After putting some gruelling hours in Scuba at Sport Chalet this morning, I've got a hankering for some good sushi and since the Japanese Grocery store is close to my house, we stopped by to get some stuff for a Japanese Food Night.
Lately it seems that I've been on a cupcake craze. I want to make cupcakes all the time, but the truth of the matter is that it's winter and I can fire up my double ovens whenever I want.
I'm doing my homework one Friday morning in my office as well as trying to organize my fabrics, yarn, etc. so that I have room to spread out my books. As I'm organizing and trying to find a package of post-it tabs to mark my notes, I see a plastic bag shoved behind my fabric bins. I get on my knees and crawl underneath the desk and moved all of my boxes, curious as to what is in the white plastic bag. When I finally get all the bins oiut, I found a bag full of felt. There must be over fifty pieces of felt in the bag. Jackpot! I was saving most of the felt that I have in one of my bins for other projects that I'm working on. Little did I know, I have more. So, the homework was hastily casted aside and my mind began spinning on how to make use of the extra felt. Then it hit me... make more iPhone cozies.
For a couple of weeks now I've wanted to bake and experiment with cupcakes. There was a cupcake recipe on my Ghirardelli Recipe book for Dark Chocolate cupcakes. I reinvented the recipe by adding really strong coffee. I wasn't at all scared at how it would taste like. It's not going to be dramatic nor will it change the the consistency of the cupcake. I figured nothing could go wrong with coffee and I was right. The hint of coffee flavour mixed with the chocolate was positively scrumptious.
Synopsis:
After catering at a golf tournament all day today, Mike and I came home really hungry. Sadly, he was craving hamburgers.
Every year during the month of September, we throw Alice a birthday party or a birthday dinner at my house. Every year, I bake a cake and every year it's different. This year, I've deiced to make her a raspberry torte.
This last camping trip to Donner Lake proved to be quite spectacular. I like the outdoors! After I gave my camera to Christina, I've decided to work with an older digital camera that isn't as great as my other one. However, I was surprised that the photographs came out pretty well.
There were so much Lily Sugar and Cream yarn, but I couldn’t help it. It was so nice and soft and perfect to make amigurumi animals from my Japanese amigurumi patterns that I purchased from Etsy and Kinokuniya Bookstores (another addiction). Then it hit me, why not make amigurumi fruits? Hmmm….it was worth a shot. I made a strawberry amigurumi last year and maybe if I expanded that genre, I would end up with something and I’ve finally came down to these…I’ve knitted and crocheted so much that my wrists hurt. Well, actually, they didn’t hurt at first, but a couple of days later, I could feel my left arm start to throb and then pain came. I was experiencing DOKMS … Delayed Onset Knitter’s Muscle Soreness. No, DOKMS doesn’t exist in the medical journal…not yet at least. So without further adieu, here are the photos of the new line from HC Studios called “berryHaze.”
There have been some complains in my family that there's knitting projects everywhere around the house. It's supposedly contained in my office, but it's managed to escape into the living room, my bedroom, the kitchen, and the spare bedroom. An in all honesty, I don't even know how much yarn I have, even with Ravelry's help.
I figured, to keep the peace in my household, I've decided to knit so much that it will cause "knitter's elbow" (if that even exists). There I was, holed up in my office trying to come up with patterns to crochet or knit. There were so many skeins of Lily Sugar and Cream yarn, but I couldn't help it. It was so nice, soft, and perfect to make amigurumi animals from my Japanese amigurumi pattern books that I purchased from Etsy and Kinokuniya Bookstores (another addiction). Then it hit me, why not make amigurumi fruits? Hmmm. it was worth a shot. I made a strawberry amigurumi last year and maybe if I expanded, I would end up with something that can bust my stash. I crocheted so much in that my wrists hurt. Well, actually, they didn't hurt at first, but a couple of days later, I was experiencing DOKMS...Delayed Onset Knitter's Muscle Soreness. No, DOKMS doesn't exist in the medical dictionary...not yet at least.
The patterns and actual toys will be on sale at my etsy shop www.deebunny77.etsy.com
The second thing that I'm excited about is that after cleaning up Mike's computer (which I was using to do some graphic illustrations a while back), I found some of of my drawings. I want to give many thanks to dearbarbz. She posted her illustrations on her blog and so I think I will do the same...
This first illustration is a 5x7 drawing....
As you can see, the illustration is quite small and the I've added a calendar on the top left hand corner of the drawing.
Since I was cleaning up like crazy on Friday and Saturday, I found these awesome magnets that my mum bought me when I visited her in San Francisco... I think I may start an amigurumi series on these as well...
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