Shoes and Pie

I'm a verbivore!

new skirt

Okay, I swear, I still have plans to sew Butterick Retro ’52 B4790 before Spring settles in. BUT FIRST… I finally found the black, stretchy twill-like fabric that I’ve been looking for to make into one of the knee-length skirt options of Simplicity 5259. Now, while this might be easy-peasy for some of you sewers [...]

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Mon, February 25 2008 » sewing » 3 Comments

flex plan

I like meat. I like to cook meat, I like to eat meat. Mmmmm, meat. Cattle, poultry, pork, seafood, game… I have no idea what category rattlesnake would fall into, but yeah, I’ve eaten it. I’ve also had vegetarian and/or vegan friends since I entered college, and while I do offer to forgo meat in [...]

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Sun, February 24 2008 » food » 2 Comments

an end to all the violence

Yeah, so, um, this week’s theme fell together by accident, and I kinda don’t have any other violent things to talk about. I still really, really like that gun, and I still can’t find my switchblade, and… that’s about it. Jimmy forgets that I CAN’T TALK ABOUT ninja camp or they take away my license [...]

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Fri, February 22 2008 » blogging » No Comments

Violence Week continues

A long, long time ago I can still remember… Waaaaay back in high school, Mandy went to Italy and was kind enough to bring me home a souvenir… a switchblade knife of my very own. It looked just like one of those “Oh my it’s a switchblade oh ha ha it’s really just a comb” [...]

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Thu, February 21 2008 » Shoot, I forgot to add tags again » 5 Comments

the kid in me

I have all of the natural grace of a football falling down a flight of stairs, but… I still want pointe shoes and one of those sticky-outy pancake tutus. And a minigun that shoots 50 rounds/second. Aw, yeah.

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Tue, February 19 2008 » fashion » 2 Comments