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A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog with his entire face up to the eyeballs under a fold of blanket, with the rest of his body just lying uncovered.

I arranged Beanie's blankets in his bed all nicely, then he had to pull them apart and do this.

beanie our house dog darkroom beanie lying on or under things

Posted on 22 May 2021, 23:47

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on the floor with sunlight coming in through the window just on his belly and nowhere else.

It's important to have a warm belly.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 17 May 2021, 11:14

A photo of the Hrothgorn's Mantrappers warband from Warhammer Underworlds, consisting of four gnoblars (goblins), one's lugging traps, another is holding a very large crossbow bolt, and the third's on top of the fourth's shoulders, with the third holding a huge club mid-swing. Hrothgorn is a big ogre with a massive crossbow, and Thrafnir is a sabretooth tiger-looking creature.

Tonight I finished painting Hrothgorn's Mantrappers! I love how expressive they all are, and their names are fantastic as well: from left to right (not including the trap at the very far left), we have Bushwakka, Quiv, Hrothgorn, Luggit & Thwak, and Thrafnir.

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer underworlds hrothgorn's mantrappers

Posted on 16 May 2021, 20:52

A photo of a bunch of chocolate chunk cookies sitting on a cooling rack. The ones on the left are FAR TOO BIG.

I made those rosemary chocolate chunk cookies again, this time I learnt how to properly brown the butter, and HOT DAMN are they good! I screwed up the sizing of the first batch again though (have made a proper note now), and had to chop the chocolate smaller because I'd have run out!

our house cookies darkroom food baking

Posted on 15 May 2021, 22:13

A photo of two round brown loaves of bread sitting on a cooling rack. They have some very nice splitting happening along the tops.

Bread success. I've been doing a bit of fiddling around and the Overnight White Bread recipe from Flour Water Salt Yeast with 25% whole wheat flour and the water bumped to 790mL is seriously delicious.

our house darkroom food portrait mode bread

Posted on 15 May 2021, 13:13

A photo of the board setup of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds, with all the miniatures set up in their starting positions but with the game not having started yet.

Another night of Ben over for Warhammer Underworlds and dinner and getting Beanie used to having people over, and it was a smashing success. It only took Beanie maybe 15 minutes to calm himself down (we gave him the same amount of calming medicine as last time), and have booked in another night for the same again, so really interested to see how that goes.

our house darkroom gaming games workshop warhammer underworlds beastgrave direchasm grashrak's despoilers myari's purifiers morgwaeth's blade coven

Posted on 9 May 2021, 21:30

A photo of my DIY miniature painting table setup, it's made of wood and has a rectangular arch over it with a bunch of white LED strip lights attached to the inside of it. There's also two rows of the lights pointing directly forwards at the camera because of the aforementioned running out of room on the underside.

The LED strip lights on my painting table can be cut and connected together with this connector that comes in the package, but the connection is really flaky and my latest additions started cutting out (I'd used the leftover bit from one of the previous packages). 😞 So I decided I'd just go and get another full five metre pack and use it all without chopping it. It's come out pretty nicely and everything's noticeably brighter, though one downside is that I ran out of room along the underside of the arch. Some of it's facing directly forwards which means I'm not quite getting the full benefit of ALL of it pointing down at what I'm painting but ah well. It's fine as long as I don't look directly at it. 😛

lightroom our house diy painting table

Posted on 7 May 2021, 20:52

A photo of a bunch of small button-shaped chocolate cookies sitting on a cooling rack. The ones are the back are a bit munted, they're lumpy and more spread out than the ones in the front.

I made chocolate butter cookies! And continued my tradition of fucking up the first batch, this time because I didn't realise they were meant to be rolled into a ball in the palm of your hand. Ah well, won't affect the flavour!

our house cookies darkroom food baking

Posted on 6 May 2021, 20:39

A photo of the three miniatures from the Warhammer Underworlds warband Ironsoul's Condemnors. They're armoured in heavy-looking gold armour with flowing blue robes, one's brandishing a huge hammer, another has a mace above his head mid-strike, and the third has her mace over her shoulder. The bases look like stone and have autumn leaves blowing around on them.

Finished Ironsoul's Condemnors! I'm stoked with the robes and the bases in particuar, really happy with how they came out. Just need to varnish them tomorrow.

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer underworlds ironsoul's condemnors

Posted on 28 April 2021, 23:12

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on his back with his legs in the air in a patch of sunshine.

It's a hard life.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 26 April 2021, 13:33