We don't have a Paper Source here in Portland so I get a bit crazy about seeing all the papers they have online. The new catalog came in the mail yesterday and I am so taken with these patterns. I would love to do a large quilt with this big scale. Big. Really big. Maybe even bigger, like with just one flower. The red in the centers here are so great, and the grey. Reminds me of Vera, so It love it. 
Here's the other one I can't stop staring at. I love they way it looks so drawn, the variation in the line thickness. I am actually thinking about making a pattern like this with freezer paper on fabric? But not sure, maybe I will just applique the big pieces.
And I had a friend comment on my mention of baking blondie bars recently. She was dubious about it's name (agreed) and the yumminess of them because I mentioned that they sometimes, but not always, have butterscotch chips in them, which are gross and way too sweet, but sometimes they are just right in small doses. I realized though, that the blondie bar is the perfect quick customizable bar cookie. I just made a batch with chopped almonds, chocolate chips, and a few dried cranberries. You could do white chocolate chips (again, usually to sweet for me) and macadamia nuts, or a candied ginger and chocolate chips, or a hazelnut and chocolate chip, heck, even a cinnamon-oatmeal thing.
Blondies are "brownies" but without the chocolate in the batter, hence the dumb name. But really, I think they are just a chocolate chip cookie recipe in a pan? That's what it seems like to me. The recipe I used was from the New Best Recipes (not the one I just linked to, but that one looks good too-huh?) And yes, it did call for melted butter, and now I am considering never making drop cookies again because I love the pan so much. Pan, I love you, hear me?
