The Vons 2-Hour Turkey

Every year on of my co-workers, Cam, puts on a Thanksgiving party for the Biology department. This year I was asked to bring the turkey, so I decided to try the Vons 2-Hour Turkey.

It was really, really quick and easy. You just pre-heat the oven to 475, rub down the defrosted turkey with olive oil and sprinkle it with salt and pepper. Then in 2 hours or less you'll have a done bird.

It smoked up the house pretty good, but it smelled wonderful while it was cooking. I pulled it out after 2 hours and made some gravy, then I wrapped it up in foil and took it in to work.

I only had a couple bites of it, but I thought it was disgusting. It had a weird, bitter, burnt olive oil taste. So I decided that I'll be making a turkey the old-fashioned way for the actual Thanksgiving day.

But here's a picture of Matt carving it. Everyone else loved it.

Cam's work-study students and other members of the department, brought all kinds of wonderful food from all over the world.

They also made a screen for a slideshow of pictures of previous Thanksgiving parties and someone wrote Happy Thanksgiving beautifully on the board.

And just because my building is going to be torn down soon (after the new one is built) I thought I'd put up a picture of my cold, cement, prison-looking Biology building. It's ugly but it's been my workplace for the last 10 years.

The Bacon family Christmas Angel

I finally finished the Current Treetopper Angel tonight while we watched the disturbing Dexter Thanksgiving episode. I wasn't too sure about the colors I chose at first, but Michael says they're pretty. :)

She'll take her place on top of our little tree in a couple weeks.

It's mine, all mine!

This was my dream wedding dress. Even with help from Erin at Dress A Day

and the lovely ladies at Pattern Rescue, I didn't locate it in time to make my wedding gown.

I LOVED my wedding dress! I was able to come up with something just as wonderful. But Vogue 4743 was never forgotten.

And a couple weeks ago it turned up on eBay!

Now it's mine and I can't wait to make a party dress out of it.

I just need a fabulous party to go to...

The Current Tree Topper Angel Round 3

 

I spent the entire weekend working on one of these angels for our Christmas Tree. This is my 3rd round of making one and it's a LOT of work!

My mom bought two of these kits back in the 80's when they were originally released. Then a few years back I found one on eBay and purchases a 3rd kit.

(Here's another eBay auction)

Her first kit, I put together for her when I was in High School, and she still puts it on the tree every year. A few years later I thought it might be cool to make her second kit for myself and I just glued rainbow-colored feathers all over her. It was a very cheesy 90's rave looking angel. The rainbow feather angel probably spent the remainder of her days in a landfill...

So, this weekend I decided that I should put the 3rd kit together. The kit really just includes the printed fabric and instructions. You have to embroider, stitch, and/or decorate her however you want. I like the embroidered/ribbon look which is what I did for my mom's angel.

This weekend I got as far as finishing most of embroidery on her dress and halo. This week I'll work on her wings and her face and hair. I'm hoping to have her completed by Thanksgiving.

Then we'll have our own hand-crafted Bacon family Tree Topper Angel.