In my former life, back when the government had money to spend on research, I was a scientist. A geneticist and a microbiologist to be exact. That tendency towards microbiology is strongly represented in my crafts as well, i.e. baking, brewing and cheese making. I bring a love of experimentation to crafting, and cooking lends […]
Read more "Cheese Experiment"Please Read This Important Update! ***A Quick Note About Safety*** One of my readers reminded me that it is important not to take anything for granted. Please remember that you are working with wire and that it is going on an electrical appliance. Please make sure that when in use, the wire does not come […]
Read more "Let There Be Light"So, I’m not kidding about the name of my blog. When it comes to crafting, I have the attention span of a dog when a squirrel runs by. I was thinking about that the other day as my basket making obsession had been replaced with a fever to make lamp shades. More about that later. […]
Read more "And Now For Something Completely Different…"A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket I wrote a letter to my love And on the way I dropped it, I dropped it, I dropped it, And on the way I dropped it. A little boy he picked it up and put it in his pocket. Maybe it’s because I’ve been in the garden […]
Read more "A Tisket a Tasket, I Made a Little Basket"Fall came in with a vengeance over the weekend, and all this cooler weather has me thinking pumpkins, and pumpkins means pumpkin bread. This was a holiday tradition in my house, and Christmas time sees a lot of baking. Since I’m able to make it whenever I wish now, I do. This time, my three-year-old […]
Read more "Fall=Pumpkins=Pumpkin Bread"An embarrassment of riches this summer in the form of my very first attempt at growing tomatoes, caused me to have to search out new and creative uses for grape tomatoes. Fresh off of pickling the few measly cucumbers that I got off of the vines before they withered prematurely, (Still haven’t figured that one out) I decided […]
Read more "Pickled Tomatos"Wheeeeee! I made my first Etsy sale. My plarn lace bag, will be leaving home on Monday. Such a sad, proud day. Ok, so I’m not even making half minimum wage on the hours I put into it, but at least my material cost wasn’t high. Setting a price for things is definitely the hardest part about selling your handiwork.
Read more "My First Etsy Sale!"Has anyone else noticed how expensive healthy bread has gotten at the grocery store? Or how much like cardboard they taste? I’m not sure if quality is really deteriorating, or if I’ve just gotten so used to home baked bread that store bread suffers by comparison. My quest for a good sandwich loaf intensified recently. […]
Read more "Baking Day"It happens to everyone sometimes… This one wasn’t as epic as the sculpey I caught on fire yesterday, but it does rather resemble newborn poo. That is certainly disgusting, but it’s not the intimidating-entrails-on-a-pike kind of disgusting that goes along with chaos armies. You can see the disc that I am trying to match on […]
Read more "Failure!"09.22.11 My husband is prepping for another tournament, so of course it’s modeling crunch time. It’s kinda nice to have his craft project all over the dining room for a change. This will be a base for one of his sorcerers. Now to see if I can match the paint job from the platform that […]
Read more "Warhammer Madness"