lemon bars

Yesterday, I had made some lemon bars for my dear hubby. He likes the fruity/tart desserts, while I like the rich deep chocolate ones.

Squeezing the lemon juice was not easy by hand... i need one of those juicer things!

I used the recipe from The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, which the recipe is currently online at the foodnetwork.com

I used egg substitue instead of regular eggs. I believe it made the bars a little "wetter" -- but it still turned out pretty good. Of course, my face was all scrunched up because it's tart, and the milk really helped me to see! :)

[semi] new clutch

Well, tonight... I decided to try out a new clutch... took me almost 3 hours, but hey... if that's what it takes... then ok.

I'm not very happy with it, you'll see why in the following pictures.

so this is my first trial run... with the green taffeta clutch:

front view:

bottom view:

This is where I wasn't very happy about :(
It has a little bit of a gather here:

And this is the inside -- 2 pockets:

Because of the small gather on the right side, I'm not going to sell it. Edit: I had looked over it this weekend, and I realized that I really like it. The gather was not an obvious mistake... So, in result, I am giving it away to be included in a basket for KCetsy trunkt show in March, which I will be participating. The show is on March 7 at Shiraz Restaurant (320 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64108)! Come by and see me! :)

I'm going to try it again with another tactic... hopefully it'll be perfect.