Two things I'm loving right now

Maybe you could accuse me of getting too caught up in the current trend of home design, but I am LOVING geometric prints right now. How I would love to have a hardwood floor so I could buy a beautiful geometric rug. Alas, I am lacking the floor and the $500-1000 to buy a big beautiful rug. While I am in an apartment with no ultimate control of the space, I just tear out magazine pictures to create my look-book of a home I will never have!
Anyway, so I was excited to see an online tutorial for a quatrefoil kitchen mat. It is a small miracle it ended up looking as decent as it does. When I started painting the white quatrefoil pattern, Adam comes in and says, "hmm. That looks like a second grade art project." Not the right thing to say, husband. But to his credit, it kinda did. I had to re-do it and get a better paint brush. Here's the finished product:

Second thing I will gush about... I have been in love with these darling little cookies - macarons - since I saw them awhile back. French. Maca-RON not ROON. They have a unique texture due to lots of egg whites and sugar.

Aren't they beautiful?! I love the bright colors. So I tried my hand at them. I made blue rum coconut, pink guava and mango orange. I had the extract and colors to do green lime kiwi and pineapple ones, but they were a bit labor intensive, so I stopped at 3 kinds.  Here's my not-picture-perfect ones:

Fun. Fun. I love the endless flavor options.