Friday 25 February 2011

The Week in Planes :: 8

Wombat, 22.02.11
Wombat, 22.02.11
Foldability: good
Flyability: OK
I still don't see how this resembles a wombat...


Skylark, 24.02.11
Skylark, 24.02.11
Foldability: fine
Flyability: OK


Delta Dart, 25.02.11
Delta Dart, 25.02.11
Foldability: good
Flyability: not great

Friday 18 February 2011

The Week in Planes :: 7

Space Orbiter, 14.02.11
Space Orbiter, 14.02.11
Foldability: good
Flyability: spin, spin, spin, nose dive, crash!
Good thing NASA designs better space shuttles than this!
But the paper version looks good on a desk...


Hammerhead Dart, 15.02.11
Hammerhead Dart, 15.02.11
Foldability: a bit fiddly
Flyability: surprisingly good


Starship, 16.02.11
Starship, 16.02.11
Foldability: OK
Flyability: OK

Wednesday 16 February 2011

birthday necklace

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38 is off to good start... Thank you, S!

Monday 14 February 2011

happy valentine's day!

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Sunday 13 February 2011

lavender cupcakes

If I had to pick a favorite floral aroma, it would be a close tie between lavender and lilies. But as far as I know, you can't eat lilies...


I made lavender cupcakes from the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook. I wish you could smell them from the photos... they're heavenly.


The recipe calls for whole milk infused with dried lavender flowers, preferably left overnight. I bought a bunch of lavender last weekend. I wonder if the woman who sold it to me had any idea how I planned to use it. It took about an hour to cut the flowers off the stems and stuff them into the milk jug yesterday.


This afternoon I started with the nesting bowls that M gave us for xmas.


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Hard not to feel happy with such fun colors and smart design.


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The infused milk goes into the batter for the cupcakes, as well as the frosting.


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While the cupcakes cooled, I made the frosting. It's not easy to make purple food coloring; I had to be careful not to oversaturate it. But I was pleased with the end result.


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Delicious! So fragrant and sweeeeeeet.


The only downside to making lavender cupcakes for Valentines/my birthday this week, is that it all but guarantees S won't send a box of cupcakes to my office again... Gotta make the lavender ones last. Good thing I have enough infused milk for one more batch!

Friday 11 February 2011

The Week in Planes :: 6

Wide Wing, 07.02.11
Wide Wing, 07.02.11
Foldability: difficult
Flyability: so-so


Dagon, 08.02.11
Dagon, 08.02.11
Foldability: fine
Flyability: good


B-2 Spirit, 09.02.11
B-2 Spirit, 09.02.11
Foldability: OK
Flyability: so-so


Glider, 11.02.11
Glider, 11.02.11
Foldability: good
Flyability: great, very smooth

Friday 4 February 2011

The Week in Planes :: 5

Arrowing, 29.01.11
Arrowing, 29.01.11
Foldability: fine; cut sheet into 2 pieces and folded together to make the plane
Flyability: good



Seaplane, 31.01.11
Seaplane, 31.01.11
Foldability: difficult; not sure I got this one right
Flyability: so-so



Ladybug, 01.02.11
Ladybug, 01.02.11
Foldability: good
Flyability: good



B-52 Stratofortress, 02.02.11
B-52 Stratofortress, 02.02.11
Foldability: difficult
Flyability: good



Stumped: Double Eagle, 04.02.11
Double Eagle, 04.02.11
Foldability: stumped!



For the first time, I was not able to finish folding a plane. And unfortunately there was no plane for 3 Feb - someone took it from my desk!