Shoes and Pie

Practically Perfect Pie

I picked up the pie pans again, at Scott’s request, and dove back into perfecting my Key lime pie recipe. He officially rated this most recent attempt as an 8. I would have hoped for higher, but he softened the blow by telling me that he hasn’t actually experienced an 8 before. He also threatened [...]

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A lot of minutes past midnight

Apologies for the delay in posting. I was sidetracked.
2 Minutes to Midnight. Iron Maiden, from 1984’s Powerslave album.
I was going to post the video today, but after watching it… oh, my, it’s so painfully awful. The song is bad. The lyrics are bad. The video? It’s bad. The “symbolism” is heavy-handed to the point that [...]

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Two Minutes to Midnight*

Work is busy, life is busy, I’m shipping things I’ve sold on eBay faster than I’m posting new items, I have another order for customized ID tags to fulfill, and a rush freelance job (small, but hurried) that unexpectedly cropped up this afternoon.
Become chicken, remove head, commence with running.
*Anyone? Anyone?

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the halter top: results

Yeah, um, no. It started out pretty well:

That’s it, trimmed out, pleated, and pinned into place. Not bad, for guessing! I attached a waistband (twice; I realized after the first attempt that I had unintentionally denied the laws of physics), but gave up before ever sewing on the pearl buttons. It just wasn’t draping properly, [...]

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I thought this would be a beautiful wedding ring

And I do very much love the sheer passion behind it. But truth be told, I’m too much of a hopeless romantic, and I want to grow old with someone… and I want to wear one ring for the duration. I’m not sure I want to be 80 and wearing a ring that reads “FUCKING [...]

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