No recipe today. I didn't make any interesting food over the weekend. Penelope is obsessed with dogs. She asks every neighbor with a canine if she can babysit their dog. This weekend she built a little house for one. We have this deal that she'll get a dog when she's 12 years old. And every day she looks at me, stretches tall and says, "I'm bigger now. Can I have a doggy?" We have these floor mats. She insisted on building a fort out of those mats for her new dog. You wouldn't believe how hard she cried when Felix pushed it apart. We got these mats in California for free from a neighbor. I recovered only three of them and lost interest/energy. I didn't even recover them so the covers could be washed. So I'm scheming on recovering them. I think I'm more patient and better at sewing now. I just need to find the right print/fabric that will go with our house. Which reminds me . . . I'm heading to LA at the end of the month! I'm going with my friend Mim and a bunch of other sewing bloggers to hit up the fabric district. I can't wait! I hope to find some great yardage for these mats there. Do you have half-finished projects lying around your house that have aged so poorly you have to just start over again? This is just one of many around my house.