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[vaguemylk]

started this over the weekend. hoping to finish it off today 🪴

[vaguemylk]

Update to this: I did end up making crepe paper flowers! Started Sunday night and went til yesterday/Monday night.

Didn’t have the patience or tools—I don’t have a stapler yet 😭—to follow a tutorial step by step so I mostly winged it. The limited amount I know about crepe flowers is from Alina Blossom (@.GiantFlowers) on YouTube 🌸

Whenever I learn to do a new thing I know the first few ones are gonna suck a bit lol so I made this medium orange one as a test run.

((This bulb doesn’t actually work in this lamp so if I want to use it as an actual light I’ll need to swap it out.))

Also started a large blue flower before I did the yellow one, which has lots of mistakes. I’m gonna see if I can fix it up at a later point. I wanna make some pink ones for my kitchen pendant lights first.

[vaguemylk]

Happy Sunday beloved mutual! I'm really curious to see your shelves after all the hard work, sweat and tears you've put onto them, may we see them?? Pretty please?? 🥺🥺 If you don't feel like showing them, may we see your latest artistic endeavour?? Thaaanks 🩵

ahh thank you for asking!! I wasn’t sure anyone wanted to see. I do wanna show you the Big Shelves but my house is embarrassingly disorganised rn. I can show you the last shelf I assembled tho!!

haven’t moved all my stuff into it yet (as you can see haha).

it’s a combo shelf that’s technically two separate IKEA TONSTAD shelves stacked on top of each other, then bolted together at the back.

the top part is 41kg (90lbs) when fully assembled. I had to stack it on top on my own 😭 luckily instructions tell you to stack it with the main frame first, then assemble the doors and shelf slats after. was still at least half my body weight and I am Suffering the consequences a week later!!

still. glad I assembled it when I did 🥰

I loved your back up question btw!! I am going to borrow that for asks in the future!!

wanted to show you this bottle/can recycling bin I fashioned from a laundry hamper 💕 it came out even cuter than I imagined

in my state, we can get 10c (£0.05 GBP or $0.07 USD) for recycling (most) cans, cartons and bottles under 1L. I was keeping them in two big garbage bags on the floor and it was so ugly and impractical. much happier with this.

bonus: my current creative project! I’m painting this old garden bench.

had to clean it and sand it down. the wood is horrible quality (it’s all soft and has a load of cracks); tbh I don’t know if it’ll survive long. I’m hoping if I paint and spray varnish over it, it’ll stop the wood getting further damaged.

I like it bc you can open the seat and store stuff inside 😈

[vaguemylk]

this has been my favorite fidget recently! thank you again for my little friend :’)

I’m so relieved to hear you like it!! I was honestly considering throwing it away because I worried you would think it was ugly 😭

Can’t remember if I’ve told you this but after I made your one I tried again to make the exact same mushroom (except in red). It somehow turned out worse 💀 The stuffing kept falling out of its head. I’ve had to re-sew the edge three times.

I’m currently using it as a needle pin cushion :)))

[vaguemylk]

lunch spread from yesterday 💕 seafood stew, deep fried basa bites, chilled rice noodle salad, cold mashed potato salad, creamy chicken with roasted cherry tomatoes, and tuna and barramundi sashimi

wish i took a photo of the cold noodle salad after i mixed it but ah well. that was my favourite from what i cooked. i ate it for breakfast, lunch and dinner today lol.

also wish i kept more of the potato salad for leftovers for myself. i took one scoop and let my brother have the rest but it was really good! i might make it again tomorrow to eat again.

bonus: the leftovers my brother took home

[vaguemylk]

as promised, the cheese and spinach stuffed potato bread I made yesterday

[vaguemylk]

finally perfected my mayo tonight. this isn't a proper recipe, i just know by the time i gotta make mayo again i'll have forgotten what i did.

1. crack 2x eggs (MUST be cold from fridge) in blending jar. 2. pour in a generous serving of vinegar from a jar of jalapenos (mine was a new jar, room temp). 3. blend on normal intensity, just until it's blended up. 4. without stopping, slowly trickle in oil (about a cup) until it's thick enough it doesn't whirlpool on the surface.

yes, the eggs have to be directly out of the fridge. yes, you have to add the vinegar before you add the oil. no, you cannot dump the oil in all at once. no, blending at a higher intensity does not magically make Super Mayo. no, i didn't blend it longer than usual; it came together surprisingly quickly. ok, buddy, godspeed.