Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins

http://www.food.com/recipe/pumpkin-doughnut-muffins-martha-stewart-441904
Hopefully, my image gets matched with the recipe at food.com.  I wonder what other recipes need to be displayed on my dishes.  I picked up this recipe last fall when we were growing a pumpkin.  The prolific mystery squash in the garden this year turns out to be butternut.

The muffins were still good despite forgetting the buttermilk. They're best warm.  The doughnut part happens to be the melted butter drenching post baking and roll through cinnamon sugar.

First Day of School

Pretty excited to get the kids off to school today.  I have a cupboard full of pots to decorate.  They are staying quite damp with all this rain.  I guess I should have taken a picture of the bottoms too!  It's like having decorated 8 pots instead of four.  

Still playing with the ikat pattern.  It's really fun to paint so that it has a tromp l'oeil woven texture.  Thinking I should spend more time in the fabric store.  A trip to Mood in NYC would be excellent.  Perhaps I have been watching too much Project Runway when I start to think of my pots as fashion models while designing the pattern to compliment the form.  

The leaf pattern when fired should reveal a layer of leaves below the sponged straw surface.  I had to force myself to give up the tulip pattern for now.  I guess I'm not ready for the seasons to change.  For someone who paints lots of flowers it's hard to get all wintry in September.  After the kids got home I finished one more piece.  Wheat is a happy compromise from this Kansas girl.