Theremin! 8 Mar 2012 | 07:40 am

kaja_theremin Originally uploaded by studiofoglio. Here I am, trying to play the theremin at the Victoria Steam Expo...with mixed results. The theremin was made by Eric Reiswig, and you can see a nice...

Phil, Painting 7 Mar 2012 | 08:32 pm

philpainting Originally uploaded by studiofoglio. Here's Phil painting the back room, which is going to become part of the studio. We let him pick the colors. Ouch.

My SKET Dance fan stuff 21 Feb 2012 | 12:54 pm

I made some stuff! SKET DANCE is one of my favorite manga/anime titles right now, but it's not very popular in the US just yet. That makes it hard to get any good merchandise...so last week, I mad...

Secret Shame... 16 Feb 2012 | 04:09 pm

Every time I hold up my sword to charge it in Skyward Sword, I am compelled to shout: "By the power of Greyskull!" I can't help it. I have to.

All right, here are the bug pictures. 15 Feb 2012 | 09:51 am

<3<3<3 Here is Phil, with his new bug, and also here is a corner of our wall, featuring the "bug" that James made for us back when we were all much less busy people.

Happy Valentine's Day! 15 Feb 2012 | 08:40 am

Phil got me tickets to the Seattle Symphony's production of:  THE LEGEND OF ZELDA™: SYMPHONY OF THE GODDESSES at Benaroya Hall. Yay! I got him...a dead bug. Erm, but it's a really nice dead ...

The Cake of the Triforce 10 Feb 2012 | 10:12 am

Our annual school cake walk transforms the cafeteria into a terrifying and sticky zone of destruction. It's enough to put me off cake for, oh, about a half an hour afterward, at least. The kids wi...

Fun with Hugos! 9 Feb 2012 | 12:28 pm

Bedtime Stories 2 Feb 2012 | 06:50 pm

I've been reading The Lord of the Rings to my kids before they go to bed. We're in the second book, and have finally "taken the hobbits to Isengard," which means that my reading has, for the l...

Fanfic and Dead Gnomes 1 Feb 2012 | 10:28 am

On Monday, for good or ill, we signed off on the second Girl Genius novel. Yesterday, I fell down the rabbit hole that is fanfiction.net, and have only just emerged, grinning like a mad thing. No, I&#...