Has it really been that long?

Since I've written I mean.  I've needed to vent, to share, and to create but I just totally forgot this outlet.  So, I'll attempt to catch up on the venting, the sharing, and the creating here now.  And I may even throw in some complaining.  I am sad to say that my book has become my albatross again.  The manuscript is hopefully done with the help of a "ghost writer" but the ancillaries are giving me a fit now.  Why - since I wrote the book, can I not come up with questions for the six online activities?  Maybe because I am trying to make each and every question unique?  Or I am, as usual, just making it harder than it is and taking the "I can't do this approach?"  I've seen other books with the same questions asked different ways.  This is not hard, so why am I making it so?  I should probably be writing questions rather than venting here.  Let me share before I go. 

I made a quilt top for Lydia's baby.  I ended up with one pink square in the corner rather than the blue square that should have been there.  Not sure how that happened since the pattern worked out.  I will post a picture later.  I am sure that nobody would have noticed (nobody did) but I did.  So, I took it to have an initial monogram placed on that now obvious pink square in the corner!  I thought I knew the baby's name, but something made me stop by the bakery and ask for sure - in case I wanted to put all three initials.  Turns out, I misunderstood the baby's name and would have had the wrong initial monogrammed. Does a 'curlz' H look anything like a 'curlz' K???  The H looks good even though no one would have noticed the pink square!  I really want to try quilting it myself.  It's small and I read a trick about using glad wrap (the sticky on one side) to draw your pattern.  I am going to try it.

I have always though 'madeleines' are the cutest cookie/cakes.  So I found a pan (thanks Amazon.com) and found an interesting recipe on the mini madeleine pan for lemon almond madeleines.  I love lemon and almonds are good for you, so that was to be my first attempt.  The almonds are ground with the sugar so they are very fine and somewhat like the flour.  The recipe made about a million of them.  And of course, I thought I had to eat them all.  The lemon glaze was a perfect topping.  I'll be making more of them, but maybe with a smaller recipe.  Barefoot Contessa made some coconut ones, but since I am the only one around here that likes coconut, guess what will happen.  Same reason I haven't made cupcakes lately. 

Vent, share, and create.  I've done them all.  Back to the questions.  After all, there are so many...