pretty much as good as two or three cups of that other coffee

my 3-day weekend (mostly) in photos:

only $7 at the farmer's market saturday morning


i finished the hand-work on stacey's quilt & am now tackling the binding


drinks & board games & music with two friends


poppy seed chiffon cake with lemon glaze


it's a shame i didn't take a photo of the finished cake - i baked it in a Williams-Sonoma's bundt pan shaped like a rose. (oh my, when did they come out with that sandcastle pan?!)  it was for our block party which i look forward to all year.  we got rained out on sunday & had to have it on monday when the weather was lovely.  it was a lot quieter this year & ended rather early, but it was still quite fun to reconnect with my neighbors & meet a few new folks, too.

my roommate has gone home for a couple weeks which means i have no excuses to keep me from finally finishing cleaning my studio.  tonight i will pull out everything i hastily shoved in there & make a huge mess of the kitchen, mwhahaha!  then i will have the space to finish the binding on stacey's quilt & then slowly reorganize everything.  how long have i been saying that?  shhh.