Friday Fonts - Mobile's Font (again)

Not to be confused with the other Mobile's Font I made because I didn't name it first.

You can get it here, at 2tff.

GF Experiments - Cookie Fail!

I found a recipe for home made GF flour blends that was basically 40% whole grains and 60% starch, and I had a few random stuff on hand, so I thought "What the hey" and decided I'd make a blend and test it out with cookies because of reasons.

So I mixed two parts oat flour and two parts cornmeal for the whole grains, and the only starch I had on hand was cornstarch, so that was six parts cornstarch. I used the basic Tollhouse cookie recipe because I know it well and I wanted to compare results. The batter was tasty but super thin, more like pancake batter or something.

And the cookies looked like this:

Not like cookies! Also, this pan was a bad choice, because it always sticks and I keep trying to use it because it used to be so wonderful, but this is what resulted from that:

Which is tasty, but not like a cookie. It's sort of just a little corn-flavored, it's very sweet, and it's too moist. Like, it wouldn't cook in the middle without burning the edges. I'm glad I made a half-batch! 

I think I need more grain and a heavier starch--or a glue-ier one! I'm going to get to the Asian market after the holidays and pick up rice flours and some other grains, and I bet they have tapioca and stuff too, so I'll try again. And the rest of this flour that I mixed up will be used for something else, maybe crepes? Maybe...something that doesn't need to be thick or puffy?

Monday Mani - Pinks and Blues

As seen on my Instagram over the weekend! Sinful Colors' Savage with Spoiled's Shrimp on the Barbie on the accent nails, and Accio Lacquer's Space Hippies on the middle fingers!

I contributed some of my polishes to Mish at Accio Lacquer's big giveaway, and as a thank you / Christmas surprise, she sent me Space Hippies! It's so different from the colors I make myself and yet so lovely and perfect, so expect to see it probably more than once over the next few weeks!

What'be you got on yo tips this week?

Dear My Future Husband #2

I'm sure I'll expect a lot of you. I was raised on rom coms and epic tales of love that beats all the odds, and I just don't see why real life expects love to be lame. I hate those commercials that seem to be everywhere where they lady just puts up with the guy being a total ass just because they're presumably in love.

That's not what love looks like.

And I don't put up with anyone treating me badly, so don't think you'll get away with being a jerk--even a low level jerk--just because you're a dude. That's stupid and immature, and I expect you, if you love me, to act like it. I mean, all of society expects me to take care of you, and if I love you, I will, but there is absolutely no reason that means you don't have to take care of me, too. Love is a two way street, buddy. If I'm not appreciated, it tells me this isn't really love, and you're meant to be my Future Husband, so you'd better act like I mean as much to you as you mean to me, okay?

Friday Fonts - IIii

Mine again! You can tell because it has a ridiculous and random name. Also because it's my handwriting. Shh, don't tell.

You can get it here, at 2tff.

Currently...

Feeling:

• Like I'm too light on the world, like I might just sleep all day and basically have.

Doing:

• Not much. Thinking about something crafty.

Reading:

• The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made
• Why Does E=mc2?

Wishing:

• I had my own place and a very pretty English boyfriend to read books with.

Thinking:

• I might not make it through all of Dec without writing; BORN TO THE ROAD and EMBER are clamoring, and SEAKING'S DAUGHTER keeps flirting with me.
• Something about straightening my hair last night made it feel like someone else's hair, and it sits differently and is it possible that it has a different weight than usual?
• Today is such a tea day.

Drinking:

• Vanilla Chai black tea cut with Sugar Cookie herbal; feeling like I should have a bottle of wine in the house, but I don't.

Missing:

• The San Sebastian Winery
• A house with more halls and rooms to wander through than this one
• The moors
• Cake and cookies--I have to think about what goes into them much more now than I used to
• Spring sunlight through chestnut trees

Dreaming:

• About a future where I live in a nice cottage somewhere cool in the summer, and I can write or sleep whenever I want because I don't have a strict schedule, only daily wordcounts and whims.

Munching:

• On trailmix
• On rice crispies

Current:

• Weather: Icky as that super-cold-front moves in and brings snow tomorrow, but no snow yet
• Mental state: Shaky
• Motivation: Low
• Whimsy-level: High
• Mood: Hedgehog

How're you feeling right now?

Thankful Thursday - Second week of Dec 2013

1. I now have a valid medical reason to eat as many potatoes as I want.
2. Ditto on rice.
3. We're getting out cold weather back this weekend and it might even snow!
4. That A2 is such a cutie-patootie.
5. My weather-change headache is nowhere near as bad as it was last time we had a drastic shift like this!

What're you thankful for?

Wednesday Weigh In - 163.4! On a food-based holiday week!

It's only two tenths of a lb down from the previous weigh-in, but you know what? It's two tenths down in a week with Thanksgiving and three birthdays--and the birthdays all had cake which is a) one of my main weight-gain weaknesses and b) off the GF diet. I'm basically only making exceptions in the diet for cake these days, and it seems to be doing alright! I didn't lose much, but I most definitely didn't gain!

My bro and I decided that we were going to check out the local Korean market, and when I was there I bought a tub of miso--delicious, delicious, live-food, protein-and-umami-filled miso. Which makes rice even more delicious!

You know, I used to say that I could live off rice. I guess I'm proving it!