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After my Thursday craft frenzy, I had a more social Friday- chat and crochet with Toast'n'Candy (who made a super-cute green crocheted flower), then my wee dinner party (five of us all together). Thanks for your input-the crumble was a hit! I would have taken a picture, but in the delicious way of crumble the filling oozed up and burbled over the ramekins, making it yummy but not really photogenic. But here are pictures of the table and place settings- the first outing for my wedding china and flatware!

There was a soup course to justify using the bowls and soup spoons. Choosing a set of china and flatware was really stressful, but after putting it together for real use, I'm very happy with it, and wild about my fancy cut-crystal stemware (aka glasses), which was the only decadent and impractical thing on the registry(everything else was relatively reasonably priced and is dishwasher safe).

Oh I know! So boring- if you'd told me even 10 years ago that I would give a single, solitary hoot about plates and forks I'd have laughed myself breathless. But there you go, and now I need to make a set of green and cream ticking striped placemats (since the commercial ones are either too patterny, too plain, or too expensive to suit).

And the weekend? It was of the weekends when it feels particularly lucky to live in Northern California. It is a beautiful unmarred by fears about global warming-- because of course it is *supposed* to be beautiful here for at least a few days in January:

Perfect sun and tree-shadows, and a meyer lemon just lush with fruit(I want one of those!)and at the beach? Oh my

Don't let that second picture fool you- despite the sun and warm air, the water was very cold indeed.

I feel refreshed and invigorated (i even cleaned out my scary closet when we got home!), so there should be some good crafting happening this week.

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