Another Fun Custom Order

Uranium Dioxide:

A small part of me didn't want to see it go. I think I'll make one for myself.

For Babies

How cute are these booties from Sylver Designs on Etsy:

Love the designs! I made these using the 3 month old size and they fit the 3 month old baby perfectly. The hardest part was finding cute buttons to go with them. I wanted to find buttons that weren't too difficult to put on, so the bamboo looking ones worked great. Perfect for the winter months and even cuter on the baby!

Methanol

I've been running a lot of western blots and have been using a lot of Methanol. I may or may not have once or twice forgotton to activate my PVDF membranes by forgetting to add this guy. So here's a tribute to methanol and hoping that it will help my westerns come out as well as I want them to:

I think I really like these colors too

A Week of Treasuries

I've been listed in quite a few treasuries this week. How exciting!



A Gift That Gives Back...
Biochemistrey
Chemistry
Creative Crochet
Little Tidbits of Color
The Love of Knitting

Love Potion (No. 9?)

I grew up watching Sandra Bullock and Tate Donovan as super nerdy biochemists creating a love potion and falling in love.

Here's my version, in time for Valentine's Day:



I though love potion would look more suitable with an apothecary jar, complete with cork, like something you would find out of a creepy spells and magic shop. Hopefully the love potion molecule, however, is not that creepy.

You can find love potion at two different locations:

For the Maroon potion: Plushteam Store

100% of proceeds from this sale, through the plushteam store, will go to benefit the International Children's Heart Foundation, an organization that works to bring aid to children in developing countries with congenital heart conditions.

And for the Blue version:Primandplush Store

For Chinese New Year

A cup of Oolong Tea. A redo of one of my weekend projects. I wanted to try and represent a chinese porcelain teacup. So I added tiny blue flowers.

For sale on Etsy!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Perhaps bunny eared waters are appropriate?

My Favorite Custom Order, Delta Amino Levulinic Acid

Wow, it's been awhile.

It's been a crazy few months, but hopefully I can get back into the blogging spirit. I'm grateful for all the holiday craze, but also grateful for it to be slowing down a bit again.

Here's something I did a few months ago, for a sweet man who wanted to give his wife something special on their wedding anniversary.



Delta Amino Levulinic Acid

Yeah, I had no idea what it was either, until a friendly trip to Wikipedia helped me out a bit.

"δ-Aminolevulinic acid (dALA or δ-ALA or 5ala or 5-aminolevulinic acid ) is the first compound in the porphyrin synthesis pathway, the pathway that leads to heme in mammals and chlorophyll in plants."

Source

The coolest part was that this man's wife had discovered the use of d-ALA in the porphyrin synthesis back in the 50's. I have to say it was a little nerve wracking to make this molecule for such an important person and I spent a long time making sure all the bond angles were perfect! I don't think I've ever enjoyed making a custom molecule so much.