I've started my own website, and it includes a blog. I'm going to be posting there once a week or more, and I'd enjoy seeing your feedback. heliotaxis.com/?p=40

I made a series of dresses in about a month, mostly inspired by specific upcoming events. While I don't really recommend that sort of deadline intensive workload, it was useful for me to solidify my design process ( Read more... )

I hope you all had a lovely set of Winter Holidays of choice. I celebrated Santa Paws at the Dog Park, Cookie Weekend, as well as Christmas, and New Year's Eve ( Read more... )

This week, I made and canned 21 pints of sweet pickles, 4 pints of dill pickles, and 6 pints of cherry-lime jam. I have an additional 8 quarts of cherries sitting in my freezer waiting to become jam. Why ( Read more... )

After my last post, I went out and got a popcorn popper, because the coffee was FOUL. Acidic, and burnt and nasty. Take two, in the popcorn popper, wasn't burnt, but it also wasn't actually roasted. Ooookay ( Read more... )

So, to make jelly, you either need to use a high pectin fruit, like apples, quince and pears, or you need to add commercially extracted pectin. I also found a recipe to extract your own, but since I don't have the necessary ingredients on hand, I won't be doing that. For whatever reason, pectin can be purchased in either powdered or liquid form ( Read more... )

It irritates me that sewists so often seem to believe that the only way to finish their seams or hem their edges is to serge them, or zigzag them ( Read more... )

I started with 9oz of green Organic Sumatra beans. End result: 7.75 oz of beans ranging in color from cinnamon brown to black (sometimes on the same bean ( Read more... )

I feel that I am a very lucky person ( Read more... )

I actually have a NICE "I got honked at today" story ( Read more... )