Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier
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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.
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Jay Angler wrote:
He has expressed the opinion that he'd prefer raisins than chocolate chips, so that suggests that the chewy texture is part of the preference.


You might ask him, what you think he suggests he wants may not be what he meant.
If I had answered that I preferred raisins to chocolate chips it would be because I feel chocolate chips are way overused (as is cinnamon) and if you making me something neat, I don't want it to be the same thing I can get everyplace else. But that is ME.


Incidentally, the reasons I made squash raisins were  A) To see what kind of odd things I can do with squash  B) to see if said odd things pressure canned up well. Raisins is one of the weird things I did that definitely worked. To can them make the liquid more watery and cover the squash bits. They come out like a raisin that was soaked overnight to hydrate them.  (Pressure canning is required, not water bath!!)
3 hours ago
I have made fake raisins out of baked winter squash, that's been diced small, and soaked in lemon juice and molasses. Possibly some water if you wanted. The juices might be helped to absorb by boiling gently or microwaving them.

Like everything in permaculture, It Depends!  What part does the raisin do in the cookie that makes makes it important? Is it the sweet lump, the flavor, the texture, the idea there is something in there just for a surprise in a bite? Knowing which are the important parts you are trying to replicate might help figure out what will be an adequate replacement.
4 hours ago
YAY!! It's fall in Missouri,  I throw leaves for ALL the wonderful people!!  Thank you for being the best part of permies! You ALL ROCK!!!   :D

I gave out a bunch of them :D  They went over REALLY well!!  
I gave up, the kids were too wired to sing, I made the critters sing la la la and taught them how to hold it. Lot of chaos. The town square trick or treat party.
1 day ago
Help help help! About an hour before I leave, I still need some current kids songs. Old ones that I know that they will too, please, not something horrifying their parents will hate.
2 days ago
Bah, should have looked back at the pics in the first post, I didn't think these tongues looked right....
Ended up with craft paint for the white eyes, and sharpies.

I need help from y'all!!
If I want to make them singers I have to make them sing as I give them out.  And they need to be songs that won't drive the parents crazy if the kids are singing them later. What songs do little kids know these days? I can do a lot of kids songs, but I don't have a clue which are common anymore.
2 days ago
I got 40 made, in time to grab food, get on my outfit, get there.... Wrong day. I'm assuming it's today.
So...

I made 6 colors, picture is of one of each. Not as elaborate as in the past, as I was working alone, on too many of them, on a tight schedule.  Still cute, definitely look more like singers than monsters. I like that part!

:D

2 days ago
Not as horrifying as I thought. Only 40.  Folded.
Looking for paint.
3 days ago

Thekla McDaniels wrote:

Pearl Sutton wrote:Office Max and Staples is where I bought mine...

Update on the mass production, man, I bit off more than I can chew. Not sure how I'll get eyes on them all.



Draw on with a sharpie?


Yeah, that's going through my mind too
3 days ago

Jay Angler wrote:

Pearl Sutton wrote:Update on the mass production, man, I bit off more than I can chew. Not sure how I'll get eyes on them all.


Are you cutting a gluing eyes on, or painting eyes on?


I usually glue. That entails cutting. I may be painting, it's easier. Although THAT gets down to what paint do I have... Only white paints I'm sure of right off are spray paint, elastomeric coating, and I may have some exterior latex.

Dunno yet. I bit off too much. This pile is still not folded, and I'm FAST.

Edit: actually, I wonder if I have white craft paint? I should, it might be dead though....
3 days ago