a blog by selina zawacki
I decided that I want to explore my Chinese culture more this year. More explanation as to why at some point I’m sure, but a large reason is that my grandpa on my mom’s side was an accomplished calligrapher, and I want to feel more connected to that part of our family history. I’d learned…
I found this recipe through @xomissdanielle on instagram, and thought it’d be the perfect cozy dish to try over the holiday break. The only snag was that when we ordered the ingredients for it with instacart, they were out of stock of gnocchi. Luckily though, they were out of single potatoes (for a different meal)…
Going into my holiday break I knew I wanted to sew something. This dress was perfect because: I’ve been wanting to sew something nice for myself! It’s been over a year since I’ve made a fancy piece of clothing (not counting the 4 hour fairie costume or altering my wedding dress haha) I’ve been wanting…
My second try at milk bread! Very proud of how the sections peeled apart in the video below haha. My mom’s been following some recipes from 萨姐的南腔北调Lisa’s Kitchen and shared their youtube channel with me. I wanted to bake milk bread over the holidays this year and they conveniently had a video just for that….
This post has links to the files needed to recreate the repos b4 bros shirt design. 🙂 I’ve provided file types for a few options: Cutting the design out of heat transfer vinyl on a DIY cutting machine like the Cricut or Silhouette Cameo, or with a laser cutter (make sure the HTV is laser…
These hand-painted ornaments were the first time I enjoyed the process of making something for a long while. I especially loved the slight char marks the laser made on each disk. It made them feel properly weathered and used, like a good floppy disk should be haha. I had these plus the slightly more polished…
I was craving Chinese food this weekend so I pulled out this scallion pancake recipe I saved from a magazine a bit ago, and made them to go with my usual mapo tofu dish. (At one point all of the magazines I got had a ton of scallion recipes, I’m guessing they were in style…
I can’t believe I haven’t made pumpkin pasties before! I love pumpkin pie, and I love anything that’s cozy and reminds me of the wizarding world. Also, pumpkin pasties used to be one of my go-to treats when I visited universal, since it was affordable, filling and not overly-sugary. I used to sell the pasties…
Sometimes I pick up new hobbies.. a bit too quickly. I’m going to blame my parents for this – they were either too supportive of me whenever I wanted to try something new, or they set the example by always being up for learning new skills. 😛 An example: when I was in junior high…
I like getting recipes out of magazines. I absolutely love how you can find a million variations of any recipe on the internet (customized to diet restrictions and ingredients on hand), but there’s something about being discovering recipes on paper and cutting them out that I can’t leave behind. Recently I did one of my…