Christmas Tree, Oh, Christmas Tree!

Birthday Cake---It's not just for breakfast anymore.

I would like to spearhead the committee that convinces the FDA to make birthday cake a drug of choice. Yellow birthday cake with buttercream frosting has been instrumental in lifting many a foul mood that has descended on me with the intention of staying. I do believe if we had birthday cake breaks at work everyday, we'd be a happier nation for it. As for myself, after a particularly harrowing week at work and home, I have found a sheet cake to be the perfect answer for taking the edge off. In fact, just last week, we celebrated the glowing reports that the children got from their teachers during parent teacher conferences with a lovely birthday cake with a cluster of yellow roses. (Well, okay, I'd bought the cake before the conferences, but no matter. I would have found something to celebrate anyway.)We all had a big slice for dessert that night and then while home sick the next day, I polished off the rest. It couldn't be helped. Perhaps I should feel guilty and fat? Maybe tomorrow. I haven't the energy for it today.

I was on the phone with a friend of mine last night and she said, "I finally had to throw out some cookies left over from Thanksgiving. Nobody wanted them." That little remark was met by stunned silence on my end. I pondered the impossibility of that in my house. That's like blasphemy. Sweets would never last that long, and the thought of actually putting them in the garbage with my own hand, well, that just sends chills down my spine. Then she said they were those Italian cookies you get on trays and it all made sense. Those things don't really qualify as sweets. They're like sawdust chunks.
So I'm going with the black fabric with the little flowers on it for the background on the hexagon quilt. I sewed this little set together to see how it would look. I actually had the triangels cut too small so I'm glad I checked. I made a new template and cut out 280 of those bad boys. I am thankful for rotary cutters and acrylic templates.


And this is the fabric I'm using to make Sadie a pink cowgirl quilt. I cut out 9 blocks with a cowgirl centered in the middle. Now I'm working on design to use them in. All pink with a little brown, green and red.