I made about 120 chocolate/vanilla chip cookies:
I have to say that stacking baking rack, while not very expensive, was one of the best investments I made for baking. It's great if you have limited space (as I do) to cool stuff.
I packed up about 4 dozen and took them over to school with me. (We are a department of 10, but several of those 10 are pretty snack-mouth-y and I anticipate some of the cookies being eaten BEFORE the lunch. And if there are leftovers, I can just leave them for people who feel they need an afternoon snack). The rest are packaged up for me to take down Friday morning to be served at the drug court graduation ceremony (I don't have time to go see it; they invited us all to come and said it was a pretty powerful thing to see).
(You know, I wonder....there's an old song that says "Every good thing you do, comes back to you." This week I send off a box of small gifts to a friend who was going through some difficulties, then I volunteered to make cookies even though I was concerned I wouldn't have time...and then yesterday morning I got those three pieces of good news. I'm not entirely convinced that's coincidental.)
I also finished the first of the Cranford mitts (just in time for the temperature to get back up into the 70s! Oh well.)
An attempt at an arty picture, at the piano:
(D major chord, root position... one of the things I'm working on - and I think I'm finally getting the hang of how to do the chording now - is to improvise off of "Sweet Hour of Prayer," which is in D...or at least, in our hymnal it is. Once my teacher reminded me I could "use your passing tones" in going from chord to chord, things began to make more sense).
Here's a better photo, showing the stitch pattern better. It's a modification of the Horseshoe Lace pattern:
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