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Bonzai!
Ok, I know it's a bit late for Christmas cookie making, but I know several folks who like to work with chocolate, and tempering chocolate can be a pain. So for those of you who like to work with chocolate in any larger amounts, someone has made an instructable for a tempering pot that won't cost you an arm and a leg. Leave a commentSolstice morning
Or as Terry Pratchet put it: A flaming ball of gas appeared on the horizon ( Read more... )For those of you who collect Tarot cards
A fellow reader at the bookstore, Corrine Kenner, has a set of Tarot cards being printed by US games next year. However, she currently offers the e-version for sale of the Major Arcana so you can make your own. What makes these so special you ask? This is a Christmas Tarot, made from Victorian Christmas cards and the imagery lines up suprisingly ( Read more... )*head desk*
I really REALLY need to STOP READING THE COMMENTS AFTER NEWS STORIES!!!
I know this, I just need to keep reminding myself until I actually stop doing it.
*sigh* the stupid...it burns.Auuuugh! The stupid! It burns!
More proof that the tea party is bad for our nation. The head of "Tea Party Nation", Judson Phillips, has stepped into stupid with both feet. First, he publicly said that that "like our founding fathers" he belives that only property owners should be allowed to vote, because they have a greater stock in what happens to America. *headdesk, headdesk ( Read more... )Auuugh! The miltantly ignorant are killing me!
Ok, so the Catholic League recently got the Smithsonian institute to pull a video from one of their exhibits in the portrait gallery called "Hide and Seek" about portraits of gay or suspected gay artists and cultural figures. I understand about why they removed the video. Yes it was disturbing, and if you were Christian would seem very flagrantly ( Read more... )Ladies and Gentlemen, see that line we just crossed?
Probably not, I missed it too. I was made aware that we have now been in Afghanistan longer than the Russians were back in the 80s. The Russians pulled out 9years 50days after invading. We have been there since October 7, 2001, less than a month after the 9/11 attacks ( Read more... )Facial hair
So I am now 1 week into my yearly vow, and I'm already relatively furry. I told my honey:
"I'm sure that there are men out there who envy my ability to grow a beard in about a week...but they probably have hair, so I think we can call it good."So my boy is not such a manly man
but I knew this ( Read more... )