sunny bunny

the bunks, sunning himself. love!

2 more rounds of cakes

for the office, due to bummy days. devil's food cake with coconut pecan topping:

and chocolate mayonnaise cake with butterscotch icing. yes, mayonnaise. makes it real moist. and this was my first attempt at butterscotch icing. it was decadent. i will be making it again!

organization gone wild!

matt, a math teacher colleague, introduced me to his label-maker... hehehehehe. you may consider me ocd. however, i just keep my baking supplies REALLY organized. hey, you have my particular ways to thank for making sure you don't end up eating cake made from cornstarch instead of flour!

new skirt from an old skirt

my friend kate, who is a colleague at my school and a college roomie of an old friend from high school, organized a clothing swap amongst her friends back in november. at my height, of course i'd never find anything that'd actually fit me. however, fabric sources abounded! i ended up snagging one of kate's skirts: a navy pleated a-line skirt with really cute floral embroidery and eyelets throughout the fabric. using the marie skirt pattern from burdastyle.com

and the fabric from kate's skirt, i made myself a tulip shaped high-waisted skirt! i love it! there are sewed down pleats in the front and back and an invisible zipper to the left. the the skirt slightly flares out at the hips and then curves back in at the knees (hence tulip-shaped). the pictures unfortunately don't really show off the flared shape of the skirt, but rather make it look more a-lined. however, when on, the flaring is more noticeable. i made the waistband a little wider and more substantial than in the pattern so that it'd be more high-waisted. i love it! yippee! oh, and might i note: this is my first project from scratch where i used the serger! success!

bunny invasion

yes, you heard that correctly. bunnies have invaded the school at which i work. i may or may not have had something to do with that. every day, i drive emily to my apt and she rides my building's shuttle toward her apt. sometimes we just miss the shuttle, so we spend an hour making origami bunnies until she can catch the next shuttle. we make big bunnies and baby bunnies.

eventually, the bunnies took over my apt, so, we strung up the baby ones and made a bunny garland for the office. eventually we'll make a big bunny garland for the foyer of the 2nd floor of the math building. hehehe