EDIT: Now that the series is finished, here are the links to all the posts! 1. Ingredients 2. Recipes 3. Tools 4. Vanilla Butter Cake recipe 5. Swiss Merengue Buttercream recipe 6. Assembling a cake 7. Food colouring 8. Fondant 9. Multi-tier cakes 10. Piping 11. Sprinkles 12. Self-care I’ve sold a lot of cake … More 12 Days of Cake in Rankin
Hi all, if you have been curious about the podcasting work I have been doing at Wool n’ Spinning, but you are not a member of Rachel’s Patreon, I have a cool surprise for you. I recorded a bonus episode of The Wool Circle. It is going to Premiere, with live chat, on Monday, Dec. … More Boxing Day Surprise: Wool Circle Episode 83!
I wasn’t planning on doing a big planning post for next year. Last year’s was a bit of a farce, and while I didn’t take it too seriously, I also don’t want to look back at the end of next year and find a list of things I didn’t do. As part of my self-study … More Learning Plan 2023
2022 had two very distinct halves for me: before the May RV trip, and after the May RV trip. At the end of last year, I sat down and made a meta-make 9. Yeah, so, I was in fantasy land when I made that. It happens to me sometimes that when I’m sick, I get … More 2022 In Review: Change and Generativity
No colour in today’s Sock Study. Think of it as a palette cleanser between a whole year of studying analogous colourways, before I (eventually) get into spinning complementary colourways. Today, I share with you something completely different! Qiviut blend sock yarn. Oh this stuff! I esplain. No, is too much. I sum up. It started … More Sock (Colour) Study – Fingram Qiviut Blend Cabled Sock Yarn
Do you ever find it difficult to get into a particular mode of communication? It can’t just be me. When I’m on Facebook too much, I start thinking in Facebook statuses. When I read too much of a particular author, I start thinking in their words. Right now, I’m getting really into planning and making … More SCS+BCS: Blue-Green Top Socks
Today’s monthly round-up is brought to you by exhaustion, distraction, overwhelm, phone pictures, and the manifest prognostications of burnout. In other words, I’m going to be complaining today. I have a sermon and an article to write this afternoon, but I find my writing gets a lot better if I can work out my grumpiness … More November 2022 Round-Up: Work, Work, Work, and Play
October is the month that started with one last little harvest from our garden: And ended with a blizzard. We didn’t actually go trick-or-treating in that. We went the day after, when it was still -18 with winds 30 kph gusting 50, wind chill in the -30s. Ugh. Gotta work for your candy. There’s been … More October 2022 Round-Up: It Got Cold Fast
Edit: I made a statement in the original version of this article that was offensive. I apologize for the hurt this caused. The full retraction is here. The offensive statement was not important to what I was saying, and has been removed. I am leaving the article itself because of how many people connected with … More I’m a Priest Who Kinda Likes Halloween
Let’s see if I can find my way back to the beginning of the story of this shawl. The year was 2013. The month was August or September, I forget which. Stringbean, then a tiny six-month old, had been in the hospital with a UTI. Being a new mother left me feeling completely shattered, all … More Dooner’s Girasole
