And the winner is ...

... the table runner.  It seemed like a good afternoon project and I love the fabric.  Perfect for a table runner and I have enough left to make the oven mitts I was thinking about when I picked up the fabric in the first place.

As I was being crafty on the weekend, I was listening to the Splendid Table podcast and Sally Schneider, who is often on the program, talked about this easy, delicious little treat.  Take 2 chocolate wafers (the kind that chocolate companies sell for lazy people like me who hate chopping chocolate for baking) and in between sandwich some crunchy peanut butter.  For my test drive, I used organic crunchy, my personal favourite, but it would probably be good with any kind.  Use as little or as much as makes you happy.

And in "let this be a lesson" news, I really have to start following the advice to change the batteries in the smoke detector on the spring forward/fall back days.  So then at 3AM on a Monday morning, I won't be awakened by ... beep ... beep .... beep .... etc.  Since it is the machine in the basement, I thought maybe I could ignore it but soon discovered that was not going to happen, got up and changed the batteries.  The only problem I couldn't get back to sleep.   I'm so tired, as soon as I publish this post, I'm going to sleep.