It's official...

... and I couldn't be happier. Beautiful!

photo by Ella Blue.

summer in Seattle

Man, I've had a great day.

The weather is beautiful, I managed to drag my butt out of bed in time for a 10 a.m. yoga class, had a glass of wine with B. Hambly on her roof, bought some gorgeous beets and two balls of yarn, ate some delicious fried zucchini, and found a dress for B.'s wedding in the costume closet.

Almost makes winter seem worth it, doesn't it?

Show your work!

Problem in grade school arithmetic, problem today: I suck at describing my processes.

It’s partly sheer laziness. I raced ahead to the exciting part (answers! yay!), and now I have to go back and do some boring housekeeping to tell you how I did it?

Partly forgetfulness, too. I don’t have a good system for cataloging finished crafts, so I never remember that I need images to catalogue.

So in the last three months I have delivered the following, entirely undocumented:

• 12-inch cake with a hand-piped ‘Fighting A’
• birthday cake covered in ganache and a sunburst of realistic chocolate leaves
• towering German Chocolate cake (my second stab at homemade caramel)
• 2 pairs pajamas, altered with optical illusion sleeves
• 1 pair sock garters
• 2 prosthetic hands with “gripping” snaps and dangling gore
• 1940s vamp costume for a lady coyote
• six gold-tasseled pasties and a merkin for a coyote striptease

Seriously. Awesomeness, every bit of it. You’d be totally impressed if I had a single picture with which to impress you.