It's a picture post!
Dear Friends,
I have been a slacker and not posted in a very long time. Here are some photographs detaling our latest adventures, with minimal words to fill you in. Enjoy.
Megan cam down for the weekend to hang out, and we carved pumpkins! Somehow, none of us decided to carve anything remotely typical jackolantern-y this year.
Jesse carved leaves!
Megan carved a sunshine!
And then.....there was baking. Yummy yummy lava baby cakes (or so my cookbook calls them!). I altered the recipe a little bit so I think I might be posting that own its on here soon...basically, it is a chocolate batter with chocolate ganache in the center that melts when you bake it and gushes out when you eat it, topped with juicy fresh strawberries and a little (or a lot) of powdered sugar! MMMM!!!
Witness the gooey yummy inside.
And then came the Halloween festivities! I dressed up as a doll and Jesse dressed up as a toy soldier.
We were very sweet animated inanimate objects. (p.s. I made our costumes. Yes I am bursting with pride about it, thanks for asking :D)
In other news, I'm been procraftinating lately!
I just made that word up. It sounds wrong. I meant, I've been crafting instead of doing homework lately, i.e. procrastinating-crafting....procraftinating.....yeah, that one doesn't need to catch on. Anyways....
I'm a little obsessed with these tear drop shapes lately. I draw them all over my notes, filled in, outlined in thick black lines, cascading, grouped, all over the place. And I finally realized: I can create them in a three dimensional medium! The always useful toilet paper roll strikes again!
(I TOLD you I was going to use those, remember? I didn't lie!)
In other news, we did laundry this weekend (yes, you may breathe a sigh of relief, we are not walking around in stinky clothes!) and upon setting the clean laundry in front of me to fold (p.s. mom I hate doing the laundry and putting it away but I LOVE folding it. weird huh?) I saw the following lovely colorful sight:
I like the cool wood grain look it has. Pretty huh?
Alright folks, that's it! By the way, if you read this far, would you leave a comment? I get a lot of visitors (I spy on you spying on me, see?) but never any comments! It would be nice to know who is reading. Thanks!
Comments
Kylie: AH! I didn't even mention that we came to your party!!! :( I am such a slacker. Nonetheless, it was a wonderful party, as is anything we do with y'all--seriously :D
I love your eye for simple beauty. That's a real gift. I am SO proud of you two!
Love,
Dad
and you are so crafty!
my inspiration!
i will return great gatsby soon, i promise. with lovely goodies. Anything in particular?
Melissa: Thanks for reading! And yes, I made the toy soldier one too :)
Kiera: Thanks! And no worries, we're not exactly itching to re-read it anytime soon so there's no rush. Although returning it with anything delightful would be amazing!
Much love.
Mary Grigg
It's brittany (from high school. bio. physics. german. all of that. :)
I stalk your blog because I think your happy married life seems fun.
-Love from North Carolina,
brittany (from high school. hah.)