dabbletree.vrya.net now officially open for business
I have reinvented my website: Dabbletree. The Buffy Dialogue Database
and my fanart/vid site are still there for those in the know, but I'm not
linking to them from the domain anymore or adding to them. I've been working
hard the last few months to try to get a good base of material up, and of course
I'll keep adding as fast as I can. A representative sampling of what's there so
far:
Low-Key Pizza: Homemade pizza, from scratch, but with a laid-back attitude. A fabulous crisp crust without the stand-mixers, food-processers, hand-kneading, pizza stones, pizza peels, or lengthy preheat times. A bowl, an aluminum pan and some patience is all you need. Other dinner ideas: Chili-mac casserole, Potato/Beef/Veggie casserole, Cast-iron frying pan split chicken breast.
Magic Bread Box Bake yeast bread on any busy day of the week with a bit of dough from your Magic Bread Box. Or wow your next potluck with potato focaccia or brunch with sweet potato waffles.
Colorful Cats Paper Finger Puppets. Great for imaginative play, counting, color identification or just arranging in a line. Also Cat Stickers and Animal Shadow Makers, Butterfly Beads, Butterfly Kite.
Knit Baby Cardigan Knit an adorable little sweater for the newest baby in your world. Top down, with a charted lattice pattern. Or crochet your very own Squeato the Mouse .
Fairy Rag Dolls Turn a few scraps into a charming set of fairy dolls. Or a Cozy Little Penguin or a Soft Little Duck.
Storm at Night Quilt An eye-catching twist on the traditional Storm-at-Sea pattern. Or try Square Panel Quilt. Or use the Quilt Calculator to plan your own quilt.
Draw Inkscape patterns Learn to draw patterns (or anything, really) with Inkscape, a free vector based drawing program or make collages with Picasa, another free program you should have! There's also my book on Photoshop Masks, an expansion on one of my more popular tutorials from back in the day.
This is a commercial venture in that this is my first site ever with advertising, and there are a few things for sale, too. Much as I was reluctant to sell out, it was necessary. Plus it's great motivation to keep the projects coming. It's going slower than I had hoped with just an hour or so of computer time a day, but at least I feel like I'm making some progress and I've still got a whole ton of ideas for articles.
Low-Key Pizza: Homemade pizza, from scratch, but with a laid-back attitude. A fabulous crisp crust without the stand-mixers, food-processers, hand-kneading, pizza stones, pizza peels, or lengthy preheat times. A bowl, an aluminum pan and some patience is all you need. Other dinner ideas: Chili-mac casserole, Potato/Beef/Veggie casserole, Cast-iron frying pan split chicken breast.
Magic Bread Box Bake yeast bread on any busy day of the week with a bit of dough from your Magic Bread Box. Or wow your next potluck with potato focaccia or brunch with sweet potato waffles.
Colorful Cats Paper Finger Puppets. Great for imaginative play, counting, color identification or just arranging in a line. Also Cat Stickers and Animal Shadow Makers, Butterfly Beads, Butterfly Kite.
Knit Baby Cardigan Knit an adorable little sweater for the newest baby in your world. Top down, with a charted lattice pattern. Or crochet your very own Squeato the Mouse .
Fairy Rag Dolls Turn a few scraps into a charming set of fairy dolls. Or a Cozy Little Penguin or a Soft Little Duck.
Storm at Night Quilt An eye-catching twist on the traditional Storm-at-Sea pattern. Or try Square Panel Quilt. Or use the Quilt Calculator to plan your own quilt.
Draw Inkscape patterns Learn to draw patterns (or anything, really) with Inkscape, a free vector based drawing program or make collages with Picasa, another free program you should have! There's also my book on Photoshop Masks, an expansion on one of my more popular tutorials from back in the day.
This is a commercial venture in that this is my first site ever with advertising, and there are a few things for sale, too. Much as I was reluctant to sell out, it was necessary. Plus it's great motivation to keep the projects coming. It's going slower than I had hoped with just an hour or so of computer time a day, but at least I feel like I'm making some progress and I've still got a whole ton of ideas for articles.