While my second blouse was still dripping out after its tea bath, I used the salvaged tea bags to dye some white cards antique. The cards would need a little hole in them and a bit of ribbon to put them on the jars, but then they'd be fine.
I'd already figured out paper glue would not hold the two-headed fish together, so a trip to the store would be needed later on.
Meanwhile, on the stove, the large pan filled with fake blood was simmering slowly. After sievving it, all the lumps of corn meal were out, the colour was a lovely deep red, and it smelled rather funkily similar to the elderberry goo we'd made back in September.
My recipe was simple. Red syrup, cocoa powder, water, the corn meal to thicken it, and red and green food dye to get that vitae colour we so crave. Next time I'm mixing in the corn meal beforehand with the blender before adding it to the syrup. It's no good if you have to sievve your blood, mathter!
I feel like a good Igorina now. Nearly got all the props ready. But first, lunch in the sun!
I'd already figured out paper glue would not hold the two-headed fish together, so a trip to the store would be needed later on.
Meanwhile, on the stove, the large pan filled with fake blood was simmering slowly. After sievving it, all the lumps of corn meal were out, the colour was a lovely deep red, and it smelled rather funkily similar to the elderberry goo we'd made back in September.
My recipe was simple. Red syrup, cocoa powder, water, the corn meal to thicken it, and red and green food dye to get that vitae colour we so crave. Next time I'm mixing in the corn meal beforehand with the blender before adding it to the syrup. It's no good if you have to sievve your blood, mathter!
I feel like a good Igorina now. Nearly got all the props ready. But first, lunch in the sun!
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Date: 2010-05-19 11:11 am (UTC)En theekleuren ftw! Ik vind het effect daarvan altijd zo mooi!
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Date: 2010-05-19 11:26 am (UTC)Sorry about not calling yesterday by the way - I've been more busy than anticipated.
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Date: 2010-05-20 06:52 am (UTC)Ik zie het al helemaal voor me, je buurvrouw belt aan voor een kopje suiker en zegt: "Wat ruikt dat toch apart, wat ben je aan het koken?"
Jij in alle rust: "Bloed mevrouw,"
Sorry mijn fantasie sloeg even op hol.
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Date: 2010-05-20 09:01 am (UTC)ik heb afgelopen weekend ook zo bloed staan koken voor het filmproject.
om middernacht samen met nog een meisje, het had wat weg van een foute heksenkring :-) double trouble boil and bubble!
we hebben bijna het zelfde recept gebruikt: bloem ipv maizena en geen siroop.
en ja wij hebben aan een kamergenote moeten uitleggen wat we aan het doen waren...