Well, as you all know, Saturday was Halloween...


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At Metacon Y last year my Battlestar Ga-Apple-Cake won first place in desserts and had a pretty happy reception, so I thought I would reprise the cake in cupcake form to celebrate the series finale.


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So admittedly I got into an interior decorating kick this weekend...


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I'm back in Los Angeles again after dropping by Irvine to see my brother's graduation. Got a nasty sunburn to show for it, too. And, also, a car. Which involved driving up the 405 for the first time by myself while silently screaming my brains out only to arrive at UCLA and parallel park downhill. Holy frak. Tomorrow is my first day of work. ( Read more... )

I guess as a sucky amateur writer and therefore metaphorical spinner of yarn it makes sense that I would eventually get into fiber crafts like knitting, needlepoint, and (as of last, last weekend while trying to desperately claw myself out of the traumatic world that is Dreamlands in aaronjv's awesome CoC game) a bit of crochet ( Read more... )

Ah, the infamous cake from the video game Portal. Astute gamers have actually found the ingredients listed in-game. Planet Fortress has the ingredients picked out of yellow text, and an orb in the boss fight also rambles a list of random ingredients, heavily emphasizing the rhubarb (mp3 found here.)


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Plastic canvas is a cheap-ass craft from like, the 1980s. I contend that it is so easy, even an idiot mule could do it with his eyes stabbed out and his ass on fire. I have not touched the damn thing since I was ten, when I was really good at it. You see, I have a sordid history with this damn craft ( Read more... )

Knitting truly is spiffy, I think. For example, here are some pengies in sweatars:


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For whatever reason, I've been feeling slightly more crafty than I have been in a long time. And I've kind of gotten into knitting again because it gives me something to do with my fingers when using the computer is not appropriate. So it was time to whip out all of the knitting needles and start assigning them to projects again . At this point I ( Read more... )

I seem to have lost my pin cushion (I think I accidentally threw it away, :gulp:) which means I still have to sew up all the loose threads on this thing. But it's like 95% finished so I thought I'd put some pictures up.


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