Archive for 2010
Fast easy way to infuse alcohol (or whatever) with fun flavors. I blogged a while back about making Earl Grey infused Vodka (I highly recommend this!) and you can use this iSi Cream Whipper method to do it quickly on the spot. Fun! This article by the Cooking Issues Blog gives very detailed instructions on [...]
V’ger seems to be doing slightly better. She can walk again and her appetite is mostly back. so, YAY! She’s so brave!
My cat had a stroke last night (I think). She couldn’t really walk. Today she seems a tiny bit better but is still listing to one side and sort of staggering. Since she’s seeming a little better this afternoon I am no longer frantically looking up at-home pet euthanasia. Which is a great idea, no? [...]
I’m excited about the Eat Real Festival this weekend happening at Jack London Square. I’ll be hanging around from 10am to 1pm doing something unspecified with the Oakland Museum of California and then I plan on hanging out and seeing stuff. Like the chicken 101 class and the goat milking demo. See whole weekend schedule [...]
My sister traveled to England recently and lamented the fact that she couldn’t find any suitably hilarious punk commemorative tea towels. So, obviously, I had to quickly dash off a few Sex Pistols inspired tea towel designs to Spoonflower for printing. First, the classic calendar style tea towel with sid vicious and some paint splatters: [...]
Grace Dobush – Crafty Superstar – Cincinnati – crafty supermarket craft fair Jamie Chan – Urban Fauna Studio – Bazaar Bizarre SF How to NOT freak out while juggling crafting, full or part time non-crafting related job, family, etc. For people who are not really interested in taking their craft business full time. Balance, personal [...]
With Lisa Congdon (Rare Device), Sally Brock (Fancy), Faythe Levine (Paper Boat) and Jennifer (Trophy Cupcakes) Advice for business owners Jennifer shea and Sally Brock – Business plan! ditto! Faythe levine – no business plan! no right way to star t a business. Lisa Congdon – Do I want to do this by myself? It [...]
Yesterday or maybe the day before there was like 20 minutes of quiet in this house. I could hear some vague rustling coming from the craft room but decided not to interupt whatever Jack was doing. and LO. I just went in there a second ago and found my book Ella by Bill Peet that [...]
I can’t wait to make this fabric into pillow cases. I need some ruffly white lacy shit to put on there too. I imagine that when I am sick it will be so nice to put my head on a nice cool pillow encased with the this kitty bud fabric by Melinda Josie.
I’m off to Seattle tomorrow at 7am (gah!). I absolutely HAVE to pack light for this trip since my suitcase has to be stuffed with 50 pounds of conference programs. Even though there are a few glaring problems with it it still came out fairly cute. What conference you ask? The Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs [...]
News flash! This place is huge. And awesome. And really big. Liz wrote up yesterday pretty well here so I won’t rehash it. Except maybe to say that when we at the entrance to Central Park it was so very alluring. I need to go in there. I am looking forward to doing one of [...]
omgomgomgom. I’m so excited to be in NY. I swear I never really thought about NY at all as an exciting place I would want to visit. Now that I am here I want to run around and lick everything. Except, actually I am in bed in my hotel room with laptop. Soon, soon I [...]
Yep. It’s never too early to give your kid a can of spray paint, a mohawk, a ukulele and some loud aggressive music. My sister just wrote up her list for toddlers, elementary school age and teenagers. I distinctly remember us dancing to Rock Lobster back in the day. so possibly Candyoisis is WRONG (yes, [...]
Recently Jack learned the words Kill, Dead, and Kill you Dead. It’s kind of horrifying to hear your 3 year old say those things. And I’ve been thinking about the day he starts doing that at our playgroup. That day was today. He picked up a stick that was gun shaped and started to say [...]
We attempted a plum jam last week. Plums were picked at a friends house and we bought some strawberries to add. We also added allspice and cinnamon. I was a bit scattered while we were making it and added the pectin at the wrong time. So the jam didn’t really gel like it should have. [...]
I hate parenting magazines. Every single woman depicted in a parenting magazine is over 5’8″ and weighs about 120 lbs. As all 5’1″ of me was sitting in my paper gown in the coochie doctors office the other day I accidentally picked up a parenting magazine and ever since have been in a shame spiral. [...]
bottomless popovers Originally uploaded by Minnibird Did you know that you get a bottomless basket of popovers when you have breakfast at the Cliff House? Totally true. We went over there last weekend and it must have been a spring tide because it was low enough to walk from Ocean Beach to the Sutro Baths. [...]
I recently wrote an article for Blogher about Crafting and Feminism, you can read it here! Blogher also syndicated my DIY swimwear post. I did clean it up a bit and link to some other bloggers and I took out the word ASS, as per my sisters instruction. However, I can say ass all I [...]
I’ma freak. I was going to be somewhat in the neighborhood anyway so why not go the extra… mile (or so) to get my old favorite the WILD AND NUTTY TURKEY SALAD SANDWICH?! No reason not to. I ate two. the thing is, I get obsessed with like one or two kids of food and [...]
