Lemon cake

So the cakes fell a little.

But the seven-minute frosting came out great.

Here are the boys bellying up to the bar, ready for cake.

Here is a slice on my new plate--pretty awesome.

This is the Cook's Illustrated version of lemon cake. My husband, who loves boxed lemon cake, pronounced the filling to be too lemony (wha?). My kids also did not care for the filling.

More for meeeeee!!!!!

Thrift store bonanza and a Power Ranger

Grab bag of fabrics and the next couple of patterns I will try for more Etsy clothes.

Wool sweaters that I now buy obsessively even though I can't think of much to make besides Betz White's pincushions, which, of course, I cannot sell.
Postcard that some of my grab bag of trim was wrapped around. It is from Panama City 1960 and has a 3 cent stamp. Sent to people in Gallatin, TN (I have been there!)

More trim (I cannot stop!!!). Four Mikasa plates.

My almost four year old in the "Power Ranger" costume I made for him. (With his Superman cape) He is pretty much unstoppable. :-)

Aprons and how I love them

So Sonya got her buttons and posted pictures, yay--I totally forgot to take any, even though I remembered, like, 25 times. That was a fun package to put together.

I took the rest of the pictures of my items for my Etsy shop--gonna work on that tonight. My official deadline is the 21st of this month, but maybe sooner!

So, tra la, on to aprons. Like many people I have a thing for aprons. I even did my senior thesis for my BFA with aprons. I have a small collection of thrifted aprons and my mother-in-law gave me this booklet which I just rediscovered.

Inside are these lovelies:

I want to make the one in the lower right corner. The two pockets are actually one big pocket which the instructions say can be used for carrying your knitting. I don't knit and actually don't really want to, but the idea sounds so lovely.
Well, now I have to go clean house.....perhaps I will put on an apron.

testing photo settings

Ok, I will put up another couple of cutie outfits that I took with different camera settings and background. Let's see what they look like.

Well the resolution is better but I don't know about my picture taking skillz.
Here is the back. This is my favorite one of all I have made so far. The trim is so perfect--it was really hard to use it on the dress, but I am training myself to use the lovely things I have instead of just accumulating raw materials.

This blog has now been read by "the public"

I have now put my address out to strangers and Sonya my partner in the Shim and Sons button swap said she loved my blog. Now I am pretty sure that there is a bit of hyperbole in that statement but nevertheless, I feel highly encouraged to continue.

So here I am showing you the bag from the horrible sweater. It is really big and I cannot envision a situation where I would use it, so I guess I will put it up on etsy when I get my shop up and running.

I do think it is much better as a bag than a sweater though.

I also went thrifting today and totally scored in the notions and trims dept. I had a coupon and got all this and more for less than $15. Actually there is a lot more but this is some of the best.

I keep checking to see what this post looks like and I am completely flummoxed by this setup. The pictures come up in weird places and the text just randomly breaks. Clearly I need to research this a little more. Also I think I need to change the settings on my camera so the pictures are a little clearer.

Projects are coming along...

I am assembling an inventory to open my etsy shop. I think these outfits are just darling, so now if I can get the word out maybe other people will think so too.

I also have this sweater that I could not resist when I was at the thrift store. (I was looking for wool sweaters) This thing is so horrible, I am not even sure it is good. I am thinking that I could make a couple of bags out of it. Maybe lined with a drawstring type closure?

I would say that the colors on my screen are just as horrifying as they are in person but the ball fringe is actually crocheted.

I will post a picture of whatever I do with it.

I am not much of a blogger...

I wish I was chatty and cute like some of the blogs I keep up with but since I won't even tell anyone I have a blog I am not sure it will ever happen. Oh cool I just did a hyperlink.

Now I think I will put a picture.

This is a trophy wreath I made from my old highschool trophies, I think it is totally rad but I am getting a cool reception from other people. Perhaps I am showing the wrong people.