I don't usually post much about work, but here's an article from work related to what my company (Casey Family Programs) is doing. This is a huge step toward improving the child welfare system in America.

President signs child welfare reform act into lawOn Oct. 7, President Bush signed into law the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing ( Read more... )

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At first I thought this list would just be a bunch of cardboard animals and garbage bag 'Raisins', but there are actually some really impressive costumes in this slideshow ( Read more... )

I've actually been busy working on wedding stuff, like making pew bows, plus packing up stuff to move to Tim's so I haven't had a chance to work on my costume for a few days, but I did upload some of the "in progress" pictures.

Reference images:
Female human Tier 4 priest Incarnate Regalia
Close up of the shoulders on my character

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We went to Floral Supply Syndicate today and picked up a bunch of stuff... 18 vases for centerpieces, an aisle runner, wide ribbon for pew bows, satin ribbon for bouquets, pearl-head pins, wristlets for the moms' wrist corsages, and even the cake server and knife. So that's a lot of things I can check off my list, yay. :) I'm going to order the ( Read more... )

Right now I'm in the middle of a 3-day SharePoint/InfoPath training course in Kirkland so I don't have to go to work this week, just drive 7 minutes down the road to class in the morning. :) It's pretty nice and so far the class has been useful and informative. It means I get home earlier though, which is wonderful ( Read more... )

I cut out sleeves last night from medium gray satin (long, wider at the cuff) and made patterns for the sleeve designs that I will make out of light gray (almost white) satin that will be hand-sewn on top of the darker gray. There are basically two big pieces for each sleeve, one that is basically the cuff and then one that goes around the arm in a ( Read more... )

This is the best pasta ever (by Pasta ya Gotcha)... just needed to make note of the recipe so I can try to make it myself. I think this is the recipe ( Read more... )

I think this is a cool idea...

Custom Keds Shoes

So I took this design I made a couple weeks ago in Inkscape:


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I like that I can listen to the radio in the car, then tune to the same station on my Zune to listen to the rest of the talk show as I walk to the office and start work in the morning, then I can switch over to game soundtracks or whatever music I feel like listening to later. The thin profile fits nicely into my back pocket so it isn't hard to ( Read more... )