baking and scrapbooking

i have done a bit more baking, but honestly we just finished eating all the stuff from the weekend kelley was here. i give away a lot of the pie, but there is still a lot of it left.

at a discount store i found the perfect book - Baking for two (!) - perfect small batch recipes that i wont have to eat forever. i made mom coconut macaroons for her birthday. of course i did mess them up bc i used a whole egg and not just an egg white. the good news is that it was a small batch and it doesn't use lots of ingredients so i can try it again correctly very easily. i also used it to make myself a batch of scones for breakfast one morning. they were delicious and i didn't even share them with mom. i think i might make muffins tonight for tomorrow and maybe some cookies... i hopefully will get to leave school early today (no 4th period again) and have time to do bake some stuff and work on my scrapbook.

my scrapbook is looking good so far - i have about three weeks of california done (40ish pages). i enjoy doing it. i think the most time consuming thing is actually deciding which pictures to have printed (bc i have waaaaay too many to get them all printed). i started with the US bc it is the most fresh in my mind and Aus/NZ aren't going to be any fresher. Plus I am waiting on photos from a few people and a package that I think I may have to give up as lost. i have feeling that this scrapbooking project is going to take me forever. but i think it is worth it to have it in the long run.