The last few days...

Things have calmed down and normalized in my life... finally. yay. good. This weekend I didn't have to work, and I had my apartment to myself so I decided to make a big mess out of everything... baking, arts and crafts, reorganizing, and in the end a little bit of cleaning up... My baking adventure this weekend was a pumpkin angel food cake with home-made honey cinnamon whipped cream.  It might have been one of my favorite things I've made recently.. but that list isn't too long because I haven't been doing a whole lot of baking (trying to drop weight and baking don't go together very well!).  One thing I would change for the angel food cake next time is maybe add a little more pumpkin and then more whipped cream.  Other than that it was delicious! Here's a photo of the cake in the oven....

Here's the mess that preceded the lovely cake in the oven... 

counter top covered with baking supplies

 Folding in the delicious Pumpkin-ness

beating the egg whites and sugar.... these photos are backwards, but you get the point.

Here's the angel food cake cut in half and a little 'trench' for the whipped cream...

and a few dirty dishes :)

Here's the crafts I was doing at the same time :) 

Since I was in such a creative and crafty mood Friday and Saturday, I also decided to make myself a face mask out of honey, cinnamon and nutmeg.  A lot of the things I did this weekend weren't for any specific reason, but more of a "Why not do this?" If I had been thinking a head, I would have taken a before picture of myself so everyone could see how awesome the mask I made was... But I didn't so y'all will just have to deal with the face mask... 

It ended up dripping off of my face, so I tucked a paper towel in my shirt so it wouldn't drip everywhere

I left the mask on for 30min, rinsed it off and then......

Smooth, soft, and beautiful!! 

Another productive thing I did this weekend was organize my nail polish... Ellyn and Lorie gave me a bag of nail polish (wahoo!!) so my new little friends had to have a home..

11 new friends!! 

One section...

Second section...

A little bit of lifting on Saturday, which was successful, and I've found another exercise I am amazing at: bent over rows. they make me want to cry. But I have a weak back and need to do them! ;)  that's all for now!