Let's make happy
Not-So-Cute Things
Boston Cream Why?
Feb 15th
My husband John loves cake, so I thought I’d bake him a cake for Valentine’s Day. Seeing as how I’m a pretty inexperienced baker, why wouldn’t I just choose the first complex recipe that I came across? So there it was on Design Sponge the other day, a recipe for a beautiful Boston cream pie—accompanied by pretty photos, of course!
So I tried, and… kind of failed.
As you can see, my “chocolate glaze” was more like a chocolate syrup when I poured it on top, but I rolled with it anyway. I think it was a matter of substituting an ingredient or two, and maybe also an issue of temperature. (And boy does it look extra creepy sitting in the fridge in this photo!)
Anyway, it was eaten, and enjoyed, so I guess I kind of succeeded in the end, too. What will happen on day two of the cake remains to be seen, though.
And May All Your Salad Dressings Be White
Dec 29th
I just returned from spending Christmas with the fam in Oklahoma. It was a great trip, made memorable by the heaps of snow falling on Christmas Eve and our getting stuck in it while foolishly driving on Christmas Day—much shoveling and pushing was had by all.
Despite the holiday excitement and coziness that all the snow produced, I just realized that the only photo I took during my trip was of the Great Wall of Ranch Dressing at the local Wal-Mart.
Either way, it was bound to be a white Christmas.
Sheep Shop Shutting Down?
Aug 13th
I heard yesterday from a yarn store that the Sheep Shop Yarn Company is going out of business. This makes me feel as sad as a burnt marshmallow!
I love their colorful bulky yarn, and I was even just in the middle of designing a pattern using it. Sad sad sad.
Flops
Jun 5th
Could these be the ugliest flip flops of all time?
Yes, they are flip flops, and yes they were found at a thrift store, but still.
At Value Thrift Store in Tulsa. Which now has a fancy website!
Meatballs
Jun 4th
Update: I didn’t realize, but the the trailer is already out. I could probably watch computer animated food gloriously falling out of the sky for two hours, but it looks like most of it will be a not-so-interesting backstory.
This seems to be a big year for classic children’s books turned into movies. That is, I just heard about one more aside from Where the Wild Things Are, so I’m calling it a trend.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was another one of my favorite books as a kid, and Sony Pictures is apparently releasing the computer animated movie this September. Unlike Wild Things, It looks like there isn’t an attempt to capture the fun visual style that makes the picture book so special, so that makes it less exiting. But my favorite Bill Hader of Saturday Night Live is in the cast, it seems, and that’s a big plus.
