Fabric Oath

I am in the process of buying a bigger apartment that will have an extra room that I will use for sewing/crafting. Because of the expenses involved with moving and preparing my old place for rent, and the general need to get rid of stuff I am making the following oath:

I swear that I will not buy any new fabric for myself (excludes projects I'm getting paid for, or gifts for others - Christmas is coming up, yikes!) until I finish at least one of the following projects that I already have fabric for:

Lonestar Quilt
Zig-zag Quilt
Zombie Dress
Floral Satin Dress
Celtic Quilt
Amish Quilt

This oath should probably include genral crafting supplies, but I don't want to get too crazy.

Cherry Pinot Noir Waffle Syrup

It's Waffle Week. Yay!

This year I celebrated with a small waffle party with friends. I made a bunch of waffles and had people bring in toppings. I also decided to make a Cherry Pinot Noir Waffle Syrup from a recipe I found at MrBreakfast.com.

I used Pinot Evil Pinot Noir because it's got an awesome name, and I love their Pinot Grigot version.

I trippled the recipe because I wouldn't have used the extra cherries or Pinot Noir. I also was unable to find the star anise or it's substitute, anise seeds, on Maui, so I left it out.

I ended up simmering the batch a lot longer than the recipe called for. While this was probably necessary, I definitely simmered it for longer than I should have because it thickens a lot as it cools. Mine ended up more the consistancy of jam than syrup, but it was rather tasty, especially with the Cranberry Orange Waffles.

Spongebob Squarepants Costume

In college I majored in physics and I minored in theater. Strange I know. Neither my physics professors nor my theater professors really got it, but I think the two compliment each other marvelously. Well, my theater minor included mostly costume classes: Costume History, Costume Construction, Clothing and Culture, and Costume Design.

I took Costume Design my senior year and during the fall quarter we had an assignment for Halloween to make a 3 dimensional costume that concealed our identity. At the time I was watching a lot of cartoons on cable because we never had cable when I was growing up. I watched Sailor Moon, Tenshi's Universe, Dragonball Z, and Spongebob Squarepants. So I decided to make a Spongebob costume.

I had a large box from a blanket I'd ordered online and it fit over me pretty well. I cut out arm holes and eye holes and painted. I created a 3-D nose out of yellow vinyl (my mother works at a sign shop and often gives us the leftover scraps of vinyl that they cut letters and images out of).

I paired the box with a white t-shirt and my khaki shorts and black shoes with white socks:



The costume was a little cumbersome to wear, and my costume class was at 8:30 in the morning so it was a little chilly to be walking around in shorts.