What do you do when all you really want to do is sew but you have work to do? The showroom of our store has samples that need to be put away. How are the customers supposed to pick from things they cannot see? I have been working on my leaf wall hanging quilt. Today I have to get these samples put into the display. To see what others are tackling, be sure to check out 5minutesformom.com.

This week, Val gave the following questions for the Four Foods on Friday meme. This meme is always fun and has introduced me to great bloggers who have some fantastic recipes! You should join us.

#1. Egg salad or deviled eggs. How do you prepare?
My son loves to eat egg salad and sadly, I don’t ever make it. He makes it! I make deviled eggs by boiling the eggs, peeling them and cut them in half. Drop the cooked yokes into a bowl and add miracle whip, a little mustard and some pickle juice. Mix and put back into the egg halves.

#2. French fries. Do you make homemade or frozen?
I have made homemade fries before but I hate the greasy smell in my kitchen. I usually buy the Oreda frozen french fries and bake them.

#3. Gravy. What do you use - homemade, jar, can or from a package? I never make gravy.

#4. Share a recipe for a hot (temperature, not spice) dish.
I have had this recipe in my box for so long the the paper has yellowed. I have yet to make it. Someday, I will make this!

Onion Blossoms
2 large sweet onions, unpeeled
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon chili powder
2 1/2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning, divided
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 cup milk
Oil for deep-fat frying

Leaving the root end intact, peel the outer skin of the onion. Cut a small slice off the top. Starting at the top of the onion and on one side, make a cut downward toward the root end, stopping 1/2-inch from the bottom. Make additional cuts 1/8 inch from the first until there are cuts completely across the top of the onion. Turn the onion a quarter turn so the slices are horizontal to you. Repeat the cuts 1/8 inch apart from each other until there is a checker-board pattern across the entire top of onion.

In a small bowl, make dip by combining mayo, sour cream, chili powder and 1 1/2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning. Mix well and set aside.

In a 1-gallon plastic bag, combine flour and remaining Cajun seasoning. Place milk in a small deep bowl. Coat the cut onion in flour, then dip into milk and back into the flour mixture. Fry in enough oil to cover onion at 350 degrees for 5 minutes or until golden, turning once. Remove from oil; place on serving plate. Discard the very center of the fried onion blossom. Place a few spoonfuls of dip into the center of blossom and serve immediately.

I recently read, with great interest, a post that Cindi over at Moomette’s Magnificents wrote about Cabbage Patch dolls. She told how Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Cabbage Patch kids will be hitting store shelves for a limited time only. You can check out her post for the details of the promotion. The reason her post held such an interest for me, was that she talked about how her sister-in-law is a graphic design artist, and worked for Coleco Industries. Coleco Industries was licensed to sell the Original Xavier Roberts dolls also known as Cabbage Patch dolls. As a toddler, Cindi’s daughter, niece and nephews were child models and their photos appeared in many Coleco Cabbage Patch promotional toy publications, brochures and on the boxes the dolls and Coleco toys came in! Isn’t that cool? I think it is very cool. I always loved the Cabbage Patch dolls. My mom made clothes for them. Here is a picture of my 23 year old son, Greg, when he was a baby. He is the one in blue.

I attended a craft show recently and was feeling silly because the only thing I purchased was a purse. I make purses! I purchased this purse because I liked the style and wanted to make more but in different fabrics.
Here is the purse I purchased:

Here is the purse I made this weekend:

What do you think? Did I come close to the original?

Today’s tackle will be to spend time with my daughter. Stacy is here from Florida and I plan to sit and visit with her. We have been cooking together and have done a little bit of shopping. Tomorrow we will be going to lunch with her two Grandma’s and her aunt, (my sister, Grace). It will be Grandma Myrna’s birthday so we will be partying by going to lunch and hitting a fabric store or two. Happy Tackling everyone.

You can what others are tackling over at 5 Minutes for Mom.

I have been looking in all the fabric stores for a pattern to make a purse. This is the pattern I ordered online.

I hope it has an oval bottom and gives directions for making stiff sides. It is hard to tell from the picture. The pattern is The Bow Bag by Monica Poole.

Did you happen to watch the Olympics last night? 100m finals offered two fantastic runners. Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart actually tied with a time of 10.98s and so both will receive a silver medal. With the electronic timers we have today, it is easier to calculate down to the ninth degree. The rules state that when a tie occurs, the next medal will not be given. Jamaica can be proud. Speaking of Jamaica, did you see the long legs on Usain “ThunderBOLT” Bolt? He made the men’s 100m finals look like a walk in the park. He was looking around and moving his arms like he was out for a stroll. He set a world record of 9.69s!!

This weeks subject for Heads or Tails is Supply. Skittles has thought up another great topic!

I simply must tell you of the latest gadget I have added to my quilt supplies. It is the quarter inch seam marker. I have two sizes. One is 8 inches and the other is 12 inches. It makes marking quarter inches so simple. I used it to mark Stacy’s rag quilt blocks. Not only does it allow for the quarter inch markings but it has holes down the center of the tool. I was able to mark cutting lines! I love this tool.

I did it! I had Greg take his sister’s rag quilt to the post office and it has been mailed. Here is a picture of Stacy cutting the squares. She worked on the project while we were on vacation in Tennessee. The picture is taken in the living room of the cabin where we stayed.

I admit that one of the first things I do when I plan a trip is look online for quilt shops in our destination city. When my sister Grace, my mom and I visited my son at grad school last year we discovered a few new quilt shops. Cincinnati not only offers Cincinnati weight loss surgery centers, they have wonderful quilt shops. We were not able to hit them all as they were far apart in miles. Not having time to hit them all gives us a reason to back! I have no idea how we made it to one of the quilt shops because in my mind we were going the wrong direction. It doesn’t take much to confuse me. We made it just in time to spend some money before the proprietor closed the doors for the night. Whew! Who says quilting is not an adventure?