Shay's Crafting

I did a thing! To be precise, here’s a preview of some of the pictures I’ve added to MorgueFile.com

Normally, I’m less than a fan of Brussels sprouts, but then I found the wonder of butter caramelized sprouts and, well, hooked I am.  At the simplest, just saute your sprouts in butter until tender, with a light golden brown crunch on the bottoms. Or we can get a little fancy.

Guess what!? More YouTubing. There are two videos in this post, with notes underneath. 

New YouTube video demonstrating blending fiber with hand carders and then how to get rovings (not rolags) from the hand carders.

I added a new YouTube video.

I updated the recipe from the first post. Now here’s what I learned: I either needed less cream or more cooking time to reduce the liquid content. This will be the subject of many more sweet experiments. Clean up was a lot easier than I expected.

Today I have made my first attempt at making caramel candies. On the bright side, I’m pretty sure that I got caramel sauce at least. I’m waiting, as I write this, to see how firm a candy I get. 🙂 So, quick off the top, the recipe I’m using, and then I’ll tell you how

I’m terrible at checking in to social media sites. My friends know not to invite me to events they actually want me at through FaceBook and the like, and that terrible check-in habit extends to Ravelry. No wonder I had a few projects to update when I logged in today, but what surprised me was

Over the holidays, my Oregonian family had a discussion about the deploring lack of good commercial scones. The general consensus was that Starbucks was the only place most of the family could find scones, and the quality of the Portland area Starbucks pastries were, um, less than satisfactory. My own experience at the Fairview Starbucks

I realize this is a fairly basic and standard recipe, but since I like to use it in place of frostings fairly often, consider this a formality posting. 🙂