Clafouti! Say it with me. Cla-fou-ti. I also sometimes resorted to calling it Cloud-footie. For those of your who don't know what this is--I certainly didn't before I saw Alton Brown make it on "Good Eats"--this is a really simple French dish. Here's the recipe...

As the weekend approaches, I know some of you are going to go off to parties and such, but if you're in the DC Metro area and you don't mind hightailing it out to Fauquier County then you definitely should stop and visit at Buckland Farm Market.

Have you ever had an itch that you scratched, and then you had to scratch it some more? I fear I have this itch. I thought it would go away with this craft. It didn't. It got worse. Much worse. More on that later.

My itch began over the summer and it resided in the locale of  my laundry room. I thought I could make my laundry room a smudge more tolerable by adding this window art.

Its pretty, but it didn't help.