Thursday, October 16, 2008

holy domestication!

I have never been a good housewife. In fact, I despise the term/label with everything in me. I despise any other synonym for the term. I've always tried to avoid being labeled as anything, but I can't avoid it anymore. I am, at least for the next 6 months, a housewife. Ugh, gag me with a spoon. Instead of loathing it, I'm trying to embrace it and man, am I jumping into the deep end. Since I don't have anything else to do, I figure 0I will focus all of my attention into being a good housewife; a cleaning, cooking, baking, craft making fiend. And dang it, I am going to be good at this (until I get bored of it in a month and move onto something else, right?)

Not one to do anything half@$$ed, I decided that I needed an apron, so I was going to make one. And make one I did. It was the first thing I had sewn in years, besides things that only have 4 corners like cherry pit hot packs and blankets. I was just going to make a simple one that only needed to be cut and hemmed, but then I found this tutorial and decided that was the one to make. Of course I had to modify it a little bit because I can't do anything by the book. So I took off the top ruffle, made it a bit narrower and shorter and then figured what the heck, why not make it reversible too? And here's what the end result was:

(thank you to W for his fantastic photography skills in the picture above.)



Not bad, if I do say so myself.

After that I was on a high, so the next night I decided to make cookies. But why make one batch when you can make two, right? Things were going great, until I realized I was tired and wanted to be done. I should have frozen the dough but instead had a debate about whether I should make one large cookie or several small cookies to be done faster, or if it even made a difference what size cookies I made because it all was the same amount of dough in the end anyway.

The little cookie idea won and I managed to fit 20 cookies on the sheet, threw them in the oven and when I checked on them 17 minutes later, they had mutated into one large cookie. Dang. Should have saved all that time and made one big one in the first place! So I went back to making the normal size cookies and finally got to the end of the dough, only to find that there was enough dough left for 4 more cookies. Why does that always happen? Doesn't matter if I use a cookie scoop or a tablespoon or a regular spoon, there is always just a little too much dough. You can't waste the dough so I had to cook it and I didn't want to end up with another super size cookie so I had to stay up longer so I could bake the stupid things. I've made a bajillion cookies in my time and every time I forget how much I don't like making cookies. It is just too stressful.

But I'm going to move past it and learn from my mistakes. I will make the perfect batch of cookies one day and I will do it with a smile on my face. Head first people. I'm diving into this domestication thing head first. I will conquer this. Cookies and dishes aint got nothin on me. Good Lord, I need a hobby.

8 comments:

Imcombobulated said...

Gorgeous apron! You are all talent, girl.

I love baking cookies. If I ever get things sorted out here, I'll bake some cookies for you when I make to Germany. That way you can have freshly baked cookies without the stress.

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Anonymous said...

The only good thing about baking cookies is eating the dough and stopping just before you get a stomach ache. Domesticate on! And always wear your apron. Nice!

TaraC said...

I am quite impressed, both with your sewing skills and W's photography skills! Cole still just takes pictures of his feet, mostly.

These are the Days! said...

Okay, crafty and highly skilled one, I want to know how you made those beautiful tu-tu's! :) I'm going to try to figure it out--they were gorgeous! Why don't you go into business making those, and these beautiful aprons??? Now, cookies-- sounds like you might not want to bake those anymore than you have to! I'm impressed!!! :) Wow!!!! :)

Margaret said...

way to go on the apron! i'm impressed! i'm getting a sewing machine for christmas, so you'll have to teach me how you made it! :)

Jessica Ryan said...

that's seriously Esty-worthy!

Rakka said...

Cookie baking, making aprons, housecleaning what has Germany done to you! Glad to see that you are keeping busy. I think we will get Weston his own camera for Christmas, he is getting quite good.