Archive for the year 2008

Have a Cup of Cheer

So for my final pre-Christmas post, I’ve decided to share my Christmas Spirit. This cocktail is named after one of my top three favorite Christmas movies, The Bishop’s Wife. It’s a slight variation on the classic cocktail, The Bishop, but with the addition of a little Cottage-style recycling.
After making Autumn Sidecars, I had quite a [...]

Christmas Craft 3 – Shopping Bags

Make shopping bags for people for Christmas! Help the planet and give a great gift.
I’m pretty new to the world of sewing so when I decided to make shopping bags for my mom I asked the Internet for a good (read easy enough for a card-carrying curser of sewing machines to follow) pattern for a [...]

Now we’re cooking with…paper

Like a lot of folks, I cook way more than usual around the holidays. I make normal stuff. I make weird stuff. I make stuff I really never, ever want to see again. Mostly though, I make stuff to give away. Co-workers, neighbors, the UPS man — no one is safe from the Cottage’s gift [...]

Dinerware not dinnerware

The diner near our house is a jackpot for two-tops. There’s a line out the door for parties of four and larger families but if you’re a couple, you can pretty much stroll past the line and take a seat like you’re a goodfella at the Copa. We love this diner. It was established [...]

Christmas Craft 2 – Modern Record Bowls

Did you ever make oven-melted record bowls? When I was a kid, my family made homemade Christmas candy and wrapped it up to be delivered to friends and neighbors in melted record bowls spray-painted neon pink (yeah, no idea…but I guarantee the pink was my dad’s idea).
I wanted to create something a little sleeker and [...]