tiered cake for sonija and b

sonija and bernardo came to visit for the holiday weekend!!  i made them a tiered devil's food cake with caramel frosting.

"make a tiered cake" was on my 30th bday bucket list.

not sure if this cake counts towards that, seeing as it's quite ugly...

 however, it was DELICIOUS!

o is for ostentatious

i kinda lost track of time and didn't realize that may was nearly over when i started this shirt.  oops.  anyway, i used the "dark secrets" blouse pattern from "twinkle sews."

  

the shirt was meant to loose and billowy, with poofy balloon sleeves.  however, the pattern didn't account for a shortie like me, and thus the sleeves were like bat-wings.  ie, when i raised my arm, the whole shirt lifted up.  also like a flying squirrel.  not ideal for a teacher like me.

thus, i took in the sides a bit, and actually cut out sleeves.  instead of black swiss dot silk chiffon, as recommended by the pattern, i opted for a black swiss dot cotton.  no thanks to sewing with silk.  the neckline had pretty latticework with gold studs at the intersections.

the balloon sleeves were borderline ridiculous, but i'm secretly a huge fan.  i wore the top today, on my last day of school, with april's chevron-striped skirt!

'round back, there's a keyhole at the neck, with a cute gold button. 

i only got 2 compliments from kids, hehe.  oh well.  i dig it.  i'll wear it out this weekend!

stay tuned for june's garment, which hopefully will be a new dress, in time for graduation...

happy mother's day!

dear gmommy,
i baked these for you.  hopefully helen doesn't eat them before you arrive. (oops, she got to 2 already!)

love,

(the new phone takes such awesome photos!)

muffins for the fam

i've recently been SWAMPED at work.  end of the year, finals impending, whew.  and then this week i was hit with a massive cold.  bleh.  but this weekend the fam got together in my wee apartment to celebrate mother's day early (we always beat the crowds with our holidays hehe).  dad, jimmy, and i went on a 50 mile bike ride... i almost didn't make it back.  apparently we forgot to bring snacks and i totally ran out of blood sugar at about 35 miles.

then saturday night, i baked squash muffins so that we'd have a nice breakfast the next morning.

dad loved them apparently, even asking for seconds.

next up on the sewing docket:  black swiss dot blouses for mom and i (soooo excited to start this!), and still working on dad's xmas/bday/(and now) father's day shirt.  oops.  i don't really enjoy repeat projects...  this will be shirt #4 for him  =)

3 years!

today marks the 3-year anniversary of this blog! may there be many more years of sewing, baking, crafting, and bunnying to come!

bunks, IN his hay bag. hehehe