this week has been busy busy busy. who knew unemployment would be this crazy?
i have been baking, sewing, drinking coffee, biking, cooking, making new friends, mixing drinks, gardening, administering surveys, washing dishes, writing letters, hugging, being
businessy, daydreaming, laughing, drinking wine and applying for jobs. renaissance woman, that's me!
recent exciting things to note!
1. my dear friend/ex-roommate,
erin, had a beautiful baby boy named
jude!
2. i sold my 4
th order. a caramel cake with butter cream frosting.
3. celebrated my friend
jayvin's birthday with beer, cake, fried chicken and hugs.
4. officially registered love pie with the state of
oregon.
5. took three - four hour naps! that's 12 hours of non-night sleep time...
6. had
sunday brunch at
katie's place... fun friends and peach passion mimosas.
7. had a sewing gig for
this guy ... made some cash money, possible future gigs and met some sweet people.
8. crossing my fingers for being able to sell my goods at the t
ualatin farmers market...
and in other news... the caramel cake.this was quite the comedy of errors... i made a practice cake and it was dry and heavy.
ack! back to the
internet in search of the perfect recipe. i made a second one that came from ms.
maya angelou via
martha stewart's website. delicious, but much smaller than i expected.
martha showed a picture that is a doubled recipe, but didn't let me know that.
oy vey! this became apparent as the cake came out of the oven. i tried my hardest to make the caramel sauce needed for the recipe, left it alone for a minute (ONE MINUTE) and it burned.
uf da! i went to a local coffee shop and bought some caramel flavored syrup from them. the woman was very sweet and wished me luck. the cake came out of the oven and i hopped a bus to my
portland state job... when i got home i winged the frosting and it turned out super tasty.
butter + cream + sugar = hard to go wrong
the light that day was really poor for a picture, so this is the best i got. however, even in a dimly lit room it looks tasty. the lovely lady came to pick it up and i got a text the next day saying that the cake rocked it! BIG SIGH OF RELIEF.
the moral of this story is:
lovepie,
hatecake. or bake what you know. subtitle:
all's well that ends well.