Something weird happened with my last post - supposedly pre-raphaelite faeries, but the image has been changing, since I think I just linked to another website, which regularly changes.  But I was so intrigued by the new images, that I went through the gallery a bit.  I wish I had more time!
Isn't this gorgeous?  Go check out more at
http://artsycraftsy.com/ 
gallery "Virginia Frances Sterrett: Arabian Nights".
I really love Art Deco, esp loved looking through old fashion mags of the early 20th century.  And I really love Arabian art, with all the intricate fractal design and almost cartoon simplicity of the human figures.  These images merge the two, along with the unearthly fantasy edge.  Oh, I 'm entranced.

Pre raphaelite fairies over depression

I was gonna make another boring "pity-me" post, but forget that -BORING!
Lets talk about something cool!...Yeah!...Um....um...what would be cool?

I have just been surfing the web, which I do so infrequently, that I don't know any more modern expressions than "surfing the web", and looked at

 

 Cake,

Steampunk

(much of which featured babe midrifs and such, but totally engrossing),

and Brent Spinner imitating Patrick Stewart.

Okay, let's go back to the steampunk thing.  I don't think of myself as being really into steampunk, and yet I LOVE IT.  I WANT TO TOTALLY GET INTO IT.  I guess mostly because the fashions since 1919 have been so appalling and dull.  But I'm so fat and old and dumpy looking.  But maybe with lots of frills and bustles and more frills, I would still be alluring????  and it's really just beautiful and fun and nerdy.  And the steampunk-happenings look so cool and interesting.  The costumes are so beyond me.  Well, maybe not if I was willing to really throw myself into it.  Now is there a subset of steam punk into Victorian faerie obsession? - if so, I'll join you as soon as I can fashion a corset and some glamour!

Another choice, or two.

Today is the horrible beginning to a difficult rest of my life.  But I can't say I wasn't warned.  When I was pregnant with my first child, I was given a message in a dream .  I could decide to end my life there, but if I decided to continue, life would be very hard.  As must be clear, I decided to stay; "how can I go?  I have a baby coming, I need to live, " I told the messenger. 

So now I am here at another huge fork in the road of this life, with another decision, that may be almost as momentous as that first.  And with consequences and similar question for the same parties as before.  Well, it seems I have my answer - I decided to continue with life before and protect the person waiting to be , I need to continue to fight and work and live for that person I brought into this world. 

Thanks for listening, it was helpful.

The cake for Us

Cake

Not a cake

This was a cake for a good-bye party for a volunteer leaving the lab.  It was very popular.  If you are a in a bio lab doing protein work, it might very well make you giddy:  "Oh look at that Western Blotter!  Ooh look at the blot...It even has Novex marker run on it!  I just want to turn those knobs!"  If you are not nerdy enough, you might just say "are those knobs? They look like noses."  but as I said, it was the right crowd, and they all really liked it.
Amazing how hard it is to make even a simple cake, especially when you are out of practice.  Just getting together all the supplies, getting back into the groove of icing smoothly and not picking up crumbs.  Actually white frosting (or very light) is the worst - shows crumbs, need a fairly thick coating.  This took me about 4.5 hours start to finish (not totally occupied in the cake the whole time, but maybe 75%).  Also, the decorator's dilema: butter-cream does not like humidity.
I do love making them, though.