may miscellany

I finished a lovely pair of socks in May. The best part: they are for me!


It's a cascade sock yarn, and forgive me but that's all I can remember. I love the colors and actually kinda enjoyed knitting a plain sock! Then again, it was one of Cat Bhordi's, so the construction was new for me.
  
While on our trip to the states the other weekend, I bought fabric. I had some time on my hands on a Friday night, so I decided to try this lovely little mail sorter project from my One Yard Wonders sewing book. It was great, easy and quick. I think it looks nice too. The following day I had a birthday party to go to and I realized that I somehow overlooked the whole gift part of attending a party, so I whipped up another one is just over an hour. Awesome! I could definitely get used to that! Knitting isn't quite that quick (although I can knit a baby hat in two hours).


We also had the honour and joy of having a sweet little baby girl named Phoebe come to visit us. Isn't she cute? It was so nice to have her and her parents over! Thanks K&P, we love you!

Doesn't a baby's life look blissful?

May Long Weekend - tradition at its finest

We had the most amazing weather for this weekend. It was wonderfully warm, and then delightfully stormy.

That's the cottage.

Here's us playing on the dock:

There's always something to fix while we're there. So this time round it was to rebuild a rotting pathway below the cottage (they also fixed the shower head, which had a tendency to ricochet off when you turned the water on or adjust the angle of it)

And, last but not least, and certainly one of the highlights of the weekend, all the good food!

(that's rhubarb apple crisp & ice cream, with fresh rhubarb from Shirley's garden)

husband of the week award

...goes to Michael!

I got these fabulous flowers at work today. The card simply says 'because I love you'

Isn't that awesome?
In case you missed this older post about flowers, you should read this one about when to give flowers and when to give chocolate.

warning: this post contains mature content

Ok, so there's been some debate about whether to even post this between Michael and I, but I think it's funny and it is after all a part of my life. So, if you are easily offended by something that would not qualify for a G rating, please just skip this post. If not, then scroll down.































A coworker of mine is getting married in July. A few of the girls at work were planning a little 'bedroom/lingerie bridal shower' for her. Someone had the brilliant idea to make a special cake.
I ended up not going, and the girl organizing it couldn't very well bake the cake, because she currently lives with the person we were throwing the party for as a surprise.
How on earth do you explain away a cake this shape?




So I volunteered to make the cake.
I collected the supplies:


Baked the cake:


Perfected the color for the icing:


Used some chocolate shavings to decorate the cake:


This was the end result:


It was at the very least rather entertaining and worth a few laughs.