Brake Time

GIMME A BRAKE:  Today MPA was mostly all about auto maintenance. The kids learned how to jack up a car and remove a tire, and they got to see the inner workings of a front disc brake system.

We put shiny new rotors on the front of the 1998 CR-V. So pretty! 

BLACK AND WHITE: Last week, we spent a couple of days making cookies. Not just any cookies, but special, 'artsy' ones to go along with a presentation of the Mukilteo Historical Society meeting.

The topic of the evening was Native American art, and so we made cookies matching that theme.

We would have been better off making the cookies after listening to such a lecture, but the timeline didn't work that way. :)

We researched images online and chose some we thought we could pull off in cookie form. Then, it was a matter of baking the cookies (the majority of which were hand-cut to a custom size), and then making fondant and topping them. The fondant was our 'canvas,' - then it was 'just' a matter of painting on raven, hawk, orca and other designs with a really small brush and black food coloring.

 We also made a few Mukilteo lighthouses for good measure.