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pounded cucumber salad with dressing and garlic

[recipe review] pounded peerless cucumber salad.

Have you ever grown to sort of tolerate a food you didn’t like before? I am feeling that way with mushrooms and cucumbers these days. I still don’t like zucchini and squash besides pumpkin though. Here is another recipe from the Scum Villain cookbook zine, Proud Immortal Culinary Way, the Pounded Peerless Cucumber Salad. Salacious …

[fashion] DIY T-shirt upcycling/recycling part 2

This is the long-awaited follow-up from previous posts about slow-fashion, mending, upcycling and thrift-flipping (link here!). I present to you, T-shirt upcycling featuring my large hoard of t-shirts I can’t really donate or sell due to bad condition or nostalgia. I basically have 35 t-shirts reserved that I almost never wear, either too small, stained, …

photograph of a cotton peasant top made of Disney's Bambi fabric

[fashion] handmade Bambi peasant top

Here is another handmade lolita/otome top, made from Otome no Swing volume 19. I just wanted to sew something from the latest volume to be on trend, using this print remnant cotton I think I got at Michaels. It was at most 1.5 yards, a thin cotton with a repeating small pattern of Disney’s Bambi …

side by side photo of myself wearing a fancy Dracula inspired coord, and the coord on a mannequin

[fashion] Dracula in London (Castlevania) coord

Happy Halloween! I’d been in a vampires and Castlevania mood, so I also put together a Japanese fashion gothic/aristocratic coord from stuff I already had, not making anything new, like I was Wisdom K or something lol. I was particularly inspired by Ayami Kojima’s artwork of Dracula for Castlevania Symphony of the Night, see the …