“After discovering embroidery from her Grandmother and then being fascinated by the French knot, ipnot has spent years perfecting her hand-embroidery art and today creates “paintings” using just needles and yarn.”
Working with a collection of 500 different colors and shades of yarn, ipnot creates everything from bowls of soup and sushi rolls to fruits and vegetables to chocolates bonbons and more. Each tiny creations is remarkably realistic.
Our favorite piece is this embroidered miniature matcha, which actually looks frothy and ready to drink:
One of my neighbors had a REALLY FAT golden retriever she adopted, that needed to be put on a diet, but even super-low-cal food wasn’t working, becuase Ella was still hungry and would open the cabinet to eat the whole bag. Vet suggested that she needed a filler Food so she could feel full without the extra calories, and suggested canned green beans, which are mostly fiber and lean protein.
Ella fucking LOVES green beans. She does a dance for them if you mention them. Her ‘sibling’ the police academy washout shepherd, thinks she’s insane.
Even if your pet doesn’t like green beans*, offering them a canned green bean is inevitably HILARIOUS becuase they’ll either be thrilled or otherwise make strange faces. Results so far:
Ella (golden retriever): Overjoyed. gets up on her hind legs to dance without prompting.
Sampson (Black shepherd): Offended, yells until you give him REAL treats.
Cody (Gentleman shepherd): is concerned, becuase this is Obviously Not Food. Gently takes it to be polite, leaves it out in the yard.
Minx (Domestic Shorthair cat): Smelly Toy Is Hilarious, batted under the couch.
Tiger (Really Fat Domestic Shorthair cat): Total disgust, hissing and sulking in the Prosciutto box. Came out and ate it later anyway.
Wanda (corn snake) we didn’t expect her to be interested but she spent like three minutes licking it.
Sadie AKA Marquis De Sade (Hyacinth Macaw) ignored bean in favor of dumping can on the floor, sticking head in can and screaming. Did not attempt to bite, which is Very Nice for her.
Arwen (Australian Kelpie): ate bean, waited until humans were out of the room to consume rest of the can, got costco-sized can stuck on face and pooped green for three days. Regets nothing.
Empanada/Anderson Cooper/#3 (Plymouth Hens): Excited screaming, kickboxing tournament over possession of beans/can. #3 was ultimately victorious, becuase She is Fattest.
Big Angus (scottish highland cow, I know, ironic): very polite and delicate acceptance of beans for appx 1700 lbs of beef, will now run full-tilt across pasture to meet me, which scared the crap out of me tbh.
Will post further updates as I am allowed to try.
*Please always cionsult a vet before making any dietary changes or offering your pet new foods, but green beans are pretty safe for most pets you can keep in America
Gave cockatiel bean. He gently took it, threw it into my face, and laughed at me
Literally every time someone has tried this with a parrot of some kind, it’s resulted in rage, destruction or mockery, usually all three.
Australians do this too? I think it’s because we don’t generally cover our cake in so much frosting as Americans, so it’s more like eating a muffin or a doughnut and less like eating something with the consistency of melting ice cream with a small amount of baked good inside with our fingers.
I actually wasn’t even thinking about the frosting, more that cake is soft and moist and crumbly and what kind of dense monstrosity are y’all eating that you can just pick up a slice like it’s a muffin?????
Well, I can’t speak for your cake, but ours is pretty nice, so, nice cake? that we can pick up? I mean, obviously something like mudcake is dense and holds together really well, but a victoria sponge sandwich is like the opposite of that, and you can still hold that if you want to. I will also say that it’s kind of rare for a cake to have more than two layers, often it only has one (with no filling), and so it’s more structurally sound than something that is super tall and has three or four or more layers stacked with thick layers of buttercream or ganache or something. I’m not saying eating a cake off a plate with a fork or a spoon is unheard of, but often, at a birthday party, someone will just cut you a slice and you’ll eat it with your hands from a paper napkin, and somehow we survive with only about as much dessert carnage as any other nationality.
I mean most cakes here don’t have multiple layers of buttercream and shit unless you’re super fancy, but i cannot think of a cake that would hold together nicely.
Like. I think victoria sponge and I think “the sort of thing twinkies are made of, only not gross” and that is… nothing at ALL like actual cake.
I take it back, angel food cake holds together like that, but it’s also gross if it’s not drenched in strawberries and whipped cream.
This is super hard! Like, I know in theory what a Twinkie is, from American media, but they’re not a thing here. And I wouldn’t have a clue what angel food cake is.
Butter cake/pound cake/madeira cake (all different names for the same thing) is a pretty solid ‘base’ cake here, or at least it was for my mother’s generation. It’s a medium density medium moistness cake that my mum often cooks in a square or round cake tin and covers in water icing. Cut into squares or small wedges, it’s perfectly possible to eat with your hands with a few stray crumbs and a bit of icing to lick off your fingers. You can make it plain with just a teaspoon of vanilla, you can make it chocolate by adding cocoa powder to the mix, you can make it any other flavour by adding essences or lemon zest or whatever. You can make it in to cupcakes by putting the batter in patty pans (with a drizzle of water icing and edible ball bearings for decoration). It’s popular because before box cakes were a thing (they didn’t really appear in the supermarkets here until the late eighties) it was a cake basically any home cook could make because the method was simple, used stock staple ingredients, and the cake wasn’t fussy about a rise like sponges could be.
So I experimented with gluten free tempura fish last week! The colour was pale, but it was perfectly cooked and delicious. Very delicate batter.
Reading for diss. Because a diss doesn’t recognize weekends.
Wine, potato chips, and teevee. Oh and pretending that I am not defending my dissertation next Thursday.
Just ordered Italian delivery, watching the O.J. mini series, cuddling the orange cat.
Eating leftovers, panicking about a TV interview I have tomorrow in NY.
Pre-marinated chicken from TJ’s, and The Magicians on Netflix, with my hubby who’s in a very cuddly mood and it’s nice.
Snuggling with my dog (whose paw pads smell especially nice), reading strange 1940s comics.
Oh, and? I just found a random box of pocky in the drawer of my bedside stand. I have no idea where they came from. I don’t care.
Avocado and salsa, thinking about dyeing my hair and cleaning, but will probably comics blog instead.
Chinese food and sparkling cider, Netflix and debating getting my hair cut
Tortellini, ginger ale, ukulele, fanfic.
Leftover con carne, coffee, Once Upon A Time and rocking a bunch to stim because rocking is awesome.
So apparently my subconscious self decided I was lacking in ‘pink’ in my diet when I went shopping earlier.
I also bought cooked prawns, sweet potato, and radishes, but at least they were on the shopping list.
Actually super excited for the cordial, because I like pink grapefruit in juices and things, and Bickfords do gorgeous cordials.
Fall Out Boy today! I did three runs – all of The Mighty Fall(3m32s), all of Thriller(3m29s), and all of Thnks fr th Mmrs(3m23s). I could have probably gone for the full 8kms, because my ride was late, but I couldn’t have known that so I stopped after my third run at 6.75km.
Today’s Music – Save Rock And Roll and Infinity On High by Fall Out Boy
Today’s Weight – 72.4kg
Then Chicken Caesar Salad for dinner. Actual serving size was about twice that size, but I forgot to take a picture until I’d eaten a bunch. Yes, I know that’s enormous, but I’d never made it before and didn’t realise the volume until we plated up. Balance of ingredients was good, though, so I just have to make a half-portion of everything next time. 😀
6.5km today. And I did three runs. I ran for ALL of I’m Not Okay (3m8s), half of Mama (2m20s) and half of Planetary Go! (2m). And I survived!
When I got home, I had a shower and used my bar of Rock Star for the first time (which I LOVED) and had a hummus, vegetable and salmon cake wrap and felt very virtuous.
Today’s music: May Death Never Stop You – My Chemical Romance
Today’s weight: 72.6kg
I burnt my hand on the oven making dinner Saturday night, and the pain and the fact that I couldn’t stim with that hand made me angry enough to make lemon and ginger biscuit ice cream. Verdict, next time, less lemon essence or lemon zest instead, but perfectly edible.
knitting in the dark 