updates and such

photo of four very homemade sfogliatelle Italian pastries covered with powdered sugar

[recipe review] sfogliatelle Sopranos style

February’s recipe is from one of the said newer cookbooks I’ve obtained, the Soprano’s Family Cookbook as compiled by Artie Bucco that I randomly found at Half-Price Books! Note, I haven’t really watched the Sopranos, although I was interested in the Mafia and organized crime drama (not real life organized crime obviously) for many years, …

photograph of plum and cherry crostata

[recipe review] plum cherry crostata

I have acquired a new fan cookbooks or regular cookbooks, but I have yet to choose a recipe from them so I am repeating recipes from previous cookbooks especially those that didn’t turn out ugly lol. First up is this gorgeous plum and cherry crostata. I found this recipe in a Food and Wine September …

[cosplay] Qi Rong donghua finally

This cosplay of Qi Rong from the Heaven Official’s Blessing anime was actually worn in fall of 2024 for the first (and probably last) art show at the local mall I vended at, when the English voice actor attended. Since then I never posted about the costume formally because it was rushed in between prepping …

photo of 2026 bullet journal, year of the hourse, decorated with various stickers and also showing my 2025 letter to 2026 me

[update] 2026 Bullet Journal!

It’s January of 2026, I didn’t think we’d make it, but here we are. Since I finished using the mini Flower Knows planner for 2025, I decided to use a blank notebook I bought from Koyamori (website shop) printed with their illustration of persimmons on a pleather cover. It is a A5 size dot grid …