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If you are up at 5 in the morning in Honolulu and are wondering what to do, I have a suggestion: Head over to Pier 38 and watch the Honolulu Fish Auction. It's quite a scene.
Getting up at 5 may seem a bit extreme, but for recent arrivals to Hawaii from the East Coast of the mainland — as I was last Friday — the six-hour time difference makes waking up early easy, if not inevitable.
The auction takes place in a low-slung single-story building toward the end of the pier. At about 1 a.m., fishing boats start bringing in their catch. Each fish is tagged, placed on pallets and covered with crushed ice. Most of the fish are caught using a long-line fishing technique: baited hooks hanging at intervals from a long rope. Brooks Takenaka, one of the guys who runs the auction, says it's all highly regulated and that sustainability is a top concern.
The day I visited, there were about 50,000 pounds of fish on the auction floor. There's a pretty wide selection — from the large bigeye tuna ( Thunnus obesus) and broadbill swordfish (Xiphias gladius) to the smaller mahi-mahi ( Coryphaena hippurus)and ono ( Acanthocybium solandri).I stick in the scientific names because the same fish can have a lot of different common names. Ono is also called wahoo, and mahi-mahi is sometimes referred to as dolphin fish.
At approximately 5:30 a.m. PT, one of the auctioneers rings a brass bell, and a crowd of about two-dozen buyers clusters around a pallet as an auctioneer calls out prices. To the uninitiated it's a little hard to follow, but clearly someone is making a successful purchase. Prices vary by species, time of year and quality of fish. The day I visited, some of the tuna were going for $8 per pound or more.
The group moves fairly rapidly from one pallet to the next, while a trailing worker tags each fish with the name of its buyer. Once that's completed, other workers swoop in with hand-powered forklifts and start distributing the fish to trucks waiting at multiple loading docks alongside the building. Most of this haul will be eaten in the Hawaiian islands, though a sizable fraction will head to the mainland. It can take hours to complete the auction, depending on the size of the day's catch.
After standing on the chilly auction floor for about 45 minutes, I realized something was missing: the smell of fish. Really fresh fish doesn't smell the least bit fishy. I guess I knew that, but it's still remarkable to experience.
Though it's been around since 1952, the auction isn't a tourist attraction. But if you're interested in visiting, call the and they'll see what they can do.
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It is an old family story that Thomas Jefferson's earliest memory was of riding horseback, comfortable on a pillow and secure in the arms of an enslaved caretaker, from Shadwell to Tuckahoe.[1] He was only two or three years old at the time.
This journey east from the Jeffersons' Albemarle County landholdings was occasioned by a unique passage in the will of the recently deceased William Randolph. First cousin of Jane Randolph Jefferson and fast friend of Peter Jefferson, the widowed and ailing William Randolph had, in late 1745, turned his thoughts to the impending orphanhood of his three small children. He wrote: "Whereas I have appointed by my will that my dear only son Thomas Mann Randolph should have a private education given him in my house at Tuckahoe, my will is that my dear and loving friend Mr. Peter Jefferson do move down with his family to my Tuckahoe house and remain there till my son comes of age with whom my dear son and his sisters shall live."[2]
In honoring the substance if not the extent of his friend's request, Peter Jefferson kept his family at Tuckahoe in Goochland County from 1746 until 1751. At this genteel Randolph seat, Thomas Jefferson spent his early childhood in school and at play with his three sisters and his three cousins.[3] Jefferson later wrote of their Tuckahoe tutor's instruction as an "English school," distinguishing the basic lessons in English grammar, spelling, and composition from the "Latin school" of ancient languages that he attended when he was older and his family had returned to Shadwell.[4]
Modern scholars and admirers of Thomas Jefferson recognize Tuckahoe as the site of his earliest education — or, as the Commonwealth Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution stated on a bronze plaque installed at the site, "[H]ere the discipline of his noble mind began." Tuckahoe then vanishes from most chronicles of Jefferson's life story. Jefferson himself seemed to will such a narrative course when he wrote acidly of the Randolph family's impulse to trace their pedigree far back into England and Scotland, "to which let everyone ascribe the faith & merit he chooses."[5]
In point of fact, Jefferson maintained enduring ties with his mother's family. Furthermore, he and his Tuckahoe playmate Thomas Mann Randolph were enjoying a sustained or revived connection in the 1760s, when Jefferson's earliest surviving papers confirm occasional visits and correspondence as well as loans and joint business concerns.[6] While he was still practicing law, Jefferson also performed legal services for Thomas Mann Randolph of Tuckahoe.[7] Although interaction between the two suggests none of the trusting intimacy evident in Jefferson's letters to Dabney Carr or John Page, the cousins remained sufficiently cordial and familiar for Jefferson's daughter Martha to choose young Thomas Mann Randolph II for a husband in 1790.
If Jefferson's familial bonds with the Randolphs in general, and the Tuckahoe Randolphs in particular, were significant to his social life in Virginia, then Tuckahoe the house was equally important to his architectural imagination. At first, such a notion seems improbable. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson made plain his dislike of wooden houses as short-lived, though when he wrote these words, the older section of the Tuckahoe great house had been standing for about a half-century. Jefferson also emphasized his disdain for "unchaste" Virginia architecture, by which he meant that even expensive and imposing structures were but "rude, mis-shapen piles" if their design involved selective use of classical elements, rather than complete and correctly rendered classical orders.[8] Thus Tuckahoe, with its shaped-modillion cornices, classically molded trim, and plain pedimented porches, could not withstand Jefferson's architectural scrutiny. It was not, however, the figure Tuckahoe cut in the landscape, but rather the spaces the house enclosed and their evolving relationships from which Jefferson gained significant insight.
The Algonquian Indian name "Tuckahoe" dates from the seventeenth-century patents for the land, which refer to a "Tuckahoe Creek" as one of its boundaries. The tract's shoreline on the James River was one of the most valuable assets. William Randolph, an English immigrant who resided several miles down-river at Turkey Island, probably had the tract roughly cleared and cultivated as one of his outlying quarter plantations. It did not become a "home plantation," or Randolph family "seat," until after 1711, when William Randolph died, leaving each of his seven sons a substantial plantation and a workforce of slaves, represented in his will by the phrase "with all appurtenances therunto belonging." Thomas Randolph, the second son, acquired the 3256-acre Tuckahoe tract.[9] As was the custom for Virginians who found themselves with challenging agricultural improvements to complete and a sustaining income to attain, Thomas Randolph and his wife, Judith Fleming, probably contented themselves with a relatively small wood-framed house that enclosed two or three rooms and probably stood erect on posts set directly into the ground. In such a small and plain dwelling, the Randolphs would have been like other land-rich, but still aspiring, planters in the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Indeed, unpretentious house-building remained the wisest strategy for any planter who wanted to make a success of an underdeveloped tract — thus this first Tuckahoe dwelling may well have resembled, in many respects, the modest house that Peter and Jane Jefferson first built at Shadwell several decades later.
Architectural investigations confirm that Tuckahoe was constructed in two stages, and the north wing of the house is the earliest.[10] This is discernible because the roof of the north section is completely covered with shingles — even the portion that is now protected by the later roof of the hyphen. These enclosed shingles show clear signs of once having been exposed to the weather. Establishing a sequence of construction, however, does not necessarily indicate dates of origin. For that, the intersection of documentary and architectural evidence provides the strongest clues.
Thomas Randolph died unexpectedly in 1730, leaving a widow, two daughters, and a son, named "William" after his grandfather of Turkey Island. William Randolph was eighteen years old at the time, and William Byrd of Westover, who paid a call on the widow, thought him "a pretty young man, but [he] had the misfortune to become his own master too soon. This puts young fellows upon wrong pursuits, before they have sense to judge rightly for themselves. Though at the same time they have a strange conceit of their own sufficiency, when they grow near twenty years old, especially if they happen to have a small smattering of learning. It is then they fancy themselves wiser than all their tutors and governors, which makes them headstrong to all advice, and above reproof and admonition."[11]
However rashly the young heir may have behaved, William Randolph quickly settled into responsible plantation management and active participation in elite planter culture. By 1736, he had won the hand of the young heiress Maria Page of Rosewell.[12] Her father had left her with a substantial dowry of £2000 sterling, part of which the young couple apparently devoted to the construction at Tuckahoe of an elegant new two-story mansion with a central passage and two stylishly finished rooms on each floor. In accordance with room designations of the time, those on the first story almost certainly were the dining room and the parlor. One of the above-stairs rooms was the chamber where the heads of household slept, while the other was a bedroom of lesser status. Indications that the north wing of the house was completed by William and Maria Page Randolph is strengthened by the clear evidence that the skilled carver who completed Rosewell's interior woodwork during the 1730s also completed the exceptionally rich embellishment of Tuckahoe's north wing.[13] Furthermore, recent glimpses behind the paneling and beneath Tuckahoe's earlier staircase confirm that this Rosewell-inspired woodwork is original; no interior remodeling of an older dwelling has left behind the ghosts and scars of architectural change.
Sadly, the young Randolph couple did not long enjoy their genteel new house. Maria Page Randolph was dead by 1742 and her husband followed her to the grave in 1745.[12] So it was that the boy Thomas Jefferson came to live at Tuckahoe with his parents, who were charged with the welfare of seven children as well as a complex set of plantation affairs.
Those who study Virginia's colonial architecture know of no instance in which expensive and complicated building campaigns were completed by guardians for wealthy but vulnerable orphans in their charge; therefore, it is nearly certain that Tuckahoe stood in its two-story, four-room form during the Jeffersons' period of residence, and indeed until about 1762, when Thomas Mann Randolph came of age. By this date, the young heir of Tuckahoe had already married his first cousin Anne Cary of Ampthill and the couple had produced the first of their many children.[15] Perhaps like his father, young Randolph took advantage of his wife's dowry to enlarge his house, sometime between 1760 and 1765. Just as construction features visible only in Tuckahoe's attic demonstrate that the north wing of the house once stood alone, so a trip to the upper reaches of the house reveals clear indications that the hyphen and south wing were built in a single campaign. Moreover, builders were careful to duplicate the design, dimensions, and proportions of the north wing in the creation of an impressive house with a unified H-shaped form. Only the construction of brick end walls on the south wing suggests to the casual observer that Tuckahoe is not all of one "build."[16]
As with the interior detailing of the original section of the house, characteristics of the interior finish confirm a mid-century construction date for the hyphen and south wing. They also suggest the identity of the craftsman. Embellishment of the stairs in the south wing, including a distinctive design for the balusters, indicates that Tuckahoe's second joiner was Richard Bayliss, whom Carter Burwell engaged to complete the interior of his new house at Carter's Grove and who also produced markedly similar interior stair details for Wilton, the mansion of another Randolph cousin. Both of these houses were completed around 1755, when Thomas Mann Randolph was still a teenager, so Bayliss's work at Tuckahoe surely occurred at least five years later.[17]
In making use of the existing house, what did Thomas Mann and Anne Cary Randolph hope to achieve? Thrifty building enterprise? Their original purpose may have been to have what most Virginia elites enclosed in their stylish mansions. Inside an imposing set of finely detailed elevations, they had four elegant rooms on each of two floors and two passages to facilitate circulation. With their H-shaped scheme, the Randolphs of Tuckahoe gained a four-room plan as well as a capacious hall or "saloon," designed to accommodate genteel dances and other polite convivialities. Among the four corner rooms, the Randolphs would have distributed, as did other Virginia gentry, a parlor and dining room, a new chamber, and perhaps a library. Certainly within a very few years, the Randolphs were making good use of their second-story rooms, as their children, ultimately numbering ten, serially made their appearances. Within fifteen years, however, Tuckahoe's saloon had become a zone of transition. It was functioning either as the general entry, in which visitors received an initial greeting or perhaps a deft interception, or as a social "buffering" space between distinctly public and private parts of the house. When this spatial reconfiguration occurred, Tuckahoe became a "double house" in the truest sense of that eighteenth-century term; one wing had been given over to entertainment of guests and interaction with outsiders, while the other had become a retreat for the Randolph family. That this arrangement had taken place by 1779 is certain, for in that year the Englishman Thomas Anburey visited Tuckahoe and subsequently wrote that the house "seems to be built solely to answer the purposes of hospitality . . . It is in the form of an H, and has the appearance of two houses, joined by a large saloon; each wing has two stories, and four large rooms on a floor; in one, the family reside, and the other is reserved solely for visitors."[18]
Although Anburey's observations did not encompass specific names or functions for the rooms of the enlarged house, Tuckahoe's south wing probably enclosed a fashionable new parlor and dining room, with two guest bedrooms available overhead. Beyond the spatial "protection" of the saloon, the old parlor and dining room had almost certainly become a family sitting room and an informal dining space. Perhaps instead the principal chamber was moved downstairs, while the bedrooms overhead and indeed the second story above the saloon had become the realm of the Randolph's numerous sons and daughters.
That this change at Tuckahoe may have occurred shortly before or during the Revolution, with its attendant ideals of liberty and equality, is suggested by an event which Anburey witnessed during his stay: "I saw at Colonel [Thomas Mann] Randolph's, at Tuckahoe . . . three country peasants, who came upon business, entered the room where the Colonel and his company were sitting, took themselves chairs, drew near the fire, began spitting, pulling off their country boots all over [with] mud, and then opened their business, which was simply about some continental flour to be ground at the Colonel's mill: When they were gone, some one observed what great liberties they took; he replied, it was unavoidable, the spirit of independency was converted into equality, and every one who bore arms, esteemed himself upon a footing with his neighbour, and concluded with saying, 'No doubt, each of these men conceives himself, in every respect, my equal.'"[19]
This "spirit of independency" was, of course, no more authoritatively or persuasively articulated than in the Declaration of Independence, which the Colonel's cousin had penned three years before. During the 1770s, Thomas Jefferson's extensive travels found him stopping at Tuckahoe several times and, while his foremost thoughts certainly dwelt on more momentous concerns, he obviously absorbed the workings of Tuckahoe's divided house. Modern scholars may observe the initial effect of Tuckahoe's organization in Jefferson's plans for remodeling the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, where he resided as revolutionary governor of Virginia in 1779 and 1780. Two of these sketches involve the transformation of the long rear wing, which formerly enclosed the royal governors' ballroom and supper room, into a hyphen that would connect the original palace with an entirely new edifice of comparable proportions. Had these plans been realized, Jefferson would have drawn on the example of Tuckahoe to create an executive mansion for the new republic, one that afforded reception and entertaining space for all comers — even citizens with muddy boots and inclinations to spit — and also enclosed, beyond the hyphen, a zone of retreat for the governor and his intimates.[20]
Jefferson went on to design more compact revisions for the palace that largely were confined to alterations within the four existing walls, but his commitment to designing house plans with clearly differentiated and architecturally distanced public and private domains remained firm. Of course, the most forceful yet integrated realization of the Tuckahoe example is at Monticello. Over the course of a remodeling that lasted from 1796 to 1809, Jefferson doubled the size of his house. In general conception, the three principal rooms of the original house became the western half of a plan enlarged to the east, so that a center line inscribed through the house on a north-south axis divides the old half from the new half of Monticello. In function, however, Jefferson deftly resorted to partitions involving east-west delineations. The private side of the house was the south end, encompassing Jefferson's chamber, cabinet, library, and south piazza. Its availability — even to fondly welcomed visitors — was severely limited, as Anna Maria Thornton discovered in 1802, when she encountered a locked library door during her wanderings about the house.[21] To the north of the parlor and hall, the public side of the house included the dining room, tea room, north piazza, and two bedrooms designated for guests. In conception, Monticello's hall and parlor were Tuckahoe's saloon, but one in which the saloon's two functions were emphatically bisected and differently accoutered to denote the entry function of one and the elegant entertaining function of the other.
Thomas Mann Randolph, the Tuckahoe friend of Jefferson's childhood and his lifelong associate, died three years after he saw his eldest son, Thomas Mann Randolph II, marry Martha Jefferson. With his departing, Tuckahoe was again held in trust for a minor. This year-old child was the son of Thomas Mann Randolph's young second wife, and Randolph had named the boy, in a patriarchal flourish of exceptional vigor even for a member of the Virginia elite, Thomas Mann Randolph III.[12] This boy lived to take possession of his ancestral great house in 1813, by which time Tuckahoe's outlying sections had been sold or allocated to other siblings, leaving a core tract of 900 acres. The young Randolph spent much of his time in Richmond, and declining profits on his Goochland County tract contributed to compounding financial distress. In 1830, Randolph was forced to sell Tuckahoe, and over the course of the nineteenth century, the property was sold several times more. Then in 1935, descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Mann Randolph purchased the house and a quantity of surrounding acres. Tuckahoe has remained secure in family hands to this day.[23] It also stands as a significant testament to the depth of Jefferson's Virginia roots, and to his frequent resort to Virginia solutions for fundamental matters — including those of architectural design.
- Camille Wells, 1999. Originally published as "Lessons from Tuckahoe," in Spring Dinner at Monticello, April 12, 1999, in Memory of Thomas Jefferson (Charlottesville, VA: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1999), 1-19.
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On Wednesday, Syrian National Council head Abdulbaset Sieda invoked Libya when calling for international intervention to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad. He may not have realized the extent to which, after last week's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya weighs heavily on American minds. The chaos that prevails almost a year after the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi allowed a radical Islamist militia to operate unmolested and use a demonstration over an Islam-bashing film made in California as an opportunity to attack and kill Americans. So, despite the escalating brutality in Syria, a repeat of the Libya model is unlikely to get many takers in Washington. "No one outside Tehran and Moscow wants to bolster Bashar al-Assad, but the images of infuriated young men in Egypt, Libya and Yemen have given outsiders greater pause about Syria's fragmented, radicalized and increasingly well-armed opposition," noted Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group risk-management firm. "That conflict will drag on without intervention by outsiders for some time to come."
Yet, in the Hague, another meeting of the Friends of Syria group of Western and Arab backers of the rebellion ended on Wednesday. They made plans to escalate the slow-burning sanctions that are doing little to change the regime's course, even as they constrict Syrians' ability to make ends meet. The group vowed to meet again before the end of 2012, but set no date. Even before last week's tragedy in Libya, Syria's plight was simply not near the top of the to-do list of Western leaders, partly as a result of more pressing priorities and partly because they see no good options for effecting a positive outcome.
The Syrian conflict pits a predominantly Sunni rebellion against a regime based on an Alawite security core with a measure of support from Christians and other minorities, as well as a declining share of the Sunni elite (numerous exceptions notwithstanding). From the outside, at least, it is beginning to look more like the civil war that broke out in Lebanon in the late 1970s than the rebellions of Tunisia and Egypt. Mindful of the regional consequences of picking a side in such a civil war, and of the danger of being sucked in with no exit strategy, Western powers are, if anything, growing increasingly reluctant to intervene directly.
Syria's opposition remains deeply divided. The armed rebellion remains disorganized, with dozens of rival militias fighting under autonomous commanders. The growing influence of both Syrian and foreign jihadists among the armed formations reinforces the West's hesitance. Indeed, even the U.S. that hoped, together with France, Turkey and Qatar, to anoint the Syrian National Council as a government-in-waiting, has been forced to distance itself from the group in light of its limited authority over revolutionaries on the ground.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, whose new envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has been meeting with stakeholders across the region in recent weeks, pointedly warned this week that there could be "no military solution" to the Syrian conflict. But as Ban's last envoy, Kofi Annan, found, neither the opposition nor the regime, nor the foreign backers of either side, appears to be ready to embrace that reality. Assad hopes to blast his way out of trouble, while the rebels appear to believe that even if they lack the military capacity to topple the regime themselves, putting up enough of a fight will eventually prompt Western powers to intervene, as in Libya, to destroy the regime's fighting capacity.
Besides growing reservations born of the situation on the ground, the Western powers no longer have the same appetites and capacities for intervention today that they may have had a decade ago, or even 18 months ago, when they began flying close air support to the Libyan rebels. NATO is struggling to extract itself from a disastrous war in Afghanistan where it has lost more than 50 soldiers just this year to attacks from the very Afghan security forces it's in Afghanistan to support. And the West is mired in a deep and sustained economic crisis that suppresses the appetite for global military adventures. Even pledges of humanitarian support for Syria have fallen way short in the delivery, although some suspect that may be based on a reluctance to provide help that would be distributed under the aegis of the regime.
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It may be precisely because of the slim prospects of any Libya-style intervention that an Egyptian initiative to establish a contact group composed of Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran is getting some traction. Turkey and the Saudis, of course, are backing the rebellion, while Iran is solidly behind the regime. Egypt's new Islamist government hopes that the depth of involvement by those countries in the conflict is precisely why such a group has a better chance of convincing the Syrian combatants to heed a political compromise.
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Whether you are tired of turkey or you are you want a second roast in addition to the turkey you really cannot go wrong with a tasty ham! Ever since I tried this bourbon gingersnap crusted ham by Alton Brown I have been hooked and I keep coming back to it when I am looking for a ham recipe. Like most hams this one is super easy to make where you bake it, pull it out, remove the skin and fat, brush on some mustard, sprinkle on some brown sugar, spritz it with bourbon and then press on the crushed gingersnaps before baking it for a bit longer. The tangy mustard combined with the sweet brown sugar and the gingery cookies is simply amazing! One variation that I like to do is to bush the ham with some maple syrup before applying the mustard which adds another tasty layer of complexity.
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- 1 (8 pound) bone in ham, mesh removed, rinsed and pat dry
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup dijon mustard
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons bourbon (or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract)
- 1 cup crushed gingersnap cookies
- Score the ham by spiraling around it with a knife from top to bottom rotating as you go and then repeat in the other direction forming diamonds with a crisscross pattern about 1 inch apart.
- Place the ham in a baking dish, insert a meat thermometer, cover in foil and bake in a preheated 250F/130C oven until the temperature reaches 130F, about 2-4 hours depending on the size of the ham.
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After posting about two desserts in a row I was looking for something a bit lighter and I was thinking that I should enjoy the asparagus as much as possible while it was still here. On the top of my list of asparagus recipes to try was this recipe for prosciutto wrapped halibut on asparagus sauce originally from Food and Wine that I found on Cook Local . I liked the sound of the simple pureed asparagus and leek sauce as I would get to enjoy the asparagus and I would get to use leeks which I don't seem to use all that often. And then there is the halibut; halibut is one of my favorite fishes but it is a bit expensive so it is always a treat when I do have it. The fact that the halibut was wrapped in sage and prosciutto reminded me of saltimbocca alla romana which is really tasty with those simple ingredients. The prosciutto wrapped halibut on asparagus sauce was really easy to make and it turned out great! The prosciutto wrapped halibut is fried in butter first until the prosciutto is nice and crispy on the top and bottom and then it is finished off with a few minutes in the oven ensuring that it does not burn in the frying pan. The crispy, salty prosciutto wrapping was so tasty and the combo with the sage made it even better and then there is the warm perfectly fall apart tender and moist halibut on the inside finishing it off perfectly. The asparagus sauce was surprisingly tasty for being so simple and it worked well to cleanse your palette between each bite of the tasty prosciutto wrapped halibut. Overall this was a really nice light meal and I will definitely be making it again!
Prosciutto Wrapped Halibut on Asparagus Sauce
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 clove garlic (chopped)
- 1 leek (finely sliced)
- 1/2 pound asparagus (cleaned, trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces)
- 1 cup spinach
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 (6 ounce) halibut fillets
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 sage leaves
- 4 thin slices prosciutto
- 1 tablespoon oil
- Melt the butter in a pan.
- Add the leek and garlic and saute until tender, about 3-5 minutes.
- Simmer the asparagus in a small amount of water until tender, about 3-5 minutes.
- Add the Spinach and cook until wilted, about a minute.
- Puree the leeks, asparagus and spinach in a food processor.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Place the sauce in a pan on low heat to keep warm.
- Season the halibut fillets with salt and pepper and top with a sage leaf.
- Wrap the halibut fillets in the prosciutto.
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Add the fish and cook until golden brown, about 2-3 minutes per side.
- Transfer the halibut to a baking dish.
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Romney Had Testy Target In Gingrich; Will Obama Likewise Oblige?
With Mitt Romney poised to win the Florida Republican primary, and maybe by a significant margin if the latest polls are correct, it's worth asking: how did the former Massachusetts governor manage to stop Newt Gingrich's surge coming out of South Carolina?
It turns out he did it the old fashioned way — he went relentlessly negative. As the New York Times' Jim Rutenberg and Jeff Zeleny report, the Romney campaign responded to its humiliation in South Carolina with a campaign meant to send the mercurial Gingrich off his moorings, which they believed wouldn't take much. It appears they were right.
One of Gingrich's greatest weaknesses was his well-known tendency to be undisciplined. Romney's effort was geared to exploit that.
But the challenge for Romney if he gets past Gingrich and becomes his party's nominee is that he would be facing a well-disciplined candidate in President Obama with a reputation for being slow to anger and for having an equanimity about him and desire for orderliness that earned him the nickname "No-drama Obama."
That's not to say that Romney won't be able to use tactics similar to those he has mustered against Gingrich to try and force Obama into making costly errors.
It's just to say that the president will likely be a much harder, but not impossible target for Romney. Obama is human, after all, and no doubt has his breaking point which the Romney campaign will work overtime to try and locate.
At one point not very long ago, Obama's ability to handle personal criticism was questioned even by his closest political adviser, David Axelrod.
As Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson wrote in "The Battle for America 2008" Axelrod, in a 2006 memo, questioned his candidate's intestinal fortitude when it came to the nastier side of political combat.
"Axelrod also warned that Obama's confessions of youthful drug use, described in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," would be used against him. "This is more than an unpleasant inconvenience," he wrote. "It goes to your willingness and ability to put up with something you have never experienced on a sustained basis: criticism. At the risk of triggering the very reaction that concerns me, I don't know if you are Muhammad Ali or Floyd Patterson when it comes to taking a punch. You care far too much what is written and said about you. You don't relish combat when it becomes personal and nasty. When the largely irrelevant Alan Keyes attacked you, you flinched," he said of Obama's 2004 Senate opponent."
Being a president who has seen some of his political opponents put Hitler mustaches on pictures of him and who was once interrupted during a state of the union speech by GOP Congressman Joe "You Lie" Wilson of South Carolina has probably given the president plenty more practice at letting criticism roll off than when Axelrod wrote his memo. Not to mention the 2008 contest with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Nonetheless, some of Obama's Republican critics accuse him of still being unable to suffer their slings and arrows nobly, using his airport tarmac confrontation with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer as a case in point.
Obama later told ABC News' Diane Sawyer that the encounter was "not a big deal" and suggested that it was a publicity stunt on Brewer's part.
Still, considering the notion traveling conservative circles that Obama is unduly defensive, it seems likely given what how Romney was able to unhorse Gingrich with a barrage of negative attacks that he'll try something similar with Obama, too, hoping to get the president to take the bait.
But there are some challenges in that strategy for Romney. One is that Obama is much better liked by voters than Gingrich, so Romney could risk turning off many potential swing voters if his attacks against Obama get too personal.
Second, Romney hasn't necessarily shown himself to be impervious to bouts of hyper sensitivity to criticism. Anyone who doubts that need only go back and watch his infamous Fox News interview with Brett Baier.
Third, the Obama campaign and Democrats generally are going to have abundant resources to relentlessly attack Romney and keep him on the defensive in a way that Gingrich could barely manage.


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Some frequent flyers may be cowboys and just want to dismiss Dreamliner concerns, but it is best to keep them on the ground until all of the safety issues are resolved.
Some frequent fliers say they aren't worried about safety aboard Boeing's problem-plagued 787 aircraft, while many less-seasoned travelers are often unaware of what model of plane they're flying on.
That makes it anyone's guess whether Boeing Co., or the airlines that use its planes, will pay a price for concerns surrounding the 787. The planes were grounded worldwide on Thursday after a battery fire on one, and an emergency landing on another after pilots smelled something burning.
"I'm as excited today to get on a 787 as I was a year ago," says Edward Pizzarello, a travel blogger who has logged four flights on the 787, which Boeing calls the Dreamliner. "Boeing will fix this, and I'll be flying on this plane for many years."
Lee Simonetta, a research engineer at Georgia Tech, said he too would hop on the Dreamliner again. He was among the aviation fanatics aboard the plane's first trip with paying customers, an All Nippon Airways flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong in October 2011. It was a time to marvel at a jet made of composite materials that make it lighter and far more fuel-efficient, and at its use of electrical systems to do just about everything.
That was before a series of incidents including fuel leaks, cracked windshields and overheating batteries gained worldwide attention. Photos of charred battery boxes from the planes popped up all over the Internet. Safety officials around the world took a second look at the planes, and the Federal Aviation Administration grounded 787s in this country — United Airlines is the only U.S. carrier to fly them, but several foreign airlines use them on flights to and from the U.S.
Boeing officials and some frequent fliers say there are hiccups with just about every new plane, and the 787 was a particularly bold technological leap over previous aircraft. But will those reassurances satisfy the flying public?
Mary Schiavo, a former inspector general of the U.S. Transportation Department and FAA critic who's now an aviation lawyer, said she would not fly aboard a Dreamliner.
"It's very serious. Nobody wants to get on a plane with these things happening," Schiavo said.
Schiavo said she thinks that if Boeing and the FAA believe there is something wrong with a few batteries, replacing them with other lithium-ion batteries would be a quick repair. But, she said, the FAA might force Boeing to use an entirely different type of battery, which could require redesign work and a new round of regulatory approvals that might take months.
Blake Fleetwood, president of Cook Travel in New York, said a few customers have called in the past two days to ask about the plane but none have changed their itineraries. Of course, those flights won't involve 787s if safety regulators haven't cleared the planes by takeoff time.
"A month ago we had people who were dying to get on this plane," Fleetwood said. "Now they're showing a bit more trepidation."
Many people who don't fly frequently may not even notice what type of plane they're on.
From interviews with more than a dozen travelers at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport, it appeared that price, schedule and nonstop service are more important to consumers than the type plane itself. Only one knew that the government had grounded the 787.
Curtis Johnson, a retailer from San Antonio, said that he purposely booked on a 787 last month from Houston to Newark, N.J. "Very impressive," he said, describing the large windows, wide seats and other flourishes.
Johnson said he pays attention to the type of plane when he books a long flight, and he admitted that he might be "a little bit more nervous than I was three weeks ago" about the 787.
Christine Carlton, who arrived on a United flight from San Antonio, said she wouldn't seek to change planes but would instead "just be stuck and hope for the best."
Many sounded like Casey Ager, a 22-year-old from Seattle, who said he wouldn't have any misgivings about getting on a 787.
"If it's out there and they're letting us fly, I trust it's ready to go," he said.
Associated Press Writer Michael Graczyk in Houston contributed to this report.
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Obama joked Tuesday with comedian Zach Galifianakis, including poking fun at the poorly reviewed "Hangover Part III" during an interview on the website Funny or Die.
Galifianakis typically poses awkward questions to celebrity guests appearing on "Between Two Ferns," and Obama was no exception. After being asked how it felt to be "the last black president" and about the false notion that he was born in Kenya, the president pitched sign-ups for health care by the March 31 deadline.
Obama's appearance is part of an effort to reach young Americans crucial to the program's success.
Asked by Galifianakis whether he'd want a third term - which in any case is barred by the Constitution - Obama said, "If I ran again it would be sort of like doing a third 'Hangover' movie. It didn't really work out very well, did it?"
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Wandering Waif Collection GIVEAWAY!!!! CLOSED.
August 27, 2008
The adorable Honeybee and Ladybug Knit fabric was given to me by A World Away. It is available in her store now. She has the most adorable Japanese Fabrics, which you might see again in the future on Grosgrain! See her other online store Maluhia which sells wallets and other accessories using her own fabrics.
The cape is REVERSIBLE! I prefer the orange corduroy on the outside with the Japanese Fabric peaking out on the sides but it could be totally up to your discretion. I added a white pompom trim to the hood which, I thought gave it a sweet touch. At the neck, the hood cinches a with a ropey clasp.
The dress is also a knit material. So soft and comfortable for baby. I wish all material felt this great! It has 3/4 length sleeves that are loosely cinched at the cuffs. The neckline is also loosely cinched so that no zipper or buttons or clasps are needed to put over baby's head. I love the simplicity of that.
Lastly, I made matching tights! I made them first so I didn't get to see the full scope of their cuteness until after I finished all the pieces but paired with the hood and dress they look amazing....if I might say so:)
All put together Molly looked as though she were ready to wander the forest for mushrooms and flowers. She's so lovely:)
I would say that this is made to fit a 12-24 mo. baby. The tights however, are more for a 6-12 mo. I didn't make the best tights pattern but they fit Molly and she's 14 months.
AND, HOLY GUACAMOLE, the silent auction is going great! Thank you to everyone who's been biding!!!! I am beyond grateful by your generosity. I was shocked when it reached $75. I'm so glad that the money will be going towards this fund. The moment I read about their story I wanted to do something and it looks like I wasn't the only one.
Last day for posts is Monday 9/1/08. Winner will be announced Wednesday morning!
As usual, if you would like a chance to win this cape, dress and tights just link back to this post. If you have any questions see the "questions and answers" link to the right. If you use blogger just use the "create a link" link at the bottom of this post. If you don't use blogger, that's fine too. Just create a link on your page as you normally would and I will see it using Technorati.
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131 {comments}:
- Maluhia said...
absolutely gorgeous! i wouldn't have thought of that! great job! i better go post that fabric on etsy.
- August 27, 2008 at 4:08 PM
- Kim said...
I love it, I love it! I've been wanting to make a cape/shrug thing for my baby, but yours is way cuter than anything I could have imagined up! The fabric is to die for! I'll have to look it up and get some of my own. As always, I love it, and pick me, or else I'm going to have to make a very sad looking one for myself.
- August 27, 2008 at 4:18 PM
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- August 27, 2008 at 4:41 PM
- Dotty said...
Awe that is super cute. She looks like little red riding hood.
You always have amazing ideas! your blog is so inspiring!
I'm sure if you don't pick me there will be an uprising.
I think i am the one to pick, well a girl can but hope.
And if you did pick me that would be pretty dope.
(ok maybe the worst poem in history but i did try):) - August 27, 2008 at 4:44 PM
- dana said...
So adorable. You never cease to amaze!
Who won your green garden dress? I've been checking back to see who the winner was but never saw anything.
thanks! - August 27, 2008 at 4:46 PM
- onawa said...
Perfectly adorable!!! Perfect for fall! I must have it!
- August 27, 2008 at 4:58 PM
- Sherry said...
I love this outfit! The cape is so cute and the little pom-poms make it perfect!!
Have a wonderful week Kathleen!
Sherry - August 27, 2008 at 5:13 PM
- heather said...
You have done it again! I just love this number and it makes me want to learn to sew! YOu are so talented and I appreciate you sharing your talent.
- August 27, 2008 at 5:14 PM
- Desiree' said...
Oh, this is adorable!! Please please pick me, I want I want!!
Once again a fabulous vreation. I have you linked. - August 27, 2008 at 5:22 PM
- Refugee Crafter said...
I love an old fashioned cape on a modern girl! It's adorable!
- August 27, 2008 at 5:24 PM
- Meichelle said...
Okay, so I know I have entered all of your giveaways from the start, but I want to win!!! :) I blogged about this one on my review blog. I so need to win this!!!
- August 27, 2008 at 5:33 PM
- Lorin and Heather said...
So cute!!! It is the perfect outfit to celebrate Autumn!!
- August 27, 2008 at 5:39 PM
- Le Mama! said...
I love it! The cape style is sooo cute and I would love to have it!
- August 27, 2008 at 5:40 PM
- Rebecca Ramsey said...
What a precious love bug! I've always been crazy for capes but that one takes my breath away.
Even though I have no babies or little girls anymore to dress, your creativity has me coming back for more!
Becky - August 27, 2008 at 5:42 PM
- Preppy Mama said...
OMG that is the cutest outfit I have ever seen!! Love every bit of it!
- August 27, 2008 at 5:57 PM
oh~something that i love and it's in baby norah's size! was super excited to share you with the world on my blog today and I hope we win!
- August 27, 2008 at 5:58 PM
What a delightful creation you have dreamed. A little forest friend. How absolutely charming.
- August 27, 2008 at 6:06 PM
- Katie said...
don't include me in this draw but I just wanted to say how absolutely adorable it is!!! How I wish I had a baby girl. Maybe Mac won't mind pretending to be a girl lol
- August 27, 2008 at 6:09 PM
- ty and megs said...
wow! that is just about the cutest outfit i have ever seen! i'm in love!
- August 27, 2008 at 6:17 PM
- Holly Taggart said...
Love this outfit, it would look so cute on my little one. You are wonderful. Hope I win.
- August 27, 2008 at 6:18 PM
- TheFlammfam said...
Pick me..ohh...Pick me!
- August 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM
- Andrea @ Momma in Flip Flops2 said...
Oh my goodness.. I think I might start all my comments to you with that. THIS IS GREAT!!! my daughter would look so cute. Please enter me to win. I've linked up. ADORABLE! I love it!!!!
- August 27, 2008 at 6:27 PM
- Cammi said...
that is what this outfit it :)
my little daughter would be sassy for fall in this little get-up :)
your work is always beautiful.... - August 27, 2008 at 6:32 PM
I might faint form the cuteness.
- August 27, 2008 at 6:35 PM
- {lizzythebotanist} said...
this is unbelievably cute. i can already see my chubby little girl in it.
- August 27, 2008 at 6:51 PM
- Loraena Tuttle said...
This might be my favorite thing you have made - it is so adorable! I put your link in my sidebar.
- August 27, 2008 at 7:11 PM
- Ritch in Love said...
Your blog makes me SO happy!!
- August 27, 2008 at 7:23 PM
- EB said...
So cute! My niece would look adorable in it!
emmarleed[at]hotmail[dot]com - August 27, 2008 at 7:36 PM
- The Blaisdell Family said...
I want the entire outfit!!! I LOVE this!! I love holiday stuff, so the pattern makes this outfit perfect. My all time favorite time of the year is fall!
I would have to say this is my favorite outfit so far! It's incredible!
As always, you have been posted/linked:
www.becauseiwastaughttoshare.blogspot.com - August 27, 2008 at 7:38 PM
- brittany said...
wish that came i my size!
brittany - August 27, 2008 at 7:50 PM
- Sherry Carpet said...
i'm so glad i found your blog, thanks to another loyal reader. beautiful work!
- August 27, 2008 at 8:00 PM
- Sarah MomE25 said...
So Cute! You are very talented! And I love the fabric.
- August 27, 2008 at 8:17 PM
- Artfulife said...
I love, love, oh yeah did I say love, this cute little outfit. My little Air bear would be ready for all the upcoming fall weather. Those tights are precious. As always I will link this to my blog!
- August 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- The Royal Family said...
- August 27, 2008 at 8:21 PM
- Liz said...
I LOVE THIS! you are so wonderfully creative!
- August 27, 2008 at 8:37 PM
- Natalie said...
Oh my goodness your clothing is so amazing. I am in love!!! Wow!!!! I love it.
- August 27, 2008 at 8:53 PM
- Bumbles and Fairy-Tales said...
Bravo!!! to another adorable lil' outfit!
xo, Margie - August 27, 2008 at 8:55 PM
- Terri said...
I love it!! TOO CUTE
- August 27, 2008 at 9:01 PM
- Superdumb Supervillain said...
If I win this one, I am totally putting it on Jasper until I have another baby girl... I love it!
- August 27, 2008 at 9:53 PM
- haomom said...
i absolutely love this amazing!
- August 27, 2008 at 10:02 PM
- Football and Fried Rice said...
This is so very precious!! I love it!
- August 27, 2008 at 10:30 PM
- Football and Fried Rice said...
This is so very precious!! I love it!
- August 27, 2008 at 10:32 PM
- Jessie said...
That is so sweet. I can see my girls curly red hair peeking out of the hood...I love the pom-poms too! Almost anything is cute with pom poms :) Fall's my favorite! Your'e awesome!
- August 27, 2008 at 10:45 PM
- Frances said...
What a fun site! I found you through a friend who posted a link to your site. I love the outfits. Great work. Sewing is one of those things that I wish I knew how to do!
- August 27, 2008 at 11:04 PM
- Olivia Carter said...
That has got to be the sweetest lil' dress I've ever seen. Love the fabric, the design, EVERYTHING!
- August 27, 2008 at 11:06 PM
- Anna - Three Sneaky Bugs said...
I've been peaking in on your blog for some time but haven't linked. That is, until now. I just couldn't resist this one. My favorite colors and it sounds like it would even fit my tiny 15 month old. If nothing else, I must add that I just adore your photographs.
Thanks for the chance! - August 27, 2008 at 11:12 PM
This is entirely adorable and completely gorgeous. I think this is my favorite outfit that you have made... well, every one of your outfits is wonderful. This reminds me of a ladybuggy little red riding hood. Soooo cute :o) Hope your Thursday is fantastic!
Linnea - August 27, 2008 at 11:48 PM
- heidijogoody said...
How adorable is this. Reminds me so much of my younger days and the story of little red riding hood.
- August 28, 2008 at 1:18 AM
- Bunny B said...
Too cute! And I've blogged!
bunnybx at gmail .com - August 28, 2008 at 2:52 AM
This is such a gorgeous little outfit! Makes me wish my daughter was small again! I have to say though that your weather turning into fall means that my weather will be turning into spring. I saw blossoms on fruit trees and daffodils flowering in my garden today. Everything moves in a circle doesn't it? I love your site and your giveaways. You make such wonderful things! Jen
- August 28, 2008 at 4:22 AM
- Unknown said...
Wonderful! This outfit is precious! Just adorable!
- August 28, 2008 at 4:39 AM
so cute, as always. linked away
- August 28, 2008 at 8:18 AM
- Lovely Little Lovelies said...
I'm not sure I did the link thing right...Would you be a dollface and check for me pretty please?
This little ensemble is amazing. My Addie would look darling in it! Perfect size for her, too! :)
xo - August 28, 2008 at 10:13 AM
- masifu said...
Aww, so cute! It'd look wonderful on my baby on this coming halloween.
http://kiddie-kid.blogspot.com/2008/08/wandering-waif-collection-giveaway.html - August 28, 2008 at 10:13 AM
- Sommer said...
Simply darling... the orange puts a smile on my face!
- August 28, 2008 at 10:18 AM
- Cam said...
How do you do it? Gorgeous. Please pick me...just this once.
- August 28, 2008 at 11:10 AM
- neverknow said...
Oh this looks like a lovely first-day-of-Autumn outfit! Oh, I hope I get picked.
- August 28, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- tarable said...
This caused spontaneous lust in my heart for a little girl to dress in your cute outfit. I only have dumb, stinky boys. But I do have a very cute, red-headed neice that would be adorable in this. I posted about it and bet many of my readers will too.
- August 28, 2008 at 11:58 AM
- Lyssa Beth said...
Wow, that's amazing! You never cease to do wonders! This would be perfect for the San Antonio Winters :) And you are linked on my blog:
stufflyssamakes.blogspot.com - August 28, 2008 at 12:45 PM
- Ashley said...
I just found your blog and it's awesome. I love the cape!
- August 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM
- debsfreckles said...
This is too cute, TOO CUTE, TOO CUTE. It would fit my little lady right now and I would take a million pictures of her in it.
- August 28, 2008 at 1:37 PM
- TJDKG said...
I am in absolute LOVE with this it is adorable and i love that fabric too. i may have to buy some.. too cute. I linked to ya too. (my blog is private though) your work is amazing!
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missionsecretsister at gmail dot com - August 28, 2008 at 1:53 PM
- Sister Goldenhair said...
I cannot believe how adorable this outfit is! Your model is a little dollbaby, kisses to both of those cheeks! This would be a perfect outfit for my little one, fingers crossed.
- August 28, 2008 at 4:21 PM
- ferardandy said...
i love it! you are very talented.
- August 28, 2008 at 4:42 PM
- Tamara said...
Could you email me? I have a couple of questions...and I am doing some crafty stuff but yours beyond tops anything I could even begin to do!!!!!!!
email@example.com - August 28, 2008 at 5:04 PM
- The Okrasinski's said...
Wow! This is way too cute! My youngest daughter (who is impatiently waiting for us to come and get her from Ethiopia) would look so fabulous in this outfit! PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME please?
Jeanne - August 28, 2008 at 5:49 PM
- Linda ★ Parker's General said...
another beautiful creation.
as always, you are linked on my blog.
hope i win......
thanks! - August 28, 2008 at 6:29 PM
- Unknown said...
I love this! I am going to win one of these! You are linked on my blog- SO CUTE!!! :)
- August 28, 2008 at 6:34 PM
- Christi said...
That is amazing. I can't believe that you did tights! It is amazing.
- August 28, 2008 at 7:02 PM
- •´.¸¸.•¨¯`♥.Erin.♥´¯¨•.¸¸.´• said...
The tights seal the deal for me. Incredibly adorable, I love it.
- August 28, 2008 at 7:35 PM
- Meghan said...
oh my this is darling! i found you from a friend who linked to you. i have a sweet chubby one year old who would love to wear this... her twin brother might be a bit jealous though!
- August 28, 2008 at 9:27 PM
- Shannon said...
How adorable??? I am so jealous of your talent (and your time :)
- August 28, 2008 at 9:47 PM
- Lisa said...
This is so adorable! I would love to see our little girl in it!! You do a fabulous job!
- August 28, 2008 at 10:12 PM
- Britty said...
I'll take it!
- August 28, 2008 at 10:23 PM
- Blake Bench said...
This is absolutely the cutest thing I've seen this fall! Even if I had a sewing machine I could never come up with something so fun and colorful. Thanks again for sharing your inspiration. I think this is cuter that Children's place stuff or Old Navy! (P.S. My little girl would fit this perfectly!)
- August 28, 2008 at 11:08 PM
- amy said...
Oh, my, I simply love the fun things you create. It gets my juices flowing!
I created a link for you,
and I also have had 2 other friends link to you as well in the last post. I love that you have such a great following! - August 28, 2008 at 11:13 PM
- Jennifer said...
Okey-dokey--I linked you! It's SO cute!! I really want this for my daughter Pickle!!
- August 29, 2008 at 12:01 AM
- Unknown said...
ok i linked you! i'm not on blogger but i'm on http://www.saltandpickles.com/journal
this is pretty much my dream outfit. i mean.. orange? and pom poms? and peaked hats? and orange? (did i mention the orange?)
zb isn't born yet (due in 8 weeks) but she'd rock this outfit :) - August 29, 2008 at 12:08 AM
- Amanda said...
I want it! And I linked! You make adorable clothes.
- August 29, 2008 at 12:52 AM
- Anja said...
Oh my, this is so unbelievable cute. I Love it, I adore it, I ... am speechless. You are so amazing and your creations are gorgeous!
I'm sure that this outfit will make one little girl soooo happy (and her mommy too). Oh how I wish that would be me.
Best wishes,
Anja - August 29, 2008 at 6:21 AM
- Very Mary said...
How snuggly!
- August 29, 2008 at 9:20 AM
This is absolutely adorable. My grand-daughter would look beautiful in this outfit and she would dance around to show everyone.
- August 29, 2008 at 10:47 AM
I just found your website and all i can say is WOW!!! Beautiful cape and the stockings are precious, and that beautiful baby is just precious. My granddaughter would look so very cute in this outfit. I don't know if I could even attempt to make something like this. Please enter me for the chance.
- August 29, 2008 at 10:49 AM
- Melon said...
So cute and snuggly!!
- August 29, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- Stephanie M Larsen said...
This is darling and so is your photography!
- August 29, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- Donita Porter said...
Very cute. I have a granddaughter this would be adorable on.
- August 29, 2008 at 12:39 PM
- 5dollarFanatic said...
This is such a sweet outfit- I love the hooded cape-so darling. You have such creative talent beyond belief.
- August 29, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- Brenda Jo said...
you amaze me... everytime
- August 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- Mel said...
I love that you made tights! Add that to my list. hee hee. The whole ensemble is very adorable as is your little one.
You seem to be extra productive, is this part of the nesting stage??? =) - August 29, 2008 at 2:52 PM
- kamewh said...
This is absolutely adorable!!!
- August 29, 2008 at 3:01 PM
- joolee said...
- August 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM
- daysease said...
I am in awe of your talents. this is quite lovely, and reminds me of a contemporary "Red Riding Hood" outfit... I would love if you picked me... perilloparodies.blogspot.com
- August 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM
- Rebecca said...
That is just the cutest little outfit ever!! It would look great on my little one too. I put a link on my blog. thanks for the chance!
- August 29, 2008 at 6:10 PM
- Yvonne Nicole said...
u are truly amazing! your outfits are too cute! this is the prettiest little outfit for fall. would love to win it for my military wife friend & her 12mo old girl stuck out in ft. irwin, ca.
- August 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM
- Extraordinary Housewife said...
Love it. Lana
- August 29, 2008 at 8:57 PM
- Ella Marie Boutique said...
I just posted a lint to my blog. Is that it? I love the outfit and can't wait to see who wins! Hopefully I have a pretty good chance. The outfit is precious.
- August 29, 2008 at 9:51 PM
- Matt and Carla said...
You always amaze me with your creations, you have such great designs and inspiration! This outfit reminds me of little red riding hood, that always was one of my favorite stories as a child! Halloween is coming up, it could totally double for a darling costume (and a comfy & warm one for that matter for some lucky little girl!) You seem like a truly nice person with what you do with your creations and then I just saw your silent auction that you are doing out of the kindness of your heart, very inspiring! Keep it up, the world needs more Charitable people like you!
- August 29, 2008 at 10:10 PM
- Kate Lewis said...
Soooooo inspiring! I love your aesthetic and would be honored to have my little Sadie wear your delightful ensemble. Thanks for your generosity. :)
- August 29, 2008 at 10:41 PM
- The Haley Family said...
so, so very cute!!! My little Ella would be so darling in this outfit this fall! Crossing my fingers!
- August 29, 2008 at 11:16 PM
- muralimanohar said...
VERY cute!!! I love the pants!!
BTW..I nominated you for an award on my blog. :p - August 30, 2008 at 9:47 AM
- Jessica said...
that fabric is fabulous. this would be perfect for the Louisiana winters.
- August 30, 2008 at 11:54 AM
- Brittney said...
love it love it love it!!!
- August 30, 2008 at 11:55 AM
- Jared and Jenny said...
I'm dead on the side of the road over how cute this is. PLLLLLLEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSEEE pick me!!
- August 30, 2008 at 2:54 PM
- Christine said...
I'm so glad I found your blog. Everything is beautiful.
- August 30, 2008 at 5:43 PM
- Lisa said...
What A lovely little dress! I made a link..It was much easier than I thought! (I'm a bit of a "tech-tard...)
Also, I posted a question under the question link.
I loved the popcorn set you did and wanted to know if you had any kind of pattern or directions to make it in a larger size?
(she's in 18- 24 mos now, but since its starting to cool off I'd like to do it big enough for her to wear next summer.)
Thanks for "listening"
Lisa - August 30, 2008 at 7:10 PM
this is beyond adorable and gorgeous...
you are forever outdiong yourself! - August 30, 2008 at 7:30 PM
- Meichelle said...
Hey, I just wanted to tell you that I awarded your blog a reward at my site http://nowwhatdoyouthinkaboutthat.blogspot.com
Meichelle - August 30, 2008 at 7:36 PM
- Adrienne said...
Just happened upon your site today for the first time and LOVE LOVE LOVE your work! Thanks for the inspiration!!
- August 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM
- Matt Liz Smith said...
You do AMAZING work!
- August 31, 2008 at 12:41 AM
- Dover Fam said...
I love it and i am so excited for the fall!!!!!! I love the cape/shrug look!!! I will be so happy if I FINALLY win
- August 31, 2008 at 12:42 AM
How beautiful and so very cute! I am so amazed by your talent and just wish I had a little of your talent to be able sew. The fabrics you use are wonderful and this would look beautiful on my 1 yr old daughter, Kitty, so please enter me for your giveaway. Have a lovely week.
t - August 31, 2008 at 1:30 AM
- Unknown said...
This is definately adorable! With a new grandbaby coming I'd love to win it! I have you linked.
- August 31, 2008 at 7:11 PM
- Amanda W said...
I absolutely adore capes and this one is just adorable!! I would so love to win (as would any mama of a little girl) ;-) lol!
- August 31, 2008 at 10:54 PM
- Kathy said...
WONDERFULY FUN! Pick me!!
www.handfulofellers.blogspot.com - September 1, 2008 at 2:59 AM
- The Homely Animal said...
Very creative. Your ideas are to die for!!!
I'm doing my first little give-away. I'd love it if you entered and won, I think it's so fun for little girls to have new things! :o)
http://www.homelyanimal.blogspot.com/ - September 1, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Gorgeous! I'm hoping that I'm picked (my daughter would fit perfectly!) but since my website is brand new, I wanted to make certain that my link was picked up by your Technorati. Thank you for being so generous with your talents!
www.rawematerial.com - September 1, 2008 at 7:40 PM
This is adorabe! Great job:)
- September 1, 2008 at 8:22 PM
- aimee said...
I love those. It reminds me of these capes that my mom knitted my sister and I.
- September 1, 2008 at 9:28 PM
- Kaylyn said...
This is amazing!! I love your beautiful work!! Pick me please!!!!
- September 1, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Wow! What beautiful work. Thanks for leaving a note on my blog. Your work is inspiring!
- September 1, 2008 at 10:00 PM
oh my goodness!!! i'm pretty sure my first grandaughter would look toooo adorable in that outfit! love the trim on the jacket :)
- September 1, 2008 at 11:42 PM
I realy like this. It would look darling on my little girl! Please enter me if I am not too late...it's still Monday here!
- September 2, 2008 at 12:42 AM
- Art Nest said...
It's Susannah from Sitting Pretty Studio! This is the cutest ever...I love the tights, I am trying to figure out how to sew tights right now...
Have you ever thought about posting some tutorials?
I have a new blog, Twitterpated, and I think it's right up your alley!
You are wonderfully talented and an inspiration to me everyday! - September 2, 2008 at 11:41 AM
- becks said...
i'm in love! all your creations are seriously making me want another baby! also, i want that caplet for me! thanks for the inspiration and amazing eye candy- you really know how to shoot clothes.
- September 3, 2008 at 12:42 AM
- Helen said...
You're amazing. The world needs more people like you.
- September 3, 2008 at 7:39 AM
- Tony said...
This is another great one!
- September 3, 2008 at 8:48 AM
- Linds Forrest said...
This is the cutest blog ever! I hope I can win this! I would love to have this outfit for a little girl when I get one!!
- September 3, 2008 at 12:02 PM
- linsey said...
oh i absolutely ADORE this little number. thank you for the great fabric resource!
- September 3, 2008 at 8:25 PM
- Galo Fab 5 said...
Oh my gosh!! This is the cutest. I'm so sad I missed this giveaway!
- September 5, 2008 at 12:42 AM
- Jessica Sorensen said...
I know this give away is over but I just had to tell you I love this. Do you sell your stuff or patterns. I am going to link your whole blog on my blog because I love everything. mommycreations.blogspot.com
- September 24, 2008 at 5:17 PM
I'd love to see this outfit added to your new store!
- November 10, 2008 at 5:11 PM


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Whether it's a single song plucked from an album, or tasking a band to create an entire score from scratch, film soundtracks can have a massive impact on the direction and careers of those involved in them.
If visitors to the frigid Oxford countryside in January of 2009 had ventured a little off the beaten track, they would have come across a very strange sight: Oly Ralfe, the lead singer of Ralfe Band, tinkering with a dusty, worn-out piano that he had put out in the snow and ice. Ralfe and his band mates, including seasoned percussionist and guitarist, Andrew Mitchell, were working on the score to an independent film, Bunny And The Bull (2009). Written and directed by Paul King, it's the story of an agoraphobic man who refuses to leave his flat following an abortive road-trip around Europe with a friend.
"The film is quite otherworldly and we were having this otherworldly weather," says Ralfe. It's a year later, and the slightly dishevelled musician is sipping a cappuccino in a Soho café, sheltering from weather nearly as foul as that time in Oxford. "The director drove up and his car slid on the ice, and we were kind of stuck up there. One of the guys I do music with, sorted out this space for us. We only had a couple of weeks notice, so we had to drop everything and dive in, hire a piano, get the mics set up, get some musicians and start writing music every day. As opposed to writing songs here and there or writing a tune when it grabs you."
Although the similarity in the shut-in circumstances between the film and the recording environment were perhaps accidental, there is no doubt just how seriously Ralfe Band took the gig. And they should: an appearance on a soundtrack (used here in the general sense to mean the music in a film) can have an enormous impact on a band's career and direction. The Recording Industry Association of America estimates that over 300 million soundtrack albums have been sold worldwide. The most successful orchestral score is that of Titanic, which sold 30 million, while Whitney Houston's soundtrack for The Bodyguard clocked 17 million. Even on a smaller scale, for videogames or TV series, the impact can often be slightly surreal. Imogen Heap's strange and beautiful vocoder song Hide And Seek (come on, you know the one) originally popped up in an episode of The O.C., and went on to appear in dozens of other series and films, forever changing the direction of Heap's career. This is a big business.
There are generally two ways a director or film company can approach the music for a film: they can license existing material from various musicians for use in the film and soundtrack, or they can hire someone to create them an entirely new score – composers like Hans Zimmer or Harry Gregson-Williams often single-handedly write the music for entire films. Although Bunny And The Bull – and indeed Ralfe Band – are quite some way from Titanic and The Bodyguard, they are a perfect example of the second approach.
Ralfe says: "The people making the film knew what we'd done on our previous two albums and then we got a chance to do a demo – an audition in a sense, where we had to record music for a rough edit of two scenes. We basically tried out a couple of ideas, and they went for it. They really liked it. It's one of those rare things."
Ralfe's approach was in line with his frozen, weathered piano experiment: to not only introduce interesting sound elements to the equation, but a wide variety of instruments such as kettle drums and castanets to create an almost flamenco-style feel to some of the pieces. In many ways, this also typifies an approach that a band will take when tasked with scoring an entire film; they will throw themselves into it, with the reasonable expectation that not only will it allow them to expand themselves musically, but that their association with the film will do good things for their career.
Ralfe says that he never entered with that idea in mind, but he does say that there's been an impact on his band since the film's release. "It has opened a few new avenues to what we were doing. Basically, it's pretty hard to get noticed just doing albums and songs, you know, and there's a zeitgeist factor and new bands all the time, and you're constantly competing against the big, cult names, so it is difficult to be heard. But doing a soundtrack is a way of getting heard in a very distinctive way that a lot of people aren't doing."
One band that can look back from the vantage point of a few years hence, and chart the impact a soundtrack appearance had on their career, and a perfect example of what happens when a director picks a track for licensing, is The Shins. When Zach Braff's Garden State came out in 2004, the American band were not only featured prominently on the soundtrack, but were actually name-checked in the script by Natalie Portman. "It was very early on that Zach wanted to use a couple of our songs for his movie," says lead singer James Mercer. "It was pitched to me as an independent film, but it was written into the script very early on in the process, way before Natalie Portman was booked in the gig. If you were to make a prediction about how the movie turned out, you would say, it would be a really small production. It obviously got some funding somewhere along the way."
That it did. The two songs featured on the soundtrack, New Slang and Caring is Creepy, had a massive impact on the band's career, and cemented them into the musical psyches of thousands of film fans as Garden State became an Indie phenomenon (Imogen Heap also popped up, performing with her band Frou Frou). Mercer says that it certainly allowed them to expand their audience; record sales for The Shins went right up and the growing consciousness of their music allowed them to tour extensively across the USA. It was not the first time that The Shins got a soundtrack shot (their song One By One All Day appeared in Jason Lee's film A Guy Thing, Mercer claims he can't remember the name of the film – and they had a song in, of all things, the Spongebob Squarepants movie) but it was certainly their biggest.
More importantly, Mercer says that although he never got too hyped-up about being on the soundtrack, he did remain pragmatic when it came to the impact it would have on The Shins. "It's funny, I think early on I needed the money more," he says. "I was in debt when we first started to make some money back. I had used credit cards to make the first record, Oh, Inverted World. When we did get an advance from the label, I used it to buy a van so we could tour. I wasn't lucky enough to have money lying around. When we started having licensing offers, which was pretty early on, I think I was very pragmatic. It got more comfortable, I guess, as time went on, it allowed us to keep going. If I hadn't done the licensing I did, we might have been in a pretty difficult situation trying to tour and hold down day jobs and pay for equipment, because I was pretty dedicated to this idea of recording the record ourselves. It really made stuff possible."
Of course, sometimes a feature on a soundtrack might not have the impact it's expected to. Blackalicious, a hip-hop act from California, saw their bouncy It's Going Down featured on the soundtrack to the 2002 musical drama Brown Sugar. However the soundtrack, while justifiably revered for selections from relative heavyweights like The Roots and Mary J. Blige, didn't seem to do a huge amount for Blackalicious directly. They've gained a large fanbase through their long career and multiple albums, but Brown Sugar seems to be a footnote rather than a major turning point.
Gift Of Gab (Tim Parker), the emcee who, along with producer Chief Xcel (Xavier Mosley) makes up the group, does say that in terms of industry experience, getting on the soundtrack was invaluable. "The experience with MCA [who released the soundtrack] took Blackalicious from being just an underground kind of group to getting played on BET and MTV and taking us to that larger audience, kind of expanding our audience. The MCA situation was a tool in terms of expanding our audience. Sometimes when you're underground, you don't have the same political ties that a big machine like MCA would have, so that was a great experience."
The long-term impact of Bunny And The Bull on Ralfe Band is yet to be seen; there's no guarantee that such an Indie project will grant them a massive career-changing turning point. But any film can be made or broken by the quality of its music, and – as was the case with The Shins – being small-scale doesn't always mean it has to stay that way.
For more information on Ralfe Band: www.ralfeband.com. The Shins: www.theshins.com. Blackalicious: www.blackalicious.com.
Rob Boffard


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With the guilty plea, Baker agreed to spend five days injail, a mandatory sentence because of the 0.19 blood alcohol level he recordedmore than two hours after the accident. He must also enroll in an alcohol abuseawareness program, pay a $300 fine and have his license suspended in Virginiafor 12 months.
Under the plea agreement Baker will begin his jailsentence by 6 p.m. Friday. James Clark, Baker's attorney, said after theconclusion of the court proceedings at about 11:20 a.m. that Baker was alreadygoing through the booking process in the county's detention center.
I offer no excuses for my bad decisions and behavior because thereare none, Baker said in a written statement Friday. And I am, and will be,forever haunted by the personal embarrassment and humiliation I caused to thosewho have supported, mentored and guided me through my personal life and longand rewarding public safety career.
The former police chief also apologized publicly for the pain andinconvenience he caused the woman whose car he hit July 25 while merging ontothe entrance ramp for Interstate 66 in Arlington, according to the statement.
According to Chief Deputy Commonwealth's AttorneyTheo Stamos,Baker could become eligible for restricted driving privileges in Virginia aftercompleting the Alcohol Safety Action Program course. Because his blood alcoholcontent was above 0.15, that restricted license would require Baker to installa device on his vehicle that prevents the car from starting if he is notalcohol-free.
Baker had resigned asAlexandria's chief of police on July 28, three days after his DUI arrest.


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