Food colouring!

Well I've definitely jumped on the band wagon when it comes to Kool aid and food colouring dying. It's not quite as cheap as more commercial forms, but in a bachelor apartment on the 9th floor in the middle of February, it's about all I can handle. And besides! I only dye for my personal projects, not to sell, so it's more for fun that economic gain. You should see what I've been able to come up with.

This is my food colouring colour wheel! I dyed little samplers in my microwave in batches of seven. Interestingly, it turns out that you have to be careful with reds. Wool seems to take up the red in a mix long before the other colours.




The candy striped wool in one of the earlier posts is made with cherry and tropical punch koolaid and green food colouring.


Here are a couple more pictures of koolaid/food colouring projects:




This is a shawl mom and I made for Grandma, the light purple comes from one package of Grape koolaid (mom did the knitting).

These socks were another co-project. They're energized singles of Blue-faced Leicester that I spun up for mom to knit. The first pair were so nice that we decided to try dying the second. Mom used cherry koolaid and green food colouring to get what looked to be a wonderful brown, when we dyed the wool, however, it turned into a purple mauve, but still quite nice. In the picture here, it actually looks more brown than it is.

So the joys of food colouring and Kool aid!

Fridgid

Here's an odd sight! This is a little lady Anna's Hummingbird. There were a couple females and one or two males around my grandparent's place when I went to visit them this Christmas.

Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the males, but here's a picture from the Wikimedia Commons. They're tough little hummingbirds! As you can see, my little lady was even using the feeder while it was snowing! And on windy days she was almost blown off the feeder, her little feathers flying up like a birdy Marilyn Monroe!

Yogurt!

Well I'm eating homemade yogurt in my granola today! Last night was my
first go at Yogurt making in this homemade incubator. I went on a
yogurt binge and also made frozen yogurt with honey and berries, which
was YUM! Unfortunately I think that Liberte makes better yogurt than me
:( Perhaps I'll save mine for frozen yogurt and smoothies.

Email blogging and pretty wool!

Okay, well as mentioned by others, blogging in Linux sucks! Especially
if you're using the new Blogger. So I'm going to give email blogging a
shot. I'm lazy and don't like logging in all the time, especially
uploading images so I'll give it a shot here.

This is a test of email blogging with pictures!

Pretty WOOL!

Although I'm going to have to look into easy Thunderbird Image Inserting...