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So beautiful.

I thought this was so neat and pretty! Enjoy, please.

Tasty Tuesday!

And now, the day you've all be waiting for...........my newest weekly addition to the blog: Tasty Tuesday! I will make a recipe and share it with yall! Either a favorite or a new recipe (to submit a recipe for me to make and then document for Tasty Tuesdays, send to thefloatingviolin@gmail.com)

Today's recipe is not a new recipe, but a favorite, and very yummy and easy. It's fancy, and it looks like you worked way harder than you did to make it happen. (like all the best recipes) 

Oreo Truffles (from JH)
Ingredients:
Package of Oreos (any flavor)
8oz package of cream cheese
Chocolate chips

dump the oreos into a bowl, and get the cream cheese out to soften a little bit and warm up. 

if you're smart, you'll have a friend over to crush up the oreos into tiny smithereens!

any way you like, sometimes i put it in a bag and beat it with a spoon.

 but the best way i've found is to use a potato masher: 

smithereens.

Mix the cream cheese into the oreo crumbs. 

There is no good way to do this, other than with your hands. 

(Make sure to wash your hands first!)

(you're going to get your hands messy in the next step anyway - you might as well just do it)

roll into 1 inch balls

 Lay out onto foil covered cookie sheets,

 and chill for a couple hours or overnight, 

if you have that much time. 

While you're waiting, lick the bowl and anything else with chocolate on it.

Makeshift double boiler - a bowl in a pot with water in the bottom. 

This is the best way to get the chocolate dip-ready.

 I've tried a few different ways,

 using a microwave or stove, 

but this is best. 

Once the chocolate is melty, throw one of the chilly balls into the chocolate. 

make sure it's covered, and pull it out. 

It works best using two forks, flipping it back and forth 

between the forks to get the excess chocolate off, 

and then plopping it back onto the foil. 

I also used some white chocolate!

Garnish as you please, 

with a fork flip 

or a chocolate chip on top for decoration, 

or powdered sugar sprinkled on top,

or sprinkles, even,  

or just leave plain. 

Stick it back in the fridge for a little while to let the outer shell harden.  

Serve chilled with love. Feeds 1 to 40 people. 

Happy Monday!

Happy Fat Babies in Hats Day! Look at that little tummy!

New Year, Blog.

Monday will be the start of the second half of my String Instrument Repair program. I am so excited to get back to Nashville and start working, and just be out of school finally, I wish I could just fast forward the next 6 months. But, I have a lot to do. I have to go skiing before I return south! I have to pull my show audition together while I am in Minnesota, because I have good musicians here. Oh, and I guess I should mention finishing up the repair program. :) It's going to be a busy next 6 months, but it should be good.

I started this blog as a travel blog, and I haven't traveled anywhere interesting since July, except for the occasional car trouble/blizzard/boring times through Iowa. I don't know what to write about when I'm not travelling. The every day life is not that exciting:

"Dear Blog. 

Today, I came home from school, 

ate some cheese on triscuits, 

and sat on facebook. 

Then I played some Bach 

and went to bed."

 x365

But, I'm looking for new ways to keep people caring about my life, such as FBIHD, or my new installment coming soon, Tasty Tuesday! I'll also keep my Luthier Blog updated with new things I'm doing in school! 

And I promise that, come summer and fall, I will be doing a lot more travelling, so you will have neat things to read about. 

That's all. 

Carrying on the Legacy

I have a friend who started a great idea of taking the worst day of the week and making it better by dubbing it "Fat Babies in Hats Day." Then, just as he predicted, he forgot about his blog and stopped writing. I am continuing the idea that he started, moving FBIHD to Mondays. You're welcome!

2011

I've heard that this is the "Year of Progress" - maybe everyone just has many plans for all the progress they will make this year. I certainly do.  I didn't make resolutions this year, I made goals. Some small goals, and some big goals, but I do intend for 2011 to be a year of progress. Stay tuned.