I have decided to finally try to knit socks. I will credit this to the wonderful little book I got from the public library which provided me with a simple, basic sock pattern. If you are interested it is called The knitter’s handy book of patterns: basic designs in multiple sizes & gauges by Ann […]
First Friday Fiction: An Emerald Hoard
One of these days I am going to get my first Friday Fiction posted on Friday again, but today is not that day! I wanted to have this up as early as Saturday but one part of the story was really fighting me and I had to re-write it three different times until it worked […]
A Dozen Hot Cross Buns
It was Easter last Sunday so I decided to make some fresh hot cross buns for a sweet start to the holiday. Most of the recipes I found called for raisins, which I’m not super fond of, but I decided to include them in light of being accurate to the recipe. I ended up using […]
Mid-month Middle Earth 7
I have finally moved onto the second color! Unfortunately, since I was picking the color based on the symbol on the pattern sheet I am currently adding black to the very dark blue already on the pattern. Because of that it may be harder to tell where the new color is compared to the old […]
On a Wing and a Prayer Shawl: The Finished Project
I finished the shawl! That was probably obvious by the title of the post but I am very excited with how the shawl turned out. The colors look just as good as I had hoped and the edging turned out much nicer on the final project than I thought it would as I was working […]
First Friday Fiction: Breakout!
I know this is technically squeaking in at the latest moment on a Saturday so it’s not really a “Friday” fiction, and that is all on me. I have been staring at the short stories I have and debating on which ones to use, and that pushed back getting the art done, which pushed back […]
The Bread Maker is Taking the Cake
My father recently got a bread maker. As someone who’s determined to make my life harder than it needs to be I was skeptical at first – using a machine for something you could do yourself with twice as much work in double the time? But I do have to admit it has slowly been […]
Mid-Month Middle Earth 6
I come contrite, sad to admit I have not gotten as much done as I had planned. I have made some progress, mostly by dogged determination to have an update and the skin of my teeth, but it’s no where near what I had hoped to have finished. I’m almost moving onto the next color, […]
Di-Di-Digimon, Digitama!
I only had a partial picture of this piece in my Fandom Fun post but I finally finished it and wanted to show it off a little! Pictured below are nine crests from the old anime Digimon Adventure (plus the crest of kindness from Adventure 02) and their corresponding digi-egg (or digitama, as the show […]
First Friday Fiction: Spring Showers
This is a very short story for the month, mostly because all the other stories I have I want to do a better picture for. This week has been a whole bunch of going very slow to get what I want done, and feeling very rushed to try and get it all finished. I’m hoping […]