Link Repository of Awesome Things

So, since I perpetually fill up my FB page (and consequentially other people's walls) with tons of links from my new StumbleUpon addiction, I am dedicating a post to the awesome things.

Cooking Things:

1. Chocolate-Peanut Butter Mousse Tart Recipe
   
2. Dark Chocolate Guinness Cake with Bailey’s Buttercream
   
3. Peanut Butter- S’Mores Turnovers
   
4. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough + Cupcake
   
5. Churro Tots
   
6. Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies
   
7. Cinnamon-Sugar Puff Pastry Wheels
   
8. Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites
   
9. Cheer Wine Cupcakes
10. Guacamumus!
11. How to Make Bacon Whiskey
12. Cheesy Beer Scones
13. Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries (that could also probably be translated into chocolate gnache as well...)
14. Make Flavored Vodka with Jolly Rancher Candies
15. Delicious Oreo Truffles
16. Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
17. Oreo-Stuffed Cupcakes
18. Make Your Own Pop-Tarts
19. Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes
20. Common Ingredient Substitutions
21. Amazing Jell-O Shots Ideas
22. Lots of fun recipes, including rainbow cheesecake!
23. Skittle-infused vodka!
24. 15 Awesome Cheesecake Recipes
25. Jell-o Shots Galore!
26. Lambswool, a Traditional Irish Drink
27. Making Beer Icecream
28. Hershey's Double Kisses Truffles

Crafting Things:

1. Upcycled Skirts: Umbrellas Converted into Colorful Clothes
2. How to Make a Kitana Costume
3. How To Sew Invisible Zippers
4. DIY Shift Dress
5. Resin Pendant Necklaces and Techniques along with the different supplies to use
   
6. Double Knitting
7. 10 Free Tote Bag Patterns & Tutorials
8. Lots of Other Bag Patterns
   
9. Pleated Tote Bag Pattern
10. Nyan Papercraft Machine along with DIY Music Box Kit and Stencils!
    
11. How to Start a Butterfly Collection
12. Make Your Own Shirt Stencils
13. Little Red Infinity Dress
14. DIY String Chandeliers
15. No-Sew Pillow Case
16. Tiny Terrarium Inside a Lightbulb
17. Craft Gawker website
18. Indoor Tabletop Water Garden
    
19. Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Sun Jars
    
20. Build your own Aperture Science Portal Gun
    
21. Lots of Knitting Stitches
22. 365 Days of Sewing
23. Lots of Anime Eyes
24. How To Make Jewelry from Old CDs
25. Make an art-deco lamp from plastic cups
26. Carving your own Willow bark whistle
27. Lots of fantastic knit and crochet patterns, including some awesome tops!
28. Making Subway-style Art
29. Make This Look Sewing Inspirations
30. Crochet Pattern Central
31. How To Sew a Pick-Up Skirt
32. Some of the Best Sewing Tutorials Ever
33. How To Make Perler Things and Here As Well
34. Awesome examples of perler!
35. Make Your Own Snuggie
36. Crochet Daisy Bullion Pattern
37. Amigurumi Crochet Patterns
38. Crocheted Make-Up Remover Squares
39. Create Your Own Beer Label
40. Make Your Own Mini-Pocketbook
41. Cute Crochet Koala Bear Amigurumi Pattern
42. Make Your Own Mirror with Transparent Spots
43. Making Votive Holders from Oranges
44. How To Make an Upright Herb Planter from a Shoe Rack
45. How To Make Pin Tucks for Duvets and Other Items
46. Lots of Cables for Knitting
47. Crochet Tunic
48. Woven Circles Granny Squares
49. How To Alter a Thrift Store Dress
50. How To Make Melted Crayon Art

Other Random Things:

1. Meade Recipe
2. Home Brewers Association
3. The Master Cleanser
4. Zelda MTG Cards + Expansion Set
5. Fun Drinking Games and MORE Drinking Games!
6. Wine and Food Pairing Guide
7. Lots of Android stuff: XDA forums, Revolutionary (for S=Off) and ROMs
8. Assorted spells (unresearched for legitimacy)
9. Random Facts and How-Tos
10. 100 Anime Works
11. Guide for making my own Dominion base game set: Kingdom Cards and Basic Cards
12. Some of the most amazing and beautiful jewelry I have ever seen!
13. Warning Sign Generator

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Honeysuckle Meade

Sometime here soon, I plan to make this. It will be made with LOTS of honeysuckle flowers and fresh spring water from Boone, NC.

HONEYSUCKLE

Honeysuckles are best gathered shortly after they open and when dry. Pick the flowers only. Stems and flower heads are not desired. The flower petals will pull off easily. Lightly pack the petals when measuring.

HONEYSUCKLE WINE (1)

• 6 cups honeysuckle flower petals
• 7-1/2 pts water
• 2-1/2 lbs finely granulated sugar (substitute honey here)
• 3 tsp acid blend
• 1 crushed Campden tablet
• 1/8 tsp tannin
• 1 tsp yeast nutrient
• Champagne or Montrachet wine yeast

Rinse fresh flowers under cold water to remove dust, insects, etc. Put flowers in 2 quart saucepan with tight-fitting lid. Add 1 quart water and bring to a simmer. Fit lid and turn off heat. Let steep for three hours. Meanwhile, bring remainder of water to boil and stir in sugar (honey) until dissolved. Remove from heat, put lid on pan and allow to cool. Strain flower water into primary. Add all remaining ingredients except yeast, stirring until Campden powder is dissolved. Cover well and set aside for 24 hours. Add activated yeast and recover primary. Stir daily until s.g. drops to 1.015. Rack into secondary and fit airlock. After 30 days, rack into sanitized secondary, top up and refit airlock. Set aside in dark place for 6 months, racking at 3 months and 6 months if deposits require it. Stabilize, sweeten if desired and rack into bottles. Store in dark place six months before tasting. [Adapted from Terry Garey's The Joy of Home Winemaking]

HONEYSUCKLE WINE (2)

• 6 cups honeysuckle flower petals
• 7-1/2 pts water
• 2-1/2 lbs finely granulated sugar (substitute honey here)
• 2 lemons or 1 lemon and 1 orange
• 1 crushed Campden tablet
• 1/8 tsp tannin
• 1 tsp yeast nutrient
• Champagne or Montrachet wine yeast

Thinly peel citrus, retaining peel and juicing fruit. Rinse fresh flowers under cold water to remove dust, insects, etc. Put flowers and citrus peeling in 2 quart saucepan with tight-fitting lid. Add 1 quart water and bring to a simmer. Fit lid and turn off heat. Let steep for three hours. Meanwhile, bring remainder of water to boil and stir in sugar (honey) until dissolved. Remove from heat, put lid on pan and allow to cool. Strain flower water into primary. Add citrus juice and all remaining ingredients except yeast, stirring until Campden powder is dissolved. Cover well and set aside for 24 hours. Add activated yeast and recover primary. Stir daily until s.g. drops to 1.015. Rack into secondary and fit airlock. After 30 days, rack into sanitized secondary, top up and refit airlock. Set aside in dark place for 6 months, racking at 3 months and 6 months if deposits require it. Stabilize, sweeten if desired and rack into bottles. Store in dark place six months before tasting. [Adapted from Terry Garey's The Joy of Home Winemaking]

- Borrowed from Jack Keller's website

The Zombie Apocalypse really IS coming!

So, my friend just made a startling connection - the zombie apocalypse that the CDC is warning about is the inevitable occurrence after the Rapture on Saturday - all those bodies without souls!

I HIGHLY suggest going RIGHT NOW and buying Max Brook's Zombie Survival Guide, power reading it, and preparing. I know I will be! (It also helps that I'm a home brewer and have a LARGE source of long-term storing sterile drinks!)

Swords don't need reloading and don't make nearly as much noise!

I Yearn

"I yearn...." she said into the darkness, its eyes, void and deep, watching her. "I yearn for what is not. My heart cries out for the things that my mind has created but cannot obtain. I desire it deep within my soul, yet know that it is not true. But it is out there, somewhere." Ice hung on every syllable, chilling it in the blackness in which she surrounded herself.

She came here at times, to this place full of both desire and despair, yet empty as a blackness that one can only understand by feeling it. It was a place created by her in her darkest hours in which she could run away and hide for when those hours returned. It’s calm chill both soothed her and flamed her pain, yet she found solace in it.

"What is it you yearn for?" the darkness asked back in a voice reminiscent of what death would sound like should he speak.

“I yearn for a light that would kill you, drive you away to nothingness forever. I wish to have what I have always wanted.”

“But my lovely, everything you have, I have given to you. You asked for hope, and I brought it. You asked for love, and I embraced you. You cried for peace, and I dried your tears. What more could you want?” it replied, like a faint breeze caressing her pale cheek.

“Your touch is tainted. You have only given me glimmers of my deepest desiresgsries out for peace that my mind has created but cannot obtain. away and hide for when thoa corner. . Fragments of hopes and dreams that I have yearned for. And your embrace is cold. As you wiped my tears, your touch cut me.” She lifted her head upwards, inhaling slowly, dark smoky curls tumbling down her back as she did so.

“But you come to me when you are in need of solace, my love. You cannot deny that,” it whispered.

“No, I cannot....” her voice trailed off as her head lowered once more to rest on her knees as she sat curled against a corner, the jagged rocks of a pillowy world against her back.

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HOLY CRAP! JAPAN!

So...

Holy crap! I'm going to Japan! Eeeeks!

It is a study abroad through KSU that goes from Dec 8th - 23rd. This Calendar will be updated as new info is received.

Wish me luck! I've never been out of the country before (Canada and the Bahamas don't count!) and certainly never this far from home, and I don't have any close friends going on the trip, so I'm kinda on my own-ish.