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About a year ago a friend and I stood looking at our battered and outdated Fellowship Hall at our church, which serves as everything from a cafeteria and craft area to a gym for the preschool. Decades of constant use really showed and we both utterly loathed the old valances of ruffled pink, country blue and teal that shrieked late 80s. That launched my efforts last Fall of a fundraising Tea, a gathering of donations and a lot of hours in group decisions on paint, etc.

Spent the last three days in there, yanking out the old curtains and the yards and yards of muslin underneath, filling holes, sanding and priming. Found stuff behind the cabinets from years ago and spackled countless staple holes... We're about a third of the way through this project but by Maundy Thursday this week we hope to have a new look to our old Hall at long last.

It's an awful lot of work and my feet and legs are killing me, but it's a great feeling to get it done!

Current Mood: tired

Phoo! I'm tired, must be time for bed. Tomorrow is our big church picnic for Easter and I'm up to my ears in fixings for a huge green salad, glorified rice and two big pans of peach cobbler. Yay! Plus I'll be doing the face-painting on the side. Makes for a busy but good event. I just have to finish one salad and I can hit the hay.

I'm attending two churches, my main one and the one that rents space in the main one, so I get to help with two Easter picnics, one this weekend and one next weekend, complete with two rounds of face-painting and two rounds of kiddie egg-hunts, probably going to walk my feet off but it's always such a cheery time with visitors that only come out of the woodwork for major holidays as well. Thankfully, it looks like a clear day, it's been pretty rainy here, so we may be blowing in the breeze but at least we'll be dry.

Have a lovely Palm Sunday weekend, all!

Our youth group had its annual dessert auction this morning, something I had imagined grandiose plans of wonderful desserts I could make.. (I even contemplated trying to build a "robot" out of ding-dongs) and then ended up too tired to really do any of them the day before. Darn! Nevertheless, when I woke up I figured I had time to make *something* if I could think of anything even mildly creative. Enter the leftover rabbit.

The giant chocolate rabbit has been sitting there in its box since Easter as, while it looked like fun, no one in my family actually likes milk chocolate. Bashed it into little pieces in a bowl and mixed them into a buttermilk coffee cake recipe and added a bunch of cinnamon (goes with chocolate, right?). Added little signs with an illustration of a rabbit laying on its back with little X's for eyes.

Hope it tasted all right - I'll never know, as both of the resulting "Dead Rabbit Coffee Cakes" were auctioned off (over $20 each!).

I still have a fat handful of rabbit chunks and I hate to just throw it out. Anyone else out there who likes dark chocolate but knows of something that has milk chocolate in it that tastes ok? I'm open to ideas!

Current Mood: creative

I love Easter, it's such a wonderful time with all the yard blooming like mad, sunshine and rain showers and clouds of blossoms everywhere. We all work to clean up the church (our 'home and family' of the heart) and get it all pretty and scrubbed and weeded, etc. and it's a nice excuse to get a new dress sometimes. :-)

Maundy Thursday service was wonderful, always a favorite, so informal and intimate. Tomorrow I'll be trimming baskets of flowers to get them ready for Sunday morning when we pass them out to the congregation - everyone gets to put theirs into a wire cross we have that lights up when it's full of flowers and it's truly lovely, a nice way to give everyone something 'hands on'. There's a breakfast and special music, etc. as well. *happy*

And

starbells and I indulged in a late night of watching Invasion of the Dinosaurs - I'd forgotten how truly delightfully fun this serving of excellent dialogue and action was. Benton gets to be Uber Awesome Benton, including punching out a General, he and the Brig get to face off against the bad guys to save the Doctor, the Whomobile gets a shiny time out and about (I love that car) and of course we get lots of Sarah-Jane and the Doctor all in blue, rubber dinosaurs and pterodactyl puppets, etc. etc.

What jolliness! I can't recommend it enough for anyone with a taste for finely aged cheese and crackers of the best sort.

Have a wonderful weekend, all!

Current Mood: happy

I hope this holiday is being a lovely one for all of you -

Trimmed a huge bowlful of flowers for the church service - we have a wire cross that we fill with flowers and then turn on the white christmas lights inside it. It's gorgeous! The daffodils are starting to droop, but I still had lots of narcissus, grape hyacinth, bluebells and others - snow in summer, cherry blossoms and even blooms off of the huge rosemary.

After church, we had it stop raining long enough to run outside and hide scads of plastic eggs all over the yard. The kids had a good time finding them and then haggling with one another over what they'd found. Dyed a bunch of coffee filters with easter-egg dyes and hung them around the kitchen until they were dry so we can put them in the windows. They're so pretty, like stained-glass flowers.

Now we're blowing up marshmallow bunnies in the microwave - if you face two of them towards each other and "arm" them with a toothpick, you can make them joust, seeing who blows up enough to stab the other one first. I love Easter.

And Congratulations to Rosie and Icarus upon the birth of their new baby boy, Peter Eomer!

Current Mood: happy

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