I forgot my camera at work, so I couldn't take a photo of my last thing for this month.  I made a hot toddy with tea, whiskey, sugar and lemon.  This kind of was the perfect end to a very challenging month for me.  Thanks to everyone for participating in this adventure together, I just hope that next year I feel more inspired.  Don't get me wrong though, I'm proud just to have made it through.

I started putting things like celery tops and raw chicken bones into a bag in the freezer to make a homemade frugal stock.  We use a lot of stock in our cooking (I can't remember the last time I cooked quinoa with water), so it is great to have on hand.  I roughly based this on a recipe from Martha Stewart's Cooking School book, which my fiancee got for Christmas.

It's not so photogenic, but yum!

I made these nuts from the Gourmet Cookbook to snack on during the Oscars.

Since yesterday I reused the buckle of my old belt to make a new one, I thought today I would make the rest of my old belt into a new headband.

I used to think I really hated wearing a belt, but then I discovered that I only don't like ones made of stiff materials.  Since my old belt was starting to fray into oblivion, I thought I would salvage the rings and make a new one.

I don't really know anything about recording video or audio files, so today I recorded a short bit on Garage Band and a bit of jumpy footage using a flip-cam video recorder. This was just the very first test, so hopefully it will be something to build off of in the future. Also my sister wanted a tour of my new home remotely.

(I'm still figuring out how to actually post the footage to youtube since my first attempt failed.)

Today I finished that GGRD Jeerleader shirt, but since I had promised myself I would do something else on the day that I finished that task I pushed myself to do one more (albeit lame) thing.  I needed to send a check to a friend, so I decided to decorate the envelope with some rub-on transfers.

I am not much of a photographer, but I thought today I would go out to Greenwood Cemetery and capture a few photos in the snow.  This was my most successful one.

I hosted this month's meeting of Global Cooking Club at my house, and decided that it was a great excuse to flambe. Phil gave me the go-ahead since we just purchased home owner's insurance. Apparently lighting your Cheese Saganaki on fire is an American alteration to the original recipe.

During my big project of the day, cleaning and organizing my art closet, I found a half-finished art doll.  I picked out a few more alphabet elements to add to it today.