Pizza dough

I just made a batch of pizza dough from a Wolfgang Puck cookbook Linda loaned me. I like to make it well ahead of time and put one pizza's worth of dough in the fridge and the other pizza's worth in the freezer. It's easy then to take it out of the fridge an hour or so ahead of dinner, knead and stretch it, and put on some toppings. The dough is sufficiently superior to store-bought to make it worth the effort of home-making.

Project Runway fabrics

These prints are so fabulous! I may have to go to the city to check them out. (I'll also have no problem remembering the name of the designer since it's the same as my husband's uncle.)

This shirt is my nemesis!

I found this pattern on the JoAnn web site. It appealed to me because it's customized -- you enter your measurements and they email you a pattern designed for you! But the instructions are minimal in the extreme, with no diagrams and terminology that professionally-trained dress makers in my class at Eddie's hadn't heard of.

After months of working on it on-and-off, and much help from the instructor at Eddie's, I finally finished it, only to find that the ravelly fabric I bought at JoAnn's would literally be the shirt's undoing. I'm in the process of going back over every seam with a tight zig-zag stitch.