snack food update: Jejune found frozen Chocodiles on a stick being sold in a convenience store in her new home of Wisconsin.

A little while back Mena mentioned that it looked like Lush was planning on opening a store in San Francisco (the job listings were for a store manager in SF). I have not heard anything since, does anyone know if it's true?

The felt shape toys Loobylu made are adorable.

It appears that a few LiveJournal people posted my jello fruit recipe to thier sites, the instructions and the images. I'm flattered, really, but the images are being loaded directly from my server and it's putting a lot of strain on it, not to mention the troubles I may get in paying for the extra traffic. If you have the jello fruit recipe up on your LiveJournal, please take it down. You are welcome to repost the recipe with a link back to this site, but please don't use the images. Thanks.

I put up a page on some halloween cupcakes I made last week, ghostie cupcakes and spider cupcakes, spooooky.

Speaking of wine, Get Crafty has a how-to on Winemaking.

Have I mentioned how much I appreciate the inexpensive red wine suggestions from Nobody's Fool? When we lived in the apartment in the city our not very elegant but often on sale for $3.99 secret weapon was Corbett Canyon merlot. Acceptable for daily dinner, especially when dinner is macaroni and cheese from a box.

A wine charm update - I saw a wine charm making display at the end of one of those floral aisles at Michael's. They had everything - rings similar to the ones on my project page, cheap (plastic) beads, little wine themed charms, jewelry tools. So, if you only want to make a few and aren't willing to pay to have 100 rings shipped to your house, this is a good option. One would think perhaps the display would make sense at the end of one of the bead aisles? Oh, and while I'm at it, there are massage bar nubbie soap molds in the soap making section now. A while back, like a year or more, I was looking for molds and couldn't find any. The mold available holds four different shapes actually. The item I most wanted however was the bubble gum making kit.