My son Gus is not one to pick a traditional costume. Last year, he was a green apple.
The best part of the apple costume was that Gus helped to make it himself. He helped with the paper maché and the painting of his apple. He even picked out his green jeans and sweatshirt (H&M is wonderful for this type of stuff).
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There is a bakery in the Pike Place Market in Seattle that makes the most amazing pumpkin cookies. These cookies are monsters – bigger than my hand – and taste like the top of the softest muffin. I love them. When I worked in downtown Seattle a thousand years ago, I would sometimes walk over to the market during the middle of the day for a cookie break. Or I would walk past the bakery on my way home from work to pick up a cookie for dinner. Ah, the single days when a monster sized cookie for dinner was not only appropriate but normal.
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Sometime during the summer, I thought it would be a good idea to sign myself up for a month long food styling class beginning in mid-September. This was, of course, before I actually looked at a calendar. But here we are now in September and I have just finished week one of the course. I’ve learned several tips and tricks from a professional stylist for making salads stand tall, cold drinks look cold, cold food look hot, and adding movement to beverages. I’ve learned how to create a professional food styling kit. I have yet to learn how to make food that we are actually going to eat look more appetizing or where to put a food styling kit in my already cramped house. And because this is not a food photography class, the standard “natural light is always best” applies. In other words, don’t expect better shots of our evening meals right away as I am not going to start making and photographing dinner during the middle of the day. I love you and I love this blog, but I am just not that organized.
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, I was nominated by my friend, Asia, for the Liebster Award. Here’s the fun part. Asia and I have never actually met. We’ve been in the same room at the same time, capes seem to be a theme in our lives, and we both think that wine is the answer to our kids using crayon on our furniture. Seems to me that this is plenty enough to identify a kindred spirit.
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I am not a party person. I get it honestly. Ask any of the women in my family to a party and I guarantee that they will all have something else to do that probably involves cleaning the gutters or washing the dishes or jumping off a cliff so as to avoid said party.
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I’ve been seeing a lot about living with intention lately. It is hard to say whether there is really a lot of talk about this topic or I am just drawn to what discussion there is because I am in need of a refocus. Either way, I really enjoyed having our summer lists hung up conspicuously in the house these last few months.
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I know, I know. I have been a horrible blogger of late. All this cooking and living has given me no time to write or photograph food, and as we all know, it’s the writing and the photography that is really important.
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