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Post by MagdaFR on Dec 25, 2021 12:59:55 GMT
Hi, llminnowpea. I edited the Sandman link because I was getting an error. I love The Sandman. I wanted BC to play Morpheus but Tom Sturridge isn't a bad choice.
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Post by llminnowpea on Dec 25, 2021 13:02:03 GMT
Hi, llminnowpea. I edited the Sandman link because I was getting an error. I love The Sandman. I wanted BC to play Morpheus but Tom Sturridge isn't a bad choice. Thank you! I also agree with you about BC. You ate right, though, that the choice they did make is a good one. It is one of my favorite graphic novels, so let's see if the show is any good.
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Post by queenzod on Jan 8, 2022 20:24:05 GMT
Haha yeah, some of them got very smutty. It makes me blush to write it! Anyway, thank you for wading through them. That’s very kind of you. 🤗 Have you read this one? It’s one of my all- time favorites: archiveofourown.org/works/434802?view_adult=true
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Post by queenzod on Jan 9, 2022 4:52:00 GMT
I never wrote the second chapter to Magic Man. Ran out of steam. 😬
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Post by queenzod on Jan 9, 2022 15:10:40 GMT
Maybe I should change it so it’s only 1 chapter. It doesn’t have many hits anyway. With BC, everybody wants to read Sherlock fics, and Johnlock is the biggest draw. 🤷🏻♀️
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Post by llminnowpea on Jan 30, 2022 21:13:53 GMT
January update on my Sherlock cross stitch. I am now 18.82% finished! I managed to stitch 3,077 stitches this past month (I was not project monogamous, I am sorry to say - I could have added another 1500 stitches if I had been). I now have an eye. Which is a bit creepy, so, thankfully, I had to move the hoop and it isn't staring at me anymore. Tea
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Post by mllemass on Jan 30, 2022 21:40:25 GMT
Even unfinished, that looks so impressive!
I took home ec my first year of high school. Half the year was sewing, and the other half cooking. I enjoyed the cooking because we learned “English” (non-Italian) dishes that we never had at home. I still use many of those recipes today. I would have enjoyed the class more if the teacher didn’t present everything as a way to be a good “hostess” one day. It was obvious that she meant “housewife”, but I guess even back then it was a sexist term. I remember her showing us how to put together a last-minute dessert to impress your guests when your husband brings clients over for dinner unannounced. I cringed at that idea, even when I was 14.
In the sewing, though, I was a bit advanced because we sewed at home all the time. Before I started high school, pretty much all our clothes were home-made. By high school, we begged my mother to let us dress like all the other girls. Besides sewing, we were taught a bit of knitting, crocheting, embroidery, cross-stitching - lots of cool activities that, unfortunately, I didn’t keep up and so I never really learned to do. So good for you!
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Post by queenzod on Jan 30, 2022 23:13:16 GMT
That really is the most beautiful design, liminnowpea. Although, yes, the single Eye is a bit unnerving, haha.
My Home Ec teacher was named Mrs. Stanley and she was a very strict and proper woman who carried the most enormous purse! For sewing we weren’t allowed to use scissors and tore a yard of yellow gingham fabric into like three pieces, folded up one long side and stitched two pockets to make an apron, and made a tube for a tie. It was a stupid project considering I’d been making my own clothes since the age of 10 (with my mom’s help). I have so many memories of looking through the patterns at the fabric store with her, and she let me make all kinds of Mod stuff, miniskirts and puffy sleeved blouses with Nehru collars and the like in wild paisley. I was so groovy, lol.
For one cooking endeavor in Home Ec we made “chili” (ground beef with half a chopped onion and a bit of tomato sauce), and one of the students on my team had the lid fall off the pepper and about a half cup of pepper went in. And then she STIRRED IT IN. Mrs. Stanley made us eat it. Child abuse, that was. 😂
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Post by mllemass on Jan 30, 2022 23:35:02 GMT
Yes! I remember that we would eat whatever dish we prepared! Our teacher was furious when almost all the girls refused to taste the exotic cheese from fancy cheese tray we had learned to put together. Ha!
I messed up my group’s strawberry jam. The recipe was was written on the blackboard, and we were supposed to divide up the jobs. My job was to measure out the sugar, but instead of 7 cups of sugar, I misread it and added only one cup. The little kitchen areas were set up so that we couldn’t really see what the other groups were doing, otherwise I would have seen that the other groups made way more jam than we did. When the teacher went around at the end to taste them and give us a mark, she asked why we had less jam than the others. We shrugged because we didn’t know what she was talking about. She said ours was good, so it didn’t matter. But then I looked at the blackboard and saw the mistake I had made. I never told the others, and no one ever found out.
My sister took home ec all 4 years of high school. The basic recipes that were taught were pretty good - the spaghetti recipe was awful, though! We still use the home ec recipes for pie crust, apple pie, lemon meringue pie, baked macaroni and cheese, and tuna casserole.
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Post by roverpup on Jan 31, 2022 0:43:06 GMT
In my sister's class they used to play nasty tricks on the Home Economics teacher and one time they made some kind of sauce and they put hand lotion in it! Our class was never so cruel (we had the same teacher). I was totally without any home economics talent so I usually finagled my way into convincing the teacher into doing my work for me. She one time almost did ALL of my knitting sampler and then when she marked me she gave me a "B" grade. I did learn some basic skills - I can mend my own socks and do basic knitting. But I couldn't cook a lick until well after I was married! Then I taught myself (my mum was a HORRIBLE cook!) and now I am a fearless chef! See below for a fancy dessert I made for Dan's birthday this past year! I took that photo of it just before I served it! Attachments:
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