For St. Patrick's Day, my kids demand green food, just as they demand to wake up to hearts leading the way from their bedrooms to a great Valentine's Day surprise and glorious Easter baskets, etc. The aftermath, I now suffer for doing cute things on holidays when they were younger that I may not necessarily feel like doing anymore. But, anyway. I made the obligatory green pancakes this morning. I got away with the inclusion of lettuce for lunch. And for dinner, I decided to try the Spinach Pasta in the Blendtec Twist Jar recipe book. I had a bunch of spinach from my Bountiful Baskets that I recently started to participate in that I needed to use. The pasta looks really appealing in the Blendtec photo, but I wasn't too sure it would turn out so well. No, I don't think you're supposed to have to put this much flour on the pasta dough, but I had to. It wasn't too hard to mix. The ingredients are pretty simple: spinach, white whole wheat flour, egg, and water...

Pattern:  Ottobre 1/2013 #2 9 English Flowers Blouse & #30 Lindy Hop Pants Fabric: Heather Ross, Crafty Chloe found at Hancock Fabrics; cotton dot fabric JoAnn's brand Notions: zipper, reused button, cheap green buttons from Walmart and a couple cute green flower buttons from JoAnn's Total Cost:  I don't remember, probably about ~$12.00 blouse; ~$7.00 pants Size: 122cm Child's Age: 9 [Shoes: Umi Moraine Mary Jane Silver] ---------------------------------------------------------   So back when I made the Passenger Trenchcoat  about a year ago, I immediately wanted to make an outfit to go along with it just as in the magazine, with the English Flowers Blouse and the Lindy Hop Pants. Loved the whole outfit. I managed to churn out the blouse not much later, but the pants. Oh the pants, I just got around to making today! I always have a hard time picking a size. I don't like to round up and go the safe route because I like things to fit ri...