Category makings
The Summer Quest: Giardia lamblia
One of my favourite fellow Bay Area Sewists, the lovely Rebecca, challenged me to a microbe-making summer quest, inspired by this post. You can buy those patterns from Etsy, but I wanted to explore making some more in the same vein as my beautiful E. coli. For my first one, I decided to pick a […]
Wedding Camper Stitch
This was a labour of love. One of my best friends from the UK was getting married, and I wanted to make them something as a wedding gift. I had a little something in mind, but it was a project that I knew was going to take a long time, so I was initially kinda […]
Book Review: My New Roots by Sarah Britton
I have a fairly large, and getting bigger, collection of books dedicated to natural and vegetarian cooking. Before selecting this book, I did a bit of research into what it would add to my library: Sarah Britton is the lady behind My New Roots, a blog, recipe site, and now book dedicated to what she calls “all-inclusive” […]
A gentle reminder for forgetful people.
You know how it is. You think to yourself “yep, I must do that later” and then the thought completely vanishes from your mind. Yup. I got a new car (first and probably only time I will ever have a brand new car in my life!) at the end of last year, and since then […]
Book Review: Bread and Butter by Erin McKenna
A few weeks ago we went to Florida with some friends. On our last day we had run out of regular bread, so had to eat some of my friend’s Gluten Free bread. I now feel the pain of Gluten Free bread. It is a tragic thing. So for my next book to review I […]
Caffeine – His Favourite Drug
Hello. I am a teetotal drug-free Vegetarian. Mr M is teetotal, mostly vegetarian (due to lack of any meat in our apartment), and mostly drug-free. His only drug is caffeine, and he indulges in a caffeinated cup of coffee once a day in the mornings, but has now switched to decaffeinated coffee for the most […]
Beach Brian.
May was such a crazy month! We took a trip back home to the UK for a week at the beginning for one of my best friend’s weddings, then crazy busy work with drama drama drama all over the place… then another week off for a surprise (to me) trip to Florida to (among other […]
You can’t have a party without Party Rings.
This afternoon I had a little baking session. This little baking and decorating session was inspired by a quick little cross stitch project I completed this week. This was from the June 2013 issue of CrossStitcher Magazine, bookmarked (literally) for (2) years and not yet tackled! On our recent trip home for a wedding we […]
National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
We are just coming to the end of my first Medical Laboratory Professionals Week! There is a National Pathology Week in the UK, but it is never really done anything about, at least not in any of the labs that I had worked in, so it was nice to embrace my (not so) inner nerd […]
Starfish Earrings
Or…… just how big is too big? We have had a visitor from England with us the last week or so, and this past weekend took a trip to Yosemite…. Yep. It was quite glorious. I bought a cute pair of turquoise earrings from the Ansel Adams Gallery, which kind of made me want to […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 