Hey Stranger

I had no idea that is has been almost a week since my last blog...ugh. I have been up to my eyeballs in busy! Anyway, I completed my pleated beauty bag for the BTRS sewing swap and gave my sister that foot drawing I wrote about earlier. I also have carved the elephant block prints but have not yet finished the henna tattoo inspired one. So I see lots of printmaking in my future, of course I will be using my new jar of ink.

I made an amazing, no wait and AMAZING, pound cake with a strawberry/blueberry syrupy sauce to go with it. YUM! I used a recipe from my King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking Book for the pound cake. It is amazing how moist whole grains are in baked goods. It could be labeled as a "made with whole grain" cake...it does have a bunch of butter AND sour cream in it, though. Anyway the berry sauce was my own concoction. I had two big containers of strawberries. So I sliced them up and mushed about half with a potato masher. Then I poured in the rest of the un-mashed strawberries, two containers of fresh blueberries, about 1-2 tablespoons of vanilla sugar, some honey (to help make it syrupy) and some cinnamon. It was DELICIOUS. The best part is that I get to have some of that wonderful berry goodness in the form of a granola yogurt parfait tomorrow for breakfast. I made my own granola, so the only part that is store bought is the yogurt, which I have been seriously considering trying to make from scratch.

May I just share a proud mama moment with you? No Eli is not potty trained...yet. But Ammon was writing a story today. He was spelling words out to himself and actually corrected his own grammar! I KNOW! AMAZING! He knows the difference between there and their and he is only seven! He also keeps making me Mother's Day gifts and wants my husband to make me breakfast in bed and bring me "lots of presents." He's a GREAT kid :)

I am off to bed now. Tomorrow my goal is to pump up the volume on this blog and do the resume stuff, plus the portfolio thing...oh and some drawings/rough sketches for wasted earth and for my mom's horse farm, too. Good night!