and done! maybe…

Okay! I can call the costume complete, if I have to… I finished the loincloth, which I think can even be worn on the belt over top of my utilikilt or leather pants for a nice finishing touch. (Parties in the middle of the month will likely not allow such nudity…) I also finished the […]

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and another piece

And one more piece. It has been done for a while now, but I have been trying to photograph it. Not so easy to photograph something that is about 2″ inches wide and 7 feet tall. For reference, I stand mostly eye-to-eye with the “skull” bone. The middle pheasant feather stand about seven foot tall […]

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The Madness Returns…

The Holiday Madness. It can strike me down almost any season of the year. The most maniacal of them all is December. But the gay high holiday is approaching… I am quite fortunate. No decorations… The Halloween Madness stirs in me only for the costumes of the occasion. I mean, really, WTF? You can be […]

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And I was doing so well…

This year I thought I was going to make it… My family has let go of the endless gift buying and giving thing,so I felt no financial pressure what-so-ever… I thought I was going to make it… Even though I knew I could not tolerate a big party this year,I decorated enough – inside – […]

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Cookie-Marathon – Part Tre-foil

And another set done.One kind of cookie and two types of fudge. Vanilla-cranberry and butterscotch-pecan fudge.The easiest recipe EVER! Got it from my mom, of course.She is far too sensible and practical for those long, drawn-out75 step kinda recipes… The cookies are from my eldest sister’s recipe box,(which technically is mostly my mom’s and grandmothers’ […]

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Cookie-Marathon – Part Dough

So last night I started the (hopefully) wrap-up of holiday cookie baking.More jello flavored press cookies and gum drop bars…Although I left the latter in the pan over night and they already may be stale.DAMMIT! Good thing everyone else in my family bakes those too, there will be plenty… I hope to continue most of […]

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