bookbinding and bbqs

this weekend i had a pretty busy saturday. jessica and i had signed up to take a basic bookbinding class through scad's community education. in the class, we made a book from scratch and learned a pretty basic sewing technique to secure pages to the book board. it was really a lot of fun. but kind of discouraging, too! the woman who taught the class graduated from scad several years ago from the fibers program. she now works for scad in several capacities--and when she demo'ed how to do the book, it took her about 20 minutes to a half hour. but the class was given about 5 hours to do our own books! someday, maybe i'll be able to do this book in a short amount of time!

i think i'll use mine to save all the beautiful cards and letters i've received from friends and family while i've been down here. lee will be sending along some pretty yellow envelopes from home for me to glue into the pages for some of the postcards, and i'll figure out how to put the rest in as i go. jessica and i are going to try to get together and make another book soon so we don't forget how. when i get back to boston, maybe i'll show some of you how to make these :)

then later saturday evening, hunt had a bbq at his house. his brother and sister-in-law are in town from boston for the weekend, and it was a good excuse to get some co-workers together, i suppose. i made car bomb cupcakes, in honor of st. patrick's week in savannah. thanks for the spring-time cupcake stencils, lee!


i've got to find a way to get more filling in the inside though. i spent a lot of time hollowing these suckers out, and this was all the filling i got. i think the crumb kind of sinks back into the holes after you make them. but i need more filling! how do they do it with jelly donuts?

it was actually chilly last night, too, so hunt and his brother had to get the chiminea going. then we all sat around in a 1-foot radius from the thing and stayed warm. well, at least we were cozy :)

and a good time was had by all, i think.