Oh the Cuteness!

I've been wanting to post pics of my collages for a while, and I just couldn't wait till I got a good digital camera (which will probably be for my b-day on monday) to post this one. Made it in my painting class. It's about 10 sumi-ink drawings of mine cut up and reassembled on a 30x36 inch flat canvas. It has a lot of 3D elem ents that I tried to show in the pictures. Hope you like it. (And I promise I'll redo all my pics as soon as I get a better camera.)

Man, I've been working on this amineko for an eternity. He's been sitting on the coffee table with no legs or tail for god knows how long. but I saw that there was an amineko-along on craftster , so I thought I'd finish him up and put him on here so I could link it. He's sooo cute! And he's easily poseable for cute pictures. As soon as I get a better digital camera I'm going to redo my pictures on here and then take him outside and do some cute stuff. The pattern posted here is the one off of the craftster forum that was translated from the origional japanese one. I didn't change a single thing and I think it turned out really well: US Hook size G, one skein of worsted weight yarn and small amount of contrasting yarn, cotton batting, weights (pebbles, marbles, polly pellets, etc.), embroidery thread. Rnd (Rnds) = Round, SC = single crochet, SLST = slip stitch, INC = increase (+1 sc), DEC = decrease(-1 sc). Head (make 1): Rnd 1 : make 6 sc into a rin...

I've bee toying around with Asian cuisine lately and I thought I'd post my recipe for Teriyaki Chicken Donburi. Donburi is a Japanese dish that's basically some kind of protein (fish, eggs, poultry, meat) over a big bowl of sushi rice. And while I'd love to have a bowl of Tekkadon (raw tuna sashimi over rice) I can't afford to go out and buy expensive fresh fish all the time. But this recipe turned out so yummy and it's so simple. Makes enough to serve 4. Teriyaki Chicken Donburi For Rice: 2 cups short grain rice (I use calrose) 3 cups water 1/4 tsp salt 1 1/4 tsp sugar 2 1/2 tsp rice vinegar For Teriyaki Marinade: 1/2 cup soy sauce 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar 1 tbsp rice vinegar 1 tsp onion powder 1/4 tsp granulated garlic Other Ingredients: 1 package thin sliced chicken breasts 2 scallions (green onions), sliced thin 2 carrot, sliced thin on the diagonal 1 cup bean sprouts 12 dried shitake mushrooms (reconstituted and drained) Vegetable oil (can also use ...

Warning: Sissy, don't read this unless you want to ruin your birthday suprise! So I know people usually do a scarf for their first crochet project, but it seems I worked backwards and decided to start out making complicated stuffed animals for my first projects, and they turned out fine. I've started scarves before but always ended up unraveling them and turning the yarn into something else before they were done. I guess the monotiny of making row after row of identical stitches got the best of me and I got bored. But I recently picked up the Stitch n' Bitch crochet book, The Happy Hooker. And lo and behold, there was contained in that book a pattern for a scarf in there that went so quickly and easily and had so much flair to it that I actually finished it! It's just a chain of 203 and then 4 rows of double crochet with shells around the edges. I worked it in a nice fluffy, almost chunky, yarn that feels just like suede so it's super soft. Think stuffed animal in ...