I am a Honey Bee

All about my adventures with cooking, crafts, and travel

Nicole

I’m on a boat! I’m on a Boat!

This weekend started with Price and I finishing the first disc (episodes 1-3)  of the second season of Big Love. I love Netflix and Big Love! We love to hate Nicki and we think Rhonda is amazing! In the midst of all the Big Love watching I made a cake for my stepdad’s birthday.  I made a double batch of “Over The Top” Chocolate Layer Cake and Classic Chocolate Buttercream from my favorite baking book. I have made some tweaks to the recipes because I have a convection oven but it is a fantastic book.

 Saturday morning we drove to the boat. I love driving in the summer- windows down all the way! It makes me miss my jeep and driving around town with the top down. I held the cake the whole way because it started to slide in the case. (Note to self- put some frosting down first then cake to ‘glue’ it to the bottom.)

The dock had organized a lobster bake that consisted of pot luck sides and over 40 lobsters. Once dinner was over I brought out the cake and we all sang Happy Birthday to Richard. While eating dinner I was talking to a genius of a woman who said that essentially the marina is like an expensive trailer park. Genius! Just genius.  She is right. Instead of trailers people have boats that they sit out on while you watch a fat man running around without his shirt on, people getting drunk (mid-day), kids screaming and running around, etc. Not to mention my need to watch NASCAR on the back of it. Oh how I love night races on the boat…. While I love being at the boat I will never look at it the same again because of her. Thank you!

Sunday wrapped up the weekend with some outlet shopping (yay new JCrew dress and flippy floppies) and our trip back to Boston. While I should have been doing laundry and food shopping we opted to watch Role Models instead. I love Ronnie. That little kid had a great delivery. Must watch.

Song of the weekend: “I’m on Boat” (feat T Pain)

 

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07/08/09@10.11.12pm

Hello World!

I have been planning on doing a blog for some time now and the time has finally come.

Elizabeth Kartchner is one of my favorite scrapbookers (she won Scrapbooker of the Year in 2007 and is a columnist for Creating Keepsakes Magazine). Well her fantastic blog inspires me all the time. Her post on 7/6/09 explained how her and her hilarious husband came up with this photo to take place on 07/08/09@10.11.12 (am or pm). I was totally amused by the idea and had to do it!

I love to steal Price’s sweatshirts

The Pleasure is All Mine is my newest cook book. I heard Suzanne Pirret on Martha Stewart Radio when the book just came out and I had to get it once I googled her and came across this video.

So I spent my evening ripping open my package to get my new book, eating leftovers, cleaning (sorta), making a dress pattern for a tube dress, cutting my fabric, realizing I bought the wrong color elastic thread and giving up on said dress until I buy the correct color.

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