Posted in etsy, Photography, Random on Jul 23rd, 2009
To everyone who advised me to get EA Sports Active, well, I did, it came, and now I can barely move! Note to self – when the 30 Day Challenge tells you to take a rest day, for the love of god, TAKE A REST DAY! Actually, I was intending to yesterday, but [...]
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Posted in etsy, Food, Random on Jul 15th, 2009
I’m (obviously) not the biggest fan of Karl Rove, but this still made me laugh.
Made cookies the other day with my leftover egg whites. They turned out to taste like faintly lemon-flavored Nilla Wafers. They’re kind of sticky, too. I just smashed some together with ice cream in the middle and stuck [...]
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Posted in Food on Jul 13th, 2009
Ever since I saw this post on Michael Ruhlman’s blog, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of making an eclair from scratch. They’re one of my favorite foods anyway, and the pate a choux dough looked like it would be fun to make. I eventually wound up ordering a copy of Ruhlman’s book [...]
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Posted in etsy, Food, Yarn on Jul 9th, 2009
First of all, I was going to do a shop update tonight, but waited until after my light got all crappy so I couldn’t color-edit my photos correctly. Like this may or may not be what the yarn actually looks like!
Who can say? Not me! So, I’ll do it all tomorrow. [...]
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Posted in Family, Food, Knitting, Random on Jul 6th, 2009
Travis and I took our semi-annual trip down to Cincinnati to go to Ikea and Jungle Jim’s. We hit Ikea first. Our main goal was to get a new mattress, since our old one had this impossibly deep crater in it. Ikea Online had a mattress-picking tool that I filled out the [...]
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Posted in Dyeing, etsy, Family, Food, Knitting on Jul 3rd, 2009
If I’ve been a little absent around here lately, I blame it solely on the insane black raspberry harvest we’ve been getting from behind our house.
The berries just kind of started growing a few years ago, and since yard maintenance is way low on our list of priorities (embarrassingly low, actually), the berries have been [...]
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