Squashy delight

Happy birthday B!!! It's very exciting. Not only is it another amazing day weather-wise (clear, crisp, sunshiney), but it will be the first day of fall pumpkin baking for me. I absolutely love pumpkin in all forms: carved into a Hallowe'en jack-o-lantern, pureed in soup, baked into a pie/cake/muffins/cookies, stirred into creamy risotto. I'm not that picky, really. Just give me pumpkin!! I've got several already lining the front steps of the house, ready for the kids to carve in a couple of weeks' time.

But for now, I'm off to bake one of these for B to have after our restaurant dinner tonight. I'm sure he'll share.



This cake is devine. It is a Martha recipe "Pumpkin Cake with Brown Butter Icing". Yum, yum, triple yum. I found it one day while googling pumpkin recipes and have made it several times with great success.

And speaking of birthdays, just look at the grin on Miss Fiona when she opened her Eiffel Tower pillow cover!

I'd say she loved it (and I'm so pleased - it's most excellent when someone loves your work as much as you do, isn't it?). That's why I gift it away.....to good, kind, appreciative homes, that is.

Happy Thanksgiving (if you're north of the 49th parallel) this weekend. We've received a lovely invite to spend the holiday with friends on Vancouver Island. I'll be back next week with a reveal of my mystery fabrics. They are almost as delicious as Pumpkin Cake with Burnt Butter Icing!!