I decided to do the "30-day gratitude challenge" meme going around on Facebook, where each day I post something I'm grateful about/for. Since things posted on FB so quickly disappear into the ether, I'm reposting them here. This is what I've done so far.

( 19 things I'm grateful for. )

Yesterday I spent three hours making a yule log (cake, not wood) - chocolate sponge cake jellyroll-style, with Peppermint Stick ice cream as the filling, and then chocolate ganache covering the outside to create the tree bark, and then little meringue mushrooms all over the log. And a meringue caterpillar. I must admit that I routinely fail my goal ( Read more... )

1. I have my first book getting published in five more weeks, with a kickin' cover ( Read more... )