Autumn Zebra

The other day I had an urge to make chocolate chip cookies. Unfortunately our internet was down at work and I couldn't go online to look for recipes. Luckily it came back up just before home time, and my sister brought me a couple of recipes and a veritable essay on the making of chocolate chip biscuits that she found on the internet. I used one of the recipes I found, but I am going to try the ones she found sometime soon. I found my recipe here. It was very easy to make, and quick, and very yummy. The recipe theoretically makes 18, but I made 12. They were largish. Even two people at work who got one thought they were good (as far as I'm aware). At the supermarket they only had dark chocolate chips and milk chocolate buttons, so I used a mixture of the two and it has massive chocolate buttons in it and it is yummy. I thought it might not mix and stay together properly but it was fine.

Even though the bodice is nearly finished, and I only have to sew on the buttons and make some button holes or something and sew the darts, I really can't be bothered doing either of those things. Probably because those things seem to make a small difference - like only changing what it looks like by a few small buttons - but they seem like they would take ages or are just too annoying to bother with. Also because there is lots of describing to do and various pictures I have to work out the point of, I haven't written anything about it either. So I am going to have to write about other stuff instead. Like how I made a bustle pad that pretty much sucks, but maybe it is alright after all, and it only took an evening, or maybe two (but not like two whole evenings since I also made dinner and whatever else in it, so not ages ). Anyway, first I examined the pictures found on this page, Mode Historique - Bustle Era Underwear . and decided on several things, like that it looked like i...

Well, on Saturday we went to my sister's halloween party and BBQ. It was good, except we aren't really that keen on parties, so it was ok :) . If we were keen on parties I'm sure it would have been great. Since there was a bbq it started early to have dinner, and there were a lot of people there, even though normally people don't bother to actually go out anywhere until after 10 or 11pm, so that was pretty cool. There were decorations on the walls and hanging from the ceiling and they were good to - cut-outs and spider webs and black and orange streamers and so on. No pumpkins because a) it is not pumpkin season, and b) you generally can't get orange pumpkins here. (I love to here that kind of fact about other places - you just go "What? No orange pumpkins? How weird." And it is not a big thing but some wee fact that makes you wonder what other, bigger weird things might happen there.) Now - pictures. I love digital cameras. I love being able to take a mi...

Today I decided to wear my corset to work, over a shirt and under a jacket to see how it was. I also had to show some people who wanted to see it. I thought it would be a good test as well to see if it was wearable before having to wear it for several hours with no opportunity to remove it if I dressed up in costume. So far I have found out the following; see the list below arranged in order of comfort and convenience, from most to least: standing, walking, eating, drinking - perfectly normal walking quickly up slight incline, running up a flight of stairs - want to breathe slightly more than average sitting in normal chair - slightly more restricted breathing tying shoelaces - have to do something bizzare to reach foot sitting in bucket seats in car - rather more restricted breathing that annoys me, but not enough to make me feel faint or anything putting on socks - hard to get foot high/close enough to both hands to put socks on (both hands because not to hard to get foot to one hand...

Pretty picture that I took in our garden last year, they should come out again soon - they have buds again. Click to see bigger. This is my picture, copyright to me. Don't steal it. What if you searched google for things about lilies and you came here and I say nothing about lilies? Actually, I know hardly anything about them anyway. I don't know what type this one is, so if anyone knows, leave a comment. I spent a long time looking at all the lily images on google trying to find the type, and I think I found something that is at least close, but I forget now. This was last year. The cool thing about lilies is that you plant some bulbs, and then the number of bulbs gradually increases over the years. The bulbs split and make more or something. It would take many years to get lots, but it is nice all the same. Shortly after they had finished flowering last year, the leaves went slowly all brown and ugly and I thought they had been poisoned by the dish washing water I threw ove...

Current music - Matchbox 20. Currently looping on "Long Day". Although when I made this I think it was Iron Maiden. This is my black dress I made in less than a weekend a few weekends ago. It is for halloween where I am going to dress up Elegant Gothic Lolita (EGL) style for no reason other than I decided it for no reason. Yes. The dress is actually not really the right kind of style, but I was also using it as a test of the pattern for part of the wedding dress, although the wedding dress would be longer and have sleeves and so on and so on. But the basic pattern for what is there is the same. But now I have another idea that I need to make a test dress of, because I don't think this is really going to produce the desired shape; bias cut dresses are too clingy and tend to fall in at the hem rather than spread out. Anyway, the material is crepe-back satin and is quite static-y. I don't know the point of giving it a crepe back, but if it is to reduce static, for insta...

Well, I wanted to know how many people were looking at my blog, if any, and the only thing I know about to do that on a blog is ClustrMaps, which is the little map at the right hand side there. Apparantly 6 people have visited in the last 6 days. I'm pretty sure that at least 2-3 of them were me on various days after posting something. I didn't actually want to display the information about how many people came, I just wanted to know because I love that kind of information. But part of the agreement you agree to when signing up for ClustrMaps is that you will display one of their little maps - you aren't actually allowed to simply use it to gather information, I suppose you have to show it to help them advertise. Maybe if you pay for the upgrade then you wouldn't have to show it, but that would be kind of pointless. Anyway, apparently someone came to my site from Auckland-ish. How do they even know that? How do they trace to the correct location? If anyone knows or has ...