Murder by Sugar

I was feeling really ambitious on Saturday, like I said. I decided to make a cake from scratch too, which I have never done before. I decided on this cake from the Our Best Bites gals.

Its called Carrot Cake Supreme, and I believe it is about 800 calories per serving. So like Kate said it so perfectly, murder by sugar (and butter...lots of butter!) I do not own a decent cake pan, so I changed that. I bought two of these bad boys. 100% pure aluminum and nice and thick for a big tall cake. I think my grandma would be proud.

Then the fun began. I completely destroyed my kitchen making this thing, but it was SO worth it. Fortunately, it is so rich that you can only eat one piece unless you want to get sick, otherwise I would be in a bad way over here. Here is how mine turned out. We had friends over last night to share in the indulgence, thats why there is a big chunk missing. Now lets gets a real close up to the gooey deliciousness.....

did I mention this is almost 800 calories and worth every one?

Crazy Ambition

Do you ever get in those moods, that last about a week or perhaps months, where you seriously have no motivation to do anything productive? That was totally me last week. I was in a serious slump. Mostly I blame Downton Abbey (the Masterpiece Classic series on PBS). I heard about this show while watching the Golden Globes a couple weeks ago and was intrigued. The last week Netflix decided to add the first season to their Instant selection. So I killed my curiosity and watched the first episode, then the 2nd, then the 3rd, and so on until before I knew it I had watched all 7 episodes! In a matter of two days. After the season was over I felt a void. Until I discovered the 2nd season is airing right now and the episodes I have missed this far are available to watch on Masterpiece Theater's website! So then, naturally, I had to watch the 3 episodes from this season to get caught up. Can you see why I have been a trite unproductive? That show is straight up addicting.

Anyway, like I always do when I have been seriously lazy, I started to feel like a loser and decided I needed to do something productive AND ambitious.

So a couple of months ago I was in Heber and found this couch at the Catholic thrift store that I LOVED. I was not in love with the fabric, but it was the shape of the couch that won my heart. Plus it was in great shape and only $30.

I convinced Steve to let me take it home so I could reupholster it. If any of my old roommates are reading this they are probably laughing. I tried to reupholster a couch before and NEVER finished it. The back of it I just couldn't figure out, so it was one of those couches that had to be up against a wall.

Anyway this time I got a little education about the subject under my belt. Not much, okay only about an hour. I went to a free Q&A class a month ago at Home Fabrics. So I have a little know-how, and the rest I will just figure out.

Saturday I decided to finally start this huge project. I bought the fabric and the tools and started to deconstruct that couch. Not even a quarter of the way done of just taking off the original fabric. I will probably be working on this sucker for the next few months.

Here is the before picture:

Potential, right? I hope so, because I am about to invest the next two months of my life to this thing.