Posted up a few pics from last weekend’s fun at Mystique’s.
(This post originally appeared on my real food blog, Plays Well with Butter.) Have you heard the latest? That the maker of neurotoxin aspartame is going to rename it “AminoSweet” and market it as a natural substance because it is made from “amino acids?” Then there’s Sara Lee, coming up with “EcoGrains” that are supposed…
I’d mentioned in an earlier post that my Battlestar Galactica costuming/party group, The Colonial Fleet, is forming a new group that’s an all-girl Marine strike team called the “Divine Devils” (a play on the real Marines’ “Devildogs”). I’m still finishing up my costume—waiting for my earpiece and kneepads to arrive in the mail, and buying…
Tonight I tried a cheese souffle for the first time. I used a recipe out of Food & Wine, and while it was fairly simple, I realized as I was cooking that there are techniques I perhaps should have read up on before jumping in with guns blazing. Heh, ah well…the souffles turned out ok—they…
Yesterday I got on a roll: I made a Paris-themed digital collage for the ARTchix blog challenge, using graphics from The Graphics Fairy and Faerie Enchantment: Then my guy offered me scans of his family’s brewery’s vintage beer labels, so I had to play with those too (with added graphics found on free clip art…
I hate days like today. I had a fairly long to-do list, but I had *no* energy. Wanted to just lay in bed all day. I might be fighting off a mild cold or something…who knows, but I hope that this blah feeling is gone by tomorrow. Tonight I pixeled a bit, finishing up some…
I’ve wanted a corset for as long as I can remember – well ok, probably since I first saw A Room With A View in my early 20s and wanted to be either Maggie Smith’s character, Cousin Charlotte, or Helene Bonham Carter’s character, Lucy (still want to be both, to this day): Here I am,…
