- sweets
I decided that I would make some easter treats for both of our families this year rather than picking up commercial chocolate eggs, so I’ve been having some fun baking this week. I’ve whipped up a Pecan Slice, Pecan and Choc Chunk Biscuits, and some chocolate dipped Macaroons. Most of that went into the post today… some might have accidentally been left behind ;)
Tomorrow it’s time for Buttermilk Cookies and maybe some Oatmeal and Walnut Biscuits… something with Oatmeal in any case. I do feel like making some Brutti ma Buoni or some Mexican Wedding Cakes, but they can wait for a few weeks.
- flowers
Scritti Politti – “Absolute” pic disc side1, originally uploaded by Geoff_B.
This makes me want to make funny little paper weights by setting flowers in resin.
- the impossible project
What good news for Polaroid lovers with the new Impossible instant film! The results achieved by Heather Champ have ignited my interest in instant photography a bit, but at the moment I’m happy to appreciate the successful shots of others.
- braille cube
Color Rubik Cube For The Blind
Rubik’s Cube in braille… I can’t believe the makers of the original cube haven’t made this already. A fantastic and functional idea that looks so much better than the colourful original.
- pea coats
Karen Walker – Turquoise Wool Peacoat
Kate Gilbert – Sweet Pea Coat pattern (I’d make this at a less awkward length)
Teva Durham – New Pea Coat pattern
Sarah Hatton (for Rowan) – Patti
It seemed like a good evening to start a list of winter clothes I like, especially ones I want to make. I have wanted to knit Patti for so long, I can see it’s been in my Ravelry queue since August 2007!
My list for jumpers is about this length, and my list of cardigans about double. I know I said this at the beginning of Summer and then did nothing about it, but I really should start my Winter knitting a season in advance… Oh & I still have a soft spot for this guy.
- ladramaqueen
I love this! Nicest bathing suit I’ve seen in ages, not counting my own frilled green and white striped bikinis that is :-)
- web & application interface icons
Really nice ones too! You see so many tacky, ugly or incomplete/un-uniform* icon and interface icon sets out there. I really like these, clear and representative, well drawn and consistent stylistically across the packages. I love that they’re based on the structure and appearance of Helvetica. Beautiful icons (& fonts for that matter) make me happy which is pretty sad I guess :-)
I found myself in an argument once that lasted a couple of weeks back & forth about what constitutes an icon vs a symbol – to me these are icons because even though their meaning has to be learned they look like what they might be representing, they look like a real object. The other person believed that because the meaning of images like these aren’t universally known representations of anything overruled that they looked like ‘things’ and would make them symbols.
Pointless argument? Probably :-) but still interesting and I’d love to get a real experts opinion on this.
*what’s the correct word for not uniform?
- flexible recipes
This cake made it onto my ‘to bake’ list when I first saw it on design*sponge. It looks delicious, fast and flexible – flexibility in a recipe for me is always good.
I’m pretty much incapable of following a recipe without modifying it somehow so baking something that can withstand my meddling without turning into a brick is a fantastic find :-)
Having said that, I do love reading complicated and structured recipes, macarons especially… they make it look so easy I’ve already convinced myself I could make them with no trouble.
- a little bit sex pistol
…or a little bit The Dark Knight?
God Save The Villain, my favourite Threadless shirt for ages.
I haven’t had much time in front of my laptop to post everything I’ve wanted to in the past couple of weeks, I really do wish the WordPress app for iPhone was more flexible and robust.
Never mind :-) I’m going to try to be less neglectful this week and see how I go – and fingers crossed for more knitting motivation.
- expired 600
Beautiful polaroids from Heather Powazek Champ, I’m particularly enjoying the ones taken on expired Polaroid 600 film (the bottom two shown here).