weekend baking

Janis from Pinecone Camp asked me yesterday what I had baked on the weekend- you know she has a great weekly post called 'baked on monday' where she bakes the most delicious looking baked goods.  The olive bread she posted about yesterday looked amazing especially with all those vintage baking tins!

Anyways, I lucked out this weekend and bought a whole box of local peaches for $3.99.  Yup- over 60 peaches for a mere 4 bucks.  Ok so they were all ripe on Saturday when I bought them, but after handing a bunch out to the nextdoor neighbours and anyone else who showed up at my door, I decided that I would bake a peach pie.  It seemed like the thing to do on a dreary wet Saturday night when my guy was out of town, I had one boy recovering from the flu, and the other boy happily playing lego in his room. All my pie photos look like they are directly out of some 70's cookbook- yikes! but the pie...well, I'm having a piece for breakfast 3 days later, and it's still tastes like summer to me.

ps Janis- I also baked a couple of loaves of 'Aunt Holly's' Banana Bread which is low in the butter dept., is mixed by hand and is delicious:)

What would I do without you?

There are so many people that make my life really full and wonderful! The past couple of weeks has really proved that for me once again, that I'm not just a solo show, but that my work is inspired and made better by the people around me. Here are just a few of the people I need to thank this week...
First things first, my studio is part of a co-op, so I share 2 kilns with 5 other ceramic artists. Our glaze kiln has been kaput for about a week now and, what can I say, but that we've all been panicking considering THE STUDIO CRAWL IS ONLY 4 DAYS AWAY- Yikes! The week previous, I had enlisted the help of my dear friend Disa, who I went to Art school with, who knows me so well, and who is extremely qualified in the area of ceramics, to come and help me out at the studio for a couple of days. We plowed through glazing 2 kiln-loads of work- some of which got out of the kiln without a hitch, and then some of it, was left waiting for the kiln to be fixed.
Today, the dear Claire from heyday designs in the studio upstairs came by to offer me the use of her kiln while ours was being fixed! Huge! And while all this was happening, Jacqueline, the trooper, was re-wiring and fixing our kiln (a 4 hour job!) so that those who need the kiln this week can actually use it. It's been a team effort- everyone has been attempting to pitch in and help out and what can I say but THANK YOU! Needless to say, thank you gifts are in order. I'm not sure what yet, but this pie from Uprising Breads that Disa and I shared on our lunch break the other day was mighty good tasting...