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its ok the ring itself is actually very pretty, however the band is very skinny. and makes the ring look funny when its on your finger. its smaller than i expected as well. Its a nice ring if your looking for a petite ring.
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Small but Shines I absolutely love this ring, it is smaller than the picture leads you to believe it is but it shines more than I thought it would! I couldn't be happier with this purchase.
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lloveeeee!!! My husband bought this ring for me and I absolutely love it!! Its petit, but has just the right amount of 'bling' :)
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nice small, pretty, nice ring. I thought she might like it, well, she loved it. thank you
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My question is only partially related to this thread but where can I get the blue steel baking pans the guys from VIA 313 use?
Mike,I can't say with absolute assurance what pans VIA 313 is specifically using but they seem to be very similar to what is used in Detroit. In that vein, you might want to take a look at Reply 3 earlier in this thread at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,16820.msg163962.html#msg163962.Peter
Here is a picture of what it looks like:http://slice.seriouseats.com/images/20110306-138848-United-States-of-Pizza-Michigan-Cloverleaf.jpg
Mike,I'm not sure when Lloyd Pans (the parent of PizzaTools) introduced the Detroit-style pans with the PSTK finish, but they are Lloyd's effort to offer a competitive product to the classic blue steel pans used by most of the pizza operators who specialize in the Detroit-style pizza. Whether they are worth the premium price (multiples of the blue steel pans of the same sizes) remains to be seen. However, they are not to be underestimated. PizzaTools/Lloyd Pans is a quality outfit and they have managed on many occasions to convince pizza operators to switch to their products, a good example of which is the switch from screens to disks by pizza operators with conveyor ovens. BTW, Jet's uses conveyor ovens to make their Detroit style pizzas. Unlike Buddy's and its ilk, Jet's never used deck ovens as best I can tell from my research. I believe that Jet's was the first pizza operator to use conveyor ovens for the Detroit style pizza. Of course, there will be some who do not consider Jet's style pizza to be a good or legitimate manifestation of the Detroit style pizza. That may well be true, although Jet's has been running circles around the classic Detroit style pizza operators from an expansion and growth standpoint. Peter
Peter,I have yet to try pans from Lloyd's but have heard only good things so far so I'm not really surprised that they are becoming more popular in the industry.When I did a search for the blue steel pans, I came across this little tidbit about the care of those pans:http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/406135#2622388Now, I don't know how credible the statement from the guy is but maybe someone on here can give more info on the care of those pans.
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Mikey,I have a few blue steel pans for pizza Romana. They are fantastic. They should never be washed. I just wipe with a paper towel once I'm done & put them away. Matt
Perfect! "Honey, we gotta go for lunch, the folks are asking for photo's...."Mike: Like many, I use blue steel plans or pizza in Teglia. Like Matt, I like them quite a bit. I just rinse in warm water and use a paper towel to clean. Back in the cooling down oven for a few mins. to dry. With the lightest coat of oil nothing as ever stuck to them.
Bro,Is there anything you don't have when it comes to pizza?? Appreciate your input but, if I may, which brand did you buy?
Perfect! "Honey, we gotta go for lunch, the folks are asking for photo's...."
They're from Italy & I'm pretty sure that they are made by Paderno World Cuisine. They are only 1" high, the picture looks a little deceiving.Matt
Pretty cool little video:http://www.thrillist.com/food/austin/tx/78702/central-east/via-313_latenight_pizza_food-trucks
Tom, I think the word you're looking for is annoying I sincerely hope Brandon approaches Detroit style pizza a lot more seriously than NY, because most of that video had me cringing.
She is a little, umm, eccentric, eh? I watched 5 or 8 of her videos, not sure what to think. I liked the pizza one though.


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Hello there! Anyone still around? It's been a month since I last posted...a month. Where did the time go? What, in heaven's name, was I doing?
Will get to that in a bit. Meanwhile, I can say one thing that I definitely was not doing...not thinking about this blog. Believe you me, it was on my mind constantly, like a wonderful friend who lives on a paradisal island that I was just aching to visit and play with...but because of lack of resources and time, just couldn't get to, no matter how much I longed for that escape.
So what I have been doing? Going full speed ahead on the renovation of our new home. Shopping for tiles and faucets and door knobs and all sorts of bobs and bits. Deciding on paint swatches. Pinching pennies. Working like a fiend on more shifts than I even want to think of. Attempting halfway decent Christmas shopping. Trying to appease our new neighbors during the noisy demolition period with these cookies...
Robyn Lee's Killer Big Fat Chewy Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies – smaller version
(adapted from Serious Eats)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- Preheat the oven to 335 degrees. Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
- In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended. - Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon. Drop cookie dough a rounded tablespoonful at a time onto the prepared cookie sheets. Cookies should be about 1 inch apart.
- Bake for 12-13 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
These are absolutely classic tasting chocolate chip cookies -- chewy with slightly crispy edges and gorgeous shots of chocolate all throughout. You can be sure I kept some for myself!
I hope this recipe appeases you until I pop back here again. I can't promise when that will be. You see, aside from the renovation and work (and the holiday rush!), there is also much going on in these parts -- of which I hope to share with you soon! For today though, these cookies will have to do. They're very good and I'm sure they will keep anyone happy :) I certainly hope they keep my neighbors in good spirits as the carpenters hack away!


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Partnerships are moving more milk
Partnerships are moving more milk
While growth continues in many dairy product categories, including cheese, fluid milk is garnering attention due to its decades-long downward consumption trend.
Over 1,000 people gathered in Florida in late October for the joint annual meeting of the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board, the United Dairy Industry Association and the National Milk Producers Federation. This marked the 16th year these three organizations focused on either dairy promotion or policy met at the same venue.
In recent months, the Dairy Checkoff gave fluid milk renewed focus through $14 million in special initiatives. A three-prong effort funded proposals in these areas: lactose free, value added and core sales. As Tom Gallagher, CEO of Dairy Management, Inc., noted, "There is no silver bullet to fix this issue."
"The gallon jug, our best seller, doesn't work for those eating away from home," noted Gallagher who held up a jug of milk while speaking to convention goers. As he elaborated on the issue, he asked a quarter of the audience to stand and then explained to them that they represented meals eaten away from home prior to 1980. Next he directed another quarter of the audience to stand . . . "Half of our meals are eaten away from home today," he said, noting we have lacked innovation. "Competitors didn't take our fluid space — we let it go away," stated Gallagher.
During a panel discussion, "Can fluid milk be saved?" Select Milk Producers Cooperative CEO Mike McCloskey said, "There has been a dramatic shift in lifestyle which has affected fluid milk consumption." Fellow panelist, Darigold CEO Jim Wegner, agreed, "Our market is changing. In 1980, half the population was under 30. Now the 30-age category is only 40 percent."
"Others have decided to innovate and steal fluid milk's identity," added McCloskey. "Orange juice manufacturers adding calcium to fortify the product is just one example." In addition to those issues, a lack of branding and packaging innovation, more competition from other beverages and negative experiences with school milk are all reasons for the erosion in fluid milk sales.
"We have to make milk convenient," Wegner suggested to the audience. "The gallon jug doesn't always do that." Then he brought praise to another Pacific Northwest business, "Where would we be without Starbucks (in the fluid category)? Starbucks sells more milk than coffee," said Wegner who is based in Seattle, Wash.
As far as the future is concerned, "From an innovation standpoint, we need to reward creativity. We can't allow standards of identity to make wrong decisions in our innovation," said McCloskey as he went on to note that new fluid products geared towards America's aging population might not fit traditional Class I standards of identity. In addition, the industry would also have to resolve some classified pricing issues.
Domino's is leading innovation
While the fluid milk situation has caused the category to become a commodity, the same cannot be said for other market segments. Cheese sales are booming for a variety of reasons. One of them is a revitalized pizza category and a multi-year partnership between the Dairy Checkoff and Domino's which shows no signs of slowing.
"Since 2009, when we reinvigorated our pizza with more cheese, same store sales are up 13.9 percent," Domino's CEO Patrick Doyle told dairy producers. "That's tops among quick service restaurants (QSR). We have moved an additional 6.6 billion pounds of milk in the pizza category since 2009 thanks to innovation."
The second-largest pizza chain in America is not resting on its recent success. "We have launched a new handmade pan pizza that uses 40 percent more cheese than a regular medium pizza," said Doyle. "We also will be reinventing our stores through a retail transformation. These stores will include cold white and chocolate milk at the retail counter next to the checkout," explained Doyle.
Quaker Foods and Snacks President Jose Luis Prado was also a guest at the Florida meeting and discussed a relatively new partnership with the dairy-producer funded checkoff program. Together Prado and Gallagher discussed Quaker's "Make it with Milk" campaign.
"There are 9 billion meals of oatmeal consumed in the U.S. each year," said Gallagher, "less than 30 percent use milk with oatmeal. If we move the needle by 1 percent (people consuming milk instead of water in their oatmeal), there would be 30 million more pounds of milk consumed," said Gallagher.
Real Seal gets reinvigorated
Under a new five-year agreement with UDIA, the Real Seal will now be managed by the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF). In order to use the Real Seal, products must be made with 100 percent U.S. cow's milk.
"The Real Seal gives us the opportunity to play some offense, by helping consumers distinguish between dairy products made from real milk, and those that are either imported or not made from milk at all," noted NMPF CEO Jerry Kozak. "We need to take care of our own real dairy, real American-made products."
The Real Seal still has market appeal, explained NMPF Chairman Randy Mooney. "According to research done by DMI, the Real Seal has 91 percent consumer awareness. And 78 percent of consumers are familiar enough to know what it stands for. What's more, 360 food companies are registered to use the Real Seal on more than 10,000 products," said Mooney.
Product promotion shared the stage with animal care. "We started the FARM (Farmers Assuring Responsible Management) program three years ago to provide consistent, national and verifiable means of showing the food value chain how dairy products are produced," said Kozak. "This allows us to see where we are as an industry and ask if we're using the best animal care practices possible."
"We've made continued refinements in the FARM program," said Mooney. "Participation has continued to grow, but it's not where it needs to be," he said. "The National Dairy Board recently decided to allocate some resources to help defray the cost of the third party verification process," he went on to say, noting that NMPF anticipates that audits in the FARM program will exceed 70 percent of the nation's milk supply in 2013.
During that discussion, Kozak highlighted the new "See it, Stop it" component of FARM which empowers the entire farm team to be vigilant about animal care. "The 'See it, Stop it' effort encourages workers to share information about what farm owners may need to know but can't always be around to see," said Kozak.
In an earlier session, NMPF's Jim Tillison discussed ongoing efforts in the Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) initiative where dairy cooperatives and individual producers voluntarily contribute 2 cents per hundredweight towards export efforts. All told, CWT is funded by 70 percent of the nation's milk.
"Work by FAPRI (Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute) and Scott Brown shows that CWT added 43 cents per hundredweight to dairy producers' milk checks in 2012," said Tillison. "CWT helped export 60 percent of the U.S. production growth in 2012," he said, "that includes 17 percent of all cheese exports."
This article appears on page 743 of the November issue of Hoard's Dairyman.


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In a press release Thursday Police Chief Alexander Scott said, "The allegation is that the student was fooling with and tossing a cleaning cloth and in response to this conduct, the teacher took the cloth and smacked it against the student's face and stated, 'How do you like it?'"
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What a tease, releasing Deathmatch before Half-life 2. Even if it is an old game at this point I still haven't had a chance to play Half-life 2 yet. After having finally played the first game I am now really looking foward to playing the second through. I do hope they do a Half-Life franchise sale soon though, as I wouldn't mind trying some of the various spin-off games like this that have been popping up with ports lately.
It's availabe now, beta version.
But every time a new item pops up in my library, for a split second I hope it's gonna be CS:GO :-P
Great news. I just played through the original Half-Life on Linux (never did finish it years ago). It going to be nice to be able to play through HL2 and episodes on Linux. Those really are some of the best games of the last decade. Not to turn this into one of those stupid Half-Life 3/ep3 threads, but the massive cliffhanger at the end of Episode 2 really leaves you wanting more. The amount of passion people have for #3 is really a testament to how how awesome a universe these games created. If Valve ever wanted to sell a Steam Box, episode 3 would be the game to do it. I just think that maybe it's been so long since people have played HL2, they might be missing their prime time.
OK, it's down. I fired it up aaand... there are no servers. It only lists one. In the whole world. With no players in it. Nobody plays this game anymore. I must admit that's kinda useless :-P
There are people still playing the game*, you don't see servers because the Linux version is in beta and the active servers need to be updated. So, we will have to wait until Valve eventually makes the beta public for Windows users.
* http://www.gametracker.com/search/?s...hipp=50#search


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Posted by Brosef Stalin on 12/31 at 1:19 pm to OMLandshark Movies like The Matrix, A New Hope, first Pirates of the Caribbean etc tell a complete story because they were never intended to be part of a series. It was only after those movies became hits that the studio decided to do more. Reply Back to Top |
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Bridal Suite
In movies, inspiration looks much like the manic half of manic depression. The artist runs amok in montage, flinging paint around in a large, white studio while loud bits of Mahler (or possibly the Pointer Sisters singing "I'm So Excited") flood the soundtrack. He is hyperkinetic, unfettered, unstoppable. He is not the person you want living in the apartment upstairs. But he can't help himself...he is inspired.
I admit that occasionally, out of nowhere, the Inspiration Fairy socks you in the gut with a full-grown idea so damned good it almost lifts you right off the barstool. But if you intend to make a living from your ideas, and you only sit down to work when that happens, you'd better have a rich uncle or a back-up plan in something nice and stable like accounting or dog grooming.
Inspiration (for me, anyhow) is less like a lightning bolt than like being constantly pecked by a flock of unfocused chickens. Here a peck, there a peck, until the combined pecking reaches critical mass and you can't take it any more and you scream, "Stop, chickens! Stop! Stop!"* and you sit down and draw the cartoon.
This can be every bit as unpleasant as it sounds.
The only way to avoid going mad, which usually happens to artists in movies shortly after the Pointer Sisters stop singing, is to learn to love your chickens. Think of the pecking as their way of alerting you to little details that will move you along, by slow inches, towards something good and whole and new.
And now I want to show you some drawings of old wedding dresses.
That sounds like a non sequitur, I know, but the old wedding dresses were inspiring. Everything you've just read was intended to lead up to them. But then I introduced the chicken motif, and it hasn't come out where I thought it would, and it's almost dinner time so I'm not going back and rewriting it. Sorry.
Inspiration at the Chicago History Museum
This is my second year as a member of the Chicago History Museum, which not so long ago was the Chicago Historical Society. In the old incarnation, it was just as clubby and dusty as it sounds–mostly of interest to the people around here who have major streets named after them.
After a grand renovation and expansion, however, it has become one of my favorite places in the city. Along with a first-class permanent exhibit about the Great Fire of 1871 and several rooms of Lincolniana unmatched by anything at the Smithsonian, they have frequent and splendid shows of items from the textiles collection.
The latest is called "I Do! Chicago Ties the Knot," and it's a doozy. Wedding gear from the mid-19th century (when Chicago sprang, almost overnight, from the mud) to the present day, including bridal gowns, corsetry, going-away attire, and men's costumes–including a pair of matching tuxedos worn by a gay couple, thankyouverymuch.
Oh, and there's a perfectly preserved 120-year-old top tier from a wedding cake, just for good measure.
They don't allow photography in the exhibit, but I spent a fun afternoon there, sketchbook in hand, drawing interesting details under the puzzled eye of the guard.
Here are a few. I plan to go back soon and collect more.
I would write something about the chickens here if I could think of a good tie-in, but it's Thai delivery night and I want my panang curry.
47 comments:
- Fujiyamamama said...
Aaah. One of my favorite museums, and I love their collection of clothing, it is SO fabulous!
- Julie Schuler said...
If they are German chickens then- Bitte aufhören, Hühner!
That's a pretty apt description of all the mini-inspirations that beset one on a creative journey. I like to think that I snuffle them out, like a sexy truffle pig. - 6:56 PM
- JelliDonut said...
I swear I see sheep in the shoulder capelet.
- Madame Leiderhosen said...
How cool is that?!
Would you mind if I try a bit of embroidery with one of your sketches? I could use the practice and you have a sincerity of line I might be able to follow. Maybe after a glass of red.
Thanks for infectious inspiration. - 7:26 PM
- Emma Ouini said...
that "path of beading..." looks like a couple of napping lambs! Adorable.
- Alwen said...
After the Chicago fire, it was rebuilt with millions of board feet of Michigan white pine.
You're welcome. - 8:49 PM
- sunnysideellen said...
The monogram looks a bit like chicken feet.... Does that help?
- Anonymous, too said...
My late parental units retired to a little farm in the Ozarks. All their chickens learned that "SHAKE AND BAKE!", screamed somewhat off-key, meant BIG trouble if poultry behavior did not improve 100%.
And a silk crepe wedding dress with pearl beading from Marshall Field & Co.? Just more proof that Macy's never could compete with MF&Co. It's like Penney's trying to compete agains Saks or Nordstrom's. - 10:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
I see sheep in the shoulder capelet, too.
- Spiminarian said...
Such gorgeous patterns. I love your random love for vintage wedding dresses. However, it is not helping my current unneeded obsession with wedding obsessions. Neither is Say Yes to the Dress.
Did the dresses have veils? Were any of them knitted/crocheted/tatted? I'm determined to crochet my own veil. I should probably start soon. - 10:31 PM
- Leigh said...
I was inspired to look at the Chicago History Museum's web site and found they have photos of some of the I Do! items on Flickr:
Very cool! - 10:50 PM
- Paper Tiger said...
The brocade pattern looks like breasts.
(I'm clearly not a sexy truffle pig.) - 10:56 PM
- ... said...
Get out of my head!
- thetinfoilhatsociety.com said...
I laughed out loud at the chicken reference! Mine (the real ones) tend to cluck and whine at me (yes, chickens whine...especially spoiled ones hoping for treats) when they see me in the window or out in the yard. We only have one that pecks; ironically, her name is Lovey.
Toss your metaphorical hens some metaphorical grapes and they'll love you for life :) - 11:39 PM
- Mel said...
I don't think I'd be so nice if I were being pecked by German chickens. I'd likely go with "Geraus, verdammten Hühner!"
My verification word for this is "ulahelic", which sounds like it should describe the curvature of one's tongue. - 12:19 AM
- Anonymous said...
You were making chicken scratchings at the museum--there's your chicken tie-in.
Mary G. in Texas - 2:11 AM
- Freyalyn said...
- Seanna Lea said...
Chickens, eh. I have a little pad that I sketch on when I have an idea for a shape I'd like to make, but most of these don't make it to the room with the yarn in it. I have to get better about using my inspiration when it comes around. Right now the only inspiration that sees fruition is ice cream.
- Barb in Georgia said...
Thank you for brightening my day, Mr. Quirky.
- Roxie said...
Being pecked by the chickens of inspiration? Inspiration tends to affect me like a swarm of mosquitos. Here a sting, there a sting. Swat and swear and carry on until the itching becomes so unbearable that I finally stop what I'm doing and indulge in an orgy of scratching. And ohhhh, the bliss of a well-scratched itch!
- Gerri in St Paul said...
I loved that museum as a kid.
I think I need some German chickens pecking at me--they would make sure I got something done and moved on. - 9:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
Put your index fingers at the sides of your mouth where top and bottom lip meet and pull gently while saying, "Die Hühne picken"
Cracks me up every single time!!
And somehow this fits into the chicken-wedding dress thread.
XOMarianne - 10:00 AM
- stix06 said...
I'm going to be in Chicago all by my lonesome for 2 whole weeks and the Chicago History Museum just hit the top of the must see list! Thanks, Franklin! Anyone know of a friendly yarn shop in the Schaumburg/Elk Grove Village area?
- Samina said...
While accounting is generally a stable profession, it's not always nice. Come see my office during tax season if you want proof.
- Emily said...
"Arretez-vous" is pretty formal, for addressing chickens, n'est-ce pas?
The Inspiration Fairy...ha! Reminds me of writing papers, back in the day. I'd procrastinate until the last possible moment, then sit down and go through something I can't even describe...akin to childbirth or maybe vomiting...in which said paper would start off in one direction & then end hours later with perfectly developed arguments arriving at something I never saw coming. With lots of discarded scraps along the way.
My mother was a composer. She went through the exact same process. If nobody ever commissioned her works, she'd never have written a thing. The idea of ever writing a paper again...well, I hope it never comes up.
That said, I also know people who live for the creative process...it's like an ongoing compulsion for them. Lucky people. But that doesn't guarantee excellence, I can tell you that! - 3:39 PM
- nana said...
"Ihr verrueckten Huehner, aufhoeren!" would be something, our mum would call out to us two wet hen sisters, when we were pecking at her too much, so maybe there is your german utterance for the mad chickens pecking at you :-)
I love this idea of taking pictures at the museum.
Would have done the same, and will do over and over again when in museums.
The faces, and wafting over words from conversations of people watching me do it are priceless. - 5:44 PM
- Juliane said...
I was looking forward to handing you a sentence to call the German hens, but unfortunately, there have already been others before me.
I second nana's proposition: "verrückte Hühner" - crazy hens are the perfect way to address your chickens of inspiration.
By the way, I love the "path of beading" on the shoulder capelet and the last sketch of the ornament on the silk lace overskirt. And I, too, thought that the brocade pattern looks like breasts. - 6:00 PM
- Gail said...
I heard one of the curators at a costume symposium at the Met talk about this exhibit -- aren't the dresses amazing! The detail and the workmanship on the dresses is also so amazing. I've mounted so many dresses of this type, and I am always blown away.
Thanks for sharing your fine eye for detail! - 6:04 PM
- Lynn said...
Freetranslation.com "gists" it as "Halt, Hühner! Halt! Halt!", but I like what the others said, far better.
- Kristen said...
Russian, should you ever find yourself in the company of ex-Soviet chickens: Перестаньте, курицы! Перестаньте! Перестаньте!
- Natalie Servant said...
I love the sketches. I finally started a sketch book of my own last week & I'm mostly enjoying it. I just hate the thought of messing up the lovely pages with garbage, but I am persevering.
- Deb W said...
I am struck by the similarity of the suspenders monogram to that of painter Thomas Moran. He became so identified with his paintings of Yellowstone National Park, that he adopted 'Yellowstone' as his middle name. http://www.nga.gov/feature/moran/index.shtm
No, I don't have an encyclopedic memory - I just saw a short documentary about him the other night on PBS, and mentally noted the clever way he incorporated the 'Y' into his monogram. - 12:22 PM
- William said...
I found this follow up on Flickr that you might wish to look at. - 12:59 PM
- geogrrl said...
That's not a bad description of "inspiration". Usually I start by obsessing over one particular detail and the rest builds from there, but it takes some time to crystallize.
I find that for technical writing it takes some slogging and initial writing before the whole thing comes together and I "see" it.
The preliminaries are always painful. - 2:28 PM
- floatingink said...
Definitely sheep in the capelet. Dare I say I see a bit of Dolores in there?
- Eileen said...
Want to loan me those chickens? I need to finish a hat and a beaded headpiece (20s style) very soon.
And now you've given me another museum for The List. (Thank you.) - 5:32 PM
- nance Thacker said...
I will learn to love my chickens.
I will learn to love my chickens.
And all this time I thought I was the only one with a flock of unfocused, pecking, chickens of inspiration. - 1:21 AM
- Karen said...
You know what's worse than chickens pecking at you? When they stare at you! It's the creepiest thing. A friend of mine has a pack of chickens in her back yard here in Yonkers (don't ask) and they always walk up to you and just stare. My ravelry icon is a photo of one of them staring at me (karent if you want to get stared at too.)
- Yvonne said...
The path of beading looks like little lamb's faces.
And I was chased down the road by chickens once. It wasn't pretty. - 11:16 PM
- brokeknits said...
Thanks for posting this. I'm going to remember the chickens when, as usual, the dissertation is getting me down. It's a German chicken.
- Anonymous said...
I see sheep in the shoulder capelets as well.
Would you consider a knitted lace with a chicken design? - 1:58 PM
- Anonymous said...
I love your sketches! And I too noticed the sheep face. I have nine hens in my back garden. All different personalities! Just a couple are annoying. I watch them for inspiration and wind down from my office job. Great eggs too.
- ColorJoy LynnH said...
It looks like sheep to me, too. My first thought!
I've been to many museums in Chicago, but have not heard of this one before. Thanks for that lead!
Chicago is only 4 hours by car, maybe I'll have to pop down for a day and see this exhibit. It sounds incredible. - 6:42 PM
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Miller leads Cardinals against Padres in series opener
Host San Diego counters with Marquis in first of three-game set
Take a look at Shelby Miller's numbers, and it's easy to see that the Padres are about to face one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball on Monday.
There's Miller's 1.40 ERA, tied with Clayton Kershaw for the lowest mark in the Majors, his 57 strikeouts in 51 1/3 innings, .182 opponents average and 0.88 WHIP. He's been untouchable lately, as he carries a 14 2/3-inning scoreless streak into Monday night's matchup with Jason Marquis at Petco Park.
"I feel really strong," Miller said Wednesday. "I feel really good. I feel like I'm where I need to be."
But there's one number Miller can improve -- the quickly escalating pitch count that limited his last start to 5 2/3 innings. He's finished seven innings only twice in eight starts and averaging 16.2 pitches per inning, and he'd obviously like to pitch deeper into Monday's game.
Miller has still been as effective as any pitcher in the Majors, however, and he's allowed only one run over his last three starts (20 2/3 innings). Making him even more dangerous, he rediscovered his changeup his last time out. It's not a new pitch for him, but he had hardly needed it given how well his fastball and curveball were getting the job done.
"The biggest thing is building confidence in the pitch," Miller said. "I have mixed up the grip on it since Spring Training, and it went back down to 83-85 mph, which is 10 mph slower than my fastball. I like that speed. It's kind of weird. It was like 86-87 in Spring Training. I got some mph off of it. I like where it's at, and I like that we threw it [on Wednesday]."
Taking the ball for the Padres will be Marquis, who lacks most of Miller's dazzling numbers but has been no less dependable for San Diego. Marquis has gone 4-0 with a 2.45 ERA over his last four starts, his longest winning streak since a five-game stretch for the Cubs in 2008.
The team's leader in wins threw eight scoreless innings against the Marlins on May 8, then gave up two runs on seven hits and four walks over five-plus innings Wednesday against Baltimore. But the Padres scored eight runs in that game, and his sinker was good enough to induce two critical double plays and get the job done.
"Some days you're not going to feel as good as others, but you've still got to make pitches in a big situation," Marquis said Wednesday. "It was huge [that] the defense picked me up. I tried to force them to hit the top of the ball."
Cardinals: Road warriors
• The Cards are 14-7 on the road this season, the best winning percentage in the Majors and the second-most road wins by any club this season. Monday's game marks the beginning of a three-city road trip through San Diego, Los Angeles and Kansas City -- their second of five three-city trips this season. The Cardinals haven't even played a game outside the Midwest since a late April trip to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Washington.
• Right-hander Mitchell Boggs returned from Triple-A Memphis on Sunday, taking the roster spot of Jaime Garcia, who was sent to the 15-day disabled list with a left shoulder strain. Boggs spent 16 days with the Memphis Redbirds. His first five appearances were scoreless innings, then he walked three and allowed two hits for three earned runs his last time out.
The Cardinals haven't elaborated on what Boggs' role will be now that he's back, but he was eager to prove himself.
"I can sit here and talk about [mechanics] all day long, but it's not gonna matter when I go out there and compete," Boggs said. "Whatever adjustments I've made, I feel good about them and I look forward to showing that."
Padres: Maybin inching toward rehab assignment
• Center fielder Cameron Maybin will hit in the batting cage and on the field Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and, if all goes well, he could begin a Minor League rehab assignment by Friday. Maybin has been on the disabled list since April 17, missing 28 games with a right wrist impingement and a slow recovery.
"If Cam has a good three days -- baseball activities, hitting in the cage and on the field -- you could expect to see him go out Friday," Padres manager Bud Black said. "We feel confident where Cam is."
• The Padres have scored 88 runs over their last 18 games, second in the National League during that span and an average of 4.83 runs per game.
Worth noting
• The Cardinals have won 14 of their last 18 games.
• After going hitless with no RBIs from May 1-8, Padres outfielder Carlos Quentin has a hit and an RBI in five of his last six games.
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.