once again, i/we WAAAY overdid it with baking for christmas. i say it every year, but NEXT year, i will tone it down a bit. (and i can confirm that last years declaration went unheeded and i went off the rails again this year. but NEXT YEAR….) last year though. 2023. i had helpers. eager […]
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fall florals cake, part three.
about a year ago, my work pal, cynthia, asked if i would make an autumn themed floral cake for her friend’s birthday. i did. and you can see that one here. then, a couple months ago, i made a similar cake for my pal jen’s fortieth birthday. that one is here. well. cynthia asked me […]
things that took place in october.
it’s fall! the favorite season around these parts. we are all settled into the routine of school. football season is in full swing. it’s cooling off (but it’s still north carolina, so sort of stupidly warm). and we are ready for the gauntlet of holidays. so, here’s how we spent our october…. first things first. […]
halloween cookie bake off.
it is becoming a bit of a halloween tradition to make a batch of halloween themed sugar cookies. we almost didn’t get to it this year, but thanks to a four day school break before halloween, we managed to eek out this last little bit of holiday spirit. i made the dough while the kids […]
september stuff. 2023.
oh, september. fall is just around the corner. school is new and exciting. football season is finally here. it’s really an underrated month if you ask me. and then there’s labor day weekend. i mean. a holiday to celebrate, well, days off. and this labor day weekend, my work pal cynthia invited me and my […]
iceland. day five.vik, black sand beach, lava show
on day five in iceland, we awakened (once again) to gloomy, drizzly skies in the southern port town of vik. this is pretty common in vik though, as it sits just south of a massive glacier and something about the wind and science and meteorology and blah blah. anyways, we bundled up, and made our […]
2023 summer road trip. week one. batavia.
summer in north carolina is super dumb. hot. humid. and dumb. this year, we escaped much of said dumbness by heading north for most of july. our first stop on the road trip took us to my homeland of batavia, new york. we piled into the subaru, which feels smaller and smaller each summer, but […]
an all natural gender reveal(and some unicorn cupcakes)
when some friends of ours found out they were having a second baby and asked if i would make the gender reveal cake, i jumped at the chance. they were just having a little zoom/facetime reveal with family, so it was just going to be a six inch cake for them and their toddler, the […]
easter cakery (a story of excess).
ok. so.anna and i decided to attempt one or more carrot cakes made from scratch for easter weekend. we found a recipe we liked and got started on cake number one (but made enough carrot shreds for a second round). i busted out the easter sprinkles to make it really festive and a lovely carrot […]
jude’s 49+1 cake.
this will be my shortest post in YEARS.my friend jude is 50. i will refrain from commentary about how it seems impossible that my peers are turning such ages. her husband asked if i could make a cake. it was a tight squeeze, because we were leaving for a spring break trip the next day. […]