The Love of Color and Cake

I have it, this love of color. Always have, always will.

At the tender age of nine I discovered cross-stitching, and when my mother would take me to the fabric store I would moon over the tiny skeins of stitching thread,

wanting to take home a rainbow of them .

Barely content with the indulgent amount she would let me buy,

I would shut myself in my bedroom with my bounty and arrange them by colors:

rainbow

monochrome fade

perfect pairings

trinities

etc.

Now that I work with water-based acrylic paints, it's so much easier and infinitely more satisfying to make that rainbow from a few simple bottles of paint

.

Today I played around with increasing the water content of my paints and discovered

a richness of tone that seems counterintuitive:

more water, more richness?

Who knew!!!

I am working on the clutch from a few weeks back, which has been

claimed by a lovely lass here in California:

I cannot wait to see how it looks lined and bejeweled!

Also on the agenda is the search for perfect

Christmas deserts:

this year it will be just Anthony and I hosting his sister, Beth.

I know we'll make sugar cookies

and I think I might need to bake some homemade whoopie pies

as it feels quite like tradition

but

there needs to be a cake in there somewhere,

and this cookbook will likely hold the key

but I have to ask your opinion on this gorgeous matter:

Gingerbread

Hot Milk (love that name!)

or

Chocolate??

Head scratchers have never been so delicious!

xo,

Allisunny