The kids and I watch a lot of cake videos. And ever since Dooner saw this one, she had her heart set on a “rainbow shapes” cake for her birthday. Here’s my scaled-down version: The final product is petite, but it was a full effort. I bought the fancy circular cutter set, and the fancy … More Rainbow Cake!
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
I hope you like these colors, guys! Because you’re going to see them a few times in the weeks that follow. This is the Wool n’ Spinning Breed and Color Study fiber, dyed and carded by Katrina at CraftyJaks. This is kind of a big deal, because (a) she did both a carded and a … More Breed & Color Study: Radnor Sampling
Since I started spinning sock yarns, way back two years ago when I had my first really successful, really fast sock spin, I started saving pieces of each braid. I would unbraid, strip off about 1 oz, and set it aside with a label. I did this because 4 oz of fiber made frankly too … More SCS: Combo Spin 1
I hate March. No offense to everyone born in March, but your month is the worst. It is theoretically part of Spring, so it carries that promise, but it’s still winter. It’s totally still winter. The first half of this month was tough for me. Three things happened at once: My mom left after a … More March 2022 Round-Up: Recovery
So, in January, a few things happened. A) I ordered the Breed and Color study fiber from Katrina. It was a pre-order, and the fiber wouldn’t arrive for a while. This meant that B) I was kinda out of fun money. C) I wanted to spin for socks in analogous colors, and I wanted some … More SCS: Analogous: Geodes
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
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