#domestic blifs

[rainbowbarnacle]

LET THE SPOOKY VIBES COMMENCE

🍁🍂🎃💀👻🐈‍

(Most of these were from etsy, but I got the Garden of Death one from @pangur-and-grim ! https://greerstothers.shop/ )

[vastderp]

overheard at the grocery store on new year’s eve eve:

random man: yeah I know where my socks and underwear are

random woman: ah you're a hunter just like me

[rainbowbarnacle]

HOLY CRAP THIS IS GORGEOUS

LOOK AT THAT PLUME

AND ITS CUTE LITTLE MOUTH

AND THE PRETTY COLORS AND TEXTURES

ED YOU ARE A STRING WIZARD

The noble sea slut is finished! Nudibranch done as a gift for @rainbowbarnacle

The body of the slug is all done in satin stitch, with the halo being French knots and the waves being chain stitch

I had to learn how to do chain stitch for this and I did experience some agonies (and stab myself once) but overall I'm very pleased with how it came out!

[rainbowbarnacle]

For future reference, Luka's glorious HP restoring potato soup:

[rainbowbarnacle]

Happy biiirthday tooo meeeee. 8)

Today for Aud’s birthday I figured out screen share so we could play The Longest Journey together – I figured it’s the kind of thing we’d both enjoy and it’d be fun to see just how much of its DNA made it into The Secret World (since they’re both Funcom games that Ragnar Tornquist had a big hand in).

We’re well into Chapter 2 and there’s been lots of little things that have felt familiar, but so far the one big, obvious thing that got into TSW? Bingo Cola.

[vastderp]

found this gorgeous place while out watching the clouds get about 75% dimmer with @rainbowbarnacle.

[rainbowbarnacle]

My day today!!! https://ift.tt/2HCgFUi

[rainbowbarnacle]

Please make a tea post so I can save it especially the pineapple ice cubes I need more info

Oh, like, different teas I like to make? Okay! :D

🍍Pineapple Tea🍍

The way I do it is really simple:

Buy a giant jug of already-made tea (I like gold peak!)

Buy a carton of pineapple juice

Freeze the juice into cubes, pour a little of it in the tea for extra flavor

And that's it. That's aaaall you gotta do.

There's all kindsa ways you can dress it up, but nine times out of ten I just do this and drink it by the gallon when it's hot out.

If you wanna get fancy with it, feel free to cold brew your own black (or green) tea, add actual hunks of pineapple fruit in there, add some orange juice, add some honey, add some coconut milk or sweetened condensed milk, whatever sounds good! (Also, pairing pineapple tea with coconut cookies? SO GOOD.) Put mint in the pineapple cubes if you like mint! Add a bit of boiled ginger root or some brown sugar and cinnamon for a little kick! Heck, last summer I used blue peaflower star-shaped ice cubes just because they were pretty.

(Peaflower petals don't taste like much, but they make a GORGEOUS blue, and if you put something acidic in there like lemon juice IT TURNS PINK. :D)

🍓Strawberry Tea🍓

I find this stuff sort of difficult to find where I live, so often I go the same route as the pineapple tea: grab a jug of black tea, grab a jug of strawberry juice, (ocean spray has a really nice cran-strawberry one I like) freeze the juice, mix, and enjoy. Super simple.

If I can't find strawberry juice, I dice some strawberries up and put it in a jar with some water and a bit of sugar for a few hours, then add *that* to the tea. (heck, it's really nice all by itself!)

What goes with strawberry? ANY DANG THING YOU WANT. I am particularly fond of lychee. Jasmine tea and rose petals pair really well with it too. Again, if you like mint, it's *really* nice with strawberry. And you know how if you put black pepper on strawberries they taste even strawberrier? (If you haven't tried this, go do it, it's magic.) Same goes with the tea, add some peppercorns or a teeny bit of chili powder or some ginger.

If you wanna drink it hot or cold brew a batch of your own, here are some brands that are also nice:

1. Strawberry Sensation

2. Adagio Strawberry Tea (this is also where I got the peaflower petals)

3. Any of Lupicia's Strawberry Teas they are HEAVENLY

🍏Apple Tea🍏

As with the pineapple and strawberry teas, it's totally fine to just go find some ready-made tea and mix it with some apple cider or apple juice for tasty low spoons fun. If you drink it iced, a bit of sugar and lemon juice brings out the apple flavor nicely!

I prefer drinking this stuff hot though. You know that Fall Drink post that was floating around? IF YOU HAVEN'T YET, TRY IT, IT'S AWESOME.

☕Chai Tea☕

So here's the thing about chai for me personally: I don't tend to drink it iced or sugary, but if you do like it iced and sugary, there are a couple of really nice chai tea concentrates:

Oregon Chai Latte

Tazo's Chai Latte (Forget the "skinny" nonsense, I just wanted to include an option with no milk so you can add whatever you want to it)

Pacific Chai isn't concentrated, but you can use it to make hot or iced chai and it's really lovely, not too sweet and super easy to work with. As for dressing up chai, I don't tend to! There's already so much going on with all the flavors, I just drink it as-is most days. Play with milk-to-tea ratios or sugar amounts all you like, figure out what's your jam.

I do know that mixing chai and coffee together (or chai and chocolate together) is guaranteed to make a feeling groovy kind of morning, at least if you have two thumbs and you're me. Iiii think that's all the tea blather I can think of for right now. Thank you for asking, anon, it was fun! Anybody reading this, feel free to add your own favorite things to do with tea. :D

[vastderp]

minnesota crime scenes be like

[rainbowbarnacle]

GOOD MORNING TUMBLR TODAY I AM ANCIENT

[rainbowbarnacle]

🍁🍂🎃🍎Happy Autumn Equinox from Beatrix the Kitty.🍁🍂🎃🍎

[rainbowbarnacle]

How to tell a barnacle has been decorating your tree:

Merry happy, everybody. <3 I hope today is as wonderful as you can hope for.

[rainbowbarnacle]

perks of being me: I will suddenly really want a coffee and then I will realize I MADE a coffee five minutes ago and it's RIGHT THERE WAITING FOR ME LIKE MAGIC

[rainbowbarnacle]

Today I learned that if you cut corn tortillas into triangles, coat them in olive oil and spices, (I used paprika and cumin and salt but the spices kiiiinda burned just a little bit, so maybe just sea salt next time) and bake them at 350F for about fifteen minutes, they come out crispy and awesome and the one I just ate had an ENORMOUS CRUNCHY AIR BUBBLE IN IT <3

(This is probably old news to everybody but I'd never tried doing it before and I'm delighted they turned out so well :D)

[rainbowbarnacle]

OH MY GOD BARB HAS SAVED MY LIFE

I WAS HAVING THE CRAPPIEST MORNING WITH INSPECTIONS AND MY STOVE EXPLODING SPARKS ON ME (I AM OKAY) AND DEADLINES LOOMING AND THEN ***SHE DROVE ME TO A COFFEESHOP***

I HAVEN'T WRITTEN IN A COFFEE HOUSE SINCE THE BEFORE TIMES

🤩

[rainbowbarnacle]

I tried that recipe I keep seeing floating around where you mix up greek yogurt with chopped strawberries and honey, freeze it, and then you dip the fruit yogurt patty in melting chocolate

Verdict: pretty dang good! kind of messy to eat though, and if you have sensitive teeth, forget it, this thing is a monster to bite into

but tasty!