A ROOM WITH A MOOSE

OMG THAT MOVE WAS SO FUCKING STRESSFUL
NEVER AGAIN

Packing was a nightmare.

IT ME.

Like, the whole time I was just wondering why the fuck do I have so much stuff. We actually just got our shit from the upack a few days ago and I am still wondering the same thing.

We packed up just the essentials and donated the furniture again. Biggest problem was this giant couch we got for super cheap. It didn't fit through the door so I gave up and went to town to dismantle it and just chucked the pieces into the dumpster. 

This was kind of therapeutic. 

So yeah, we moved to Alaska.
It was SUCH a long trip.

We pretty much drove to a port in Washington, took the ferry on the Alaska Marine Highway because they allowed cars onboard, and then drove through the Yukon back to Alaska. It was a 15 hour journey total and we beasted it by driving pretty much nonstop. We only took a few hours to sleep in the car.

The boat was interesting. Our first time riding on one that big. I know my husband had a good time. He's all about that nature and little towns in the middle of nowhere.

 This is not our boat lol. Ours was about 3/4 the size of this one. But you get the picture. 

 This sea chicken was just giving me the stink eye.

I think these are from the port in Bellingham where we first departed on the boat times.

Bellingham is a really pretty city. We totally have that as a place in mind to live if AK doesn't work out.

 Photo of a giant slug I found on the sidewalk in Ketchikan :D

Somebody had smashed it when we walked back that way though ;-;

Pretty sure these are from Ketchikan while we were coming into port. We stopped at like 5 other port side cities, including Juneau, but the ferry only docks away from town so there wasn't much to see. Only time there were tourist activities near our dock was at our last stop in Skagway. We walked off the boat in Ketchikan to check it out anway.

We were actually stopped right after we exited the pier by a local policeman. Apparently my husband and I look like drug mules. He asked several times if we had drugs on us. 

As if after the fourth or fifth time, drugs would magically appear on our person. 

I'll admit I was a little offended.

 Just me getting in the way of my husband's picture taking.

 View from our cabin window. We had four beds to ourselves. 

It was great.

ALL THE BOAT TIMES

The drive was not as fun. I pretty much was anxious about it from the beginning. I had not heard great things about driving the Alaskan Highway.

Though, even if it was still kinda shitty, it was not nearly as terrible as I thought it was going to be.

But it was scary as fuck. We maybe have cell signal about 10-15 percent of the entire drive. I was amazed I even had data access to use Google Maps. We would have been totally fucked without it.

It was my first time in Canada. We entered British Columbia and not even an hour in I had to brake for a black mama bear and two of her cubs crossing the highway. 

Driving through the Yukon totally blows you guys. We drove like 40-50 miles through just shitty gravel with giant bumps and pot holes. It took forever because we were driving about like 25 to 30 mph through the whole mess. 

We made one big stop in White Horse to get some food and I wanted to check out a local grocery store to snag some KRAFT DINNEEERRRR.

YEEEAAAHHHHH

This is totally what Canadians look like. South Park is spot on. 

My Canadian grocery store haul.

Everything was fucking delicious. 

Our new apartment hasn't been too bad. I was a bit anxious about being in a new neighborhood. 

But, surprisingly, we picked the better part of town to live in. 

There's screaming kids on all sides, no air conditioning, and barely any closet space, but I can deal. 

The air conditioning was a bit concerning but it's mid-June and I'm having to wear slippers and a sweater indoors because it's so chilly some days. 

This came as a big surprise for me.

I had never seen a dishwasher set up like this before. I almost wanted to cry lol.

BUT, it's not that bad. Thankfully we HAVE one, and the setup isn't as painful as I had projected it to be. Plus, we have access to more cabinet space which is a plus. 

I have a shit ton of baking supplies.

 Oh yeah, we tried crickets before we left Idaho.

I can safely say I was not a fan. But it could be that I'm just not an expert and preparing crickets for human consumption.

 I was going on like 3 weeks of sloppy sweatpants and no makeup. Had to break that for a job interview lol

 I bought this honey at the Bellingham, WA port before we boarded the boat.

OMG IT'S SO FUCKING DELICIOUS. Like, this honey is legit creamy. I was so excited to eat it with biscuits.

 IIIIIII totally forget where I saw these advertised but I finally found them at Walgreens to give them a try. These were so disappointing. 

All mustard and no hotdog. :(

Think my apartment setup is going nicely. There's so much shit going on here lol

That's not even all of it. 

Like I said, I have too much stuff.

God I love snap chat.

I LEAVE YOU WITH NICE SOUNDS.

SEE YOU SOON

Moving States and Getting Older

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Blobs of Plush

I totally meant to post last week.

But things.

...And laziness.

I'm here though! To post more pictures and talk about pointless garbage.


So I finished that project I mentioned in the last post. I suppose I was a bit slow about it since I did like four at one time. >.> Which is to say, easy, and not easy at the same time.
The longest, grueling part is always the applique. Any applique just takes the longest time out of your project.

Not that I hate to satin stitch, I love the way it looks. But still, so tedious.

 

This was the first time I tried out the kitty blob pattern. It was fairly easy. Hardest part I had really was the tail. I also had to sew it at an angle in order to bring it closer to body. Wish I could have made it closer but that was the best I could do. I stitched it like three times until I was just like fuck this. Still turned out well though. 

I also changed the face a smidge, just added some blushing cheeks and made the mouth a bit different. There's also a last minute bow made of felt which was a terrible idea. Not that the bow is terrible, just the felt part. Do you have any idea how hard it is to turn felt? My god. The biggest pain.

I really enjoyed how this one turned out. This one was definitely the easiest out of all three patterns. And with this one I changed up the mouth, added cheeks and a simple fabric flower. I think I kind of fucked up the flower but it still turned out alright. 

These two I finished last. Why?

Because that fucking nori applique is the biggest pain in the ass. So I made these two again because I sold the first two I made but I wanted a couple for myself. I was also thinking of adding them as an item to my shop but after today there's no way in hell. Just satin stitching one of those nori bands took a full hour. Not to mention you do this while most of the body is already sewn, so you have this very small hole to work out of. Actually ironing the nori on is rough too. Since they're curved, it's difficult to get them on smoothly. There must be some trick that I'm missing. You couldn't pay me enough to make these on the regular though. 

I think the ones I made the first time turned out way better. But I could just be being to rough on myself.

I did a few things with cookery this past week or so.

First was this recipe called Ground Turkey Noodle Bake.

I shared the recipe in case someone could make this more appetizing. It was so very bland. 

Everyone complained about the blandness, that's how bland this was. I also legitimately follow every recipe to the tee so I'm giving a very honest review here. 

 I also made some mini cakes. My sister and her bf bought me (and the hubby lol) a mini fluted cake maker. 

I was pretty excited when it came in the mail but a little hesitant about the quality. Check out the box it came in.

Look at how fucking beat up this box is.

Like, it came out of the package like that what the fuck. My sister even bought this shit brand new. 

Sidenote:

She also got me this stupid cute lunch box too, since my birthday is in a week. 

Totes love it. 

But yeah, so this cake maker, I pretty much HAD to test this thing out to make sure it works. I wouldn't want my sister to waste her cash on something useless.

So here's the actual item. The product itself looked new, which was relieving lol. 

As much as I hate cake mix, I had to go kind of cheap with what to test this baby out with. We're moving soon, meaning I'll be jobless for a period of time again and I need to save as much as possible. Which meant I made the poor choice of choosing this garbage.

Dude, for the love of God don't buy this. It was SO disgusting. I couldn't believe it was even cake. I ate this shit and it was so bitter and barely sweet. I'm still pretty dumbfounded at how awful this flavor was. 

Thought it'd be nice to show them plain before I put all the stuff on top to try to make this cake edible. I put nutella on some and just sprinkled powdered sugar on the others. But my god, NUTELLA couldn't even make these things edible. NUTELLA! FUCKING NUTELLA GUYS!

But as you can see the cake maker worked like a charm. It actually works too well almost. It bakes these in like 5 to 6 minutes. Any more and they burn so easy. I'll definitely have to try with a better recipe though. I felt so empty inside after I made these. 

Oh, before I forget. I also made pie.

Nothing special  about this one. Just a pot pie with ham and veggies. 

But I had so much leftover pie dough I thought it'd be fun to get a little creative with decorating.

I think it's quite fitting for pie.

Though maybe more fitting if it were an apple pie. ;)

Did you guys know that I love Japan?
If it's not obvious in the blog name then I hope you've spotted my sly weeaboo nature in other mediums.
I have a couple of friends that went about a couple of weeks ago. Literally every morning I would look at my facebook feed just to see all the photos they would upload from the previous days' ventures. I got to live vicariously through them which was nice but I'm sure definitely not as fulfilling as actually being there.

My body is so ready to go. I'm seriously hoping to save enough so we can go next April or May. I'm sure I'll cry if I ever actually go. Like, so happy I'll ugly cry.

Also it's May, meaning I'm aging soon.
But this was on my calendar for the month so it makes the aging hurt less.

Me and the hubby are moving pretty soon. I might be able to do a few more things til we have to pack everything and sell all our furniture again. We'll see though.

I made us breakfast on Sunday. Most likely the last pancakes I'll make in Idaho.
They were good as fuck.


Til next time!