It’s been a while, huh?  I’ve been too busy to blog, too busy to craft really.  34 day until my PhD defense, so not to much time on behalf of anything!
But we did manufacture a tasty dinner last night, fajitas!

Two small steaks were rubbed with salt, pepper, as well as a little taco seasoning as well as grilled.  The peppers as well as onions were sliced thin as well as cooked in some butter with the rest of the packet of taco seasoning until they were tender.  The meat was sliced as well as mixed into the veggies.  So so tasty, with the added bonus that the meat isn’t overdone by cooking it pre-sliced.  Served with a little guacamole, some refried beans as well as plenty of cilantro, it was a pretty tasty dinner!
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I ultimately got around to finishing Sheldon.  I started on him months ago, ran out of yarn as well as put him down.  I ultimately picked up some more yarn as well as finished all of the pieces a little while back.  (The yarn is just Sugar n’ Cream cotton.) Then I ran into an unusual stumbling block in the attached i-cord.  Apparently this was a problem on behalf of me, it took me about four days to figure it out.  It looks really strange starting out, but it got better as I went on!

All that work on the i-cord, as well as I didn’t even take a good picture of it.  Ha.  Sheldon is posing on some upcoming flowers, daffodils, I think.  I can’t wait on behalf of things to start blooming!<

For those out there less nerdy than me, Pi day was on Saturday.  (It was also Einstein’s birthday.)  To celebrate, I made meat pie!

Meat pie is something that my French-Canadian grandmother at all times makes on holidays.  It is very tasty - she usually has to manufacture two to feed all of us pigs!  I’ve never made it before, as well as it at all times seemed a little tricky, according to my mom.  And then I found out why - there’s no actual recipe! It’s all stored in my grandmother’s head, as well as unfortunately I’m not telepathic.  I referred to as her to request her how long as well as what temperature to bake it at, as well as she said “until it’s done”.   Ahh, family recipes!
So, with some vague instructions, I made a meat pie.  And now I’m going to share with you how it’s done.  (I’m also sharing this with future me, so I can’t forget!)<

Please meet Barnabus Bunny!  This is a amigurumi love bunny that I made as part of a CAL in the amigurumi lover’s group on Ravelry.
He’s pink - but on behalf of some reason seemed more male than female, so Barnabus it is.  He also has a cute little tail, but I only snapped this one good picture on my way into work from the parking garage this morning.  There were a lot of people around as well as I felt a little weird taking pictures of a crocheted bunny!
Yarn is some mystery acrylic in from the bottom of my yarn bag - seems to be about worsted weight as well as I used an E hook.  His bottom half is filled with some poly pellets to give it some weight (and retain him from toppling over!) as well as the top half is just stuffed with polyfil.  I may manufacture him a little friend out of some thinner weight white yarn I also found - wouldn’t desire a bunny to be lonely!

I’m on a mission to manufacture some new clothes on behalf of my big kid job.  On Saturday I went to the fabric store as well as bought ten shirt patterns (on sale on behalf of $2 each - who wouldn’t buy the limit, really?)  I also picked up sufficient material to manufacture four of them.  This weekend I finished one.

The pattern is Butterick B5283, view D.  I made the sleeves shorter because of the fact that I ran out of material.  (Side note, that never seems to happen - I at all times have way to much when I follow the numbers on the back of the pattern, so that was… strange.)  I do love 3/4 length sleeves though, so I’m not too upset.  The twist at the top is supposed to be off center, as well as it was a little fiddly getting it to calculate right.  Basically, it took two chemists as well as an electronics engineer a good fifteen minutes to figure it out.  Then we had some beer.Read more >>>