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OK love you buh-bye!
I am ruthlessly - and I do mean *ruthlessly* - cleaning my fabric closets. I'm getting rid of everything that I don't have plans for, and a few things I actually did have plans for. Ouch.
I'll be listing the whole shebang on March 15, but right now "it looks like a fabric store threw up in my sewing room." -
Germinating at Estrella
I'm teaching two classes on 16th c. German clothing at Estrella, and liable to do a trunk sale of accessories as well (I have too many chains and hat-bobs!) Class info below - please cross-post if you like ( Read more... ) -
New Viking Costume Book - reviews?
DBBC just released Nille Glaesel's "Viking: Dress, Clothing, Klaer, Garment." I saw a copy on Wednesday, but only briefly scanned it. Anyone out there in LJ-land willing to offer up a review?
My initial impression was a lack of scholarship (no footnotes, few primary visual sources) but that may have been just the pages I was looking at. -
Variations on a crabby theme...
Made it again tonight, adding the green onions and doubling the crab and pasta, and it was *still* too salty. Either the cellophane noodles need more salt (as opposed to the regular pasta I used,) my fish sauce is super-salty, or I should have followed my gut and decreased it. Here's tonight's variation ( Read more... ) -
Hi. My name is Wendy, and I love crab.
Dungeness. If I had to choose between crab and chocolate, well, let's just say the likelihood of my head exploding is very high ( Read more... ) -
Gifts and sleeplessness
I woke up at 1 AM, and haven't been back to sleep since. Please pardon any randomness that ensues ( Read more... ) -
Things that start with "C"
Christmas with J!, madbaker and bonacorsi was lovely. There was much laughter, fun, food, and wine. There was very little stress. (And what tiny bit there was, was caused by a bout of insomnia that nobody could do anything about.) Most relaxing Christmas ever. And the stockings were to die for! I have so much foodie spicy goodness to hunt up ideas for,and it ( Read more... ) -
Happy birthday, tafelspitz!
Now back to baking - don't suppose I will be posting much this week. :-) But the sugar cookies are finally done and iced, the dough for the pitascho-cranberry cookies in made and chilling, and all I have left today is to make gingersnaps. -
Next batch
Chewy Chocolate Coconut Pinwheels. I made these because I had coconut I needed to use up, and they say they keep well. They're sweet, chewy, chocolaty cookies. They a little too normal to be quite my cup of tea, but they should go over well. Like most pinwheel cookies, the dough goes through two stages of refrigeration, so they do take ( Read more... )