Birthday Celebration!

I turned 23 on Saturday and had an amazing birthday! We started the day by having lovely friends over for mimosas and breakfast (made by sweet Billy) and then we spent the afternoon at a brewery and checking out the arch in St. Louis before eating dinner at an eclectic restaurant: Frazer's. Then Billy and I watched a Woody Allen movie and had vegan Tiramisu :) It was perfect. And I got the best presents! A sewing machine from my better half which I cannot wait to start using! And dresses from Anthropologie from my loving mom!

The tiramisu turned out much better than I thought. Here's the recipe I used: http://vegancomfort.blogspot.com/2010/01/best-tiramisu-ever-and-it-vegan.html It only called for 1 cup of coconut cream and I used almost double that and thought it could still use a lot more. But it was really good anyway. 

Yesterday I bought a book called The Colette Sewing Handbook by Sarai Mitnick to help teach me to sew. I love the way it's setup. There's an introductory chapter and then every subsequent chapter discusses a new technique and gives you a project with a pattern at the end to practice. The first project is a really simple skirt with a scalloped hem. I bought some pretty green fabric with white polka dots to try it out. Hopefully it's not too tricky!