I love to bake and cook, but I’ve never tried to make bread before.. that is, until a few days ago.  Unfortunately my first loaf turned out wierd and half unbaked, but I’ve since then redeemed myself.  The kind of bread I chose for my first ever to bake is challah.  When it came to the egg wash and the topping I changed the recipe slightly.  I’ll elaborate on that when I get there though.. for now, I’ll talk you through the journey!

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons yeast

1/4 warm water

3 1/2 cups flour sifted

4 eggs (only three go in to the dough, the last is for the egg wash)

1/4 honey

1/4 oil

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

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This semester I took printmaking where we did some intaglio(pronounced intalio… I seemed like an idiot because when I signed up I went around telling everyone how I was taking intaglio and I emphasized the g.. anyway) We also did some lino cuts and a colograph, but I’ll post all of my other prints on another day. Today I’ve decided to do a kind of step by step of intaglio. Not a tutorial, because there are a lot of little things that you just learn from watching someone or from learning from them in person. Anyway, on to the pictures!

My sketch on the right, with my two plates covered with asphaltum and etched in to. You’ll see why I did two plates in the next few pictures.

Dun dun dun! The acid room!

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A week or two ago, my little sister asked me if I could dye her shoes black because she didn’t like the blue and red plaid.  I finally decided to do it and share the process with you guys.  This is my first time dying shoes, so I might have done some things strangely, so if there’s any way I can improve, please let me know!

What I used:  shoes, dye, a container, gloves, cotton balls(not pictured)

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Well I’ve been very busy lately as most of you have probably noticed.. and so I just got on to upload some photos to stick up here for the world to see, but unfortunately I’m having camera troubles :(  My poor baby is acting up and I need to get it fixed.  Hopefully I can borrow a camera from someone tomorrow and upload a few things.  I have plenty of things to share, and as an effort not to have this point be very meaningless, I’ll list them for you guys so you know what to look for soon!

• pictures of my printmaking work
• lip gloss! yay
• probably some type of plushie
• a pinhole camera (which is already made, but I want to get the photos developed first)
• a purse I’ve been itching to make
• shoe recon
• and many more!

So there’s the list, for everyone to see.. I promise I’m not avoiding my blog because of a lack of ideas, it’s just a lack of time!!  If I don’t post anything tomorrow, I’ll definitely post on Saturday!

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I’m so sorry for my disappearance everyone!   I had to run away to work on school work and whatnot.. finals week called for many projects, papers, etc.  but now I’m all done!  Yay!  My older sister is done with college too.. cept not like me.. I still have a year to go.  No, she’s done completely!  We’re heading to her school to watch her graduation today, and I had a skirt I was going to wear but when I was looking at it last night and decided that it looked too much like a work skirt.. so I decided to make something to wear.  I combed through my fabric stash and picked these:

I’ve had these for so long!

So I got to sewing and cutting.  I had just vacuumed my floor and now I have to do it again because of all the seeds I had to cut off of this fabric so it wouldn’t break the needle in my machine..

Here’s the finished product!

Don’t pay attention to the green shirt, it’s just what I was wearing at the time haha.

Kinda blurry, sorry

Again, apologies for the lack of posting.. I have a lot of things lined up, I just never had time.  I do now though!

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