Dyed outfit

   I have a really cute, old, outfit.  It's a shirt and skirt.  However.  It is a strange color and the armpits have sweat stains.
   So a long time ago I got some stain to dye it with.  And not that long ago I finally got around to dying it.

It looks whiter in this picture than it really is.

Zucchini Bread!

   Nom Nom Nom!  Zucchini bread is the bestest!  I remember making this at my friend's house.  There's a whole lot of kids in their house.  So that meant a whole lot of zucchinis to grate.  It took foreeeever...  We recently got zucchini and summer squash from a local farmer's market.  We waited too long for one of the zucchini.  It had already become tough.  So, zucchini bread was really my only choice, but that's ok with me.  I got out a grater which I've had back in my cupboard.  It has a clamp and spin the grater wheel design.  It made grating the zucchini so fast!  Way faster than I remembered it being as a kid.  And it keeps the grater away from my hand, which I greatly appreciate.  Using graters make me nervous.  :\  Sewing machines used to, too.  What's that called, GratoSewophobia?

Best extended weekend I've had in a long time!

   This week, our friends, Amanda and Josiah, came over for a visit.  We hung out...played mario kart, played risk, watched Monsters University, and made a crazy movie.  It was so much fun.  :D
   Helen won basically every single mario kart so we made her wait at the start line for 40 seconds before starting and she still won half the time.
   Risk was fun like usual.  Helen started out with a really lame set up.  (It was randomized.)  But she ended up winning anyway.  Siiiigh...

Sewing Machine

   I have a sewing machine.  I haven't used it in a while, but I do have a project that I'm working on.  When trying to think of what sewing machine to get, I texted my friend who has a sewing machine.  I asked her what brand of sewing machine she had...If she liked it...If she knew if this other brand was good...That kind of thing.  I also went to consumersearch.com and looked at what they thought the best ones were.  I chose the one that was mechanical, aka not computerized.  I don't want to pay the extra money.  So, I bought Brother XL-2600i.  It's very easy to use.  It came with instructions with a lot of pictures so I even figured it out myself.  However, I then had to wait for my friend to come over and interpret the sewingese in the pattern I bought from Wallyworld (otherwise known as Walmart).  But that's neither here nor there.

Love Cake

   Once again I got the urge to bake.  I was looking on my ds recipes game/thing (if you want to get it, which you should cuz it's cool, it's called America's Test Kitchen: Let's Get Cooking.  By Nintendo) for something to make.  I was thinking of doing bread or lemon bars, but I ended up doing emergency cake.  If you'll recall from my post Purple Goop Cake it calls for mayo.  (My sister Rachel is a chef and she said that isn't so weird.  It gives it creamyness.)  But I didn't feel like putting it in this time.  So I didn't.  I substituted milk instead of water and added a very big egg.  (Are you supposed to add milk to cakes and stuff?  I thought so but now I'm thinking that might not be right.  And mayo is made of eggs right?  So the milk will add creamyness and the egg will help it be thicker and stay together.)  Also we're out of cocoa powder, which it calls for as well.  So this is what I did instead:  (Oh and I used a bundt pan instead of a square one.  I couldn't resist messing up the baking time too apparently.)