going on a trip

once i made one handbag (and by the way... growing up, we called them pocketbooks... and i still do) i just had to make another one.  i used an amy butler pattern called frenchy handbag.  and the fabric is so cute! 
 

it was for my trip to ocean isle beach, north carolina this past weekend. i visited one of my bestest friends, cam!  we went to college together... just a few years ago (more or less).  she and her husband, alan, were the masterminds behind the amazing lighting at my daughters' wedding last summer...

isn't that just beautiful?  just like my friend!  more about my trip another day...

blackberry buttermilk cake

i made the most delicious cake.  it is a blackberry buttermilk cake.  my neighbor knows how much i love berries and she brought me an article from bon appetit with some lovely recipes.  i chose this one because we'd just received another 3 pints of the most amazing blackberries from our csa.

don't these look delicious? 

 

it said to wait until it was totally cool to eat... i did not wait.

this upside down blackberry cake is perfect with blackberries, butter, and sugar!

dusted with some powdered sugar.... perfection!

 hope you are eating something delicious as well!

have you seen 'delish'?

are you a magazine lover?  i am!  but now the best magazine around is online and is free! (so they don't pile up on the nightstand, coffee table, or any other horizontal area in the house... not that this happens in our house... )

it is a quarterly publication, and i wait for it soooo impatiently.  checking my link on a regular basis to see if the new issue is out yet.  and the summer issue came out just recently!  it is called delish and you can find it here:

enjoy... i know you will!

julie

handbags & frozen yogurt

on saturday, my daughter and i spent the day together.  it is always a great day when she is around!  we were able to get quite a few things done.  first we purchased fabric for some handbags we were going to make.  then she worked on an art lesson she will be teaching on monday while i whipped up some blackberry frozen yogurt made from our fresh blackberries.  while that was churning, we started working on our handbags.  we made the abby tote.  and they turned out soooo cute.  and they are reversible, too!

anna's (for a gift)...

mine (for a friend)...

and the blackberry frozen yogurt turned out, well, yummy!

i think there is still some in the freezer... gotta go...