Miss Philomena

I took pictures of two of the purses I'm currently knitting.

First, ( Midnight Diamonds. )

I'm about 2/3rds of the way through with this one. This one has been quite a long adventure, as I was making the pattern up as I was working on it, and then I kept running out of beads, and needed to wait for the store to restock. As lovely as the beads are, they're $3 per 7 ounce tube, and I've put in about 20 tubes so far. I've got an extra 4 tubes I haven't strung yet as well, just in case.

And the second one, which I started this past weekend, ( Metallic Teal Shell. )

I'm probably about 1/3rd of the way through this one, unless I decide to make it longer than usual. Unless I can pick up a black purse frame, I'll probably do this one up as a drawsting instead. I don't want to add any extra colors besides the beads.

And on a completely random note, ( I made a pie! )

It's an apple orange pie, and the first time I've baked a pie, so I'm really happy with how it turned out. There are a couple things I plan to do differently the next time I make one, but that's normal for me when I bake. This is the recipe I used, adapted from a 1588 English cookbook. The first (and only) time I had an apple orange pie was about 10 years ago when I was volunteering at Pennsbury Manor, which is a reconstruction of William Penn's summer home, and interprets the years 1699-1701. The ladies working in the bake house made one and shared it with some of the volunteers nearby, me being one of them.