Summer Project

So with the last days of my job quickly disappearing, I am planning everything I will do with my newly found free time. I have the basic list of keeping the apartment clean, cooking and baking more, finishing up projects that have been left by the way side and other such things, but me being the OCD person I am decided that this was not enough.

In order to guarantee that I would always have something to do I have added on yet another thing to my to do list, and it is taking care of my new vegetable garden. Officially I am not sure if it can be called a vegetable garden since there are only a few planters sitting on my balcony, but it doesn't matter. Regardless of the officially term for what I am doing, it should keep me busy for the summer. I have to tend to the plants, keeping them watered, fertilizing and then trimming them and making sure they stay healthy and hopefully produce some delicious vegetables.

Vegetable Plants: Two Tomato Plants, Cucumber and a Watermelon Plant (just for


My Herb Planter: Rosemary, Basil and Chives

I'm looking forward to taking care of my new garden and hopefully learning a lot about plants and gardening along the way. Should be an adventurous summer with many new things learned along the way.

Here's to hoping that this summer is the best yet and that the fun times continue to happen :-)

just what I need......a new hobby

Recently I have become addicted to baking blogs. Reading one is so much fun and then they gracefully link or reference to another which I just have to look at. I start reading that blog and get addicting and then keep blindly linking to more and more blogs. My google reader keeps me up to date on all the blogs but that is not necessarily a good thing. A lot of the blogs keep showing cookies they have decorated and I find them intriguing. So my new plan is start decorating cookies like the picture below.


It doesn't seem that difficult: just make royal icing, outline, let dry, flood with royal icing, let dry and then draw on the details. Sure I say that it is easy now, but just wait for my blog after I actually try it.

So my plan for the summer is to bake tons of generic sugar cookies in a variety of shapes and keep the in my freezer. I will then make royal icing and decorate to my hearts content. We'll see how much I actually enjoy it and how good I am at it, but it doesn't matter because I just want to try it at least once.

Anyways that is all for now, there will definitely be posts about either the amazing cookies I decorated or the chaos and disaster that ensue.

Here's to hoping that new hobby becomes a joy and new passion for me, and may all your passions consume your life and make you more than joyous than you could ever imagine.