After being on the waiting list for 3 years, we finally got a plot! Here I am pictured in our newly acquired community garden plot. The garden is part of Seattle’s P-Patch gardens, and our garden is named the “Mad-P”. This was just when I was trying to figure out how we might be able to plant some more food / veges in our yard. So we’re really excited to have this space, and it is literally just down the street (2 minute walk).
So on Sunday our friend Jeanine offered to help plant, as she knows something about gardening, and doesn’t have her own garden at the moment. So we bought seeds and hopefully picked some things out that will still grow (we’re getting a bit of a late start). Plantings include: carrots, radishes, snap peas, zucchinis, tomatoes (these in plant form from the farmer’s market), a couple lettuce starts (also from the farmer’s market) and some flowers (marigolds and I think they were called ‘paper flowers’ or something like that).
We’ll keep you posted on how things grow!
Photo by Jeanine Anderson. (Check out her photos, they’re really interesting!)
Printing photos on sugar paper to place on tops of cakes and cookies has been around for a while. I made a cake back in the late 90’s with a photo of the Taj Mahal on the top. It was a beautiful cake, and I think it was saved (ie. not eaten), because who really wants to eat a part of the Taj Mahal? In general, it’s not really the style of cakes I enjoy making or decorating*. I find this trend in cakes a little cheesy. Here’s an example - look you can put the Mona Lisa on a cake!
So just today I came across the fact that you can now order M&M’s with your face on them (or anyone’s face, really). They’re suggesting your kid’s face, to use as birthday favors, etc. But you could also think up some more sinister ways to use these too, yes? It’s still a little weird to think about eating a handful of M&Ms with your kid’s face on them.
* If you click on the “cake” tag in left column of this site, you can find some posts with photos of cakes I’ve done for nieces / nephews that are more in the style I like to do.
Here’s a few more photos of the kitchen remodel, which now includes sheet rock on the walls. It’s starting to look like a real room again.
Bummer of the day is that our bamboo flooring is no longer being produced (we had planned on just continuing it throughout the rooms); so we’re doing a little more hunting around to see if we can find any anywhere, and otherwise are going to re-group on the flooring and see what we can come up with. I guess it’s always something with projects.
Since the last kitchen post, we’ve been to Hawaii (photos coming soon), and things have progressed with the kitchen as well. We now have a 22ft steel beam supporting the upstairs and two new windows (one actual newly cut-out-of-the-side-of-the-house window, and one new window that just replaced an existing one). We’re wired up for the lights and plumbing, and tomorrow (or actually later today) the sheetrock is going up. It will look a lot different then, so I wanted to post these few photos of progress so far before the walls are in….
