got book club?

i do.

later today.

and, where's there's book club, there's an opportunity to bake.

so, of course i jumped right on that. and produced these sweet treats:



peanut butter cup cookies are a total piece of cake to make. made the dough this morning; baked them this afternoon. other than straight from a tube from pillsbury, it doesn't get much more convenient.

so, yes. i'm well aware that i haven't posted pictures from class. and no layouts. bad on both fronts. i'm dealing with a slow-poke of a PC, that makes it both time-consuming and frustrating to work with photo-editing software...let alone open then internet, which is a feat that sometimes takes minutes to accomplish. i get up and walk away a lot...do some cleaning...come back...do the next thing...wait for that program to save or run...get up do some more cleaning...

it's a real bummer.

so, it honestly kills the motivation to do any of these things.

as for the layouts. my basement is in a state of chaos. i want to move my craft area to a different side of the basement. move the kids' stuff to the side where my craft desk currently sits. it involves time and...well, another person to help me out. and right now, i'm it. (if only i could single-handedly move furniture...wow...). so.that.is.that.

for now...there are cookies. and book club.

we'll be discussing The Book Thief. which was a good read. sad read, but good. it surprises me that this is a kid's book, but maybe i shouldn't be so naive? the narrator of the book is Death and takes place during WWII in Nazi Germany. so, it's not what i would exactly call uplifting. regardless, it's well written. coherent. expressed beautifully. a bit of a tear-jerker.

up next is The Kabul Beauty School.

if you do care to join, there will be guaranteed dessert. you may just need to bring milk. ;-)

a thing of beauty...

...in a nice neat package.
specifically in a package containing a piece of homemade chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake.

it.is.awesome.

(and did i mention it's tasty? probably closing in on 500 calories per slice. + or - another 500 - after all, i did use light sour cream and some light cream cheese - hahaha).

delicious though.

it's been about a solid two months since i last blogged. that being said, the page is a little dusty. updates are coming soon. *slight update to my original draft...i have started making some tiny updates. the banner always takes me a very long time because i have to start from scratch and figure out how i updated the darn thing in the first place.* some highlights are in store, too. mostly from my photography class this summer, which took up a lot of my spare time. worth it though.

things are good here. settling into the fall routine with the kids. still settling. i feel like things have been a bit too crazy and i've been out a bunch. hoping it levels off soon. then again, if it didn't, at least things would be pretty "normal" here. ;-)