And goals for the year Ok, so this will be a brief post. But it is the beginning of some fun things to come. I have signed up for a major costuming event at the end of summer, more details later. I’ve also committed to some other costume events, and started taking some historical dance classes. So I’ve made a quite long list of things that I intend to make this year. I made some lists and some sketches and proceeded to start purchasing fabrics, trims, notions, patterns, and sewing accessories I probably should have already owned. Things like a tailor’s ham and marked pattern paper. And to that end,…
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Dinosaur Cake
A dear friend is having a baby shower, and I have been given the honor of supplying a cake. This is one of my favorite things to do, as it lets me contribute and take care of my friends and also experiment and enjoy my own creativity. The theme for the shower is ‘Dinosaurs’, so I immediately set to work image searching different dinosaur themed cakes and decorations. The first thing to decide, when baking a cake, is how many people will be there, and how large it should be. For this event, there will be around 40 people, so I went with a 3-layer 12-inch round cake instead of…
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Ireland – The Emerald Isle from Dublin to Cork
We visited Ireland again! It has been over a month, so I am woefully behind on the blogging here, but here goes. This was a work trip for Joe and I just tagged along. So during the days, he was at work and on the evenings and weekends, we had a bit more fun. To that end, I think there isn’t quite as much to write about as usual, but here’s how our trip went. We flew on separate flights, since his company paid for his and he had different cities to go to. So it was kind of a romantic goodbye as we drove together on a mid-November morning…
