http://faerye.net/tag/making+thingsPosts tagged with "making things" - Faerye Net2008-03-14T22:30:39+00:00Felicity Shouldershttp://faerye.net/http://faerye.net/post/happy-pi-dayHappy Pi Day!2008-03-14T22:30:39+00:002009-01-14T11:38:21+00:00<p>Celebrating the punniest way we know how:</p>
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<p>Maple Custard Pie, from page 368 of Ken Haedrich’s <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781558322547-0" target="links">Pie: 300 Tried-And-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie</a> (book from <a href="http://nicemarmot.blogspot.com/" target="links">sister sledge</a>, choice by <a href="http://wonko.com" target="links">Ryan</a>.)http://faerye.net/post/pie-or-why-i-want-to-stay-home-from-schoolPie, or, why I want to stay home from 'school'2004-08-05T16:07:19+00:002009-01-14T11:38:09+00:00<p>I like to make things. I really do. There is nothing like the exhilaration, pride, and power, of looking at something I’ve made. Clothing, short stories, drawings, dinners, analytical essays, pillows, footstools, cookies, whatever… I love to make things. To make something that is greater than the sum of its parts is a kind of primal magic, a way of working your will upon the world.</p><p>My only problem is, I don’t have time to do it all. Lately, I’ve made a <a href="http://www.faerye.net/content.php?id=292" target="links">baby dress</a>, and I’ve been working on embroidering initials onto some pre-made hats for a pair of twins that is coming. Meanwhile, I haven’t made cookies in months, and I think I’ve made two pies, maximum, since we moved in November. I haven’t drawn very much for a while, and my correspondence is far below its stellar ideal. I haven’t practiced my oboe in ages, or played our piano, and I haven’t added much to my ongoing attempts at novels and short stories. I seem to be juggling, always (which is something I’m not particularly good at), and I’m always noticing something shinier on the floor than what I’m throwing about at the moment.</p><p>Is it a problem? I really don’t know. I enjoy myself, and things get made. But I’m trying, every once in a while, to step back from the new thing, and do something I haven’t done in a while. Therefore, this weekend, I am making pie. And, well, someday, I hope, I won’t have this pesky ‘wage-earning’ thing to do — and then I’ll be free to make and do with reckless abandon, and maybe, just maybe, <em>finish</em> a few more things.</p>http://faerye.net/post/victoryVictory!2003-08-02T19:37:24+00:002008-09-25T11:25:17+00:00<p>My feet hurt, I smell like lemons, and there’s shortening residue under my fingernails, but there is a lemon meringue pie in the fridge and an apple pie in the oven. I believe this is the first time I have made two pies of different types on the same day. I am flushed with victory and with being close to a 450° oven. Whoo!</p>