Let’s talk about putting a cake together. Here, I’m not going to say anything that you couldn’t learn from watching just about any instructional video about making cakes, from someone who does it better than I do. But it would feel strange to omit this part of the process – where the baked cakes actually … More Six Assembly Steps

Happy Easter everyone! It’s Easter Monday, and I’m sacked out on the couch after spending most of the day having a great visit with neighbor kids. Our bodies are recovering from that last push of lots of Easter services, and adjusting to having sugar in our diets again. In between the necessary things, I found … More A Little Easter Fun

Yeah, so I’m kind of dipping from a lot of studies right now. I realized when trying to come up with a concise title for this post that this is ticking a lot of boxes! I’m studying spinning for socks, color handling, and the current Wool n’ Spinning color study. This is totally fine, but … More SCS+BCS: Carded Cables

Family This month was about a lot of things, but it was mostly about this: My mom finally made it up to visit. It was so good for all of us to spend the last two weeks with her. She arrived the day after Valentine’s, and left yesterday. We’re all a little devastated, but she … More February 2022 Round-up: Mom Month

Stringbean turned 9 on Thursday! And yesterday, we had a birthday party for her. Our communal obsession with cakes has taken many forms. For Stringbean, she has been working on her birthday cake design for months. We had to negotiate a bit to fit her expectations within my abilities, but in the end, we achieved … More Rainbow Cat-icorn Cake

At the beginning of February, I made a cake. Just for fun. Not for Valentine’s Day, or a birthday… just for fun. I wanted to try a chocolate cake recipe. I used the YBD vegan chocolate cake recipe. I love these vegan cake recipes because they are so impossibly easy, and the YBD ones hold … More Chocolate Cake is Delicious

So, remember how I started watching cake decorating videos on Craftsy and… it kinda got out of hand? Well, we still love watching cake videos on YouTube, and the whole situation just next-leveled. I got a Kitchen Aid for my birthday. My birthday isn’t till April, but the thing was on mega post-Christmas sale, and … More Cereal and Milk and … Cake?

Studying the spinning of sock yarns, and studying spinning colours, are both pretty enormous worlds. Some people will focus more on one area than another in this study, because we are all at different places in our learnings. I am an analytical person. I like to break things down, figure out all the possibilities. Also, … More Sock Color Study: Making Study Choices

So, I was sitting in bed on December 27th, and this happened. I was making lists of lists, and it sort of…. congealed. The number 9 is arbitrary, but it’s also… pretty. Now, it’s entirely possible that excessive planning is an advance symptom that I am getting a cold. That was definitely the case this … More Make 9 2022