Week in Review.

Our friend Zane works for a seed company and they're developing some Italian onions to grow in the area. They're called cipolline, which just means small onions. Onions are the main crop here and I love how the air smells like onions during harvest and processing. As you drive down the highway, there are onions all over the sides of the roads that fell out of the back of trucks. It's like an onion wonderland. Apparently these cipolline are supposed to be hotter than what we're used to and with a high sugar content so they'll caramelize nicely. I want to find an extra special and oniony recipe to try them in.

When we went to California earlier this summer, my Aunties gave me 12 skeins of this ancient yarn. This stuff is vintage and awesome but the skeins aren't very big and I wanted to make something special with it for my Aunties. I think I'm going to make them each a pair of slippers and make sweet little poms for the toes, they'd get a kick out of that. 

Earlier this year when LA of Freckled Nest was celebrating her 5 year blog anniversary she was offering to make free buttons for people, on a first come first serve basis. She had about a zillion responses so I never thought she'd actually get around to making one for me and I was so surprised when I opened my email today to find this lovely button. I love it, it even has crocheted hangers, it's so perfect. Thank you, LA!