let's play a word game...

there's a reason i haven't posted in 12 days. it begins with a "p" and ends in an "s". give up? it's psoriasis! i've been recently diagnosed with psoriasis and i've been spending the missing time trying to figure out what i can do and what i need to change. after some research i come to find out that i may be gluten intolerant as well, and that that is what lead to the psoriasis. so i then had to research gluten intolerance and have been trying to figure out what exactly i can and can't eat. i came across a couple of blogs and some recipes i'm going to give a go when i have some free time. so for now most of my focus has been on psoriasis and also chickens. there will be further posting on that topic later.

it is beautiful!

one of my long running wants from an even longer list of wishes arrived in the mail yesterday. it is even more wonderful in person, and i have not even created any edible wonders in it yet. bask in all of its' icy glory! behold, my new kitchenaid artisan 5 qt stand mixer!

and then there was a coffee table

i have wanted to get a noguchi coffee table for my dollhouse for awhile now, so yesterday i went ahead and bought one. it is very delicate and beautiful. the top is real glass and is made by a miniature furniture maker, warren richardson. i have to say that it is even nicer in person. now if i could get on the ball with finishing the rest of the room.

that tab icon doo-hickey...

you may notice that there's a little birdie in your address bar above, don't worry i put it there on purpose. i learned a new html trick today, how to make and add a favicon to your blog. what is a favicon you say? well it's that little birdie.
you too can have an image in front of your web addy. just create a 16 x16 pixel image in your favorite image editing software and make it into an .ico file here. if you want the icon on your webpage just follow the instructions in the included readme file.
however, if you want to use it in your blog you need to host the .ico file on a separate server and change the code. there's two changes you need to do to the code:
#1. put the http address of the hosted .ico image in front of the "favicon.ico" part.
#2. use a "/" before the closing bracket. so it ends up looking like this:



you then want to go into the layout area of blogger, click on "edit html" and insert this code under the head tag. that's it.

you're welcome.

purple people eater

after discovering all the fun prints on sew, mama, sew i stocked up on some fat quarts. a lot of them were in the purple end of the spectrum as that's where my stock is a little barren.
i have decided to try to spice up some of my older t-shirts, so i choose a purple puff sleeve t that i've had a while. looking at it i decided it needed a purple elephant blowing bubbles.