#Rose and Peach Basket recipe
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askwhatsforlunch · 1 year ago
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Rose and Peach Baskets
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These Rose and Peach Baskets taste like a stroll in my garden, picking blooming flowers and ripened fruit. They make an elegant and delicious desserts, but are also quite simple to prepare. I made these for Mother’s Day (and Mum loved them!); I reckon my girlfriend would be quite fond of them too!
Ingredients (serves 2):
300 grams/10.5 ounces Rose Pastry
1 large, ripe white peach, rinsed
1 tablespoon Rosie Gin Liqueur
2/3 cup double cream
2 tablespoons Rosie Gin Liqueur
1/8 teaspoon Rose Bitters
2 tablespoons Rose Petal Jam + a little more for brushing
a few grapes Garden Red Currants
2 freshly picked garden roses*
Halve and pit peach, and cut it into slices. Place peach slices into a bowl and drizzle wit Rosie Gin Liqueur. Toss gently, chill in the refrigerator, at least an hour.
Preheat oven to 180°C/°F. Butter two 10,5cm/4.10″ square tart tins.
Divide Rose Pastry into two portions, and roll them out onto a lightly floured surface into squares. Fit each Rose Pastry square into each tin, letting the pastry overhang a bit.
Roll out scraps, without over-working the Pastry, and cut out hearts and stars with cookie cutters.
Place tart tins and Pastry hearts and stars (onto baking paper), in the middle of the warm oven, and bake, at 180°C/355°F, about 25 minutes, until pale golden. Remove from the oven. Carefully trim the edges of the Pastry cases, and let cool completely. Remove Pastry cases from the tins. Set aside. 
Pour very cold double cream into a medium bowl. Using a electric mixer, beat the cream, gradually increasing speed until soft peaks just form. Continue beating, adding Rosie Gin Liqueur, and then Rose Bitters, until stif peaks just form.
Spoon a tablespoon Rose Petal Jam at the bottom of each Pastry case, spreading it out to the edges. Spoon in a couple of dollops Rose whipped cream, and gently arrange a few peach slices. Repeat with remaining rose cream and peach slices, brushing the latter with Rose Petal Jam.
Arrange reserved Pastry trims to form basket handles. Finally, garnish each basket with a fresh garden rose (after shaking it to make sure it’s free of insects!), Red Currants and rose pastry hearts and stars. 
Serve Rose and Peach Baskets immediately, with a glass of well-chilled Champagne or Prosecco!
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synthaphone · 2 years ago
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animal crossing new horizons recipes that i’m gonna throw away if i can’t give them away- please dm me if you want/need any of these, and i can send you a dodo code!
Bamboo basket (x2)
Bamboo bench
Bamboo shelf
Bamboo sphere
Basement flooring
Birdbath
Cherry smoothie
Classic-library wall
Crest doorplate
Fruit cupcakes (x2)
Fruit scones
Glowing-moss stool
Golden wall
Honeycomb wall
Imperial pot
Iron garden table
Ironwood clock
Ironwood dresser
Leaf
Log decorative shelves
Log extra-long sofa
Log round table
Natural square table
Orange end table
Pansy table
Peach hat
Pear dress (x2)
Raccoon figurine
Rose bed
Round vine rug
Stacked magazines
Steel flooring
Traditional straw coat
Tulip surprise box
Vine garland
Wooden-block table
Wooden bookshelf
Wooden bucket
Wooden-mosaic wall
Woodland wall
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dreams-in-daylight · 3 years ago
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ACNH Free DIY Recipes!!!
Acoustic guitar
Autumn wall
Bamboo candleholder
Bamboo lunchbox
Basket pack
Beekeeper’s hive
Birdhouse
Blue rose crown
Bonfire
Cardboard bed
Cherry lamp
Cherry-blossom-petal pile
Clackercart
Classic pitcher
Floral swag
Fruit basket
Garden rock
Golden dishes
Golden toilet
Gold-armor shoes
Grass skirt
Hyacinth lamp
Infused-water dispenser
Ironwood dresser
Jail bars
Leaf umbrella x2
Leo sculpture
Lily record player
Log chair
Log decorative shelves
Log steaks
Lucky gold cat
Mush log
Natural garden table
Orange hat
Orange rug
Orange wall-mounted clock
Pansy table
Peach hat
Peach wall
Pear dress
Pond stone x2
Shell fountain
Shell speaker
Shell stool
Simple DIY workbench
Snowflake wreath
Stacked-wood wall
Stone lion-dog
Stone table
Tea table
Terrarium
Tiki torch
Tiny library
Tree branch wreath
Underwater flooring
Western-style stone
Windflower fan
Wooden bucket
Wooden chair
Wooden low table
Wooden-block bench
Message me if you’re interested in any of these!
Updated: Feb 17th 2022
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crime-bot · 4 years ago
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! Creature Gets Lost in a Bootleg OmegaMart, More at Eleven !
A small, grey weasel of a dragon was in the dim and cool alley of a street. They were rummaging through a garbage can, making a little mess of clatters and clangs, but coming up with nothing edible. They paused to droop and lament over their misfortune. In the middle of the pause, and through the midst of discarded cans and empty bags, they caught a glimpse of yellow, clear as day. It must’ve been a banana! Or cheese! They gasped with some new vigor ignited and reached their scaly arm in to get it, but when they got hold of the thing and pulled it out it was just a plastic lemon. They grumbled and angrily threw it at the ground. It bounced away and stopped, resting near the alley’s wall opposite of them.
Their stomach growled.
“Yeah, yeah, I know!” Greyscale said, “I’m trying to find something! Can’t you have any pa-”
They looked up as they hollered and noticed some smoke in the sky, above the surrounding brick buildings.
“Oh, what now, a fire-?”
They had to admit, they’d be intrigued by the idea of a fire somewhere, and at least that’d take their mind off their stomach. What else could smoke mean, after all? They knew the saying: where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
They lept to a pipe that scaled the side of the alleyway and climbed it to the rooftop only to discover the smoke was coming from a particularly not-up-to-code shipping truck, but what wasn’t what caught their eye.
Behind it was a large building with the words “DELTAMART” displayed proudly over a set of clear doors, standing tall and sure in the light of day. A grocery store! That’s just what they needed!
“Actually, I don’t think we’ll have to wait for much longer,” Greyscale said.
They lept and bounded down from roof to windowsill to dumpster. Right as they hit the ground, they made a dash through the parking lot desert, behind the truck, and right right up to the doors, then abruptly stopped and clung to the wall in an attempt to stay out of the eyes of anyone from inside.
They did a double-take, looking for anyone nearby. No one was around. They poked their head around to peak through one of the glass doors of the building that towered over them, a looming mass of bricks and corporate design.
There were some people walking around inside, carrying overflowing cornucopia baskets and pushing carts full of different treats, tools, and other products, but that wasn’t what got them the most. The aisles they could see were filled to the brim with food, and a couple of visible setups of fruits and vegetables looked so delicious and tantalizing in their array of colors that they sparkled to the dragon like precious gemstones.
Greyscale drooled a little with wide eyes.
They anxiously waited until there were barely any people near the doors, and anyone that was there appeared too thoroughly occupied to notice anything sneaking in.
They whispered, “the coast is clear!”
The creature sprang from their hiding spot and scrambled ins-- wait, no, nevermind, they just bonked headfirst into the glass door.
A first-time customer in a nearby checkout aisle got startled out of her waiting stupor and looked over to the sliding doors. Nothing was there.
“Did you hear that?” she asked.
“I hear everything,” said cashier #23,457, mid-scan of a bag of milk with one of his hands.
Understandably, that monotone answer concerned the customer, but she tried to brush it off. She just needed some milk for a recipe quick, and this was the closest store to her house.
“So-- Um,” she pressed on, “what about that thud from outside?”
“Ohh, haha, yeah I did,” he admitted, “Someone probably just walked into one of those doors again.” He handed the customer a grocery bag with her bagged milk inside and said, “Anyways, have a good day!”
Warily, she took the bag.
“You’re... not going to check on th-”
“H-H-Have a good day!” He said.
Now truly weirded out, she quickly said, “alllright thenIwill!” and walked out as fast-yet-also-not-running as she could.
It’s safe to say she’ll make the effort to not come back.
Seeing their chance, Greyscale scurried in under an exiting woman’s line of sight before the glass doors closed behind her.
At last, they made it into the glory of fluorescent lighting and vibrant food! In the midst of their wave of triumph, they continued to make the effort to stay hidden, taking cover behind some shopping carts.
The store was very nicely kept, they had to note. The white and navy blue checkered floors were spotless, and all the aisles and displays of different sorts were a combination of white, and/or blue, with some yellow, too. From where they were hidden, the whole place smelled cold and vaguely sterile, but they didn’t complain about it. They knew that was just how supermarkets were.
They took a great big breath in preparation and ran from the cover of the shopping carts, still with the effort of being undetected. As they perused in their own only slightly feral way, they dove behind grocery aisles, clambered up shelves, and hid in crates to stay out of workers’ and customers’ perceptions.
During this act of stealth and agility, they noticed an aisle with no people in it full of candy from atop a set of shelves.
“Aw, how sweet of fate!” they mused.
The creature made a B-line for it, jumping across gaps between short distance of aisles, and snagged a small bag of candy that had fallen to the checkered floor. They tore into it and began to eat a mouthful of the tart, brittle sweets inside.
Among the midst of the corporately pleasant music playing throughout the store, its jingle chimed in.
It sang, “De-De-deee de DelllltaMart, you have NO ideea what’s in STORE for YOU-u-u!”
They noticed the jingle and stopped their snacking to chuckle.
“You’re right about that,” they said, “I wonder what other good stuff this place has!”
They focused back on their bag of Candy Spiders (Now With 70% More Spiders!), just in time to notice one of the confections moving amongst its kin with its bone-pick legs.
A shocking moment of registration passed. They yelped at the realization and threw the bag away from themself as far as they could.
They sputtered, “Did-- did that--? No-”
They paused and slunk back up to the bag, warily.
The bag was motionless.
Slowly, cautiously, they batted it with their paw. They reeled it back away from the bag, as if it might jump up and bite them. Still, nothing inside moved.
They blinked a couple times and began to doubt what they thought they saw.
“Huh, h-ha, maybe this candy’s expired..” they said.
Greyscale left the bag behind to wander about some more(and put some distance between them and the Candy Spiders, but they didn’t want to fully admit that), and checked the rest of the products out.
They trotted through the deli area, passing by a stiff employee who was still in the process of regaining energy from his charging deck, fixated on the selection of meats. They even tested grabbing a slice of ham, and he didn’t notice one bit!
Once they were done with that, they visited another place that no one was in at the time. It didn’t have anything meant to be edible, but it sure was beautiful. Countless flowers were displayed in rainbows of colors, and the air was chilly to keep them all preserved for longer. Greyscale stayed there, smelling the roses both figuratively and semi-literally, until they had enough of that. They walked out of the section and past a sign that read, ‘HYBRID FLOWERS’. One of the tulips opened its eye.
After that snack and slice of ham they had, Greyscale was undoubtedly more content with their level of hunger, but they wanted to try to make the most of this place. After all, when they’re amongst a bounty of food, it’s good to get as much as they can before they go. They put their two front paws up on the ledge of a refrigerated bin full of organized fruit and poked their snout in, looking to choose which might be tastiest. Should they have a pear, or maybe an apple? Oh, but the peaches looked good, too!
Out from under the side of a display pyramid of apples behind them, a glitching, writhing tentacle rose to inspect its produce.
Ah, yes, every apple was shiny and in order... It had the pigeon grease to thank for that. It was about to retreat back under the apples, but something caught its attention. What it noticed was grey, and.. It wasn’t shaped like a customer either. It was rummaging around in a nearby refrigerator bin full of fruit strictly for customers.
Greyscale felt a couple of taps on their back and jumped, then turned to face-
“aAh-!!”
Nope! Nope, nope nope! They scrambled into and out of the freezing bin of fruit and away from the shifting, glitching-- thing in front of them. It lunged, and they turned and ran only to skid to a halt before smacking into a glass display case of ears.
Oh nonono, they shook the shock from that off and sprinted left into an aisle, only to see one of the store workers pulling can after can out of his mouth to put on the shelves.
They quickly turned again to climb up a shelf from the opposite side of the aisle as fast as they could. They really, really, really shouldn’t be here-
They tried to escape, find a way out, but the more and more they ran and jumped and turned, shifting from running on the ground to balancing on top of aisles, the more the grocery store grew and stretched into a labyrinth.
“NononononoIcan’tbetrappedthere’sgottabeaneXIT-”
They stopped briefly, shuffling and turning in place and trying to catch their breath, looking for anything that could possibly function as a sign to point them out. They launched themself from where they stood again only to smack into a pair of legs they hadn’t noticed.
The owner of those legs, a tall, nicely dressed woman, looked down at whatever had bumped into her.
Greyscale screamed and ran as soon as they realized they got noticed yet again.
“Huh…” she said, “one of the fish they’re selling must’ve got out again.”
She shrugged and continued to read the label of some canned wood she grabbed from a shelf of assorted canned inedibles.
Still thoroughly spooked, Greyscale bolted through the open door of a storage room to hide, but it only led to an expansive area of ventilation pipe trees and tubes protruding out of the ground and sky and distant walls in a variety of angles, all painted in a mess of glowing neon patterns.
The little dragon darted about the dark and dizzying manufactured forest, too worried about getting caught by any foe to realize the nature of the location surrounding them until they finally looked back. They began to slow down to a trot when they didn’t see anyone.
“There’s…” they huffed, “no one.. there…?”
Upon that realization, they slowed down even more, but that wasn’t enough to keep them from losing their footing on a pipe nestled into the glittering ground.
“HuhuUuAH-!”
Before they had a chance to save themself, they were swallowed into further oblivion and shot down the pipework with a series of clunks and shouts, thumping, denting into each abrupt turn going deeper, deeper, faster, faster until they were finally spat out to the end.
Greyscale was flung from the mouth, still held at the whim of momentum, and tumbled to a stop, toppled over themself. The result of that disorienting ride was a dizzy, discombobulated dragon, complete with stars going around their head as it bobbed about, trying to get their bearings despite their eyes having trouble focusing on anything for the time being.
They knew it was bright, or-- maybe it was dark? They couldn’t tell, they could still only see stars and an ever-shifting background. Their ears picked up on a further dizzying soundscape of moving, shifting, falling, corporate music, but the more they strained to focus on and determine a sound the more and more difficult it felt to tell any sound apart from another. It was a surrounding, pattering swarm of noise, and as their vision cleared and they tried to stumble up, they only fell back down onto the soft, squishy.. mahogany(?) surface they had been spat onto by the pipe.
Wearily, they picked their head back up and finally witnessed the shifting, unending world surrounding them. Cans floated through the air, worlds of their own, great candy spiders spun threads and webs of sugar on even more pipes that ripped out of the ground, checker patterns slid across surfaces, and everything seemed to pulse with an underlying life.
They were then aware, horrified, of the unavoidable fact that they were now utterly, hopelessly lost.
Amidst the cacophony of sights and patterning and a ground they couldn’t get a hold of, Greyscale thought they heard a familiar yet muffled jingle, far away in the distance yet echoed everywhere throughout these caverns.
“De-De-deee de DelllltaMart, you have NO ideea what’s in STORE for YOU-u-u!”
Their heart sank.
“Oh no-”
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lonelyreputation · 4 years ago
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Peachy Keen
A/N: Hi!! Enjoy a little thing I wrote about drinking wine in Italy with Shawn!! This is something I want very desperately! Also! Is Shawn a red wine or white wine kinda drinker? Let’s discus.
REQUEST: Plucking a peach off the tree & calloused palms
MASTERLIST 
WC: 5.5K // Fluff
The warm Italian sun was high up in the sky as you peddled your bike down a dirt path.  The crunching sound of your tires rolling over loose dirt and small pebbles was one you would never get tired of.  You momentarily shut your eyes as the light breeze pulled your hair back.
You had just gone into town to pick up a few small groceries for your grandparents.  And biking was your chosen mode of transportation.  You biked into town, spoke the minimal Italian you knew with the shop keeper, and then quickly headed back to the villa.  The reusable bag sitting in your whicker basket was filled with the Italian essentials: fresh vegetables, pasta, and wine.  
God, how you loved visiting your grandparents in the summer months.
Your grandparents lived around the tiny town of Cesena; about an hour north of San Marino and a thirty minute drive to the eastern shore of Italy.  It was a quaint town, one that was rarely ever littered with tourists. 
Your grandparents house came into view as you peddled a little faster up the hill with a smile on your face.  Your time in Italy was almost over, but your boyfriend was coming to visit, and that made you smile.
Shawn had a small break during the North American leg of his tour, and after convincing Andrew that Shawn wouldn’t miss much on the days where nothing was scheduled, the days were approved.  He was due to arrive tonight and then take a taxi down to your grandparents place.  Even though his flight was still a few hours away from landing, you couldn’t help but check your phone every half hour.
You smoothed your white t-shirt and jean shorts down once you got off your bike, plucked the grocery bag from your basket, and walked through the screen door, “Nona!” You called out to your grandmother, “I’m back with the groceries!”
“Kitchen!”
The walls of the hallway were covered with family pictures.  Ones from when your mother was a child, your parents wedding day, your first days of school, and your summers spent in Italy.  The wall was always a walk down memory lane and it made you smile every time.
You carefully placed the bag on the wooden counter and began emptying the contents, “Cristian says hi,” you peeked over your shoulder to see your grandmother stirring a pot of sauce on the stove, “He says that while he loves to see my shining face, he misses seeing you at the store.”
Your grandmother lifted the spoon up to taste the sauce, “Grumpy old man,” she shook her head in laughter, “Still the biggest flirt––even when I take your Nonno.”
Rolling your eyes, you brought the bags of pasta over to the boiling water, “He’s a sweet man.”
“Who?” Your grandfather strolled into the kitchen.
“Cristian,” your grandmother let out a laugh, “From the store.”
Your grandfather shrugged as he opened the cabinet and took out three plates, he paused before closing the cabinet door, “Will the boyfriend be joining us for dinner?”
“He gets in late tonight,” You moved around your grandmother to get three wine glasses down, “He’ll be here for breakfast though.”
“I’m excited to meet him,” your grandmother continued to stir the sauce around in the pan and put a little more salt in the water the pasta was cooking in, “I’ve been doing my research.”
“Nonna,” you whined.
While you weren’t surprised by her answer, she’s been teasing you for the past week about reading up on your pop-star boyfriend.  Oh, nipotina, I need to know absolutely everything about the boy who’s coming over––Nipotina, he’s so cute––Oh, Nipotina, what songs are about you?
“Just want to be prepared,” your grandmother tied back her scraggly gray hair and tried to lift the post of pasta up.  When you saw her struggling, you set the wine glasses on the table and took the pot from her hold and walked it over to the sink.
Hot steam rose up from the sink and you leaned your head back, “He’s already nervous about meeting you guys, don’t intimidate him.”
“Us?” Your grandfather looked over at your grandmother with a soft laugh, “Intimidating?”
The last of dinner preparations didn’t take very long and soon you were sipping on a local red wine, giggling with your grandparents as they recounted the day they first met.  You always admired their love for one another and it was always a goal in life to find some kind of love like theirs.
Dinner was over and you were an hour closer to Shawn’s arrival.  Your grandmother poured you another glass of wine before putting hers in the sink.  You looked up at her quizzically, silently asking her why she wasn’t staying in the kitchen with you.
“It’s late, dear,” she patted your head, “I’ll meet the superstar in the morning.”
You nodded as you took sip of your red wine.  He was so close.  So close that you could feel the excitement rise up from the tips of your toes.  You stood up, walked into the living room area, plucked a book off the book shelf, and brought it back to the table with you. 
With one leg crossed over the other, you picked up your wine glass and took a sip as you flicked open the book.  You understood some parts of Italian, but thankfully, the book you chose was a cook book, so you immersed yourself in the pictures and bookmarked recipes you wanted to try with your grandmother.
You were halfway done your glass of wine when your phone bounced on the table from its vibration.  You jumped in your chair and banged your knee under the table.  You swore silently under your breath and picked up your phone.
Your heart rate increased when you saw his name pop up on your screen.
Just landed.  Have to go through customs but I’m here!! And I can’t wait to see you x
Shawn was here.  Shawn was in Italy.  Shawn was about forty minutes away from your grandparent’s house.  You couldn’t help the giddiness that erupted throughout your whole body.  You lightly tapped your feet on the ground in order to let out some excitement.
Your fingers never slid so fast on your screen; YAY! Let me know when you’re out and on your way!! Miss you so much!!
You phone vibrated instantly in your hand; Not much longer.
Butterflies.  You felt butterflies in your stomach fluttering.  You wondered if your grandmother still felt butterflies in her stomach with your grandfather. You tried to refocus your gaze on the cook book in front of you, but your mind was occupied with Shawn.  You hadn’t physically seen him in person in two months, so the anticipation was killing you inside.
For obvious reasons, it took a bit of time for Shawn to make it past security and to the car Andrew made sure he set up to take Shawn.  You can never be too careful, Andrew spoke on a three-way call between you and Shawn when you were planning the logistics, and it’ll be easier for him to get to your place with a ride already set up.
It was just past midnight so the drive from the airport to your grandparent’s house shouldn’t take much time at all.  He was so close.  So close.
Sitting in a chair was letting your anxiety fester so you decided you needed to get up and do something.  You walked into the sitting area and grabbed the water can to fill it up with water.  The back sitting area overlooked the Italian rolling greens countryside that you wanted to immortalize your mind for the rest of your life.  You slid open the wooden farm door and began to water the plants.
The back sitting area was closed off by a wrap around screen so the humid air of the summer night comforted you.  Your grandfather had an immense collection of different kinds of plants.  Some were so tall that they reached all the way to the ceiling and others were small window plants.  It was cute to see how much he adored his plants.  He said that he had a plant for every sibling of his, child, and grandchild.  
He always joked how he got an extra plant for a child if they left their home country of Italy.  So far he had an extra plant for your mother and one for your uncle.  
You were in the middle of watering a plant when you felt your phone vibrate.  Not so gracefully, you set the watering can on the wood floor and slid your phone open.
I think I’m here?
Buzz.
It’s really dark but I see a house with lights on.
Buzz.
Is there a dirt road leading up to your house?
Buzz.
It looks like the pictures you’ve shown me…I think?
You threw your phone on the couch and sprinted through the kitchen and rounded the corner to get to the front door.  You saw headlights of a car and a silhouette of a very familiar body looking toward the house.  
Unlocking the screen door, you pushed it open and you were met with a frazzled Shawn.  His eyebrows were pinched together, no doubt from exhaustion and confusion at the loud noise, but when he saw it was you, a wide smile broke out on his face.
He turned toward the car, said something to the driver, and the car reversed down the dirt path.  The smile hadn’t left Shawn’s face when he turned back around to you.
“C’mere,” he whispered as he dropped his duffle bag to the ground and opened his arms.
Without any hesitation, you sprinted into his arms.  Shawn’s strong arms wrapped around your waist as he squeezed you tight.  With your arms wrapped around his neck, you nuzzled your head into the crook of his shoulder, inhaling his signature smell.  
“I can’t believe you’re here,” you breathed out happily.
Shawn was here.  At your grandparents villa in Italy.
You were still wrapped in his arms, but he leaned back and tilted his head to see your face, “God, I missed you so much.”
You took this time to really examine the face you loved that was absent for two months.  His eyes looked tired, you could see small bags under his eyes, he was no doubt tired from all the travel.  But he also looked relieved and refreshed.  While touring took a physical tole on Shawn’s body, you knew he thrived off of the crowds screams every night and that it gave him a newfound passion for music.
A soft smile graced your lips as you appreciated the boy in front of you, “Let’s get you inside.” You took hold of his hand and guided him toward the house.
“Wait––“ he pulled on your hand which caused you to spin and rest a hand on his chest.  Without a second more to waste, he leaned down and lightly pressed a kiss to your lips.  You smiled into the kiss and lightly scrunched up the pink sweatshirt he wore.
His hand came to cradle the side of your face and you fell more in love with him with every kiss.  As much as you wanted to continue to kiss your boyfriend, you could only imagine how exhausted he must feel.  Reluctantly, you pulled away, which caused Shawn to let out a whine.
“Y/n––“
“We’ll have plenty of time to do more of that,” you kissed his cheek, “later.  But right now you need a glass of water and a bed.”
There was a thoughtful look on Shawn’s face before he nodded, “Agreed.”
•••
You awoke with a hand on Shawn’s bare chest, rising and falling softly with each breath of his.  You lifted your head up to look at the clock on your nightstand, 9:30.  You were usually up my eight and downstairs lending a hand wherever your grandparents needed help, but waiting up for Shawn all night led you to sleep in a later later than normal.
A content sigh slipped past your lips as you let your head fall back onto the pillow.  You brought one hand up to rub your eye as you turned your head to see Shawn squirm a little in his sleep.  Not long after his sudden movement, he groaned and lifted both hands to cover his face.
“Mornin’,” he said groggily.
You let out a small laugh as you rolled over on your side, your elbow propping up your chin as you stared down at a sleepy Shawn.  You ran your fingers through his hair and he peaked a look at you through the sliver of his fingers, “Sleep for a few more minutes, you’re probably still jet lagged.”
Shawn shook his head, “Don’t wanna waste any time.”
You continued to lazily run your fingers through his hair as you smiled down at him, “We can go for a picnic this afternoon? I can show you around the place?”
Shawn removed both hands from his face as his eyes shinned with adoration, “Yeah, that sounds nice.”  
With a smile, you leaned your head down to press a chaste good morning peck to his kiss.  But as you broke the kiss, Shawn leaned up and followed your lips.  He brought a hand up to cup the back of your neck, extending his thumb to caress your cheek as he deepened the kiss.
You were a bit caught off guard by the intensity of the kiss, but it had been so long since you had any sort of physical contact with Shawn, so you didn’t fight against it.  You were still hovering over him as you trailed a hand onto his stomach, pushing the thin layer of white sheets away to grant you more access to his bare chest.
With each kiss, Shawn sat up a little more until it was your back pressed that was against the mattress and him hovering over you.  His hand that held the back fo your neck trailed down to your waist as he gave it a squeeze.  You let out a soft moan as you circled your arms around his neck and brought him down closer to you.
Shawn had just slipped his tongue past your lips as he slid a hand up under your shirt, his fingers ghosting over the underside of your breast, when the door to your room abruptly flew open.
“Nipotina, you’ve slept far past normal hours and breakfast is almost––Oh.”
Shawn removed his hand from your shirt and was on the other side of the bed in lighting speed.  It didn’t matter that you had already been caught by your grandmother in a compromising position with your boyfriend, but Shawn was acting as if he had been on that side of the bed all night.  His flushed face and heavy breathing didn’t help his case.
It was silent between the three of you for a few seconds longer before you cleared your throat, “We’ll be down in a few minutes.”
Silence.
You were still in the same position before Shawn flew off you––back pressed against the matters with your shirt slightly wrinkled, “We’ll be down in a minute.”
Your grandmother nodded hesitantly, “Be down in a second and I won’t tell your Nonno what I walked in on.”
You nodded your head as you threw the sheets off and went to you closet.  Your grandmother closed the door, but she popped her head back in and sweetly smiled at Shawn, “Lovely to finally meet you Shawn.”  And without waiting for a response, she closed the door once more as you heard the creaky floorboards on the stairs signaling that she was really away this time.
Flicking through your clothes, you decided on an orange spaghetti strap sundress with a pair of tan sandals.  You took the dress off the hanger and picked up the sandals from the straps in the back.  You set the dress down on the cushion of the bay window in your room and when you had your arms crossed over your stomach, about to take off your shirt, you noticed Shawn was still sitting right on the edge of your bed with a petrified look in his eyes.
“Gonna get dressed?”
That seemed to break him out of whatever trance he was under and flick his eyes toward you as you took off your shirt.  Usually the sight of you without a shirt on would cause him to smirk, but he still look terrified.
You rolled your eyes as you changed your underwear, put on a bandeau, and slipped the dress over your head, “C’mon, Shawn, it’s not like she caught us having sex.”
Shawn’s eyes popped out of his head as he gave you an incredulous look, “She caught us in bed, Y/n!” You let out a laugh as you sat down on the window ledge to put your sandals on, “She probably had a guest room set up for me to sleep in and she finds me in your room––On top of you––And I hadn’t even met her properly yet––“
“Relax,” you walked over and sat down next to Shawn on your bed.  You picked up his hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze, “Both of my grandparents were okay with you sleeping in my room,” he let out an exasperated breath, “But you should really get ready for the day or else she really will tell my Nonno.” 
You kissed his cheek before jumping off the bed and walking to your door.  Shawn was fast on your trail as he dug around his suitcase for clothes.
“I’ll hold her down,” you winked as you closed the door behind you.
  After freshening up in the bathroom, you skipped down the stairs to see your grandfather at the stove and your grandmother sipping on orange juice while reading a book.  She was in the middle of turning the page when she noticed your presence.
“Where’s the boy?” Her tone was suggestive and you shot her a look that said you promised.  Your grandmother continued to play her dangerous game as she took a sip of her orange juice, “He got in so late last night that I didn’t get to meet him properly.”
“He’s just in the bathroom!” Your grandfather peered over his shoulder with a raised eyebrow as the pan he was cooking on sizzled, “He’ll be down in a second.”
And as if on cue, you heard the old stairs creak under Shawn with every step he took.  Your heart rate increased with each step you heard, and then finally, it felt as if your heart exploded when you saw him standing under the archway of the kitchen.
He wore a loose white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, a pair of loose fitting blue jeans with small rips, and white sneakers.  He stood there anxiously as he looked at you for help.
“Nonno and Nonna,” you gave your grandmother a pointed look as you took a few long strides across the kitchen to meet Shawn.  You interlaced your fingers together and smiled up at him briefly before looking at your grandparents, “This is Shawn, my boyfriend––“
“Oh, the popstar,” your grandmother teased, “It’s nice to finally put a name to the face.”
Even though you briefed Shawn that he would endure some teasing, specifically form your grandmother, his eyes still widened, “It’s nice to finally meet you both as well, I’ve heard so much about you guys from Y/n and the summer’s she’s spent here.”
Your grandfather stepped away from the breakfast he was cooking and walked over to Shawn with a hand extended.  Shawn immediately dropped your hand and went to shake your grandfather’s hand, “Nice to meet you, Shawn.”
The handshake only lasted a few seconds and Shawn smiled at your grandfather, “Pleasure to meet you too, sir,” He then broke eye contact to actually take time to look at the kitchen, since when he came in last night it was pitch black, “You have a wonderful house here, the view––it’s incredible.”
You followed his gaze.  He was looking at the back windows through the screened in porch with an infinite amount of plants.  The view was one that was plastered around all Italian tourist brochures: rolling countryside, a few trees dotting the landscape, and soft clouds rolling in from the distance.
“Sit,” you pulled on his hand until you got to the table, “Do you want water? Orange juice?”
Shawn shook his hand and stayed standing as he directed his voice toward your grandfather, “Do you need any help getting breakfast together?”
Your grandmother peered up from her book with both eyebrows raised, impressed that he was offering his help.  She shot you warm smile, and you knew that Shawn had her approval, despite this morning’s incident, and then went back to reading her book.
“If you wouldn’t mind, Shawn,” with his back still facing the three of you, your grandfather pointed up towards a cabinet, “Could you get some plates down?”
Breakfast was filled with laughs, embarrassing stories of your childhood, and lots of conversation with your grandparents getting to know Shawn more.  The sight of Shawn joking with your grandfather, or listening intently to whatever your grandmother said, warmed your heart.
Shawn helped clean up the kitchen when breakfast was concluded and then excused himself to go to the bathroom.  After a substantial amount of time had passed where it worried you how long he had been on the toilet, you excused yourself from the back porch area to check up on him.  You knocked on the bathroom door, but it was empty when you peeked in.  Next, you checked your room, and found Shawn fast asleep on top of the covers.
A small size graced your lips as you gently closed the door and tip toed down the stairs.
You informed your grandparents on Shawn’s whereabouts and they chuckled before resuming their activities.  You picked up a book from the table, and thankfully, this one was in English.
A few hours had passed and it was nearing lunch time.  Shawn still hadn’t made an appearance. You knew he was exhausted from the constant movement of tour, and then traveling to Italy to be with you, and that it was his first real down time in a few months.  Whenever Shawn came back to Toronto after tour, he reserved the following day for just sleeping. 
You wanted to let him sleep, he always works himself too hard you thought, and you knew that you had a few more days to spend with him.  But part of you was really looking forward to that picnic you proposed earlier in the day.  
Your grandparents had plans with some friends in town and left you alone a little bit ago.  The house was silent and it made a good atmosphere for reading.  But you couldn’t concentrate on the book in your hands, always having to re-read the last sentence because your thoughts always seemed to wander off to the boy resting upstairs.
Realizing you needed a mental break, you dog-eared the page, tucked the book under your arm, and walked in the kitchen to pour yourself a glass of lemonade.  You leaned up against the counter, letting the cold liquid coat your throat, as you heard the sound of creaking stairs. A smile automatically made its way onto your lips.
Shawn came into view, still looking a bit dazed from his nap, but smiled instantly when his eyes landed on you, “Still up for that picnic?”
Your smile brightened even more.
After retrieving a basket from the hall closet, a blanket from the living room, and picking out a few cheese and crackers, you wandered over to the wine rack.
With your hands placed on your hips you called out over your shoulder, “Red or white?”
Shawn poked his head around the wall and walked toward you with the basket.  He stood next to you and you could feel him debating on which bottle of wine to chose.
“Let’s do a rosé.”
Your eyebrows raised as you turned your head up to look at him as you snorted, “Rosé?”
Shawn rolled his eyes and lightly pushed your shoulder with his hand, “Grab whatever you want.”
“Oh, no, no, no,” you picked out the first rosé you saw on the rack and held it up, “You picked rosé so we’re drinking rosé.”
You heard Shawn sigh from behind as you grabbed two plastic cups from the kitchen, “Out this way,” you waved over to him and led him from the kitchen, through the back screened porch, and out the door.
You walked down a stone path lined with plants that your mother helped your grandfather make when she was eleven years old.  Walking hand-in-hand with Shawn made you fall more in love with him.  It could just be the Italian air getting to your head, but sharing memories from your summer’s in Italy as a child and actually being able to show Shawn where everything happened…You could see yourself ten years down the line doing this with Shawn and your own kids.
After a while of walking and showing Shawn the landscape, you picked a peach tree to sit under to save your skin from the sweltering sun.  You poked fun at Shawn for wearing jeans, to which he responded that he didn’t pack any shorts when he as on tour, so he was left with minimal outfit choices.
“You still look like an Italian dream,” you over dramatically fluttered your eyelashes at him as you sat down on the blanket Shawn spread out.
He let out a single laugh as he sat down cross-legged and pulled out the cheese and crackers from the basket.  He set them out while you took the corkscrew and tried to open up the wine.  After a few attempts of miserably failing at trying to pull the cork out with the opener, Shawn silently held his hand out.
With a begrudged sigh, you handed over the bottle and watched his arms flex as the cork came out easily from his strength with a soft pop.
You snatched the bottle from him and began to pour the wine in the plastic cups, pouring a little more rosé in your cup than his to mask the embarrassment.  Whether Shawn saw you pour extra into your cup, he didn’t say anything, as you clinked cups and took a big gulp.
“So how’s tour been?” You leaned forward to cut a piece of cheese and place it on a cracker.
Shawn took a sip of his wine, “Fine,” you winced at his tone.
You took another bite of your cracker and finished chewing before speaking, “Still haven’t patched things up with Brian?”
Before Shawn left for the American leg of his tour, he and Brian got in a little argument.  It wasn’t anything major, just that Shawn didn’t want Brian throwing any parties at his place like the last time he went on tour.  Brian took more offense to it than intended, Shawn proceeded to get more passive aggressive with his comments, and neither of the boys wanted to break first and say sorry.
Shawn sighed and swirled the wine in his cup that he seemed to be mesmerized with, “No.”
The sun hit Shawn just right sitting under the tree.  Glimmers of light broke through the leaves that left scattered patterns on his skin.  He looked absolutely glowing with the illumination of sun on his jawline, but you knew he felt anything but glowing on the inside.
“Have you talked to Matt?” You questioned, “Maybe he could clue you in on how Brian’s feeling and then you can go from there.”
“I guess,” Shawn shrugged his shoulders as he took a cracker out of the sleeve.
You could tell he didn’t want to talk about the topic anymore, so you didn’t press further.  Instead you changed the subject, “No cheese? You’re in Italy–��That’s blasphemous.”
Shawn’s mood shifted instantly as he let out a laugh.  He went to grab another cracker, and this time he sliced off a piece of cheese, “Happy?”
“Peachy keen,” you smiled at him with your eyes closed.  That earned you another laugh from Shawn.
You continued to mindlessly sip on your rosé, starting to feel the affect of the wine as you became more giggly and giddy.  Every sentence Shawn spoke seemed to be the funniest thing ever said, and every look he threw your way had you wishing you could lock it up in a memory box forever.  
You were pouring another glass when Shawn pushed himself off the blanket and looked up at the tree, “Can you eat these peaches?”
Pausing the pour, you scrunched your eyebrows together and thought for a moment, “I––I think so?”
Shawn shrugged his shoulders, “When in Italy,” he said dreamily.
You calculated every movement he made.  He didn’t have to stand on his tip toes at all as his he reached his define arm up to pluck a peach off the tree, his lightbulb tattoo peaking through under his sleeve.  With a swift snap of the twig, Shawn held the peach in his hand before throwing it up in the air once.  He caught it flawlessly and turned it around to examine it for bruises.
Once he was pleased with the peach he picked, he took a seat next to you on the blanket.  He sat so your shoulders were brushing against yours, “Wanna taste?”
You shook your head as you happily continued to sip on your wine, “I don’t think it’ll mix well with the rosé.”
“Don’t be such a priss,” Shawn rolled his eyes as he bit into the peach.  He concentrated on his jaw as he chewed.  Once he swallowed the part he bit off, he opened his mouth to show you that nothing was left.  You swatted his face away from yours as he laughed, “See! I had wine and it didn’t taste weird!”
You took the peach from his hand and took a small bite knowing that he would not let you hear the end of it if you didn’t try it.  Admittedly, it wasn’t terrible, but with how much wine you had drank, it wasn’t exactly pleasant.
You scrunched up your nose and placed the peach down on the blanket, “Nope,” you reached for your wine and took a sip, scrunching up your nose even more when you tasted more of how the wine mixed with the peach “Definitely no.”
Shawn’s eyes glowed with amusement as he stared at you through the top of his cup.  He took another sip, “You’re adorable.”
“That was anything but adorable.”
He reached over your lap and grabbed the bottle of rosé, gesturing if you wanted anymore.  You told him only a little, as you held your cup out for him to top off.  He finished pouring the rest of the bottle in his cup.
The two of you sat in silence sipping on your wine as you listened to the branches of the peach tree rustling against each other by the slight wind.  You rested your head on Shawn’s shoulder and he rested his head upon yours.  
With your eyes closed, you had never felt pure bliss before this moment.  You didn’t have anything challenging on your mind, nothing in the forefront of your mind screamed danger.  Your mind was at ease for the first time in a long time.
Your eyes momentarily opened when you felt Shawn shift his arm from leaning on the blanket, to wrapping his arm around your shoulder, pulling you closer.  You felt his calloused palm rub up and down your arm sending a wave of tingles down through your whole body.  Even though you were positive you had no more room left between the two of you, you still scooched closer to him.  
Shawn tightened his arm around your shoulder as he placed a gentle kiss on your head, “I love you.”
A soft smile spread across your face as you looked up to see him taking a sip of his wine and admiring the Italian countryside with you tucked into his side.  You wrapped your arms around his torso and kissed the part of his collarbone that was peaking out, “I love you, too.”
You were content with everything in your life at the moment and you were sure Shawn reciprocated those feelings.  Because right now, sitting on the Italian countryside with no one bothering either of you, it felt like a taste of what your future together held.
Just two young adults in love sipping on rosé.
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howdidyoufindthis · 4 years ago
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A small, grey weasel of a dragon was in the dim and cool alley of a street. They were rummaging through a garbage can, making a little mess of clatters and clangs, but coming up with nothing edible. They paused to droop and lament over their misfortune. In the middle of the pause, and through the midst of discarded cans and empty bags, they caught a glimpse of yellow, clear as day. It must’ve been a banana! Or cheese! They gasped with some new vigor ignited and reached their scaly arm in to get it, but when they got hold of the thing and pulled it out it was just a plastic lemon. They grumbled and angrily threw it at the ground. It bounced away and stopped, resting near the alley’s wall opposite of them.
Their stomach growled.
“Yeah, yeah, I know!” Greyscale said, “I’m trying to find something! Can’t you have any pa-”
They looked up as they hollered and noticed some smoke in the sky, above the surrounding brick buildings.
“Oh, what now, a fire-?”
They had to admit, they’d be intrigued by the idea of a fire somewhere, and at least that’d take their mind off their stomach. What else could smoke mean, after all? They knew the saying: where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
They lept to a pipe that scaled the side of the alleyway and climbed it to the rooftop only to discover the smoke was coming from a particularly not-up-to-code shipping truck, but what wasn’t what caught their eye.
Behind it was a large building with the words “DELTAMART” displayed proudly over a set of clear doors, standing tall and sure in the light of day. A grocery store! That’s just what they needed!
“Actually, I don’t think we’ll have to wait for much longer,” Greyscale said.
They lept and bounded down from roof to windowsill to dumpster. Right as they hit the ground, they made a dash through the parking lot desert, behind the truck, and right right up to the doors, then abruptly stopped and clung to the wall in an attempt to stay out of the eyes of anyone from inside.
They did a double-take, looking for anyone nearby. No one was around. They poked their head around to peak through one of the glass doors of the building that towered over them, a looming mass of bricks and corporate design.
There were some people walking around inside, carrying overflowing cornucopia baskets and pushing carts full of different treats, tools, and other products, but that wasn’t what got them the most. The aisles they could see were filled to the brim with food, and a couple of visible setups of fruits and vegetables looked so delicious and tantalizing in their array of colors that they sparkled to the dragon like precious gemstones.
Greyscale drooled a little with wide eyes.
They anxiously waited until there were barely any people near the doors, and anyone that was there appeared too thoroughly occupied to notice anything sneaking in.
They whispered, “the coast is clear!”
The creature sprang from their hiding spot and scrambled ins-- wait, no, nevermind, they just bonked headfirst into the glass door.
A first-time customer in a nearby checkout aisle got startled out of her waiting stupor and looked over to the sliding doors. Nothing was there.
“Did you hear that?” she asked.
“I hear everything,” said cashier #23,457, mid-scan of a bag of milk with one of his hands.
Understandably, that monotone answer concerned the customer, but she tried to brush it off. She just needed some milk for a recipe quick, and this was the closest store to her house.
“So-- Um,” she pressed on, “what about that thud from outside?”
“Ohh, haha, yeah I did,” he admitted, “Someone probably just walked into one of those doors again.” He handed the customer a grocery bag with her bagged milk inside and said, “Anyways, have a good day!”
Warily, she took the bag.
“You’re... not going to check on th-”
“H-H-Have a good day!” He said.
Now truly weirded out, she quickly said, “alllright thenIwill!” and walked out as fast-yet-also-not-running as she could.
It’s safe to say she’ll make the effort to not come back.
Seeing their chance, Greyscale scurried in under an exiting woman’s line of sight before the glass doors closed behind her.
At last, they made it into the glory of fluorescent lighting and vibrant food! In the midst of their wave of triumph, they continued to make the effort to stay hidden, taking cover behind some shopping carts.
The store was very nicely kept, they had to note. The white and navy blue checkered floors were spotless, and all the aisles and displays of different sorts were a combination of white, and/or blue, with some yellow, too. From where they were hidden, the whole place smelled cold and vaguely sterile, but they didn’t complain about it. They knew that was just how supermarkets were.
They took a great big breath in preparation and ran from the cover of the shopping carts, still with the effort of being undetected. As they perused in their own only slightly feral way, they dove behind grocery aisles, clambered up shelves, and hid in crates to stay out of workers’ and customers’ perceptions.
During this act of stealth and agility, they noticed an aisle with no people in it full of candy from atop a set of shelves.
“Aw, how sweet of fate!” they mused.
The creature made a B-line for it, jumping across gaps between short distance of aisles, and snagged a small bag of candy that had fallen to the checkered floor. They tore into it and began to eat a mouthful of the tart, brittle sweets inside.
Among the midst of the corporately pleasant music playing throughout the store, its jingle chimed in.
It sang, “De-De-deee de DelllltaMart, you have NO ideea what’s in STORE for YOU-u-u!”
They noticed the jingle and stopped their snacking to chuckle.
“You’re right about that,” they said, “I wonder what other good stuff this place has!”
They focused back on their bag of Candy Spiders (Now With 70% More Spiders!), just in time to notice one of the confections moving amongst its kin with its bone-pick legs.
A shocking moment of registration passed. They yelped at the realization and threw the bag away from themself as far as they could.
They sputtered, “Did-- did that--? No-”
They paused and slunk back up to the bag, warily.
The bag was motionless.
Slowly, cautiously, they batted it with their paw. They reeled it back away from the bag, as if it might jump up and bite them. Still, nothing inside moved.
They blinked a couple times and began to doubt what they thought they saw.
“Huh, h-ha, maybe this candy’s expired..” they said.
Greyscale left the bag behind to wander about some more(and put some distance between them and the Candy Spiders, but they didn’t want to fully admit that), and checked the rest of the products out.
They trotted through the deli area, passing by a stiff employee who was still in the process of regaining energy from his charging deck, fixated on the selection of meats. They even tested grabbing a slice of ham, and he didn’t notice one bit!
Once they were done with that, they visited another place that no one was in at the time. It didn’t have anything meant to be edible, but it sure was beautiful. Countless flowers were displayed in rainbows of colors, and the air was chilly to keep them all preserved for longer. Greyscale stayed there, smelling the roses both figuratively and semi-literally, until they had enough of that. They walked out of the section and past a sign that read, ‘HYBRID FLOWERS’. One of the tulips opened its eye.
After that snack and slice of ham they had, Greyscale was undoubtedly more content with their level of hunger, but they wanted to try to make the most of this place. After all, when they’re amongst a bounty of food, it’s good to get as much as they can before they go. They put their two front paws up on the ledge of a refrigerated bin full of organized fruit and poked their snout in, looking to choose which might be tastiest. Should they have a pear, or maybe an apple? Oh, but the peaches looked good, too!
Out from under the side of a display pyramid of apples behind them, a glitching, writhing tentacle rose to inspect its produce.
Ah, yes, every apple was shiny and in order... It had the pigeon grease to thank for that. It was about to retreat back under the apples, but something caught its attention. What it noticed was grey, and.. It wasn’t shaped like a customer either. It was rummaging around in a nearby refrigerator bin full of fruit strictly for customers.
Greyscale felt a couple of taps on their back and jumped, then turned to face-
“aAh-!!”
Nope! Nope, nope nope! They scrambled into and out of the freezing bin of fruit and away from the shifting, glitching-- thing in front of them. It lunged, and they turned and ran only to skid to a halt before smacking into a glass display case of ears.
Oh nonono, they shook the shock from that off and sprinted left into an aisle, only to see one of the store workers pulling can after can out of his mouth to put on the shelves.
They quickly turned again to climb up a shelf from the opposite side of the aisle as fast as they could. They really, really, really shouldn’t be here-
They tried to escape, find a way out, but the more and more they ran and jumped and turned, shifting from running on the ground to balancing on top of aisles, the more the grocery store grew and stretched into a labyrinth.
“NononononoIcan’tbetrappedthere’sgottabeaneXIT-”
They stopped briefly, shuffling and turning in place and trying to catch their breath, looking for anything that could possibly function as a sign to point them out. They launched themself from where they stood again only to smack into a pair of legs they hadn’t noticed.
The owner of those legs, a tall, nicely dressed woman, looked down at whatever had bumped into her.
Greyscale screamed and ran as soon as they realized they got noticed yet again.
“Huh…” she said, “one of the fish they’re selling must’ve got out again.”
She shrugged and continued to read the label of some canned wood she grabbed from a shelf of assorted canned inedibles.
Still thoroughly spooked, Greyscale bolted through the open door of a storage room to hide, but it only led to an expansive area of ventilation pipe trees and tubes protruding out of the ground and sky and distant walls in a variety of angles, all painted in a mess of glowing neon patterns.
The little dragon darted about the dark and dizzying manufactured forest, too worried about getting caught by any foe to realize the nature of the location surrounding them until they finally looked back. They began to slow down to a trot when they didn’t see anyone.
“There’s…” they huffed, “no one.. there…?”
Upon that realization, they slowed down even more, but that wasn’t enough to keep them from losing their footing on a pipe nestled into the glittering ground.
“HuhuUuAH-!”
Before they had a chance to save themself, they were swallowed into further oblivion and shot down the pipework with a series of clunks and shouts, thumping, denting into each abrupt turn going deeper, deeper, faster, faster until they were finally spat out to the end.
Greyscale was flung from the mouth, still held at the whim of momentum, and tumbled to a stop, toppled over themself. The result of that disorienting ride was a dizzy, discombobulated dragon, complete with stars going around their head as it bobbed about, trying to get their bearings despite their eyes having trouble focusing on anything for the time being.
They knew it was bright, or-- maybe it was dark? They couldn’t tell, they could still only see stars and an ever-shifting background. Their ears picked up on a further dizzying soundscape of moving, shifting, falling, corporate music, but the more they strained to focus on and determine a sound the more and more difficult it felt to tell any sound apart from another. It was a surrounding, pattering swarm of noise, and as their vision cleared and they tried to stumble up, they only fell back down onto the soft, squishy.. mahogany(?) surface they had been spat onto by the pipe.
Wearily, they picked their head back up and finally witnessed the shifting, unending world surrounding them. Cans floated through the air, worlds of their own, great candy spiders spun threads and webs of sugar on even more pipes that ripped out of the ground, checker patterns slid across surfaces, and everything seemed to pulse with an underlying life.
They were then aware, horrified, of the unavoidable fact that they were now utterly, hopelessly lost.
Amidst the cacophony of sights and patterning and a ground they couldn’t get a hold of, Greyscale thought they heard a familiar yet muffled jingle, far away in the distance yet echoed everywhere throughout these caverns.
“De-De-deee de DelllltaMart, you have NO ideea what’s in STORE for YOU-u-u!”
Their heart sank.
“Oh no-”
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doubutsu-no-hayashi · 5 years ago
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I made a list of all of my DIY recipes under the cut, excluding non-golden tools and garbage recipes (since those are automatically obtained when you get the materials). I also didn’t type out all of the egg outfits. I will update this as I obtain more recipes.
I was going to just keep this as a reference for when I open my island to say “go here to see what I can craft,” but you know what? I’ll go ahead and put this in the tags. If you need something crafted, feel free to message me. Must provide all materials, though, because I do not want to figure out pricing for all of this.
Acorn Pochette
Acorn rug
Acoustic Guitar
Angled signpost
Apple chair
Apple dress
Apple hat
Apple rug
Apple umbrella
Apple wall
Aquarius urn
Aries rocking chair
Armor shoes
Aroma pot
Asteroid
Astronaut suit
Autumn wall
Backyard lawn
Bamboo basket
Bamboo bench
Bamboo candleholder
Bamboo doll
Bamboo drum
Bamboo floor lamp
Bamboo flooring
Bamboo-grove wall
Bamboo hat
Bamboo lattice fence
Bamboo lunch box
Bamboo noodle slide
Bamboo partition
Bamboo shelf
Bamboo-shoot lamp
Bamboo slats fence
Bamboo sphere
Bamboo stool
Bamboo stopblock
Bamboo wall
Bamboo wall decoration
Bamboo wand
Barbell
Barbed-wire fence
Barrel
Basement flooring
Basket pack
Beekeeper’s hive
Big Festive tree
Birdbath
Birdcage
Birdhouse
Block fence
Blossom-viewing lantern
Blue rose crown
Blue rose wreath
Bone doorplate
Boomerang
Bonfire
Bonsai shelf
Box-shaped seat
Brick fence
Brick oven
Brick well
Brown herringbone wall
Bunny Day Arch
Bunny Day bag
Bunny Day bed
Bunny Day crown
Bunny Day fence
Bunny Day festive ballons
Bunny Day flooring
Bunny Day glowy garland
Bunny Day lamp
Bunny Day merry balloons
Bunny Day rug
Bunny Day stool
Bunny Day table
Bunny Day vanity
Bunny Day wall
Bunny Day wall clock
Bunny Day Wand
Bunny Day wardrobe
Bunny Day Wreath
Butter churn
Cabin wall
Campfire
Cancer table
Capricorn ornament
Cardboard bed
Cardboard chair
Cardboard sofa
Cardboard table
Carp on a cutting board
Cherry-blossom bonsai
Cherry-blossom branches
Cherry-blossom clock
Cherry-blossom flooring
Cherry-blossom-petal pile
Cherry-blossom pochette
Cherry-blossom pond stone
Cherry-blossom-trees wall
Cherry-blossom umbrella
Cherry-blossom wand
Cherry dress
Cherry hat
Cherry lamp
Cherry rug
Cherry speakers
Cherry umbrella
Cherry wall
Chic cosmos wreath
Chic mum crown
Chic rose crown
Chic tulip crown
Chic windflower wreath
Chocolate herringbone wall
Clackercart
Classic-library wall
Classic pitcher
Clothesline
Coconut juice
Coconut wall planter
Colored-leaves flooring
Cool hyacinth crown
Cool hyacinth wreath
Cool pansy crown
Cool pansy wreath
Cool windflower crown
Cool windflower wreath
Corral fence
Corrugated iron fence
Cosmos crown
Cosmos shower
Cosmos wand
Cosmos wreath
Country fence
Crescent-moon chair
Crest doorplate
Crewed spaceship
Cute lily crown
Cute rose crown
Cutting board
Dark bamboo rug
Dark cosmos crown
Dark lily crown
Dark lily wreath
Dark rose wreath
Dark tulip crown
Dark tulip wreath
Dark wooden-mosaic wall
Decoy duck
Deer decoration
Deer scare
Destinations signpost
DIY workbench
Document stack
Doghouse
Donation box
Drinking fountain
Egg party dress
Egg party hat
Falling-snow wall
Fancy lily wreath
Fancy mum wreath
Fancy rose wreath
Festival-lantern set
Festive rug
Festive top set
Festive tree
Festive wrapping paper
Firewood
Flat garden rock
Floral swag
Flower stand
Flying saucer
Fossil doorplate
Forest flooring
Forest wall
Fountain
Frozen arch
Frozen bed
Frozen chair
Frozen counter
Frozen fence
Frozen partition
Frozen pillar
Frozen sculpture
Frozen table
Frozen-treat set
Frozen tree
Fruit basket
Fruit wreath
Frying pan
Galaxy flooring
Garden bench
Garden rock
Garden wagon
Gemini closet
Giant teddy bear
Glow-in-the-dark stickers
Glowing-moss boulder
Glowing-moss dress
Glowing-moss flooring
Glowing-moss forest wall
Glowing-moss rug
Glowing-moss ruins wall
Glowing-moss statue
Gold armor
Gold-armor shoes
Gold bars
Gold helmet
Gold rose crown
Gold rose wreath
Gold-screen wall
Golden arowana model
Golden axe
Golden candlestick
Golden casket
Golden dishes
Golden dung beetle
Golden flooring
Golden gears
Golden ladder set-up kit
Golden net
Golden piggy bank
Golden plate armor
Golden seat
Golden shovel
Golden Slingshot
Golden toilet
Golden urn
Golden wall
Golden wand
Golden watering can
Gong
Grass skirt
Grass standee
Green bamboo fence
Green grass skirt
Green-leaf pile
Hanging terrarium
Hay bed
Hearth
Hedge
Hedge standee
Holiday candle
Honeycomb flooring
Honeycomb wall
Hyacinth crown
Hyacinth lamp
Hyacinth wand
Hyacinth wreath
Ice flooring
Ice wall
Ice wand
Iceberg flooring
Iceberg wall
Illuminated present
Illuminated reindeer
Illuminated snowflakes
Illuminated tree
Imperial fence
Infused water dispenser
Iron-and-stone fence
Iron armor
Iron closet
Iron doorplate
Iron fence
Iron frame
Iron garden bench
Iron garden chair
Iron garden table
Iron hanger stand
Iron shelf
Iron wall lamp
Iron wall rack
Iron wand
Iron worktable
Ironwood bed
Ironwood cart
Ironwood chair
Ironwood clock
Ironwood cupboard
Ironwood DIY workbench
Ironwood dresser
Ironwood kitchenette
Ironwood low table
Ironwood table
Jail bars
Jingle wall
Juicy-apple TV
Jungle flooring
Jungle wall
Kettle bathtub
Kettlebell
Key holder
King Tut mask
Knight’s helmet
Knitted grass backpack
Large cardboard boxes
Large lattice fence
Lattice fence
Leaf
Leaf campfire
Leaf mask
Leaf stool
Leaf umbrella
Leo sculpture
Libra scale
Light bamboo rug
Lily crown
Lily record player
Lily wand
Lily wreath
Log bed
Log bench
Log chair
Log decorative shelf
Log dining table
Log extra-long sofa
Log garden lounge
Log pack
Log round table
Log stakes
Log stool
Log wall-mounted clock
Lovely cosmos crown
Lucky golden cat
Lunar lander
Lunar rover
Lunar surface
Magazine rack
Manga-library wall
Manhole cover
Maple-leaf pochette
Maple-leaf pond stone
Maple-leaf rug
Maple-leaf umbrella
Matryoshka
Medium cardboard boxes
Mermaid bed
Mermaid chair
Mermaid closet
Mermaid dresser
Mermaid Fence
Mermaid flooring
Mermaid lamp
Mermaid rug
Mermaid screen
Mermaid shelf
Mermaid sofa
Mermaid table
Mermaid vanity
Mermaid wall
Mermaid wall clock
Mini DIY Workbench
Modeling clay
Modern wood wall
Money flooring
Moon
Mossy garden rock
Mountain standee
Mum crown
Mum cushion
Mum wreath
Mums wand
Mush lamp
Mush log
Mush low stool
Mush parasol
Mush partition
Mush table
Mush umbrella
Mush wall
Mush wand
Mushroom wreath
Music stand
Natural garden chair
Natural garden table
Natural mum wreath
Natural square table
Nice branch
Nova light
Ocarina
Oil-barrel bathtub
Old-fashioned washtub
Open wooden shelves
Orange dress
Orange end table
Orange hat
Orange rug
Orange umbrella
Orange wall
Orange wall-mounted clock
Ornament mobile
Ornament wreath
Outdoor bath
Outdoor picnic set
Palm-tree lamp
Pan flute
Pansy crown
Pansy table
Pansy wand
Pansy wreath
Park fence
Partition wall
Paw-print doorplate
Peach chair
Peach dress
Peach hat
Peach rug
Peach surprise box
Peach umbrella
Peach wall
Pear bed
Pear dress
Pear hat
Pear rug
Pear umbrella
Pear wall
Pear wardrobe
Pile of leaves
Pile of zen cushions
Pine bonsai tree
Pisces lamp
Pitfall seed
Plain sink
Plain wooden shop sign
Pond stone
Pot
Potted Ivy
Pretty cosmos wreath
Pretty tulip wreath
Project table
Purple hyacinth crown
Purple hyacinth wreath
Purple pansy crown
Purple windflower crown
Raccoon figurine
Rainbow feather
Red-leaf pile
Ringtoss
Robot hero
Rocket
Rocking chair
Rocking horse
Rope fence
Rope-net wall
Rose bed
Rose crown
Rose wand
Rose wreath
Rustic-stone wall
Sagittarius arrow
Sandy beach flooring
Sakura-wood flooring
Sakura-wood wall
Satellite
Sauna heater
Scarecrow
Scattered papers
Sci-fi flooring
Sci-fi wall
Scorpio lamp
Shamrock wand
Shell arch
Shell bed
Shell fountain
Shell lamp
Shell partition
Shell rug
Shell speaker
Shell stool
Shell table
Shell wand
Shell wreath
Shellfish pochette
Silo
Simple mum crown
Simple well
Simple wooden fence
Signpost
Ski-slope flooring
Ski-slope wall
Sleigh
Small cardboard boxes
Snazzy pansy wreath
Snowflake pochette
Snowflake wall
Snowflake wreath
Snowperson head
Space shuttle
Spiky fence
Stack of books
Stacked magazines
Stacked shopping baskets
Stacked-wood wall
Stall
Standard umbrella stand
Star head
Star pochette
Star wand
Starry garland
Starry wall
Starry-sands flooring
Starry-skies rug
Starry-sky wall
Steamer-basket set
Steel flooring
Steel-frame wall
Stone arch
Stone Fence
Stone lion-dog
Stone stool
Stone table
Stone tablet
Stone wall
Stonework kitchen
Straw fence
Straw umbrella hat
Street piano
Summer shell rug
Swinging bench
Tabletop festive tree
Tall garden rock
Tall lantern
Taurus bathtub
Tea table
Terrarium
Three-tiered snowperson
Tiki torch
Timber doorplate
Tiny library
Traditional balancing toy
Traditional straw coat
Tree-branch wand
Tree branch wreath
Tree standee
Tree-stump rug
Tree’s bounty arch
Tree’s bounty big tree
Tree’s bounty lamp
Tree’s bounty little tree
Tree’s bounty mobile
Trophy case
Tropical vista
Tulip crown
Tulip surprise box
Tulip wand
Tulip wreath
Turkey Day casserole
Turkey Day chair
Turkey Day decorations
Turkey Day garden stand 
Turkey Day hearth
Turkey Day table
Turkey Day table setting
Turkey Day wheat decor
Ukulele
Underwater flooring
Underwater wall
Unglazed dish set
Veggie basket
Vertical-board fence
Vine crown
Vine hanging chair
Vine lamp
Vine outfit
Virgo harp
Wand
Water flooring
Water pump
Wave breaker
Wedding fence
Wedding wand
Western-style stone
Wild log bench
Wild-wood wall
Windflower crown
Windflower fan
Windflower wand
Windflower wreath
Wobbling Zipper toy
Wooden block bed
Wooden block bench
Wooden block bookshelf
Wooden block chair
Wooden block chest
Wooden block stereo
Wooden block stool
Wooden block table
Wooden block toy
Wooden block wall clock
Wooden bookshelf
Wooden bucket
Wooden chair
Wooden chest
Wooden double bed
Wooden end table
Wooden fish
Wooden full-length mirror
Wooden-knot wall
Wooden low table
Wooden ladder set-up kit
Wooden mini table
Wooden-mosaic wall
Wooden-plank sign
Wooden simple bed
Wooden stool
Wooden storage shed
Wooden table
Wooden table mirror
Wooden toolbox
Wooden wardrobe
Wooden waste bin
Woodland wall
Woven-vines hat
Yellow star rug
Yellow-leaf pile
Zen fence
Zen-style stone
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introvertedmumfriend · 4 years ago
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I have a ridiculous number of DIY recipes
Edit: Gates are now closed, if you see something you want that’s still available though, message me and we can work something out!
Please help me get rid of them! Just message me for the dodo code :) 
Peach wall
Peach rug
Peach dress
Orange end table
Orange wall mounted clock
Bamboo-grove wall
Bamboo candleholder
Steamer basket set
Light bamboo rug
Basket pack
Bamboo doll
Bamboo basket
Bamboo stool
Water flooring x2
Underwater wall
Sandy beach flooring
Modern wood wall x2
Woodland wall
Jungle flooring
Classic library wall
Rustic-stone wall
Steel flooring
Aroma pot
Golden gears
Golden dishes
Lucky gold cat
Birdhouse
Deer decoration
Natural garden table
Pond stone
Tall garden rock
Flat garden rock
Ironwood dresser
Log bed
Wooden low table
Wooden end table x2
Hanging terrarium
Terrarium
Tiny library 
Tulip surprise box
Pansy table
Shell wreath
Rose crown
Cute rose crown
Zen-style stone
Iron armour
Garden bench
Kettle bathtub
Knitted-grass backpack
Standard umbrella stand
P.s Leif is here too!
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askwhatsforlunch · 6 months ago
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Sweet Spring
These recipes, whether indulgent and luscious cakes or delicious tarts with flaky, buttery pastry, turn this season into a delightfully Sweet Spring! Grab your dessert spoon, and enjoy!
Rose and Peach Baskets 
Rose and Strawberry Cake 
Rose Raspberry and Cream Pastry 
Tarte aux Myrtilles (Blueberry Tart) 
Springtime Garden Pavlova 
Lavender Apricot Tart 
Ruby Fraisier 
Lemon and Elderflower Cake 
Mango and Lime Tarts
Lime and Vodka Strawberry Charlotte
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extremelysadegg · 5 years ago
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[repost] on hold for right now
im bored and don’t feel like terraforming even though my island look like actual garbage
so im offering to make everything i have a diy recipe for
so if you want anything made dm everything you want (there is no limit) and ill tell you all the supplies that are needed for you to bring
tips are not required but if you have any extra diy recipes that you want to get rid of that you don’t see on my list i wouldn’t mind :)
angled signpost
apple chair
apple dress
apple rug
apple umbrella
apple wall
aries rocking chair
armor shoes
aroma pot
asteroid
astronaut suit
bamboo bench
bamboo doll
bamboo floor lamp
bamboo grove wall
bamboo lunch box
bamboo noodle slide
bamboo partition
bamboo shelf
bamboo shoot lamp
bamboo sphere
bamboo wand
barbell
barrel
basement flooring
basket pack
beekeepers hive
birdbath
birdhouse
blossom viewing lantern
blue rose crown
bone doorplate
boomerang
brick oven
brown herringbone wall
butter churn
cherry blossom pond stone
cherry blossom umbrella
cherry lamp
cherry rug
cherry speakers
cherry umbrella
chic tulip crown
chic windflower wreath
chocolate herringbone wall
classic library wall
classic pitcher
clothesline
coconut juice
cool hyacinth wreath
cool pansy crown
cosmos wreath
crescent moon chair
crest doorplate
crewed spaceship
dark tulip crown
decoy duck
deer scare
destination signpost
doghouse
flat garden rock
floral swag
fossil doorplate
fruit basket
frying pan
garden bench
garden rock
garden wagon
giant teddy bear
gold armor shoes
gold bars
gold screen wall
golden arowana model
golden candlestick
golden dishes
golden dung beetle
golden seat
grass standee
green grass shirt
green leaf pile
hanging terrarium
hay bed
hearth
hedge standee
honeycomb flooring
honeycomb wall
hyacinth lamp
hyacinth wand
iron closet
iron garden bench
iron garden chair
iron wall lamp
iron wall rack
iron worktable
ironwood cart
ironwood clock
ironwood diy bench
ironwood kitchenette
ironwood low table
ironwood table
juicy apple tv
jungle flooring jungle wall
kettle bathtub
kettlebell
key holder
knights helmet
leaf
leaf mask
leaf umbrella
light bamboo rug
lily crown
log bench
log chair
log dining table
log extra long table
log garden lounge
log pack
log stakes
log stool
magazine rack
manga library wall
matryoshka
moon
mountain standee
mums wand
natural garden chair
natural garden table
nova light
ocarina
oil barrel bathtub
old fashioned washtub
orange hat
orange umbrella
orange wall
outdoor picnic set
palm tree lamp
pan flute
Pansy crown
Pansy table
paw print doorplate
peach chair
peach dress
peach hat
peach surprise box
pear bed
pear dress
pear hat
pear rug
pear umbrella
pear umbrella
pear wall
pear wardrobe
pile of zen cushions
pitfall seed
plain sink
pond stone
pot
potted ivy
raccoon figurine
recycled can thumb piano
ringtoss
rocking chair
rocking horse
rose wreath
shell arch
shell bed
shell fountain
space shuttle
stack of books
stacked magazine
stall
standard umbrella stand
star clock
star pochette
star wand
starry garland
starry sky wall
starry wall
steamer basket set
stone lion dog
stone stool
stone table
succulent plant
swinging bench
tall lantern
taurus bath
tea table
timber doorplate
traditional straw coat
tree banch wand
tree branch wreath
tree standee
trophy case
tulip surprise box
ukulele
water pump
wild log bench
wooden bookshelf
wooden fish
wooden table mirror
wooden wardrobe
wooden waste bin
pls let me make you something i don’t want to have made that list for nothing
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dreams-in-daylight · 3 years ago
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Free DIY recipes!!!!! Feel free to message me if you’re interested!
Acoustic guitar
Apple hat
Apple umbrella
Apple wall
Armor shoes
Bamboo candleholder
Bamboo doll
Bamboo floor lamp
Bamboo lunchbox
Bamboo partition
Basket pack
Beekeeper’s hive
Birdhouse x2
Blue rose crown
Bonfire
Cardboard bed
Carp on a cutting board
Cherry-blossom-trees wall
Cherry-blossom bonsai
Cherry-blossom pond stone
Clackercart
Classic pitcher
Coconut wall planter
Cute rose crown
Dark lily wreath
Decoy duck
Deer decoration
Flat garden rock
Forbidden altar
Fruit basket
Glowing-moss ruins wall
Golden altar
Golden bathtub
Golden casket
Golden dishes
Golden dung beetle
Golden flooring
Golden gears
Golden garden bunny
Golden toilet
Golden wristwatch
Gold-screen wall
Grass skirt
Infused-water dispenser
Ironwood cart
Ironwood DIY workbench
Ironwood dresser
Jail bars
Leaf umbrella x2
Leo sculpture
Lily record player
Log chair
Log decorative shelves
Log garden lounge
Log steaks
Lucky gold cat
Maple-leaf pond stone
Maple-leaf umbrella
Mum cushion
Mush wall
Music stand
Natural garden chair
Natural garden table
Orange hat
Orange rug
Orange wall-mounted clock
Palm-tree lamp
Pan flute
Pansy table
Peach hat
Peach wall
Pear bed
Pile of leaves
Pine bonsai tree
Pond stone x2
Red-leaf pile
Rose bed
Shell bed
Shell fountain
Shell music box
Shell speaker
Shell stool
Shell table
Simple DIY workbench
Simple mum crown
Sleigh
Snowflake wreath
Stacked shopping baskets
Stacked-wood wall
Stone lion-dog
Terrarium x2
Tiki torch
Tiny library
Tulip wreath
Underwater flooring
Water pump
Windflower fan
Wooden bucket
Wooden chair
Wooden-block bench
Zen-style stone
Not required but I am looking for Redd :3
Last updated: May 5th 2022
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anthracite-crossing-blog · 5 years ago
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Spare Recipes
I have a load of DIY recipes available! DM me if you’d like any of them. I’m looking for the Iron Garden Bench DIY recipe if you have that to trade, but otherwise you can just take them. I don’t need my entire top floor dedicated to duplicates!
Apple dress
Bamboo doll
Bamboo-grove wall*2
Bamboo noodle slide*2
Bamboo wand*4
Boomerang
Cardboard bed
Cardboard sofa
Crest doorplate
Doghouse
Golden arowana model
Green-leaf pile*2
Honeycomb wall*2
Iron closet
Light bamboo rug
Orange wall-mounted clock
Pansy table
Peach chair
Peach dress
Peach umbrella
Pear dress
Pear hat
Rose crown
Shell fountain*2
Stacked-wood wall
Standard umbrella stand
Steamer-basket set*5
Stone wall
Water pump*2
Wooden end table*2
Wooden toolbox
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ninjacharli · 5 years ago
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Okay this was supposed to happen way sooner but life got busy. As a thank you for how much help I got villager hunting I'm giving away all my extra DIY FOR FREE. No limit but please only take if you need so everyone can get stuff they want. No payment needed, if ya wanna tip bells are fine as I dont need much else. Id take Celeste recipes if you got em to spare but honestly I'm happy to give these away.
My internet doesnt support many people on my island at once so I'll deliver via dodo code! PLEASE DM as I forget to check the post and its first-come-first-served. I'll set up drop off times when I get back on in the morning!
Stack of Books
Blue rose wreath
Water pump
Steamer basket set
Wooden-block bed. Wood block chest.
Cardboard chair x2. Medium cardboard boxes x2. Small cardboard boxes.
Clothesline
Classic pitcher
Bamboo drum x2. Bamboo stopblock. Bamboo noodle slide. Bamboo basket. Bamboo grove wall. Bamboo hat. Bamboo wall.
Sign post
Basket pack
Wooden table
Leaf
Pot
Bonfire x2
Gold armor shoes. Gold helmet.
Sandy beach floor
Matryoshka
Log dining table
Pear umbrella. Pear hat. Pear rug.
Peach rug
Log mounted wall clock
Bone doorplate
Western style stone
Gold toilet
Orange wall x2
Wild wood wall x2
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howdidyoufindthis · 4 years ago
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A small, grey weasel of a dragon was in the dim and cool alley of a street. They were rummaging through a garbage can, making a little mess of clatters and clangs, but coming up with nothing edible. They paused to droop and lament over their misfortune. In the middle of the pause, and through the midst of discarded cans and empty bags, they caught a glimpse of yellow, clear as day. It must’ve been a banana! Or cheese! They gasped with some new vigor ignited and reached their scaly arm in to get it, but when they got hold of the thing and pulled it out it was just a plastic lemon. They grumbled and angrily threw it at the ground. It bounced away and stopped, resting near the alley’s wall opposite of them.
Their stomach growled.
“Yeah, yeah, I know!” Greyscale said, “I’m trying to find something! Can’t you have any pa-”
They looked up as they hollered and noticed some smoke in the sky, above the surrounding brick buildings.
“Oh, what now, a fire-?”
They had to admit, they’d be intrigued by the idea of a fire somewhere, and at least that’d take their mind off their stomach. What else could smoke mean, after all? They knew the saying: where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
They lept to a pipe that scaled the side of the alleyway and climbed it to the rooftop only to discover the smoke was coming from a particularly not-up-to-code shipping truck, but what wasn’t what caught their eye.
Behind it was a large building with the words “DELTAMART” displayed proudly over a set of clear doors, standing tall and sure in the light of day. A grocery store! That’s just what they needed!
“Actually, I don’t think we’ll have to wait for much longer,” Greyscale said.
They lept and bounded down from roof to windowsill to dumpster. Right as they hit the ground, they made a dash through the parking lot desert, behind the truck, and right right up to the doors, then abruptly stopped and clung to the wall in an attempt to stay out of the eyes of anyone from inside.
They did a double-take, looking for anyone nearby. No one was around. They poked their head around to peak through one of the glass doors of the building that towered over them, a looming mass of bricks and corporate design.
There were some people walking around inside, carrying overflowing cornucopia baskets and pushing carts full of different treats, tools, and other products, but that wasn’t what got them the most. The aisles they could see were filled to the brim with food, and a couple of visible setups of fruits and vegetables looked so delicious and tantalizing in their array of colors that they sparkled to the dragon like precious gemstones.
Greyscale drooled a little with wide eyes.
They anxiously waited until there were barely any people near the doors, and anyone that was there appeared too thoroughly occupied to notice anything sneaking in.
They whispered, “the coast is clear!”
The creature sprang from their hiding spot and scrambled ins-- wait, no, nevermind, they just bonked headfirst into the glass door.
A first-time customer in a nearby checkout aisle got startled out of her waiting stupor and looked over to the sliding doors. Nothing was there.
“Did you hear that?” she asked.
“I hear everything,” said cashier #23,457, mid-scan of a bag of milk with one of his hands.
Understandably, that monotone answer concerned the customer, but she tried to brush it off. She just needed some milk for a recipe quick, and this was the closest store to her house.
“So-- Um,” she pressed on, “what about that thud from outside?”
“Ohh, haha, yeah I did,” he admitted, “Someone probably just walked into one of those doors again.” He handed the customer a grocery bag with her bagged milk inside and said, “Anyways, have a good day!”
Warily, she took the bag.
“You’re... not going to check on th-”
“H-H-Have a good day!” He said.
Now truly weirded out, she quickly said, “alllright thenIwill!” and walked out as fast-yet-also-not-running as she could.
It’s safe to say she’ll make the effort to not come back.
Seeing their chance, Greyscale scurried in under an exiting woman’s line of sight before the glass doors closed behind her.
At last, they made it into the glory of fluorescent lighting and vibrant food! In the midst of their wave of triumph, they continued to make the effort to stay hidden, taking cover behind some shopping carts.
The store was very nicely kept, they had to note. The white and navy blue checkered floors were spotless, and all the aisles and displays of different sorts were a combination of white, and/or blue, with some yellow, too. From where they were hidden, the whole place smelled cold and vaguely sterile, but they didn’t complain about it. They knew that was just how supermarkets were.
They took a great big breath in preparation and ran from the cover of the shopping carts, still with the effort of being undetected. As they perused in their own only slightly feral way, they dove behind grocery aisles, clambered up shelves, and hid in crates to stay out of workers’ and customers’ perceptions.
During this act of stealth and agility, they noticed an aisle with no people in it full of candy from atop a set of shelves.
“Aw, how sweet of fate!” they mused.
The creature made a B-line for it, jumping across gaps between short distance of aisles, and snagged a small bag of candy that had fallen to the checkered floor. They tore into it and began to eat a mouthful of the tart, brittle sweets inside.
Among the midst of the corporately pleasant music playing throughout the store, its jingle chimed in.
It sang, “De-De-deee de DelllltaMart, you have NO ideea what’s in STORE for YOU-u-u!”
They noticed the jingle and stopped their snacking to chuckle.
“You’re right about that,” they said, “I wonder what other good stuff this place has!”
They focused back on their bag of Candy Spiders (Now With 70% More Spiders!), just in time to notice one of the confections moving amongst its kin with its bone-pick legs.
A shocking moment of registration passed. They yelped at the realization and threw the bag away from themself as far as they could.
They sputtered, “Did-- did that--? No-”
They paused and slunk back up to the bag, warily.
The bag was motionless.
Slowly, cautiously, they batted it with their paw. They reeled it back away from the bag, as if it might jump up and bite them. Still, nothing inside moved.
They blinked a couple times and began to doubt what they thought they saw.
“Huh, h-ha, maybe this candy’s expired..” they said.
Greyscale left the bag behind to wander about some more(and put some distance between them and the Candy Spiders, but they didn’t want to fully admit that), and checked the rest of the products out.
They trotted through the deli area, passing by a stiff employee who was still in the process of regaining energy from his charging deck, fixated on the selection of meats. They even tested grabbing a slice of ham, and he didn’t notice one bit!
Once they were done with that, they visited another place that no one was in at the time. It didn’t have anything meant to be edible, but it sure was beautiful. Countless flowers were displayed in rainbows of colors, and the air was chilly to keep them all preserved for longer. Greyscale stayed there, smelling the roses both figuratively and semi-literally, until they had enough of that. They walked out of the section and past a sign that read, ‘HYBRID FLOWERS’. One of the tulips opened its eye.
After that snack and slice of ham they had, Greyscale was undoubtedly more content with their level of hunger, but they wanted to try to make the most of this place. After all, when they’re amongst a bounty of food, it’s good to get as much as they can before they go. They put their two front paws up on the ledge of a refrigerated bin full of organized fruit and poked their snout in, looking to choose which might be tastiest. Should they have a pear, or maybe an apple? Oh, but the peaches looked good, too!
Out from under the side of a display pyramid of apples behind them, a glitching, writhing tentacle rose to inspect its produce.
Ah, yes, every apple was shiny and in order... It had the pigeon grease to thank for that. It was about to retreat back under the apples, but something caught its attention. What it noticed was grey, and.. It wasn’t shaped like a customer either. It was rummaging around in a nearby refrigerator bin full of fruit strictly for customers.
Greyscale felt a couple of taps on their back and jumped, then turned to face-
“aAh-!!”
Nope! Nope, nope nope! They scrambled into and out of the freezing bin of fruit and away from the shifting, glitching-- thing in front of them. It lunged, and they turned and ran only to skid to a halt before smacking into a glass display case of ears.
Oh nonono, they shook the shock from that off and sprinted left into an aisle, only to see one of the store workers pulling can after can out of his mouth to put on the shelves.
They quickly turned again to climb up a shelf from the opposite side of the aisle as fast as they could. They really, really, really shouldn’t be here-
They tried to escape, find a way out, but the more and more they ran and jumped and turned, shifting from running on the ground to balancing on top of aisles, the more the grocery store grew and stretched into a labyrinth.
“NononononoIcan’tbetrappedthere’sgottabeaneXIT-”
They stopped briefly, shuffling and turning in place and trying to catch their breath, looking for anything that could possibly function as a sign to point them out. They launched themself from where they stood again only to smack into a pair of legs they hadn’t noticed.
The owner of those legs, a tall, nicely dressed woman, looked down at whatever had bumped into her.
Greyscale screamed and ran as soon as they realized they got noticed yet again.
“Huh…” she said, “one of the fish they’re selling must’ve got out again.”
She shrugged and continued to read the label of some canned wood she grabbed from a shelf of assorted canned inedibles.
Still thoroughly spooked, Greyscale bolted through the open door of a storage room to hide, but it only led to an expansive area of ventilation pipe trees and tubes protruding out of the ground and sky and distant walls in a variety of angles, all painted in a mess of glowing neon patterns.
The little dragon darted about the dark and dizzying manufactured forest, too worried about getting caught by any foe to realize the nature of the location surrounding them until they finally looked back. They began to slow down to a trot when they didn’t see anyone.
“There’s…” they huffed, “no one.. there…?”
Upon that realization, they slowed down even more, but that wasn’t enough to keep them from losing their footing on a pipe nestled into the glittering ground.
“HuhuUuAH-!”
Before they had a chance to save themself, they were swallowed into further oblivion and shot down the pipework with a series of clunks and shouts, thumping, denting into each abrupt turn going deeper, deeper, faster, faster until they were finally spat out to the end.
Greyscale was flung from the mouth, still held at the whim of momentum, and tumbled to a stop, toppled over themself. The result of that disorienting ride was a dizzy, discombobulated dragon, complete with stars going around their head as it bobbed about, trying to get their bearings despite their eyes having trouble focusing on anything for the time being.
They knew it was bright, or-- maybe it was dark? They couldn’t tell, they could still only see stars and an ever-shifting background. Their ears picked up on a further dizzying soundscape of moving, shifting, falling, corporate music, but the more they strained to focus on and determine a sound the more and more difficult it felt to tell any sound apart from another. It was a surrounding, pattering swarm of noise, and as their vision cleared and they tried to stumble up, they only fell back down onto the soft, squishy.. mahogany(?) surface they had been spat onto by the pipe.
Wearily, they picked their head back up and finally witnessed the shifting, unending world surrounding them. Cans floated through the air, worlds of their own, great candy spiders spun threads and webs of sugar on even more pipes that ripped out of the ground, checker patterns slid across surfaces, and everything seemed to pulse with an underlying life.
They were then aware, horrified, of the unavoidable fact that they were now utterly, hopelessly lost.
Amidst the cacophony of sights and patterning and a ground they couldn’t get a hold of, Greyscale thought they heard a familiar yet muffled jingle, far away in the distance yet echoed everywhere throughout these caverns.
“De-De-deee de DelllltaMart, you have NO ideea what’s in STORE for YOU-u-u!”
Their heart sank.
“Oh no-”
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smallcuddlybunnysworld · 5 years ago
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The pie contest for @toddlerage​
It was a beautiful day on the sunshine farm. The morning rose slowly over the cottage and the birds were singing in the trees. The rooster crowed and woke Lajea up from his slumber. As he turned around in his sheets to hug his loved one, he realized that Nessy was gone. All of a sudden he heard fast little footsteps in the hallway. The bedroom door swung open and like a bunny, Nessy jumped into the bed. "Lajea!", she screamed. "I was just outside feeding the horses and I found this letter in our mailbox!", she spoke very quickly and with a high pitched voice. "It's an invitation for a pie contest in town! And it's today! The winner wins this huge stuffed animal cow!" She could barely catch her breath. "But you already have so many stuffed animals little one", Lajea laughed. "You don't understand", she rolled her eyes. "It moohs when you touch its nose". Lajea sat up in the bed and grabbed Nessy's hands. "In that case, we must absolutely win this contest", he said and Nessy started bouncing. So they got up and went to the kitchen. Through the windows you could watch over the whole farm and see the bunnies running around freely in the garden, there was a little lake close by with ducks and the goats were happily chewing on some grass. Nessy opened one of the white cupboards and pulled out her grandmother's huge cooking book. All of her favorite recipes were collected in it. "With my grandmother's peach pie we will absolutely win this pie contest". Lajeas eyes got really big. He loved when Nessy baked for him, especially her peach pie was his favorite. Nessy opened the big book and searched for the pie recipe. "Ok. So we need brown sugar, cornstarch, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, lemon juice, butter, and peaches. Also, we need to make a double crust." "Let's go pick the peaches outside", he said and pulled her through one of the glass doors. "Can you put on my rain boots for me?", Nessy asked and held up her yellow rain boots with little ducks on them, so Lajea kneeled and put them on her little feet. Then they went into the garden. The fruit trees were in the back of the property, so they took a little walk. They stopped at the chicken coop to get some eggs for the crust. All the grandma chicken ladies were greeting them at the fence. Lajea held Nessy's hand the whole time. He felt so lucky to be with her and call this peaceful place his home. The peach trees were right next to the pear trees in the garden and had already grown high. Lajea had to put Nessy on his shoulders so that she could collect the peaches into a basket. They were pink and fuzzy and already smelled sweat. After the two lovebirds were done baking the pie, Nessy's hair was full of cornstarch, it was a good thing she was wearing her teddybear apron to protect her summer dress. She had formed a beautiful braid around the pie with the crust and even made a little flower out of it she put on top of it. As Lajea was cleaning up the kitchen, Nessy sat in front of the oven the whole 50 minutes sniffing the yummy smell and watching the pie get a caramel color. When it was done, Lajea took it out of the oven and let it cool down on the windowsill. The wind carried the scent all through the cottage and it smelled like love and home. After a while of cooling down, they put the pie in a box and drove it to town, where the pie contest was. Lajea cut the pie and let the judges taste it. They were very critical at first but after putting it in their mouth they were convinced: It was the best pie they had ever eaten. Nessy got the cow stuffie, which was almost as big as herself and they got their picture taken and put into a frame to hang into their kitchen. Nessy decided to call the pie peaches. Afterward they went home and lived happily ever after the end.
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amandragora · 5 years ago
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Okay, I have a ton of DIY recipes that I already own, and since you can’t put them into storage they literally get thrown around
Here’s a list of what these extras are bc tradesies
(under readmore)
actually nvm no need for tradesies if you want them please tell me i didnt realize how many of them i had, in multiples
Jungle wall
Light bamboo rug
Purple hyacinth crown
Pansy table x2
Log garden lounge
Decoy duck
Pan flute
Rustic-stone wall
Steamer-basket set x2
Ironwood dresser x3
Barbell x2
Oil-barrel bathtub x3
Tiki torch x3
Peach chair
Bunny Day stool
Bamboo-grove wall
Natural square table
Iron shelf
Mossy garden rock
Aroma pot
Bamboo floor lamp x2
Bamboo-shoot lamp
Outdoor picnic set
Clothesline
Log bench 
DIY workbench
Pear bed
Cherry speakers
Pile of Zen cushions
Wooden chair x2
Iron wall rack
Wooden simple bed
Windflower fan
Orange dress
Bamboo noodle slide
Orange umbrella
Backyard lawn x2
Fancy rose wreath
Iron frame
Cosmos shower x2
Ironwood DIY workbench
Gold bars x2
Cherry dress
Golden dishes
Tall garden rock 
Beekeeper’s hive
Bamboo speaker
Plain wooden shop sign
haha what a nightmare of items
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