"our orange pot is famous!"

that's what my husband said when he saw today's copy of the Wall Street Journal.

dig.drop.done ad with orange pot

(close-up of pot at home)

so maybe the pot's not famous...but it was part of the set i designed for one of our clients, dig.drop.done, that the Journal wrote about in an article on the bulb industry's efforts to encourage women to consider planting bulbs.

(you can see the online article here, with the ad featured in photo 5 of the slideshow.)

 oh, and that cake? it's a fake. styrofoam disks and spackling. made that too.  

trickery

back to the pot....it's an old 13-quart le creuset i found on ebay a few years back. ebay is a great source for these pots if you're willing to go with "used" as the retail prices are ridiculously high (the 13-quart goes for a whopping $445).

here's a link to one of the really tasty, almost as famous, dishes that has come out of that pot to date.

chicken 'n dumplings

and since the weather right now is just begging for chicken 'n dumplings, let me encourage you to make some this weekend, in any pot. it doesn't have to be a famous one.

ebay member since 2001

ebay has been good to me. 

we've bought cars (three of them)....

(sadly, this one is no longer with us)

dishes...lots and lots of dishes.

like more jadite than any one person could possibly use in a lifetime (that includes martha).

this giant 13 qt. le creuset dutch oven that you often see on this blog...

tons of stuff for our budget kitchen re-do, including these pendant lamps...

these school chairs...

a beautiful turquoise 3-piece stacking cabinet that came out of a post office somewhere near pittsville, virginia...

and this really cute kid....

(just kidding about the kid)