homemade french toast with hot strawberry sauce!

was. so. good.

tiny star jar for jenny

after all these years, i still love making star jars.  this little one was for jenny, my welcoming colleague last year at my new school.  she was awesome, and has since moved to baltimore (along with my friend stef)!  when she was in town to visit at the beginning of october, i made her a jar of stars to thank her for the year of guidance.

love the colors!

other new news... i tore my acl, while playing touch football because i am a beast.  hahahahha  =(

hopefully surgery in early december.  here's hoping i recover quickly.  i will be taking off 2 weeks from school (and then will have the 2 weeks of winter break).  SEWING PARTY!!!!

tank for the goose

adrea, one of my oldest friends, saw the posting on the tank i made for georgia and noted that she would buy one had she seen something like it in a store.  lucky for her, i still have a lot of the cotton gauze from the kenya pants (though none in burgundy) and just enough of the vintage indian gold trim.  the perfect trappings to make her one of the tanks!

adrea is known as goose in my household.  at some point, her screen name was turbogoose.  thus, "goose" stuck.  seeing as this was the 4th rendition of the tank, her peter pan collar edges are now at an appropriate distance apart.  (in case you forgot, georgia's 2 collar edges were too far apart...)

around back.  goose preferred the deep v.  she loves a little scandal, that goose.  i JUST ran out of the gold trim, so this is the last of these tanks!  she promised me some pics of her donning this tank for this blog.  stay tuned!

i caught bunks in the goofiest sleeping position when i was working on this shirt a couple of weekends ago.  usually he sleeps stretched out or curled up in a ball.  here he is on his side with his right hind leg stiff and up in the air.  i've never actually seen him sleep like this before.  silly boy!

steaming baked goods

for a hot second this weekend, i thought my oven was dead.  it was letting out gas.  i feared for bunks's life.  in a panic, i called the gas company to come take a look.  the gas guy said no deal, the gas valve is dead.  my life flashed before my eyes: a life of no more sweets?  this could not be.  i had already mixed a batch of banana bread batter and didn't want it to go to waste, so i tried my hand at steaming the banana bread.  in 6 itty bitty ramikins.  best. idea. ever.

i mean, how cute are they?  and automatic portion control!

as you may know, asian peeps steam their breads.  think cha siu bao, or bbq pork buns.  here i was, channeling my inner asian.  the good news is that the super came to fix my oven.  it's now working!  my baking career has not ended!

on the bunks front, he has been shedding all his hair for the fall.  this weekend i vacuumed enough hair to cover 12 bunnies.  so gross.  here's a bald spot on his forehead, hehe.