{ Cooking Pasta! }
Tonight Joseph made his fresh pasta with the special “00″ flour that Jamie Oliver suggests using for handmade pasta. Joseph does all the hard work - I’m not going to lie about that, but I love turning the handle to catch the little strings!
We first made pasta at Jaren and Patricks house. [...]
{ Irish Dance Halloween - 16 }
Every year our dance school hosts a Halloween show, in which everyone dresses in their costumes to perform for family and friends in a church basement.
This is a picture of some of the girls I dance with - Emily is a beautiful geisha, and Karen is a “Bond Girl [...]
{ Joseph watching football with delicious snacks }
Fall weather makes me happy! Today we danced at Summerset Festival. It was gloomy and cold, but it was a perfect day. After the show I drove over to Joseph’s soccer game, picking up lunch from Panera (their Orchard Harvest Salad is the best)! I just barely made [...]
{ Longs Peak Feis - Softshoe }
In Irish dancing a Feis is a competition. There are several different categories you can dance in according to your age, level, and type of dance e.g. soft shoe, hard shoe, reel, jig, hornpipe, etc. Since I am old now, ha, I dance as an adult. There are rules [...]
{ Longs Peak Feis - 87 }
Check out these fabulous photographs from this weekend! We had a great time at the festival & Feis and and even better time camping with our friends, Erin, Mark, and Jess! I’ll write more later… there are even a few photographs missing that still need to be added to [...]
I found some nice Irish dance dresses by Listowel Celtic Art. Mine is still simple compared to these, but if I could spend thousands of dollars on a dress, I think I’d pick a traditional one like these.
This is my old dress from McGing. I can’t say I like it, but at the time a [...]
{ Dress Design, draft one }
This is a design for my Irish dance solo dress.
It is composed of matte gold, a sheen ivory called Oyster, and a dark Paynes grey. I suppose you could say the colors are inspired by part J.Crew {who else?} and part oyster shell. You only need to add a Guinness [...]
{ Scottish Festival - 37 }
Tartan and plaid at every turn! The Scottish Festival and Highland Games of Highlands Ranch took place this weekend with plenty of bagpipes and highland flings to make even the most non-Scott feel like they have a clan to belong to.
Joseph almost adopted a Corgi {or a Westie} while I [...]
{Image via Fatman’s Flickr}
Thanks for all the fantastic emails! It was so good to hear from all of you!
Last night, right after writing an email about how dry it has been in Denver, it began to pour down. These gigantic wet things came falling from the sky for hours and hours. It rained late into [...]