kids love me.

april 30, 2008 - my nephew brody turns 5 and i am officially WAY older than i like! brody is one of my top 5 favorite people, he is blessed with a sense of humor and is oddly tall for his age...he is the boy version of me at 5! so to mark his official i'm-a-big-kid-i-can-ride-a-bike-and-go-to-school birthday, i promised to make anything he wanted for a cake (last year i made mater from cars the movie and the year before a monkey...so, he shoots high!) he chose the mystery machine from scooby doo which is his major obsession. i hobbled around the kitchen and made this even though it was not gluten-free (i accidentally had a bite) and the temperature was not conducive to frosting, here are some pictures which count as my application for ace of cakes boot camp...i need to learn some real skills, but for now i kinda fake it!

[photo by kristy for thingsihearttoday]

art show.

today was less rar than yesterday...EXCEPT - my back is broken...we are studying michelangelo this week at school and the kids are laying under a table painting to imitate how he lay on his back on staging to paint the sistene chapel - which means, i have been on the ground teaching art this week and under a table taping up newspaper as a backdrop...my back is broken. i came home to find my nephew brody and he was in the mood to resurrect his art gallery that is currently showing on my closet door!


we did this multi-media collaboration today and added it to some of his and his sisters other works already on display, please enjoy!

also a word...the big april announcement is that:
emilia & i are working on a new project, details to come!