I’ve been watching Dear Hongrang on Netflix, and since it’s a costume drama, there are a lot of beautiful hanbok, hair pins, etc. But I swear the hats are like their own characters, they get so many close-ups in this drama. That started me wondering what they’re made of and how they’re made. And thenContinue reading “Making 갓 (Gat): Traditional Korean Scholar’s Hat”
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Letter of Recommendation: Fabric Stores
Much like feed stores, fabric stores are one of those pre-Internet gathering places where our social life in this country used to be knitted together (har har). There aren’t so many of them now: that gorgeous Lucky Jeans Brand bandana-print Lycell denim fabric up there (all 9 yards of it!)–part of Joann Fabrics’s going-out-of-business saleContinue reading “Letter of Recommendation: Fabric Stores”
Update on Operation Baguette
It’s coming along nicely!
ESC #37 and #38 ft. Exploding Xurros!
I mean, it was high time for Experimental Supper Club to have a spectacular failure, amiright? The good news is no one got hurt. The bad news is it took me the better part of a day to wash my kitchen down from ceiling to floor (including the dogs). We had a vaguely Spanish/Portuguese themeContinue reading “ESC #37 and #38 ft. Exploding Xurros!”
15th Annual Peeps Diorama-Rama
A strong showing this year, particular from our kid participants! If you read this blog, you will know which diorama is mine just based on the fact that Link is wearing his Blupee armor.
In which Hormat plants flowers and makes apple-blossom tea at the old hobbit cottage and Mr. and Mrs. Gosha taste-test the beef filling for Aziza’s saffron dumplings…
Operation Baguette
Last year, I think a bird must have pooped out a wheat berry in the path right *next* to my garden beds (not *in* them for some reason), and against all odds, like a Biblical parable, it sprang up and bore fruit. My mama raised me right enough that I know a head of wheatContinue reading “Operation Baguette”
Letter of Recommendation: Korean Camping Vlogs
So, there’s this whole bizarre and strangely addictive little sub-genre of Korean lifestyle blogs where people go camping overnight. Generally, this is the script: You watch them (most frequently a pretty young woman who’s had a noticeable amount of plastic surgery) set up a tent (frequently one of these amazing inflatable multi-room tents, like aContinue reading “Letter of Recommendation: Korean Camping Vlogs”
In which Gosha takes a bath, helps Aziza with the fire, and steals some strawberries….
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Narrowboat Life
There is this amazing network of canals left over from England’s industrial era, and some folks putter around them on super-skinny houseboats called “narrowboats”: I don’t know the exact width, but I’d guess something like 8 feet? Skinny enough to fit through all of the canals at any rate. This charming couple, Kris and Andrew,Continue reading “Narrowboat Life”
The Rookery 