Happy Halloween from TriBeCa !

Things are of course crazy today with parades at school, dressing up and herding children. Walking our dog Coco this morning i snapped some pics of pumpkins around the neighborhood.
The middle image of the two owl carvings are pumpkins we carved at home neither kid wanted to give up on their choice of owl so we just made two! Hopefully next year we can do 2 different images...,

Girls cap sleeve knit -in -the -round sweater

DSCF6856, a photo by soulfulhues on Flickr.

This is a must-make for my next project!!! So cute for the girls. Check out her pattern on etsy  !

An Easy Plum Cake for Fall

Hi there,

Looking for an easy delicious dessert for the Fall season.  This one is excellent.  
The  recipe is from Martha Stewart's Everyday Food Magazine :

This is before pouring in the shortcake dough:

And this is after baking and flipping the cake onto a cake plate
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The recipe calls for one plum but I used two. It's like a plum version of Tarte Tatin the French upside down apple cake made in a cast iron frying pan... caramelized fruit is delish!

I wish I had thought to take a picture of the cake on a cake stand (of course the people at Martha thought to do that) but that's one of those things on my wish list... have never gotten one.

This recipe was super easy and so satisfying aesthetically and taste-wise. It really turned out exactly as pictured in Food Magazine!  It looks impressive and is so easy. A perfect sweet for Fall.

Note: The recipe calls for buttermilk so for a brief moment I thought of substituting the dough with a bisquik shortbread recipe.  So glad I didn't. The cake had a beautiful texture and melts in the mouth.  I also refrained from adding orange zest and poppy seeds which are probably a nice-to-have but I didn't want to get guff from the peanut gallery here...

Pleated Skirt in Vintage Fabric

Yes, I am the great procrastinator with certain things- unless of course there is a fire under my a__.  Anyway I have this beautiful polished cotton fabric that I have kept since high school.   Let's just say it could definitely be classified as vintage material AND I still love it.  Anyway when I was at design school we learned how to make a pleated skirt and since this fabric is a wallpaper print (i think that's what it's called ) I figure it would be the perfect guinea pig to try it out.  This is a close up of the fabric when pleated:

I decided to give it a ribbon waistband instead of the traditional same fabric.  I love how this ribbon tape goes with the fabric.

Now its made but I have to re-do a few things to adjust it and make it fit me. Ugh - it never works the first time but at least I am able to figure it out.  I will show a pic when I have finished and might even write a tutorial on it!!

Have a happy Friday!!