Do you recall, back in September, the wonderful little market basket that I gave away to honor my blog's 4th anniversary? If you read the comments after I announced the winner, you might have noticed that my sister-in-law Priscilla was really, really hoping to win that basket. Well, to tell you the truth, she did. However, since I happened to know that she was getting this very thing for Christmas, I put her name back in the hat, and drew another one. Sorry, Pris!
Actually, that's what
all the adult females in my family got this year, though each was a different color and design. Also, instead of the Boggy Creek cookbook, I gave them all
Serving Up the Harvest, by Andrea Chesman, and instead of the little cowgirl coin purse, they each got one of the beautiful jacquard dish towels that I brought back from Provence, which just happened to be in their favorite colors. I assumed they would use them to dry dishes, but my niece Jessica had other ideas. She and Geoff had just moved into a new home, and she said the colors in the towel were
so perfect for her new kitchen, she just couldn't bear to relegate it to a drawer. Instead she bought a set of fabric stretchers from the hobby shop,
et voila! The brilliant art masterpiece you see above was created -- another shining example of divergent thinking, and creative reuse!
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