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Virtual (blinded) Tastings

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Remote tastings are one activity during the pandemic that has brought me a lot of joy. Love recreational PowerPoint presentations. I’ve created tastings for gin, fruit-forward IPAs, whiskey, sour beer, and session IPA, and attended ones for carrot cake, salt & vinegar chips, and canned rose. I have a format that works really well: the tastings move quickly and offer plenty of opportunity for social connection which can sometimes be difficult on virtual hangouts.

An attendee’s gin-tasting photo on social media. Participants were given soda and tonic mixers.

These events have worked out so well, I thought it would be a shame to not share my ‘template’, slides, and the things I’ve learned doing these.

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SEPTA Token And Shrinky Dink Trolley Pin

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You aren’t going anywhere, so it’s never been a better time for a SEPTA token craft!

I’ve seen many cute earrings online with tokens, but unfortunately cannot pull off big danglies due to my glasses. It feels like too much stuff is hanging off my head. Glasses and big earrings make me feel like I’m wearing those novelty Groucho Marx glasses with the eyebrows, nose and mustache. Too much.

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Timberkits Drummer- a Janet Weiss Automaton

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With this increased time-at-home, I have been itching to do a kit-something that is interesting to assemble, customizable, and makes a product that I would actually want in my home. I was thrilled, THRILLED when Michael got me the Timberkit Drummer for my birthday.

I knew I needed to paint a lot of the parts prior to assembly, so I had to decide who this drummer was going to be. Who would I want a representation of sitting on my shelf, who also has a distinctive enough “style” for me to approximate? Michael suggested Janet Weiss, and as a big Sleater-Kinney fan, I knew it was the right choice.

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Cheese Portrait from a Class at the Free Library Taught by Mike Geno

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I’ve been following the work of Mike Geno for several years-even though he’s known for food portraits, I had a print of Geno’s Pope Benedict XVI wearing a Phillies jacket hanging in my bathroom for years. When I saw he was having a painting workshop at the Free Library’s Culinary Literacy Center, Michael and I signed up right away. 

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