Spinach pasta revisited

It seems that kneading in more flour to my sticky spinach pasta dough and then letting sit in the fridge over night has successfully dried it out enough to use it. I also rolled it out a little first before putting it through the pasta roller. My nest building skills are not all that I could desire. I think they should look more nesty, something that would invite a very tiny person to curl up in the middle and take a nap in it. This nest looks as though it was made by a very messy bird. Which, in fact, it was.

Ravioli is one of my favorite things to eat. It's satisfying to make too because I enjoy the way they are like little envelopes of goodness. Oh my, that sounded a little precious. Crimping the edges is my favorite part. I would love to spend a whole day making (and eating) differently shaped ravioli.

I am making Easter baskets for the store and I am now only waiting for the candy order to come in and then they will be ready to assemble. I'm really excited about them which is kind of bizarre since Easter is one of those holidays that mean absolutely nothing to me personally. I'm neither Christian nor pagan. So to me it's just a bunch of bunnies and jelly beans. UNTIL NOW. Now it's an opportunity to make something fun for kids. Mine included. That's reason enough for me to get into it.

It's such good timing that the baskets arrived today because it will help me forget how unpleasant it is to be me today. Getting merchandise in is like Christmas must feel to the elves if the elves actually existed. All the toy parts arriving is the beginning of the best part of Christmas, the whole part about what your own hands can do to make magic.

I also received my Darice order with lots of glue guns for use in the Easter Bonnet decorating class. Plus a whole hell of a lot of butterflies and the sweetest little mushroom birds that are so tiny I kind of want to eat them. You know when something is so cute you just want to grind it with your teeth? Like when you see the cutest kitten on earth and you just want to squeeze it like a boa constrictor?

I also got the two millinery books I ordered so that I can show how to do a few real millinery tricks. The class isn't really for encouraging people to become master milliners, it's more about having lots of fun with a bunch of embellishments, but I think it will be more valuable if I can offer a little real millinery lesson. I'm very excited. Since I was pretty busy last night mentally smacking myself around, I haven't even looked at them yet. It turns out that it's not that easy to find good instructional millinery books. I got mine from Lacis in Berkeley California. (I would give a link there but I'm much too lazy right now to do it.)

One thing I love about life is how time always passes no matter what else happens, time is always passing.