busy bee

buzz buzz!

It's been a busy week, but fulfilling too. It was cousin Niki's birthday brunch on Sunday, eating the most delicious Bagels, cream cheeses, tomatoes and lox from Russ and Daughers, and then CAKE! Here is a picture of the cake.. it's their family: My cousin Mike, his wife Niki and the two cutest boys in the world. Jackson helped me decorate the cake by writing "happy birthday" on it, and it came out beautifully.

ready for the car ride....

decorate + candles

on a very important phone call.... with me

maxwell + helmet + cake!

jackson + helmet + cake!

After cake.. the NY Book Fair! It was fun and it was such a beautiful day! I delivered pumpkin cupcakes to Lena as planned, checked out some books and artwork, watched some bands play, and sat out on the front steps of PS 1 in the beautiful sun. Click Here for Lena's blog post about the fair. Here are pictures of relaxing and being silly. The furry art piece in the front made me feel like a monster from "where the wild things are." How appropriate since the movie is coming out next Friday!!! I am SO excited!

nice ceiling!

whoops! caught in the act...

there are monsters inside!

Yesterday I went into a restaurant and did a little tasting menu for the owners; a possible job opportunity still in the works, so I'll post all about it until things have been finalized... I don't want to jinx anything! But it was definitely exhausting.. and fun at the same time! As soon as I crawled into bed I fell into a deep sleep and woke up feeling refreshed for about 10 minutes and then desperately needed some coffee.

I also got a lot of cleaning done earlier, and looked at some cookbooks for some recipe ideas... the research will continue throughout the night and probably all day tomorrow....

Earlier this evening though, I did get to go to a really fun Screen Printing Class taught by Lena Corwin, textile designer, illustrator, and book author. I've taught myself all about block printing just by reading her book "Printing By Hand" and that's how I learned how to make stamps for stationary and bags found in my shop on etsy. Here are some pictures from today's class! The "carrot" print is mine, and the other two were done by my lovely classmates. It was low key and fun and it's always nice to meet new and creative people. sorry the pictures are not that great, but I was taking them from my phone.... I'll have better pictures up next time. We left our prints at the studio to dry, but I was itching to take mine home!

prints...

it's been a long week and it's not quite over yet,  but I'm rolling into bed now so I can have a productive day tomorrow.

thanks for tuning in!