I could go for some Slumber Party Pizza
right about now. Last weekend when I was home, Aaron and I made some scrumptious mushroom, onion, pesto, basil, and tomato pizza. The crust on these babies turned out PERFECT! We are (or I am) always a little worried with how the crusts will turn out because we’ve [...]

Tonight was La Maison’s first annual pumpkin carving contest. There were three categories: funniest, scariest, and most French. We worked in pairs, and I was part of team Awesome along with Anna. Turns out we’re pretty darn talented (if I do say so myself) because we won for scariest!

Ours was a sort of Jack Skellington [...]

Anna invited me to check out one of her classes Friday morning. It’s an art entrepreneurial class where a different speaker comes in every week to lead a new activity. This week was visual journaling, lead by Lisa Sonora Beam. Her book, The Creative Entrepreneur, is a “DIY visual guidebook for making business ideas real” [...]

Aaron and I haven’t thought much about what the cake will look like. We do know the flavor –banana cake– and that it will be sitting on a wooden cake stand, made from a cross-section of a tree. I love this bird cake by Lisa Lefkowitz:

Our cake decorations will be naturey in general, I am [...]