European Trip
As the pandemic draws on, I keep dreaming of when I might be able to travel. I’m parking this here for future reference, and dreaming…
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Feast of the Rutabaga
For the last 15 years or so my husband and I have celebrated the feast of the rutabaga. It is essentially a long running gag based on the fact that once upon a time I had never cooked rutabaga and my husband had never even seen one, but really liked the sound of the word. […]
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Those of you who follow me will know that I occasionally write about medieval foods, the preparation of which is one of my hobbies. Today I’m posting about a different kind of history, a personal one. I have enjoyed baking since I was a teenager. It was the one culinary art my mother had not […]
Read more "A Different Kind of Historical Recipe"First Quilt Expanded
So June, four years ago, I finished my very first quilt. I had made pillows before, but this was my first quilt that you could put on a bed. It was for my son who was at that time three years old, and still sleeping in a toddler bed. He is now seven and […]
Read more "First Quilt Expanded"Spider-Man Yarn
I am going to give up on apologizing for long lapses in posts. This time, my excuse is very good… Just a career change and move slowing me down. But never fear, I still find time for crafting. Last month, during Christmas break, I took the kids into downtown Greensboro to visit a local yarn […]
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So this is something a little different from my usual fare. My husband is planning a new Warhammer army. This one has a Lovecraft theme. This is the new Cthulu model from Reaper’s new Bones line of miniatures. I wish that I had taken pictures of the model before I’d put the polyurethane finish on […]
Read more "Painted Monsters"Squirreled Again (and again, and again)!
The plan of this week was to check out how to make shrinks dinks from #6 plastic. The shrinking worked fine but the sharpie didn’t stay (possibly because I used Goo gone to get rid of a sticker) so more on that at a later date. Before I could test the procedure, I needed a […]
Read more "Squirreled Again (and again, and again)!"Mad Hatting Part II: The Hat
Once the felt had been made, and was mostly dry, I cut out a large circle. Using my teapot, I carefully steamed the center of the circle until it was too hot to touch and then stretched it over the hat form, pulling it evenly on all sides. Then, since I did not purchase a […]
Read more "Mad Hatting Part II: The Hat"De-frumpifying the Frumpy
I collect spoons…yes, the cheesy, old fashioned things that you find mostly in airports and schlock shops the world over. It’s an old fashioned hobby, but it is something of a tradition in my family, and I have kept it alive. The problem is, I have no way to display them. I admit that I […]
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Every once in a while I run across a craft that is both stupid simple and very lovely. I am always torn when I have found such a craft. They are the perfect sort of thing to give as gifts, but if I brag about how easy they are, or worse, post a tutorial, then […]
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