2 new patterns!

julia, my former roommie in dc, was in town a couple weeks ago to check out wedding venues and to compete in a sprint triathlon. oh, and to visit me. while here, we trekked to joann fabrics to hunt down sewing patterns. i snagged these 2 for $3 each!

can't wait to start them! today also happens to be julia's bday. how appropriate! happy bday jules!

mia's visit

jimmy and his gigantic bunny-muncher, mia, came to visit the bunks. they had a face-off.

bunks escaped, unharmed.

i baked jimmy some cupcakes to celebrate his visit. brown velvet cupcakes with the rest of the raspberry frosting leftover from the cupcakes i made for my summer school students for quiz 1.

the inside!

bunny: 1, doggie: 0

breads?

banana bread for hs sarah's kid, mason! it's his first time tasting it!

and orange bread for sarah and my road trip to the jersey shore! i had never been before. it was awesome!

now would you consider banana bread and orange bread, breads? they are awfully sweet and cakelike in my opinion!

molten chocolate lava cakes!

recipe from joy of cooking! slightly crispy on outside, very moist on inside. this may be my favorite dessert! round 1: dessert for dinner at sarah's house. sarah is a friend from home who now lives in philly as well! yay for old friends! (i'm not sure why the bottom of the pic never loaded. however, i don't feel like reloading it, so you'll just have to deal!)

round 2: dessert for mom's visit to philly while i drowned in summer school work. she was wonderful, cooking me meals and taking care of the bunks. i'm so lucky to have such a wonderful chocolate-loving mom!

chapter 2 quiz treats

quiz: equations, inequalities, and graphs of lines

treat: chocolate chip crisps

zzzzzzzzzz...

bunks, while i'm teaching at summer school...

challah french toast

and homemade blueberry sauce!

michelle, a good friend from my brown univ. days, and i treated ourselves to a lavish breakfast when she visited a couple weekends ago. we actually made it 2 mornings in a row; it was that good!

happy 4th!

2 more rounds of cupcakes!

for easter, i made the math dept cupcakes! white cake with lemon icing! this was the last one left. oops.

and now, summer school has started. it's more intense than the regular school year because we meet for 4 hours a day, 5 days a week (even more than my teaching load during school!!). so, don't be surprised if my attention to this blog continues to be limited. i will be done july 22 though! i'm teaching algebra 1, which is a nice change from the intense calculus teaching load that i had during the school year. the kids are HILARIOUS. naturally i had to bake them a treat since i had to subject them to the torture of a quiz on thursday. cocoa devil's food cupcakes with raspberry frosting!

mommy's bday present!

mom's bday is actually in august, 4 days after mine. i've been so so swamped this year that although i started this shirt for her last august, i never got around to finishing it until mother's day this year. sigh.

m.a.t.h...i.s...t.a.k.i.n.g...o.v.e.r...m.y...l.i.f.e.

anyhoo, so around front, the shirt has a mandarin collar and 3 rows of ruffles on both sides of the button placket.

here's a view of the back.

the pattern is for the jj blouse over at burdastyle.com.

happy very belated birthday, mommy! thanks for being so patient! i should probably get started on her bday present now for this year, seeing as i work soooooo slowly.

lan and robert's xmas presents

well, i finally met up with lan and robert over the memorial day weekend at their beach house in delaware. their christmas presents were held hostage in my evil clutches, but after 6 months, i decided that flannel pj pants were totally appropriate for the summer. hehe. robert's had a tesselation of cars!

here's a closeup of the faux-drawstring ties.lan's had sweet peas all over. here are her faux drawstring ties:unfortunately it didn't fit her, so mom gets another pair of flannel pj pants! she currently owns the most helen-made pj pants out of anyone! hehe. i'll make lan another pair after the major black friday flannel sale at joann's this november. maybe i'll get them to her in 2 years, if she's lucky...