Day 358: So Close, Yet So Far Away

2011 is almost over, and so is this horrible make-something-new-every-day monstrosity.

For today, here's a lovely drawing I drew using my phone.



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Day 357: Vodkatania

Today I strained several of my latest drinksperiments. In fact, they're still straining, and it may take a while.

I did a batch of twelve different flavors this time. On Friday, I put them in jars.


Clockwise From top left: caramel, candy corn, peppercorns, marshmallows, lemon heads, coffee, candy canes, black licorice, sour skittles, bubble gum jelly bellies, atomic fireballs, and cashews.

Here they are swimming in vodka:


And here's a glimpse of the lengthy and tedious straining process:


I'm so sick of smelling vodka, I'll have to wait until another day to actually do taste tests.

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Day 356: Ella Minnow Pea

I'm currently reading a book called Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters.


It's very funny and clever in a word-nerd kind of way. A major theme in the book is the pangram you probably have heard: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. (A pangram is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet.)

For today's make, I made a minimally planned and hastily executed bookmark for this book.


It's covered on both sides with pangrams, some of which are pretty funny, and all of which are more interesting than the fox/dog one.


If you like nerdy word stuff, I recommend this book. Although I'm only halfway done, so it might turn to crap at any moment.

Oh, and I had to pick my favorite pangram, it would probably be this: The big plump jowls of zany Dick Nixon quiver.

But I also agree with the sentiment of Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

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Day 355: Deformed Snowflake

Today I attempted to X-acto a fancy snowflake. Unfortunately, card stock is not the most friendly paper option for this purpose. This is how far I got before my hand cramped and I gave up.


Maybe I'll try again with origami paper or something else suitably thin and X-actoable.

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Day 354: Delegation

Today I started to draw some random stuff. I wasn't inspired, so I delegated my make to Kaidin.


He did a very fine job.


And Keagin helped a little too.



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Day 353: Hot Buttered Yum

Today I made hot buttered rum, with actual rum. I remember having hot buttered water a lot when I was little, but now I'm big.

Here's the buttered and the rum:


And here I've added the hot:



Yeah, the buttered came from a package. Bite me.

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Day 352: It's a Bird! It's a Plane!

Actually, it's two planes. More paper airplanes.

Here's the Wyoming V-Wing. It has a nice long glide.


And here's the Montana Long Ranger.


Despite its name, it tends to take a sudden downward twisting dive after gliding a few feet.

No, these are not exciting makes, but at least there are two of them.

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