When it comes to baking my brother's birthday cake, it's often a collaboration between myself and my artistic sister. I tend to focus on the baking, since I bake from scratch, and my sister does the piping or surface decorations. It works well, because we play to our strengths, and for the most part, we've [...]
So. I don't know if you know this, but a couple years ago, there was this silly thing that went viral on YouTube, because well, a Pop-Tart cat shitting out rainbows with a synthesized Japanese pop song blaring out in the background. I mean. Is there really anything else to say about it other than [...]
This is the story of a cake that went through various stages of indecisiveness. On my part, of course. Not so much the cake's. Frankly, I think the cake didn't really care what direction it went, so long as it was going somewhere. Mostly in everyone else's tummies. So my brother graduated from college this week, [...]
I seem to want to blow off writing book reviews whenever baking comes to mind. And I baked quite a bit this week, since I wanted to do something for my mother's birthday. Honestly, why write reviews when you can show off lovely baked goodies, yeah? Okay, it's a poor excuse, and it probably tells [...]
I have officially dubbed this month (and by extension, next month) as my Steampunk month. Okay, this may have to do with the fact that a certain steampunk anthology is getting published in June, of which I am blessed to be a contributor. And maybe it's because I'm recently reading a book on steampunk fairy tales (a [...]
Story and Somnomancy 