Our friend Munch is graduating from college with his Associates in culinary arts. He graduates Sunday (tomorrow!) and we just recieved the invitation yesterday. I spent all last night whipping up the appropriate graduation gift - an apron! It's not your typical apron, and it's made using all scraps I've got. It's got sort of a mad scientist feel - very messy, but very him.

One of the reasons he's called Munch is his favorite Pac-Man t-shirt, which he wore the day my husband and I met him. So I took a rubber glove, cut it up into a vaguely pac-man shape, and backstitched it to the denim pocket. I added an eye with some black acrylic paint, in homage to our dear friend (His name is also painted on.) The ties to the apron are a tye-dyed tee shirt that didn't turn out too well...Apologies because, in the photos, I had not yet ironed the project or cut off the strings. I was just too excited! The whole thing took about three or four hours.


I also decided to bake him banana bread in a jar. I used This recipe, and had to reduce it because it makes (7) SEVEN jars. Oops. Well, it turned out well. I also made my husband and my favorite banana bread, from the Teens Cook cookbook. I love that recipe, and no matter how I mangle it, it always turns out well. It was also my first time using my grandmother's passed down kitchen aid mixer. I'm in love!

I wrapped the apron, tied a piece of the tye-dyed shirt around the jar bread, and that's that. Here's photos of the wrapping. The card is the top half of an old card my mother had sent me. It seemed appropriate, and it's more of a "graduation postcard" than it is a card-card.



I plan on updating later again, with photos of my garden. We're going into town to get some stuff done, so we'll see what happens! If I don't write again tonight, I'll write tomorrow!