Bunsen Burners!

It's Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday and the google icon is aweome! The flames are on in the lab today! Ok well, I had to do a transformation, so it just happened to be on today. So here's my contribution to the bunsen burner, an Etsy Treasury:



Shockingly, not too many bunsen burner themed items, but it's wonderfully geeky!

Japanese Relief Campaign

We made and listed cranes for $5 donations to the Red Cross for the Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami, in crane form and magnets. The magnets work on stainless steel refrigerators! There are 5 different varieties:















Check out the Etsy Shop!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I like making holiday molecules and it's only fitting to make a green ethanol for St. Paddys Day. They dye the Chicago river green and sell lots of green beer, so here's a tribute to all those who celebrate this holiday by indulging in green alcohol:

I happened to be sitting at home the past few days recovering from a slip and fall that resulted in damaging my tailbone. So I managed to crochet while lying on my side and am writing this blog while in bed.

Find the Etsy listing here.

Please drink responsibly!

Yarn Shipment

I got word that the company I order yarn from is going out of business. So I ordered extra of colors I probably can't find very easily and this is how it arrived:

It's the saddest box in the world. And upon opening, I realized it wasn't actually a box, just some tapped up cardboard in the shape of a box. Apparently, the company is so out of money they can't afford to buy a box, but surprisingly the yarn was completely fine:

And I figure now is a good opportunity to show a shot of my yarn storage. I did buy an Ikea bookcase just for it:

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