1) Chocolate Chip and White Chocolate Macadamia cookies travel well and will last a long road trip. To minimize on prep time, I doubled a standard recipe and divided it in two. Mixed dark and milk chocolate chips in one, and white chocolate chips and macadamia in the other.
2) California wildflowers would be great as embroidery designs. I’m thinking of edging scarves with these flowers’ silhouettes.
3) It’s entirely possible to make great minestrone in the wild from pasta (with marinara sauce from a jar!) leftovers the night before. (Wish I had better pictures, but I was cooking and my hands were full!)
4) Varied greens with contrasting spots of lavender are just this side of lovely as a palette for a quilt in your head. (Oh no, another one!)
5) I want to be a craftster for as long as I can–just like this lovely old lady, who was happily painting the sun-drenched Big Sur, CA coast.
Had a blast, but glad I’m home where I can take hour-long hot showers, watch Iron Chef and blog. 
May 5th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
hi J!
it airs very late at night here, and since i’m a night owl, i still get to watch the show.
i love watching iron chef too.
beautiful flowers! and the cookies, they must have tasted very good.
i’m fine here, just busy writing snails and sending off my notecards.
would you like a snail? just email me your address. 
have a great day!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:28 am
super thanks for dropping by! its been ages since i last went camping! natakam ako sa cookie mix! will try to experiment with something soon. hehehe.
btw, are you interested in doing a creative swap? drop me an email if you’re interested
May 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
ms firefly
- Hallo! I think it’s great what you’re doing with those snail-mailed notes. Parang pen pal via the world wide web. Heehee. I’m emailing you right now!
Caryn
- And thanks to you for coming back! I’m in for the swap, let me send you an email right now.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
The cookies were so good. We had so much fun on this trip and J’s minestrone was the highlight! (well, and the sea otters)
May 6th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Jen
- And the seals.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:04 am
I love camping! You have good ideas there. Cookies are yum! I’d like to get into embroidery but I’ll save that for later when some sewing is done. I’d like to see how that wildflower design of yours come out.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Gracey
- Embroidery is a dying art. Let me know when you’ve started working on some projects!