Miscellany Ulog
Greetings, Steemians! I hope y'all are having a good day. It's a mellow try-and-catch-up-on-things kind of day here in the Velitas household.
I mentioned in my Actifit log yesterday getting steps from going back and forth with dishes to the bathroom sink, because the kitchen sink is clogged, so here are the dishes I had soaking overnight and scrubbed out this morning, lol. I filled the dishwasher this way (you have to pre-scrub everything or it doesn't come clean here). Hopefully the maintenance guy will be here soon.
My treat to myself, a giant size Filbert paintbrush that I got a hella good deal on (under $5 spent!) came this week, and makes me happy. It will make painting the idea I have for my biggest canvas a lot easier.
It's a size 70!
If any of you needleworkers ever wondered if cat hair would felt, the answer is yes. It will also pill. This is what came out of the washing machine when I washed a quilt that was just COVERED with cat hair:
I could make a new @dustbunny mascot with that and a felting tool, lol.
I made chocolate chip cookies, using my new favorite method: twice the chocolate chips, and all brown sugar instead of half brown and half white. They are so good. I may or may not have eaten several cookies' worth of raw dough before baking...
Ran and got some groceries at Sprouts yesterday, and my coupon game was on point. I love when I get good deals. I even had what couponers call a "moneymaker," that is, I got an item free AND cash back (50¢, in this case). ibotta FTW!
Last night I did a bit of hand sewing repair work. At least that's one less item in my mending pile! Woo! This and a bit of work on my Blanket I'll Be Knitting 'Til I Die is my #needleworkmonday for the week, because that's all the crafting I accomplished. :)
That's about it for today's #ulog - be well, Steem fam!
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What a day!!! And we are water-drama-partners right now. My kitchen sink is leaky, and we have to clean the dishes in the bathroom (we try to find a replacement today and repair it) I hope your problem is already solved :-D
Also partners in cookie-dough eating... I sometimes think I only bake myself so that I can eat masses of raw dough unobserved :-D I especially love raw shortpastry (I hope this is the right term)
And with the brush: woooow - this is big. I did not even know such big brushes exist. What are you going to paint with it? Is it for water colour?
Oh no, I'm sorry you're my kitchen sink problems partner. I am waiting on maintenance today, they did not come yesterday. I hope both our sinks are fixed ASAP!
Mmmm, raw cookie dough. And raw cake batter. And raw brownie batter. I like raw sweet dough/batter. LOL. By shortpastry, do you mean like for tarts and quiche?
The brush is for acrylic. I bought a giant size canvas (compared to the smaller ones I usually paint on) probably a year ago because I caught a really good sale on that too, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to paint on it at the time. Now I know, and now with my giant brush it will be a lot easier. :D
My kitchen sink is very stubborn. The landlord’s son tried to fix it yesterday and it worked for roughly an hour and now its dripping again 😱😱😱
And with the dough... I eat more or less everything in dough -form if its sweet and has butter in it :-DDD (I lived vegan for some years and I found this so sad, that all the vegetable butter substitutes here taste like clay)
So being back to vegetarian, butter is again in my cookies :-)
With shortpastry I meant a dough like this:
Liebesgrübchen (translates into 'love-dimple')
175 g flour
65 g sugar
125 g Butter
2 egg yolks
vanilla
salt
everything is mixed and put in the fridge. The dough is formed into balls and then filled with sour currant jelly and baked.
I know mine did not look very beautiful, but the batter is so tasty (and baked they are also amazing... in my opinion)
Ahh, OK! I used to be vegan too but now now I have too many allergies. The one margarine which was good and not terribly unhealthy we have here is called Earth Balance. The thing we didn't have was decent cheese substitute, lol.
I am a big believer in taste over looks when it comes to food! I would never be on Food Network, but I think what I make tastes good. :)
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There was a tv programme on last night about compers - slightly different to couponers, but I reckon of the same DNA 😊 - some people make their living from it, almost by accident it seems, with one comper reporting winning £70,000 a year! If only I had some of those kind of genes!
Woah! What is a comper? I'm not sure what that means. Is it like a lottery that they're winning?
They do competitions - any and every. They can be draws, finish a sentence in fifteen words to say how good this product is, guess the number of beans in a jar, who wrote this book etc etc. People win holidays, cars, goods etc, and many of them sell the prizes. I used to run online competitions in the bookshop and thousands of people would enter to win a £5 book. The benefit for us was pushing up the page views, so we would climb google.
WOW! That's amazing that people can win so many things! O:
Busy day! Hope the sink got un-plugged! And nice paintbrush! Yay for awesome scores with coupons! And chocolate chip cookies!
LOL thanks! No maintenance man today, which means I have to be sure to be up early tomorrow in case he comes first thing. XD
Wow that’s a huge brush! I’m sure you’ll have fun painting away with that one! 😄
Yes I knew about cat hair felting because my mothers in law’s cat leaves huge chunks of her hair everywhere in the Winter and it does just that.
That’s great you got some work done from your mending pile :)
good bro