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I don't think you can live within a 60-mile radius of Baltimore and not know about the huge deal that is coming to our city this weekend: The Inaugural 2011 Baltimore Grand Prix. And while I see on the website that many of the hospitality packages are sold out, I'm pretty sure the majority of us know about the race not because we're huge racing fans but because we can't get from Point A to Point B downtown.

While I think our favorite ink spot is too young to enjoy the race (even though he does look super adorable in his noise canceling headphones) and Mr. ink will clearly be too exhausted from driving throughout the countryside trying to get home to enjoy the race, I am trying to have a positive attitude. And these Knob Creek Metal Arts Welcome Signs for $16.99 each surely put me in a festive mood!

So grab a bushel of crabs, some drawn butter, a tin of Old Bay and a Natty Bo' and let's hope the Baltimore Grand Prix is such a huge success that we forget all about the hours spent in traffic gridlock! After all, we just survived the 2011 Quakicane!

It's COMING!

I know summer is on it's way usually in June because of two things:

1. Cucumbers are almost ready to be harvested for cucumber margaritas, cucumber salad and cucumber soup; and 

2. A giant "pile of craft" is staring at me from the living room.

Be sure to come visit the illegible ink family this Saturday, June 25th from 10am-5pm at St. John's Church (2640 St. Paul Street). There's sure to be a new fox print!

Happy National Raisin Day

So, we were standing in the kitchen this afternoon, looking at the raisins and reminiscing about all of our favorite raisin memories (and recipes). Who can forget the California Raisins singing "I heard it through the grapevine?" Actually, this brought up a sour note to our evening as Mr. ink peered in the box and said, "Oh the poor raisins never made it into wine. They were shriveled on the vine." (Can you tell that Mr. ink sells wine?) We're thinking tomorrow morning we might have raisin bread french toast or oatmeal raisin cookies just to make sure none of them shriveled in vain.

Anyway, it's bedtime now and one of Baby ink's favorite songs is undoubtedly, "The Ants Go Marching."

The ants go marching one by one, huzzah, huzzah
The ants go marching one by one, huzzah, huzzah
The ants go marching one by one,
The little one stops to suck his thumb
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Our ants are marching one by one through the honey rain drops.

And just like that, thirty days of national food holidays comes to an end. I hope you've had as much fun as we have! We're currently picking out our favorite food holidays for the our new illegible ink print. Let us know your favorites as well and remember to eat, drink and be merry in May!