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My first bento!! For breakfast - blueberries and blackberries with mango stars. For lunch - cabbage with hotdog octopuses. Or octopodes, if you prefer. The thing in the middle was our attempt at molding rice. It's a kitty cat, but with the black rice it's hard to tell. So it's kind of Octopussy except not at all. I don't care. I'm really pleased ( Read more... )

I still need to post the poem I wrote for the door. It's a Star Trek version of A Visit From Saint Nick. I'm hoping to wear my Star Trek red shirt on the day they do the door judging, but my costume closet is hidden behind a million billion Christmas decoration boxes.


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I seriously want a gingerbread icon - but so far I haven't been able to make one I like or find one premade despite some of the amazing holiday icons out there. Anyway - please to be checking out how incredibly talented and artistic and crazy my friends can be with gingerbread.

( Loads of really cool pictures of Gingerbread - TRUST ME - you want to see them. )

Most were taken either on the way to Madison or on State Street for our "date day." The last two are at my sister-in-law's house while we were hanging out there before going to a family event. (One of the cutest babies in the world's first birthday party - I would post pictures of her, but 1) the internet would explode from cuteness and 2) I don't ( Read more... )

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For several years now we have had problems with our front yard by the porch - between evil popcorn trees and wild growing things, it never looked nice for long. After several years we chopped down the popcorn trees, but the stumps didn't want to leave. We tried various tricks for stump killing, but the trees kept coming back. Plus, while I like * ( Read more... )

Every year I vow to write up about Dragoncon, but the convention is just sooooooo big and soooooo much happens that I never know where to begin. So I thought I'd start with something easy like posting a few dead red shirt pictures ( Read more... )