and color was not my own idea I still feel proud. I did it without any help and the fact that the pattern was written in English and my first time to really follow an instruction in a book, considering English is not my native language.

this me wearing the skirt.

 have a bless day everyone! enjoy the weekend.

the lumpia.....

yesterday, i posted about the lumpia wrappers. i made shrimp and mussels lumpia, it was okay....
when i did my dough the night before i used all purpose flour instead of bleached flour because i forgot to buy bleached flour. as for the result i guess it didn't turn out good because it was hard to roll the lumpia, so i had to roll them into bread crumbs, just to make sure the fillings will not burst out of the wrapper into the fryer. it went out okay.
here is the photo i took last night.

 

 

it wasn't that bad after all. right?

my homemade lumpia wrap ^_^

      i love filipino food, uhmm because i am filipino and i grew up with it.
there is  no filipino market or restaurant here so finding ingredients like lumpia skin is really difficult. there are two asian markets in old town but most of the items in the store are thai, chinese and japanese, there are some filipino food but no lumpia skin.
and so i googled recipe for it. i found one recipe and tried to do it but it wasn't a success for me because the procedure was not clear.
   last week, i found a blog about lumpia and making lumpia skin or wrap but did not show how to do it but instead gave the name of a cook book and where to buy it. yes! i did bought one for myself :) the book is asian dumplings by andrea nguyen.

     and then i tried doing it today but before that i made the dough last night. i can't share the recipe or the procedure because of the copyright.... but i can share pictures of my homemade lumpia wrap....

                   the last dough, it gets smaller as i continued cooking.

 i made 20 pieces of lumpia wrap

 the finished product ^_^ i am going to make shrimp lumpia for dinner tonight. hope my husband will like it.

 when the pan is not warm enough for the dough, it will turn out like this.