Digging for treasure?

[soc_puppet]

My offer is up at help_haiti! If you've ever wanted a plush thing made by me, and want an excuse to donate to the Haiti relief effort, this is the perfect opportunity ;) (So nervous, omg *_*)

While you're there, feel free to take a look around the community as a whole, or consider donating something yourself. There's a bunch of people offering all sorts of different things, from BNFs with offers of fics and/or art, to Little Kuriboh of YuGiOh! Abridged fame offering a video with vocals. Check it out :3b

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Still working on cleaning my room. I've made considerable progress since when I started, but there's still a ways to go.

Among the piles, I managed to find some of the flashcards I made for myself in the one semester of Spanish I took. I've got eight verbs, fourteen adjectives, and one-and-a-half seasons(?). They're completely adorable, if I do say so myself :)

I also found the Zatar bread recipe I thought I'd lost forever ago. I'll be sticking it up here, in case A) I lose the paper it's written on again, and/or B) someone else is interested in making it.

The recipe is as follows:
Zatar Bread

For the Zatar:

2 T sesame seeds
3 T thyme
1/2 t salt
1 t sumac

Mix together.


For the bread:

2 t yeast
2 T olive oil
2 1/2 C water
5 C bread flour
2 T gluten
3 t salt
1/4 C Zatar

Put in a bread machine on "dough" cycle (or just mix yourself, I guess?)
Line two cookie sheets with olive oil; spread the dough on them, then flatten it out.
Bake at 400°F for about 18 minutes.

This stuff is quite tasty, IMO, so consider giving the recipe a try if you're not allergic to any of it/can find all the ingredients (the sumac can be a total pain to find).


I'd best get to distracting myself, now; otherwise, I'll just end up staring at my computer screen, waiting and hoping for my inbox to become un-empty.

Comments

[soc_puppet]

How much are you doing with these? Are you actually making them into jewelry, or are you just making them usable-as-jewelry (like with a metal loop in them or something)? About how much time do you put into each one, and how much did you pay for the materials? (Price doesn't have to be exact; just if you bought a 500-for-$4 pack of paper versus, say, 16-for-$8 or something.) [/too many questions]

[cookinguptales.livejournal.com]

Into jewelry, yes. The time would be based on what sort of jewelry (bracelets would take a lot longer than earrings, for example, as there would be more wire and beadwork, and also more charms would be necessary) and what designs (cranes are a LOT harder than hearts) but would typically be about an hour or two for simplistic earrings, excluding lacquering (which could take up to a day) to several hours for a bracelet or complex piece of origami. The paper is not actually the expensive part (except for my nice paper, if people wanted them to be patterned instead of a specific color); the findings and beads are. For a set of earrings, maybe $5-6, a bracelet would be more like $10+. Especially for a memory wire bracelet, which is hell to work with, to boot.

BASICALLY, there are a ton of factors based on what people want. I am considering a cute pair of water-lily earrings (with blossoms of paper and greenery of wire, with blue beads for water) but that might take a while. The blossoms I have in mind need a lot of lacquer-dry stages. Mmnn dunno.

Also, considering doing Haitian-themed stuff, but I'd have to do more research on that.

[cookinguptales.livejournal.com]

...after writing all this, I am starting to think it might be better to make a couple tiers of crafting ideas, then post those.

Are we allowed to post more than one lot?

[soc_puppet]

While the bidding closes on Jan 20, we've got until Feb 14 to get the stuff finished and sent/posted. Also, if you think something you're potentially making would take longer than that, you can say so in your comment, or you can wait until the next auction round starts, which will have a later deadline.

Either way, the earrings you're describing sound super cute :) Whether you make those or something similar/less time consuming, I'm definitely going to consider putting in a bid ♥

[cookinguptales.livejournal.com]

Awww, thank you. ♥

I am thinking I might start the bidding for the earrings at $10 and the bracelet for $15. Do you think that sounds fair?

I might make a piece pre-made just so I can refer people to a picture of another piece... Sell that, then sell two custom ones.

[soc_puppet]

Sounds great to me :3b The whole plan, in fact. I hope you get a lot of bids!