Today, we have a guest post by none other than K! Take it away, sweetie: hey everyone! this is k here. this year has been tough because all my friends are away! my neighbor just moved. which is sad to me! :-( but my summer has been pretty awesome anyway! being filled with fun stuff like my bday party which could have been the most awesome thing this year! i have been going to coding camp this week and i am the only girl (except one other girl who is in a different group) i just came back from ... Read more
Mini Onigiri
The last time I posted anything food-related that didn't feature cookbooks was October of 2014 (this delicious cashew milk that promptly made me break out in hives after overdosing on it for two days -- I can eat the nuts by the bucketful without any issues, so that incident was a mystery). I give you mini onigiri -- which translates to rice ball, though the literal meaning is more along the lines of "squeezed" or "clasped". They are also known as omusubi. I felt that my diminutive ... Read more
Party Success!
Good morning! [Insert wildly uncoordinated victory dancing here] The hotel-themed 9th birthday party was a major success!! As predicted, I wasn't on the ball with photo-taking, but I did grab a snap here and there as the festivities progressed. We started with a little "check-in center" (a vintage typewriter table covered with white burlap I found in my stash). K cleverly set up my ipad with a sketching app so the girls could sign their names. Alas, the homemade cookies a la Comfort Inn was a ... Read more
Happy Friday + Randomness
Happy Friday! Now that I've had a couple of days of staring off into space with little in the way of brain activity, I'm in industrious mode and am preparing for K's upcoming sleepover birthday party that's happening tomorrow. Her actual birthday was at the end of July, but due to the unfortunate scheduling of book stuff, I'd promised her that I would organize a fetê to remember after I completed my big deadlines. I think it's telling that she said, "Well, even if everything goes wrong, we'll ... Read more
Whew
At 7:09pm on Monday, August 10th, I submitted close to 300 image files to my publisher. There are only 20 projects in the book, so only a fraction of the photos will make the cut, but I like to err on the side of ridiculously excessive. For all intents and purposes, the hardest parts of book #2 are done done done! From this point forward, it's mostly about refining, tweaking and updating. I'll do a final review of the book in its prettily designed and formatted state in September and/or October ... Read more