Fab's Vacation (Sort of) Raise your hand if you have ever spent YOUR vacation on the bathroom floor?
Fab took a vacation! Not to the beach… not to Paris… but to her bathroom floor. In this delightfully chaotic episode, Fab shares the highs and lows of her DIY tile project—featuring bad knees, grout wipes made from grocery bags, and a dramatic moment where she had to YouTube how to get up off the floor. (Spoiler: she made it.)
Also in this episode: Fab finally tames the sticky note avalanche taking over her desk with a custom digital corkboard made with a little help from ChatGPT.
☕ Whether you're a fellow home project warrior or just here for the laughs, settle in—this vacation story is full of charm, grit, and a very relatable battle with gravity.
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Dandelion Bop - A song about Wonderful Weeds
Welcome to Fab World, where things are never quite as simple as they seem… Fab steps out one peaceful morning to gather her beautiful irises, only to spot a single, smug little dandelion in her yard. One tug later—and poof! A dozen more appear. Before long, Fab is caught in a bebop whirlwind of bouncing, blooming, bop-happy weeds! This jazzy story song, led by Loorie the singing sunflower, starts calm and sunny but builds into a full-blown floral frenzy. Don’t worry—everything ends with laughter and a glass of dandelion wine on the back porch. 🎷✨ Lively bebop rhythms, animated storytelling, and a garden full of surprises await! 💬 If you enjoyed this musical misadventure, leave a comment, give it a like, and subscribe for more curious tales from Fab World!
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Making dandelion wine is a simple and rewarding process, that anyone can do at home. All you need is some basic equipment, such as a large pot, a strainer, a funnel, a glass jug, an airlock, and some bottles. You also need some fresh dandelions, picked from a pesticide-free area. Also, please choose an area free from dog traffic. Does the Fab need to elaborate on that? Recipe inspired by the one in the Norge Binding of Culinary Arts Encyclopedic Cookbook.
Dandelion Flower Wine
Ingredients 4 Quarts of Fresh Dandelion Flowers 4 Quarts Boiling Water 1 Cake of Wine Yeast (2-1/4 teaspoons or 1 packet) *see notes on yeast below 3 cups of sugar 3 Oranges and 3 lemons, diced To make dandelion wine: - Pick 4 quarts of dandelion flowers. The best time to harvest them is in the morning, when they are fully open and bright. - Rinse the dandelions and remove any green parts, such as stems and leaves. You only want the yellow flowers. Place in a large heatproof glass or ceramic container with a lid. - Boil a scooch more than 4 quarts of water in a large pot. (some water will turn into steam) - Pour the boiling water over the dandelion flowers. Cover lightly with the container lid. - Let the flowers and water stand lightly covered for 3 days. After 3 Days: - Strain the liquid through a cheesecloth or a fine mesh into a sterile glass container and discard the flowers. - Add the wine yeast, diced oranges and lemons and stir well. - Cover the container with clean cheesecloth place the lid on lightly. Store the container a dark and cool place for about 3 weeks to a month, until the fermentation stops. - Strain the wine into clean bottles and cork them. Store them in a cool and dark place for another few weeks, or longer if you want a more mature flavor. Shorter if you want to see what your Spring juice tastes like. Dandelion wine mixed with flavored sparkling water is a delightful porch sittin' beverage. By making dandelion wine, you can transform something ordinary into something extraordinary, and you, like the Fab are all about the extraordinary. **Notes on yeast. Yes, you can use regular baking yeast, but baking yeast will stop fermenting at about 8% alcohol content. Wine yeast will remain active to achieve about 15% alcohol.
Loorie Sings "Will They Bloom"
Loorie sings her song about waiting for summer flowers.
They Will Bloom – Loorie’s Spring Torch Song | Original Song
Performed by Loorie the Sunflower in the Morning Light
In this original jazz ballad, Loorie the torch-song singing sunflower of Fabiola World—takes a quiet moment in her garden, singing to the soil, the silence, and the promise of blooms yet to come.
“They Will Bloom” is a soulful, slow-swaying torch song a tender reminder that growth takes time, beauty is patient, and some songs are meant to be whispered to the morning.
Whether you're waiting for something to blossom in your life or just need a little sunlight with soul, this song is for you.
Welcome Back!
🌼 Welcome Back to Fab World Studio – June Adventures & Dandelion Shenanigans! 🌼
Well hello there, friend!
It’s been a couple of weeks since our last proper sit-down, and mercy me, we’ve been busy! There’s been app development, animation prompt tinkering, and even some financial soul-searching (because a girl’s gotta plan, even if she’s living in a whimsical world of talking sunflowers and clockwork dreams). Let me catch you up!
📌 Project 1: The Sticky Note Renaissance
It all started with sticky notes. And not just the digital kind that float in the void of your screen until forgotten—we made a proper Sticky Notes App for FabCorkboard! We used Visual Studio and C# and oh, did this project make my brain hurt! But even baby-steps coding is refreshing because code is so wonderfully litteral. Any time I want a reminder that what I am saying isn't always what I think that I am saying, I write a bit of code. Because the code will do exactly what I tell it to do. (laughing)
By May 29, we’d added:
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🌈 Color-coded notes
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💾 Save-to-disk support
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🗑️ Right-click delete (poof!)
If it sounds like magic, well... it kind of is.
🎶 Project 2: “Dandelion Bop” – A Story Song Sprouts!
On June 2, Loorie (my resident torch-song-singing sunflower) wiggled her petals and declared, "It’s time to BOP!" So we got to writing a jazz-fueled story song about a rather dandelion-ish morning in the front yard.
Spoiler: It ends with dandelion wine. As it should.
🎥 Project 3: OBS Bug Zapping and Keystroke Overlays
By June 3, I was elbow-deep in OBS plugins and visual overlays. We hunted bugs, wrestled with DLL errors, and found our way to a working keystroke visualizer.
Not glamorous, but wildly satisfying.
As an experiment, I did some 5AM live streams while I sculpted a new character Lumen the Star. I created with the help of Suno music for the background. It was fun. I may do more live streams while I sculpt. I am not good at talking while I work, so as I mentioned above, I enabled keystrokes for future live streams. The lives will be at 5 AM because, why not? Well, there are a thousand reasons why not, but I am up and working at that time so that is when I will be working.
Livestream link: https://youtube.com/live/l8q1jSVjsmc
💌 Project 4: Cards & Branding
The June 6–7 weekend brought some real world whimsy:
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🃏 Revisiting my handmade pop-up card dreams
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💡 Renaming everything to Fab World Studio (because of course!)
🚪 Project 5: Fab’s Front Door & Her Friendly Wave
On June 8, we returned to animation with updates to the porch door scene. I added a whimsical porch light (yes, it glows!) and a cheerful wave prompt for Hedra to bring Fab to life with a tip-top wave.
🍃 Project 7: Blender Grass (Because Someone Has to Mow)
June 13 was for the Blender-heads out there—we tackled Geometry Nodes to scatter grass across the land. There were render issues, viewport victories, and a template to build from. The lawn, in short, is lush.
Well darlings, that brings us up to date! I’ve got sticky notes all over my monitor, a sunflower who won’t stop scatting bebop riffs, and a porch light that might be smarter than me.
Fab says:
“Here’s to summer mornings, curious questions, and projects that grow like dandelions—wild, bright, and sometimes in the wrong spot.”
Loorie chimes in from the windowsill:
🎶 “Dandelions bop and pop and plop, they never ever stop! But oh honey—don’t you worry—Fab turned that chaos into wine!” 🎶
Stick around, sugarplum. There’s more to come.
And always, always, please, have a lovely day!
—💙 The Fab (and her jazzy garden crew)
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