Mishaps and Bubble Wrap

153 years of awesome.

Also, my light painting project got on the front page. Go check it out!

New art. Go check it out.

Bink is so cool. I forgot he sent me this.

Another of my photos from HahliHusky and Janus' wedding.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Two hastily edited images from my photos of HahliHusky and Janus' wedding!

Maddison reached new echeladder achievement rung!

Maddison achieved graduation approval extraordinaire!

(except now I don't know when I graduate because of masters degree requirements that I haven't met and would need to do since I'm trying to get into their graduate program)

Gotta get that boom boom pow, Jane!

I need sentences for my drawing final. I'll take a few of them that I like, and create them into finalized drawings.

Guidelines:
-Make up sentences. They cannot be from a pre-existing book, magazine, movie, poem, etc.
-No established characters if there is a person in the sentence. If you're going to have a person in it, make them up.
-Nothing inappropriate (i.e., follow BZP rules here)

These are some examples from Chris Van Allsburg's book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick that kind of follow a rough idea of how I want to do this project, with a very narrative feel:

Under the Rug:
Two weeks passed and it happened again.


The Seven Chairs
The fifth one ended up in France.


Thanks!

These pumpkins!

Spritz cookies in the shape of pumpkins!



First Thanksgiving away from home, but my friends Christine and Jon had a Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of people who weren't able to go home or live here and didn't have a Thanksgiving dinner in town to go to. While eating, we watched part of Madagascar 2, part of Elf, and all of The History of the World Part 1. And then we yelled at commercials for being silly.

I made the aforementioned spritz cookies (which turned out very spicy and warm and quite different from what my mom makes) as well as cranberry sauce again. Except the cranberries didn't pop like last time and it's much more liquidy. It was kind of weird. But it tasted good and everyone really liked it, so no complaints here. I came out of last night with half a ham. So much ham. Delicious ham.

I am hamstuck.

The track team is having a Thanksgiving dinner tonight, so I decided to make a dessert. Except they had cranberries at Grocery Outlet for really cheap, so I was like "Oh man I bet I can totally make awesome homemade cranberry sauce and it will be awesome so let's just ignore that I've never made it before".

So, I'm sort of basing this off of the recipe on the back of the cranberry package, and then another I found online. The final product was supposed to be made of:

-1 cup water
-12oz bag cranberries
-1 cup sugar

After reading comments from people who had made the online recipe, it became:

-1/2 cup water
-1/2 cup orange juice
-3/4ish cup of sugar
-12oz bag cranberries
-1 cup blueberries
-An unknown amount (possibly half a teaspoon?) of cinnamon

Boil liquid and sugar together, then add cranberries, continuing to boil and stir them until they burst. Reduce heat to simmer and stir in cinnamon and blueberries. Remove from stove, let cool until room temperature and chill it in fridge.

It is so delicious. It is kind of tart but still sweet, and it is this super pretty mix of reds and blues that smells super cinnamony.

The recipe line of "boil until cranberries burst" needs to be rewritten to "boil until the cranberries start exploding juice at you and you start to question whether it's really worth getting flying boiling liquid on your hands to make this food."

Anyways, does anyone have some favourite Thanksgiving/holiday foods they like to make or like to eat?