The 3 I's of Cooking

I took my international education into the kitchen this weekend - with a recipe from Mom in Canada and a few added ingredients from Kathleen in England, my German oven turned out a respectable Chocolate Zucchini Loaf.

winter craft

This week was winter in Saarland - a week of frosty mornings that sent me searching for my mitts. The landlord fired up the boiler and bled the radiators. It also put my knitting project into high gear.

What started as a boa scarf pattern turned into a fuzzy snake, seen here basking in the sun after it's first meal.

After a few more meals of water-filled ziploc bags, it's fit for service as a draft dodger!

super week!

At long last, my ISU graduation ring arrived. To the Moon!

hot off the presses

Here is the latest working version of our bionic bee beam poster v.6. Equation is finally pretty! Changed translation text colour. (see old versions here.)

Criticism welcome! next: plan to make drop shadows for things on the path.

artist-in-training

The work-of-the-day called for *gasp* artistic skills - I needed an uncluttered graphic background for my poster, but couldn't find quite what I needed in google images. So I downloaded Inkscape, an open source graphics program, and tackled a fairly complex tutorial.

ta da! "My first computer graphic"

That was actually fairly straight-forward. Download Inkscape for Windows or linux and give one of the tutorials a try yourself! This is like fun!