7:00 am: I forgot the pie crust dough would have to be chilled before pre-baking, and the fats frozen before making the dough. So we froze the fats over breakfast and made the dough afterward in the food processor. Now…
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T-Day, Observed
Posted in Cooking, News & Musings Tagged with: bookmarks, Cooking, jewelry, T-shirts, Thanksgiving, turkey
Whatever Happened to Lady Jaye?
I was pretty young when I watched the G.I. Joe animated series as a child, but it was one of my favorite shows. So I couldn’t help taking notice—and poking around with a bit of trepidation and excitement—when I heard…
it’s a quest thing
Yay! I finally ordered an 8G memory card for my digital camera, so I won’t be limited to 17 (yes, 17) pictures using the camera’s original 32M card. Thankfully, memory cards are surprisingly non-expensive through Amazon these days. The trick…
Posted in Gaming, News & Musings Tagged with: Cafepress, cloth., digital cameras, MMORPGs, Sewing & Crafts, T-shirts
Sew Nuts
A long time ago I got (slightly) into sewing—around the time I dropped out of college, I guess. Who could blame me? All those fun colors and patterns of cloth; the ability to make things that fit YOU rather than…
Posted in News & Musings Tagged with: book reviews, Cafepress, Fourth of July, patriotic, photographs, SCA, Sewing & Crafts, T-shirts
Save vs. Moving Van
I think we’ve come up with a decision for approaching that possible moving quandary. We’re going to work on the house to get it ship-shape for putting on the market, which gives us time to make sure this is what…
Posted in News & Musings, Writing Tagged with: book reviews, Cafepress, Gaming, Gardening, moving, RPGs, T-shirts
Reviews & More
First, two new book reviews. I had a chance to read the advance uncorrected proof of Tobias Buckell’s Sly Mongoose. Books like this are why being a reviewer makes me so happy. I might not make much money, and I…
Posted in Cats, News & Musings, Writing Tagged with: book reviews, Cafepress, Cats, furniture, phlox, T-shirts
The Furniture, Revisited
First, in non-furniture news, I have a non-review of Patricia Rice’s Mystic Rider. I almost never do this, but I just couldn’t get myself to read the whole thing. While that means I can’t review the book as such, I…
Umm, what was I saying?
I know there was something I wanted to post about, but my brain seems to be in a fog and I have no idea what it was. Oh well. I can at least link to the new site stuff. First,…
Posted in News & Musings, Writing Tagged with: book reviews, Cafepress, cookbooks, nutrition, T-shirts
Drowning
I will spare you. I will not do the ‘omg I just got a new camera and have to illustrate EVERYTHING’ thing of taking a picture of the mountain of tissues next to me. And I was only tempted to…
Posted in News & Musings, Writing Tagged with: book reviews, digital cameras, romance, T-shirts, time travel