Sweet and lazy Wednesday

Well, lazy for D. anyway, he only did couple of worksheets under Grandma's supervision while I was out on errands and he read a lot  as usual. He couldn't wait to "make something", because mommy said it was "art every day" and  "we made a poster that says so " :)) He was pretty impatient. He decided that we needed some forest people for his new  playscape and we created this crazy pair.

The "daddy's" hat had to be modeled after the one from "Children of the forest" which we read yesterday (I was getting this book from amazon today and got a little crazy, ugh, well at least I can write it off as a holiday shopping, can't I)

I'm currently re-reading "Chocolat" by Joanne Harris and couldn't resist making the candy of my childhood - chocolate covered almond -stuffed prunes  and dried apricots. There isn't really a recipe, I just bough chocolate chunks from Whole Foods (bittersweet and milk), melted it in double boiler (3 parts bittersweet and one part milk). I believe the correct term for the process should be "tempering", but I didn't take a temperature or anything , I just warmed chocolate up until it looked nice and glossy. I stuffed prunes and dried apricots with whole roasted almonds and dipped the fruit in chocolate. Picked it out with chopsticks and chilled on the parchment paper covered plate overnight. YUM!