If I were to open a bakery

These are the things I would make…

Cake
-chocolate
-homemade funfetti (would probably have to call it joyfetti for copyright reasons)
-simple butter cake (aka yellow? aka vanilla?)
-red velvet cake
- vegan chocolate
-gluten free cake
-cupcakes

Other delicious items
-cookies
-banana bread
- pumpkin bread (given the season of course)
-espresso
-mochas
-simple cups of coffee

I would have old timey fridges against one wall, covered in fun magnets or local art/decupage and filled with board games, magazines, and journals.

I would always let girl scouts sell cookies in my shop
and would buy magazines from the school fundraisers
I would have seating outside, and have homemade dog treats available for ppl who bring their fury four-legged friends.

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cheese.

okokok

so I haven’t updated on much of anything.

As if I have tons of people reading this right? But I was looking online about fun things to do/hobbies to take up (as if I don’t have enough, see what breaks do to me?!) and I found an awesome page for making CHEESE!!!

Cheese!!! I mean, cmon, who doesn’t love it. Seriously people!

So of course I’ve poured over this brilliant man’s website for hours.
And have decided that the best page by far is

Cheese making for Beginners

The rest of the site is of course amazing, but this page was the best.

yes, I rated a page as the best on a cheese making website.

for the boy

I found this today for my sweetheart.

He enjoys making beer, and thought this looked fun!

http://www.hungrynation.tv/wcfoodies/episode/WCF_20091207/how-to-make-beer-in-a-pumpkin-caskolantern-homebrew

Beer in a pumpkin?!

awesome.

To Do:

On Thursday, I want to go to the scrap exchange.
http://www.scrapexchange.org/

I have been before, and it was quite the adventure.  But it seems to be one of those places that you go once or twice, and then it kindof fades to the back of your memory.  It doesn’t help that its in Durham, a whole 15 or so minute drive away.

But I have decided to go again.  Just click on the link and take a look at that slideshow.
How could anyone turn down that potential?

not me.

productivity?

Look at me and my quick post before bed!

Recently, I have decided that I really like the idea of a library in my home one day. I always imagined some grand “oak room” where all the books are kept, and old men go and smoke cigars.  Then I saw this:

Its really glorious, and I found it here, and she found it at Apartment Therapy.com :
http://gallery.apartmenttherapy.com/photo/1-13-09-kate/item/28447
Theres the specific image link and all the other pictures that accompany it.

Just a random thought before bed.

night!

In the beginning, there were journals…

… and I was one of those girls that wrote in hers everyday! Really, I was!  I would meticulously record my thoughts on boys, and how horrible my angsty adolescent life was, and boys, and my dreams and aspirations, and boys, and my family, and boys.  Basically your typical girl’s journal.
Then I got to high school and stopped.
Then I started lists. Then I lost all the lists.
Then I tried writing lists in journals, but didn’t keep up with that as well as writing them on paper and losing them.

So I have jumped on the bandwagon to try and blog.  I tend to send emails to friends/family/boyfriend with links of all the cool things I find and think of during the day (to help me remember?) so I’m thinking this might be a better outlet.  Of course, like most of us, I have probably started about four blogs already. But this one I am going to stick with, honest.  And like the boyfriend said today, “Well, you might be starting grad school soon, so of course you will need yet another thing to do.  Blogging sounds good.”  It’s good to have support. Even if you can’t tell if it is sarcastic or not…

So please (hopefully) enjoy all the random things that go through my brain and show up as posts; take what you like, leave what you don’t.  And heck, maybe even cheer me on every once in awhile.

cheers.