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"This is my current newest skill. I have to teach a class on how to do it, in less than a month. I think I have the basics mastered, but teaching it… That’s another thing. This is also part of my A&S 50 project. More about that later.
Read more "Netting"Well, I’ve changed the name of my blog. It seems that even “fiber” as a heading is too narrow for me. I’m beginning to suspect that I have a serious problem. No only do I have a craft addiction, (I’m not kidding about this. I’m absolutely miserable if I go more than a day without […]
Read more "New Name"Several months ago I bought a sample card from Paradise Fibers with a whole bunch of different wool and silk fibers. I wondered, after Kaleeb’s and my experiments with natural dyes (in which the commercial wool took up the dyes much more intensely than my hand-spun), whether the breed of sheep made a large difference […]
Read more "Onions!"Well, here I am back after a long break. Here is my first woolen spun yarn. It was spun from the Shetland fleece I bought some time ago. I thought it had been sitting too long and would no longer be workable, but I wanted to try out my new HE top load washer for […]
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