Just Create - Apple Edition

[silvercat17]

It's another hot weekend, at least here.

What have you been working on? Seen anything cool lately? What is on your list next?

Don't forget to to encourage other commentors, and remember, we have a discord if you want to chat (linked in the pinned post)

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[stormyseasons]

trying to dig up words to write

knit a sleeve on a shirt

started playing Apico :) bees.

[soc_puppet]

Wishing you an avalanche of words!

Also, I am impressed with the sleeve knitting :O

[stormyseasons]

it's sleeve on a mostly raglan yoke, so it's honestly very straightforward at this point, just knitting a tube.

[soc_puppet]

I'm a crocheter myself, so I'll take your word for it 😂

[pumpernickelprescott]

Random question but what is Apico and is it any good? I just looked it up and it says it's a beekeeping sim, I have a friend who loves bees so I was interested if you would recommend it!

[stormyseasons]

Well. I got it on Friday during the Steam Summer Sale and I've been playing it nearly non-stop through the waking hours until now... so... yes, it is rather good if you like that kind of thing. The bees feature heavily but not in very realistic detail, it's very cute and there's a strong streak of gamified genetics involved in the game, which in my opinion makes it Fascinating. Different conditions and combinations to collect all the bees, and release them out to the environment.

Developer apparently is intending at least 3 more free content updates to the game too, so should be fun.

Overall it's quite a soothing, adorable, sort-of open world experience, very nice.

[pumpernickelprescott]

Thanks for the response! I'll definitely recommend it to my friend then, it sounds like something she'd love. It's always great when devs give free content updates too!

[illariy]

Wishing you lots of new words to add to draft.

Oooh, knitting a shirt? Very cool! Best wishes for that, too. Hope you can find the time to add some more stitches there.

I have only knit a jumper once and it took me so much time and much encouragement from my mother to even finish that, hehe. Much admiration for you taking on such a project! :D

[cornerofmadness]

knitting a sleeve? That sounds challenging and cool. good luck

[soc_puppet]

Okay, I dunno how many people have seen that B. Dylan Hollis video with the two-ingredient "cookies"? Yeah, I made those but turned them into granola bars. And also added some candy, because I can.

You will need:
1 medium-large bowl to mix stuff in
1 standard size loaf pan
Parchment paper (preferred) or grease for your pan

Ingredients:
2 cups quick oats
2 medium to large bananas, mashed or 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (if bananas) or 1/2 cup caramel nibs (if applesauce)
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon (if applesauce)
1/8 teaspoon salt (optional)

Preheat the oven to 350­°F.

-Mix everything except the fruit together in the bowl. Add the fruit, and mix thoroughly until a "dough" is formed.
- Apply non-stick-ifying agent to bread pan. Smoosh dough into the bottom of the bread pan, trying to get as flat and even as possible.
-Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, then set out to cool.
- When the baked good is cool, remove it from the bread pan. Slice into 6 pieces. Om nom nom!

I am having difficulty not eating all of the caramel apple ones at once.

[illariy]

Oh, hello, I haven't seen the video you mentioned.

The recipe sounds very cool! I might try that in the winter.

I am not surprised that you enjoy eating the caramel apple ones a lot, they sound absolutely delicious. Very yummy and I bet your house smells amazing now.

[soc_puppet]

Here's a Tumblr link that should hopefully work without too much trouble 👍

The apple ones might need some more tweaking, but they are delicious enough that I really don't mind 😁 That said, one of each flavor was missing when I got home today, so it seems my parents discovered them; I'll have to eat up the caramel apple ones quickly...

[cornerofmadness]

Sounds yummy (and yes I saw that. I have the cake mix but not the cool whip)

[soc_puppet]

I think there must be two, then, because the recipe I saw was quick oats plus fruit puree. Cake mix and cool whip cookies sound delicious.

[cornerofmadness]

goes to look because I must have missed the oats and fruit puree.

Yeah it's just strawberry cake mix and cool whip rolled into powdered sugar (Strawberry fluffies). I love Dylan

[cornerofmadness]

I'm using nano to hopefully work on a trio of original stories

[illariy]

Wait, there is nano in July? I have been out of the loop for too long, it seems.

Anyway, original stories, very cool that you are taking those on even though they come with less of a built-in audience than fanfiction. How is it going? I hope you find time and oomph this weekend to add some new words to one or more of those stories. ;-)

[cornerofmadness]

Yep, Camp Nano is in April and July with lesser word counts. You set your own. I'm aiming for 15K

thanks. Yeah pro writing definitely doesn't come with the built in ego boost fanfic does. I finished the research I needed for the solarpunk so here's hoping it goes

[silvercat17]

Ooo. I love Solarpunk

I need to sign up for Camp Nano. I'm hoping maybe it'll help me finish my stuff for the WIP Big Bang

[silvercat17]

I've added my project. I've Silvercat17 on Nano

[cornerofmadness]

cool I'm DocDana there

[cornerofmadness]

Good luck. I need to get on that wip big bang story too

[fred_mouse]

Hi! Have just discovered this comm. We've been cleaning out the craft room, and I'm rediscovering things that I desperately want time to work on. Goal for this evening is to quilt some of a lap quilt, now that I have space to do so. Probably unrealistic hope is to get all the quilting on it done this week, so I can bind it next week, and declare a finish :)

[illariy]

Oh, hello, lovely to see you here!

How is the quilt going today? Very cool that you are taking up an UFO and making some progress on it!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! Quilt is going. Slowly, but going.

[silvercat17]

Welcome! It always seems like there's too many projects and not enough time, doesn't it?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yes. And I have a long history of starting things. Aquiring materials. Getting intimidated by the next step. Rinse, repeat!

[soc_puppet]

Hey, you! Good to see you here :D

Oh man, I know exactly how it is, discovering old, half-finished projects. And let's not even think/i> about projects I only bought the materials for and never even started...

[silvercat17]

NO, no mentioning projects that one has materials for!

[(Anonymous)]

\*cough\* embroidery projects bought doing for while my kids had swimming lessons. Which means, at best, sitting there for five years.

[cornerofmadness]

Ooo good luck with the quilting

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! I'm going for small progress, and I'm tentatively optimistic!

[illariy]

This weekend, I had some studying and admin work to do but I also made time to handwrite one letter to a penpal. I started and finished it today, which I am very pleased with. The original goal was to write the second, now only letter in my reply queue, too, but I am afraid I am out of time for today and tomorrow is already Monday again. Sigh. Oh well, at least I got that one letter done. :D

[silvercat17]

Monday always comes too fast

[cornerofmadness]

Yay for getting one letter. Good luck with more

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, well done on starting \*and\* finishing!

[silvercat17]

Been trying to remember to start Writer's Salon posts in rainbowlounge and the rainbowfic tumblr. I finally added them to Finch to remind me, but that doesn't always work, as evidenced by me missing starting the Just Create posts some weeks.

Nearly finished with the first page of Ocelar's art reference sheet. I don't think I'm going to do the second page (fur patterns) right away if at all. I have her done up in Daz3d so I can always use that.

[soc_puppet]

I feel you; I've got a number of "make X post on Y day" things going, and sometimes some of them just... fall through the cracks. I really do wish Dreamwidth had a native scheduled posting thing, instead of the email work-around (which I still haven't set up), so I could make a bunch ready at once.

Good luck with the art reference sheets!

[silvercat17]

I also post them to Tumblr. I probably could schedule them on DW somehow, but ugh

[soc_puppet]

Yeah, the current workaround I'm aware of is to set up posting by email, then schedule your email posts? Which. Well, I'm sure it works, at least, and that's far from nothing. Still, there's a reason why "the ability to schedule posts" is the number two feature I daydream about for Dreamwidth. (Number one is better image hosting interface, if only because I think that would draw more people over.)

[silvercat17]

Finished it and posted to DeviantArt. I'll post it to all the other places at a more decent hour https://www.deviantart.com/silvercat17/art/Ocelar-Reference-Sheet-970048132

[(Anonymous)]

Very striking. Love the art style.

[dianec42]

Quilting practice! I made another practice block using the last of the magic-but-wonky half square triangles. I have learned from the Ultimate Beginner Quilt videos several things that I am doing wrong. Regrettably one of them is that I was using the mat to measure for cutting and not my awesome ruler.

I still have not FOUND the awesome ruler since moving. I'm sure it's hanging out somewhere with my dark purple bath towels and my yoga mat, laughing at me.

I've got the idea about making blocks. I'm now at the point where I either need to move on to the next steps, or go out and buy some REAL fabric with intent to make something in particular.

Luckily I have the whole week off! I am seriously contemplating a major shopping run. (Not least to my closest Target, which is in another state, to get a laundry drying rack. Because meanwhile, I have also acquired some dumbbells and recreated some exercise routines, in the process creating a heckton of delicate laundry that needs doing.) Time to map out the optimal path, try to remember which quilt shops are open which days, and cross my fingers the sun actually comes out at some point...


Edited to add: I FOUND THE RULER! It was indeed in one of the "large" Lowes boxes... that I had already looked in... tucked safely between two very large Lego kits. Good GRIEF but I excel at putting things in safe places!

[cornerofmadness]

Yay for finding that ruler

[(Anonymous)]

yay for finding the ruler.

Good to know there is another quilter here!