Basic liquid soap from standard soap

Pumpkin muffin recipe

An interesting discussion of the Lengberg underwear finds along with manuscript and carved images.

Nalbinding link which includes videos and much diagrams of how various stitches look etc here.

2cellos live
Had run into their version of Smooth Criminal before, but they appear to have hit it biggish in the USA. Their version of Caifornication was posted in Terri Windling's blog and is very good. Ditto for Hurt. Looks like an album has come out this year...

For reference later (couple months of baking left to go):

Get This Baby Out of Me! On Induction and Ending #occupyuterus by Kate Clancy (Context and Variation blog - a good overview/explanation/entertaining read for scientific background on female biology...)

And on a completely different topic:
DOUBLE RUNNING STITCH LOGIC 102 - WORKING FROM THE ( Read more... )

The snake oil diagram of scientific evidence for popular health suppliments along with links to the primary journal references.

NZ Ministry of Health Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women: A background paper (pdf, 212 pages)

(For reference/later reading)

In the random cool links department:
Hallelujah
Bohemian Rhapsody
All done by Jake Shimabukuro.

Togs from Bogs has links to a selection of limited time (til 4 Nov) open access archaeology journals. Includes Arms and Armour (which basal_surge lost several hours to), which is a journal by the Royal Armouries.
Viking Society web pages also have a bunch of free stuff online including the material for a 1st year Uni introductory course to Old Norse (no time ( Read more... )

Reinactment and making stuff - doing it right: Polish armourer and maker of museum replica standard stuff. Gorgeous, especially the early period helms eg based on 5th C spangenhelm from France.

basal_surge has been drooling.

The weekend has consisted of tidying, laundry, sewing (the anglo-saxon tunic), tablet weaving (trim for finishing the anglo-saxon tunic) and hennaing hair. And pizza and a pot luck evening for which the themes (inadvertent) were pasta and crumble (all very yummy though).

Today, mostly while listening to In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg. ( Read more... )