http://curiousjayne.com Tue, 29 May 2007 20:40:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Elyse and I spend most of our time in the kitchen when we hang out, so we thought we needed matching aprons. We used a Simplicity Retro pattern (#8720) but the design is quite simple and would be easy to do patternless. The prints remind me of Nintendo, or something ... http://curiousjayne.com/?p=25 These are my felted cat hair beads made from 100% cat fur, grown by my cat, Puma. To do the felting, I used a good tutorial on Crafster to help me. I first dyed the fur with kool-aid and I found full instructions on dying, including a kool-aid color key ... http://curiousjayne.com/?p=24 My earrings were getting all tangled so I attached a piece of netting (from the bag that apples come in) over the glass on of this cheap picture frame to organize them. It works best for the hook type earrings, but you can stick studs in there too. And, since ... http://curiousjayne.com/?p=23 I managed to take a break from "getting crunk" and found some time to make a top. I've seen this mini yoke style around, so I thought I'd try it out. I really like the vintage style buttons these days, so I threw it on there to give it a ... http://curiousjayne.com/?p=22 Here are a few photos from our Oscar party, which was quite fun despite having to watch the Oscars for 4 hours. This was our Oscar, who was actually beach Barbie Steven, stripped of his sunglasses and swim trunks. Jesse and Katherine on the Red Carpet: The food, prepared by Elyse and ... http://curiousjayne.com/?p=21 We hosted Jen's going away party last night, so I made a pineapple upside down cake. I got the recipe from Amy Sedaris' lovely book about entertaining, which is highly recommended. I also made salsa, donuts and cheeseballs. I made a lot of cheeseball so that I could reshape the leftovers into a ... http://curiousjayne.com/?p=20  I want to congratulate Jonny Pulley, one of my best friends ever, for being accepted into the Sundance Film Festival for his short film "Move Me". To celebrate this wonderful news, I present you with a rare and terribly low quality clip of Mr. Sundance performing "Jumper" at Glitterfish's International Symposium Dinner ... http://curiousjayne.com/?p=17 Last night I went to Hank and Heather's holiday extravaganza complete with a white elephant gift exchange and fire pit. The highlights of the night were Jason stealing back his own gift (a Burt Reynolds triple feature DVD) and Hank yelling "don't step on the hibiscus!" when the boys started ... http://curiousjayne.com/?p=16 Andrea used to work at one of those paint-your-own-pottery places and when projects were left behind, unwanted or just plain ugly, they usually ended up at our house. This little gem is my personal favorite. I think it's safe to say that Phil and Laura are no longer. Why else would Phil leave ... http://curiousjayne.com/?p=15 Here are the first bags of a small batch I will be making for my dear friends of The Bodhi Tree. They are an instrumental trio from Phoenix. I hate to classify them because they have so many different sounds, but if I had to, I would say they are ... http://curiousjayne.com/?p=14