Why McDonalds can suck it

Posted on February 8, 2009 by 8junebugs

Because I put maple syrup in the batter.

Sunday breakfast

And I used real sausage.

sausage

I give you…the Macgirdle:

MacGirdle

I’ll wrap the rest up and microwave them for breakfast this week. That’ll keep me away from the drive-thru.

This, I feel, may be my major gastronomic contribution to my immediate family. KidBrother makes killer breakfast sandwiches, a la the mighty Egg McMuffin, except he uses real ingredients. That’s clearly his territory. Here, I have used real food to construct a tasty facsimile of the McGriddle.

Triumph!

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SEO response

Posted on January 28, 2009 by 8junebugs

Hi! If you get here wondering “how to know when French toast is done,” you have my sympathies. I’m not good at that at all.

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Not cupcakes IN A JAR

Posted on December 15, 2008 by 8junebugs

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It’s a Christmas Miracle!

Posted on November 24, 2008 by 8junebugs

Question: What’s better than a cupcake?

Answer: A cupcake baked IN A JAR! With an adorably designed and printed label on the lid! AND MAYBE A SPOON ATTACHED!

I am SO going to AC Moore this weekend.

I generally bake for my department holiday presents and I’m never quite satisfied with the wrapping options. Plain clingwrap is too plain. Holiday clingwrap is too ugly. Tins are never the right size and the usual design schmaltz makes me want to boil a reindeer and scratch my ass with his antlers.

(Which is terrible, because I love Christmas and would love to have a reindeer of my very own. I would hold him, and squeeze him, and call him George.)

At my last job, I made chocolates for the entire company (or, most of them…) each year. This place was too big to manage that before I even got here, so it became “department-plus-colleagues-I-would-like-even-if-I-didn’t-have-to-pretend-to-like-them.”*

Here my friends, is the clear solution. Apple cake for everyone!

 

 

* If you are reading this and you are or may be on my office gift list, act surprised or I’ll know you read my blog. :P

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What I did this weekend

Posted on September 22, 2008 by 8junebugs

Those purple ones with yellow accents are a replacement pair — I have a customer who’s exchanging for a looser fit on the leg. (I finished the mate this weekend, not the whole pair. I haven’t knit quite that manically in years.)

I love this customer…I think she may now own more pairs of my socks than any one person in my family, including my brother, who’s gotten a pair a year for a while.

(KidBrother hunts, you see. They’re great for that, especially in the obnoxious camo yarn I found a couple of years ago. GAWD, it’s ugly and acrylic and rotten to knit with, but it meets the need…)

The rusty red ones will be for the shop. I need some fall colors in there to tone down all the pink and green, and I needed a break from knitting with mostly black yarn, because it’s depressing and rough on the eyes.

The black ones are a gift. Not a surprise gift, because they were requested. It seems a pair of Jen-knit socks will last a good six years or so before they become puppy toys, so it’s time to replace some that I made as a gift when I first came down here.

Ah, that sweet, idyllic time when I had more yarn than money… When I’m finally diagnosed with arthritis, it will be from that year, that Christmas, when everyone got socks and/or a mix CD of holiday music under the tree.

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Spreading warmth one foot at a time

Posted on September 2, 2008 by 8junebugs

Hooray! One of my Etsy customers returned to my shop and purchased two pairs of socks today.

I love repeat customers who aren’t my mom.

:)

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Productivity, or the appearance thereof

Posted on August 22, 2008 by 8junebugs
Handknit Socks // Blueberry pie

How I spend my free hours

Were anyone watching my Etsy shop, they would think that I just knocked out a boatload of handknit socks in no time at all. Though I have done marathon knitting in the weeks before Christmas, it’s been a long time since I spent I actually knocked out a boatload of handknit socks in no time at all. Etsy, you see, has a marvelous user interface that allows one to renew listings that have expired. (Sales last year were underwhelming.)

I figure it’s back to school time and about four months ’til Christmas, so I might as well get some items up. Posting these gives me an incentive to make more, which also gives me a boost to start my holiday crafting, which also reminds me that I’ve got a special order to work on.

Please consider Etsy for all your gift/art/stuff-buying needs, folks. There’s some serious creative talent up there and very reasonable prices for the level of craftsmanship involved. I have purchased prints for framing, coasters, light switch covers, gorgeous gift labels, and stationery, and I’ve been thrilled every time.

Fabulous Etsy shopping features:

  • Shop by color — perfect for the person who loves everything, er, red
  • Shop local — support local artisans more than once a year at a street fair
  • Pay with Paypal — easy, convenient, safer then continually plunking in your credit card info
  • A little bit of everything — crocheted tea cozies to custom stuffed animals that match your pet
  • Craft supplies and vintage patterns and the kinds of things you just can’t find at Michael’s
  • See what people are buying from where with the Geolocator — because a shop is more interesting if someone else just bought an item from it

Seriously…it’s way cooler than eBay.

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Piecemeal

Posted on August 16, 2008 by 8junebugs

Or…What the eff was I thinking?

I finished cutting and piecing the small blocks for my Screw You, Mother Nature quilt the other night. I am now putting the small blocks into big blocks and deciding that it will look better with strips between the big blocks.

If you need me, I’ll be switching thread to work on another project for a few minutes. Something small and pretty and likely to be finished today.

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Six pounds of lint

Posted on August 11, 2008 by 8junebugs

More photos to come when the fabric strips stop breeding and my eyeballs stop bleeding. Or when it looks more like a quilt. Whichever comes first.

I should note that Alicia’s is damn near done. Because she’s a full quilt smarter than I.

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The latest re-obsession

Posted on August 8, 2008 by 8junebugs

Screw you, Mother Nature. If I have to deal with another month of summer, I’m going make me a quilt in Fall colors.

Take that.

I’ve always wanted to learn quilting, but it’s one of those HUMONGOUS, time-consuming, tedious crafts that works a lot better when you’ve got a partner. (Like exercise, but…drier.) I have some pattern books and some magazines (1990-something), some fabric, and a fair amount of supplies, but I’ve always lacked the ambition to even get to the finished-quilt-top-in-the-closet stage.

No longer. Alicia’s got the bug and we’re proceeding before we remember how much freaking work goes into these things. True to form, I am probably biting off more than I can chew. Here’s a sample of what will be in my, I hope, full-sized quilt.

Maybe.

In related news, I finally got a couple of Euro pillows and will need to make shams for them out some stash fabric. It’s a Sewingstravaganza around here.

I apologize in advance to any guests who end up with pins stuck in their feet. Those suckers really blend with my carpet…

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