I went out for vegan pizza-really!

Happy Saturday! My day started with a final wake up time that was four hours later than my usual weekday rise and shine. My actual rising started with a shower that made good use of my Dead Sea salt scrub and my hair, which has gotten past shoulder length and become a pain to deal with, requires conditioner if I hope to ever comb it out.

The sun was shining, the air wasn't freezing, the library sale was open and the evening ended with pizza. A local pizza place sports a vegan co-owner. Thanks to or because of her being vegan, the pizza crust and all the bread is vegan. You even have the option of adding a vegan cheese to your pizza.

We ate olive bread with vegan garlic butter dip, and chopped salad with vegan poppy seed dressing (sensing a theme here?) and a pizza with thin crust and slightly sweet dough and homemade sauce that is some of the best I have ever had and tomatoes and onions and broccoli and artichokes and mushrooms (with spinach and vegan cheese on Hubby's side). Oh, so much food but oh was it good.

We had spent the afternoon volunteering at the library sale. I love the resale shop, called Second Hand Prose. Sales take place eight weekends a year-two weekends back to back four times a year. The place is crowded but surprisingly well organized. As a volunteer you fall into working certain sections and begin to think of them as yours. Folks are territorial which makes it tough to break in but pays off when you have put in some time. You begin to think of a section as your own and take pride in the way it looks and how it sells. This is beneficial especially considering the place is run totally on volunteer labor both to stock it and to man the sales.

I worked up front at the tally/checkout counter. At times business lagged and I could chat with my coworkers. Since my head was lower than the counter and it was difficult to see me as well as a bit of an effort for me to unpack and repack people's books, I relied on the kindness of strangers. And folks were kind. And friendly. It became quiet enough that I spent twenty minutes doing some shopping at the end of the day.

A very satisfying Saturday. A due to the miracle which is the days getting longer, we were able to come into the house before the sun had set. I am hoping to be under the covers by 9 and watching Fringe at 11. Good stuff.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend and planning something Presidential for Monday. If you haven't decided how to spend the day I offer the following "artistic" expressions:






If making a complete presidential cupcake artwork is a bit out of your league how about just some cupcake picks (these are by paperNplastic, available here)





And certainly not least, check out Heidi Kenney's book Every Day's a Holiday with this presidential craft. *
















*Heidi's blog "My Paper Crane" is terrific. Be sure to give it a look (I just bought several of her fabrics from Spoonflower and will share the result of that purchase with you soon.)

Be well.