Things I've Done Today

I set up an "amazon associates" account for my new blog (RSS-for-LJ Feed is here, fyi -- thanks Deakat). I will be doing periodic book reviews there in the hopes that people who want to buy those books anyway will do so by clicking on my links. Benign self-interest and all that.

Sewed the bodice of my dress for this weekend. (I still need to add a hook-and-eye closure -- very badly -- and stitch down the last bits of the bodice at the back... and do a little more work on the darts at the front, I think... But it's *mostly* done, and I think it looks pretty decent, particularly for a no-pattern, made-of-an-old-skirt, hand-stitched jobby.

Made earrings to go with the dress -- silver 2mm dots, rainbow moonstone 4mm dots, and mottled purple (stone unknown -- gift from Raynedaze) rectangles. Short, symmetrical, and hung on kidney-hooks so that they actually close and I won't be likely to loose them while on the dance floor at the wedding.

Emailed out a bunch of invites to the upcoming kinky-chicks party that I'm co-running. Also emailed out a couple of registration-receipts for the same party (thank goodness).

Updated my LJ Profile (yes, really -- it's been a few years, and it needed some work).


Now to write a book-review for the Other Blog, since the sewing will have to wait until Ghost gets home (late this evening, as she's having dinner with a friend after work) so that I have help pinning the damned thing. ;-) Wish me luck! :-D


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

Cherry Berry Jam - Ft. Forgaged Local Fruit. Whee!

Today, I made jam. Specifically, I made THIS jam:

( Cherry Berry Jam )

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This recipe, which is kind of a cheater’s jam, since it waters down the fruit and adds sugar by volume after that, makes about two 2C mason jars worth of jam. Having only just made the stuff, I haven’t got a clue what it’s consistency is going to be like (whether it’ll be closer to jam or jelly, for example), but going by the stuff I used in the cold-plate test, it’s going to (a) be ridiculously sweet, and (b) taste pretty good, in spite of that. :-)


Rayne says: This isn't just bio-reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeegional, it's, like, micro bio-reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeegional. Do I get extra points for that? ;-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon.