A new website was born! Clare Crespo has started a new site to celebrate each and every ding dong day!!! Please visit for recipes, craft ideas, and activities about how to unwrap each present of a day!!! www.HurrayDay.com

Reform School and Tanya Aquiniga are hosting a great even this Saturday, June 15.

Tanya has teamed up with Dwell On Design to create

Move-In Kits to welcome home LA’s homeless into permanent housing. They are looking for local knitters to donate their time and or knit & crocheted squares to create handmade blankets for the kits.
How can you help? They will be hosting a “Knit-In” at the shop from 11-6pm this Saturday, led by Jo Abellera of KKIBO. Stop by to hang out and knit some squares or use one of the knitting machines that they will have set up. Yarn will be available but they welcome you to bring your own. They are hoping to help Tanya create at least 75 blankets so they can use all the help they can get!
If you can’t stop by on Saturday they will be taking donations through next week. Drop of your 12×12 knit or crochet squares  at the shop and they will be sure they are put to good use. You can also drop off any donations of completed handmade knit blankets, quilts, etc.
If you aren’t in the area please mail your donations to:
ReForm School
3902 West Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, Ca 90029

(they will take donations thru 6/18)

Check out the details on the project HERE

So bring your needles, smiles and be ready to earn
good karma points!

Yummyfun friend, Stella, had a Marketplace at her school. She decided to make Eyeball Cupcakes for the occasion. Each Eyeball was carefully created:

Each bloodshot vein was carefully applied:

And some inventions were made! Check out these Reptile Eye Cupcakes! Just use sideways M&Ms for the pupils instead of tiny jelly beans!

High Five to Stella for her effort and skill! I hope your Marketplace was super fun!

A couple dear pals, Mary Wigmore and Sara Lamm, made an amazing documentary called Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin & The Farm Midwives. It might just blow your mind. And now you can see it. As in, you can see it RIGHT NOW…right this minute. Please open your mind and give it a whirl by buying a dvd or downloading it here. You will never be the same and you will not be sorry!

There is a young lady in London named Sylvie and she is a wonderful person. She is as special as a panda bear, which is maybe why she made these cupcakes!!! Her mum (I told you-London!) sent me this picture to see! Panda Bears give me joy in my heart! And if I were in London I would hug each one of these cupcakes!!!! Great job, Sylvie!!!!

Yummyfun friends, and excellent cupcakers, Lulu and Sofia, made these tiny owls for Sofia’s birthday!! This picture came in today and I just had to share it! Check ‘em out! A HOOT, right?? High five girls and Happy Happy Birthday, Sofia!!! Lots of Yummyfun love to both of y’all!

Monster Head Potatoes! Recipe  from “The Secret Life of Food”

Spaghetti and Eyeballs! Recipe from “The Secret Life of Food“

Spiderweb Soup! Recipe from “The Secret Life of Food”

Rick Perillo at Larchmont Charter School in West Hollywood has been using The Secret Life of Food as a teaching tool in after school cooking class! Awww shucks, I am flattered! Check out what the kids in his class have been KOOKING! I hope y’all had fun with my book!!! Thanks for sharing the pictures with me!!! The Monster Head Potatoes is a masterpiece!!

Yummyfun friend, Katrina, needed to make “I” cookies to take to her cool little son’s preschool class. Check out these “I” cookies made with Indigo Icing wearing EYEglasses! Hahahahaha! “I” is also for “infinity”!!! High five, Katrina! I hope the teacher gave you an “A”!!

Anthology Magazine is doing an article on me and my home next Spring. They came today to take the pictures! I baked some Flower Pot Cakes as you can see!

Check out my first ever piece of graffiti! I made a cake to celebrate my pal’s b-day! Don’t worry, I also baked her one!