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daily photo: Feb. 26th
This is a bottle inexpensive go to wine for nights like this one where I’m doing nothing much more complicated than baking the Pistachio and Chorizo Cake from David Lebovitz. (It’s cooling now and...
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daily photo: Feb. 27th
Today was Cookbook Club, our focus was any recipe from David Lebovitz‘s books or website. We had a perfect mix (short ribs, celery root soup, artichoke tapenade, and a spread of desserts) and...
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daily photo: Feb. 28th
I made a batch of chocolate chip cookies from the NY Times recipe that everybody was going crazy over a few years ago, myself included. Despite weighing all the ingredients I appear to have halved the...
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daily photo: Mar. 1st
We finally installed our FLOR tiles so I used them to learn all about the A-Dep (depth of focus setting) setting on my camera. Last time I wrote about these we had samples and we liked one color, but...
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daily photo: Mar. 2nd
Taken during a brief window of sunshine today. This is our third string of pearls plant. I cannot keep plants alive and killed our first two. This one Scott takes care of and I try to not even look at...
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daily photo: Mar. 3rd
Around this time last year I started recapping our trip to Paris. These sets of wooden building play sets of both London and Paris which we bought at Muji still sit on the ledge of our dining room...
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daily photo: Mar. 4th
Here in Seattle we have a grocery delivery service called Amazon Fresh. Yup, from Amazon. Grocery delivery is pretty normal but the only other one we used was Peapod in San Francisco which closed down...
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daily photo: Mar. 5th
I’m deciding which vacuum to buy (ours is, well, sad) and I ended up making myself a chart to help me sort out which one I wanted. Shown here are three of my favorite tools for chart making: an Apex...
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daily photo: Mar. 6th
Today we went to the Emerald City Comicon and R2D2 came over to say hi. This robot was very impressive, it chirped and whistled at us and even appeared to have Tatooine dust on it. The guy controlling...
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daily photo: Mar. 7th
Ok, so this photo is from yesterday when we were at the Emerald City Comicon, but today didn’t have much going on and I wanted to take a moment to say how I enjoyed wandering around ECCC, and to give...
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daily photo: Mar. 8th
I left the house and didn’t bring a coat with me today, it was gloriously sunny and warmish. People in Seattle talk about the weather too damn much, and this time of year I find myself doing it as...
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daily photo: Mar. 9th
Today I made stew and it took half an hour before I noticed I’d forgotten to plug the crock pot in.
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There is no photo here for you to see today. Know what’s difficult? Getting pictures of people playing music onstage. Know why it’s hard? Colored light gels make skin look very strange, low light and...
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daily photo: Mar. 12th
This morning we made The Pioneer Woman’s French Breakfast Puffs, so very very yummy.
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daily photo: Mar. 13th
We went to Uneeda Burger here in Seattle to try to see if we could tell the difference between the regular patty and the grass-fed patty. We couldn’t. But Lindy West could and her hilarious review is...
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daily photo: Mar. 14th
Today my Here At Hogwarts comic arrived, it was drawn by Lucy Knisley and the cover was hand printed by Nora Renick-Rinehart. It was a small Christmas present to myself that I ordered early through...
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daily photo: Mar. 16th
This is the vanilla which I completely forgot to add to the frosting for the Leprechaun Trap Cake.
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daily photo: Mar. 17th
I completely forgot to put up a daily photo on Thursday. Blame St. Patrick’s Day. Or rather, blame the O’Margaritas we drank that night. I went to grab my camera to take a photo, discovered that I had...
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daily photo: Mar. 19th
After a long time of not knitting I’ve restarted a red hat. I’ve knit this one before but have been meaning to make another and keep notes to create a pattern, and to not make quite as many glaring...
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daily photo: Mar. 20th
Malt balls, an impulse purchase because they were so pretty. They taste horrible.
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daily photo: Mar. 21st
Playing with macro focus and aperture priority on my little-er camera.
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daily photo: Mar. 23rd
Today I learned that my little-er camera needs to manually be set to macro (I knew this but was in denial) and that even when in macro it still won’t focus on the point you’d like if that point is...
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daily photo: Mar. 24th
Today I got to meet up with a great bunch of women, it was great to see Cakespy, Stephmodo, Jenny Cookies, Cathys Wraps, Mia Cupcakes, Love Big Bake Often, and Not Just A Mommmy, who did an excellent...
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daily photo: Mar. 25th
I got a mini brewing lesson from Kyle Stevens today. This stuff is a lot of work, but very well worth it. His nanobrewery is forthcoming, watch out.
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daily photo: Mar. 26th
Today we stopped by the Bake It In A Cake sale at the Cakespy shop and managed to get some of the last cupcakes. Megan is a genius, see how lovely her cupcakes are? We got one chocolate cupcake with...
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daily photo: Mar. 27th
Nothing happened today so instead I’ll show you the lollipops made by This Charming Candy which I got yesterday. They have amazing flavors.
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daily photo: Mar. 28th
This is my favorite inexpensive tea. It’s hard to find in your (or at least my) average grocery store and I live in fear that it will be discontinued. The last time I found it in a grocery store on...
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daily photo: Mar. 30th
It’s been very gloomy the last few days. So gloomy even the willow branches somebody lovingly put in a planter outside the post office manage to look nothing but wet and cold. Willow branches should...
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almost daily photo: Mar. 31st
Whenever I bake I end up making last minute trips to the grocery store for one ingredient or the other. This time my dough for the Jar of Stars needed to rest over night and in order to get it made I...
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almost daily photo: April 2nd
I dropped off my goods for the Seattle Bakesale for Japan and didn’t get many pictures. This label was awfully cute though! There were a surprising amount of macarons at the sale.
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almost daily photo: April 4th
We went to see Red State at McCaw Hall on it’s stop here in Seattle. It was interesting to see an indie film on a gigantic screen in a huge fancy theater packed with casually dressed fans.
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almost daily photo: April 6th
I couldn’t have hoped for a better car to be stuck behind in traffic. It sure beat the cop car I had been stuck behind earlier in the day.
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almost daily photo: April 12th
Lunch today was a mushroom and spinach crepe from Tokyo Sweets. I learned that it’s really difficult to unzip your bag and pull out a camera when you cannot put your food down. Also that shortly after...
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almost daily photo: April 13th
My RSS feed broke, the engine light in my car is on, I was late to meet a friend at the bakery and when I got there I knocked a vase off of a table in a dramatic fashion, the cap of a Sharpie in my...
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almost daily photo: April 14th
Today was way better than yesterday, or so I thought. At lunch I dropped off the last document needed for our tax people to do our taxes, I got all the stuff needed to make dinner, I gathered and...
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almost daily photo: April 15th
I love how pipe cleaner chicks always look a bit freaked out.
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almost daily photo: April 19th
This is my view down into the industrial kitchens from my seat at Serious Pie (as in pizza). Those Hobart mixers mean business.
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almost daily photo: April 28th
Kyle sent Scott home with a bottle of the beer which I had the opportunity to watch him make last month. Don’t be fooled by the name, I mostly observed! Thank you, Kyle, it was delicious.
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daily-ish photo: bacon maple bar from Frost
We found ourselves out near Frost Donuts (a short drive away from Seattle) so we stopped in. I’d read a lot about it but I wasn’t prepared for how amazing the donuts look (take a peek at that Aztec...
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photo: a sign painter
I was walking through the Georgetown neighborhood and spotted this nice guy painting a sign by hand. I stopped to ask if I could take a photo and mentioned I knew somebody who is making a film about...
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photo: cheery red VW van
This van was so cheerful, like spotting a bunch of balloons on a dreary day. The owner clearly loves their van.
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photo: night ferry
This is what the last ferry at night out from Bremerton looks like. I was on foot and barely made it, I half-jogged the few miles from the house of the friend I was visiting, sprinted up the...
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photo: best case scenario emergency oil
When your car’s oil light comes on while you’re out running errands the night before a flight it’s a really lucky thing that the nearest place to pull over is actually the parking lot of a drugstore...
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dailyish photo: new bicycle helmets
The other day we bought new bicycle helmets. I chose a Giro Indicator and I like it because it has a little adjustment wheel on the back so it fits snuggly but it’s not headache inducing, and it’s...
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dailyish photo: my mixing bowls
My mixing bowls, from the outside in: The big yellow bowl was purchased during the summer I worked in the costume shop of the Santa Fe Opera during college. My roommate and I bought this on a trip to...
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photo: sometimes I wish doing errands was more like playing video games
This is the housing for the top of the elevators and stairs on the roof of the parking garage at a Target store nearby. But all I can see is a level in Portal 2.
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My Badass Perforated (aka Egg) Spoon
For our anniversary Scott got me The Badass Perforated (aka Egg) Spoon. It’s made to allow the runny bits of egg white separate so you can make a tidy looking poached egg. It works!
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strawberries
It was decidedly un-summerish yesterday so we fought back by eating strawberries and overexposing photographs. I drove home with these on the dashboard and they made my whole car smell like...
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