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NO PORT SCAR!!

Not a single hint of a port scar or port scar that's been treated on either side of her clavicle.

Is THE KP TITANIC ready to admit their stupid charade from last January was a PR ruse that they put Kate through for nothing?

#kensington palace #lies lies lies #PR fail #fail!#fashion fail #cancer schmancer #Kate sat on a bench AND LIED #cosplaying wives of the Spencer boys #DEMOTED to the Order of the Companions of Honour #Prince & Princess OWN GOALS #Kate does narcissism at its finest #The UK's Marie Antoinette #my gif

juns~

#jun kurosu #lisa silverman #persona 2 #fanart #mir.art #he changed up his hair to look more like his dad……….#fail!#i doodle a crazy amount but just haven’t posted it Q_Q;

Foraging

Monday I picked dandelions and violets to experiment with flower-flavored syrups. It was time-consuming, but I just felt like trying something new. I have done violet jelly before, although the results were mediocre.

The first step after separating the petals from the greens was to pour boiling water over each kind and let them sit for a day. The violets had a greenish-blue extract by evening, and by morning it had settled into a deep blue. I tried adding a couple of drops of lemon juice, which shifted it to blue-purple. Violets have the same pigment, anthocyanin, as red cabbage, and it is pH sensitive. I am curious why my tap water (from a well) would have a pH of 9(ish), but I'll go ahead and blame limestone.

I cooked the dandelion first, adding sugar equal to the amount of liquid (1.25 cups). I cooked it for a while and then bottled it when it seemed like it had thickened up (the bubbles start to PLOP instead of 'pop', if that makes sense).

Here it is, compared with honey. The color is virtually the same!

Then I started with the violet. As I heated it, the color shifted BACK to greenish-blue. I added a little more lemon juice, and it ended up weirdly purple from some angles and blue from others, depending on how the light hit it. It's also DARK, too dark for me to photograph and show you much color. When it cooled down it a) turned a steely blue-grey and b) crystalized.

That. that is NOT what I was going for. It also doesn't really taste like anything. Just 'sweet'. Drat.