Some fun video game news!

Hey, everyone! Hope your day is going great! It's been a pretty good one for me so far: A+ employee performance review, plus a party for the staff who have April birthdays (I brought some treats, and got great feedback, so I'll have some new recipes to share!). And I've just found some fun little video game news tidbits that I'll be passing along!

For those of you who are, like me, fans of the Shin Megami Tensei series, boy do I have great news! Atlus has uploaded a mysterious countdown timer that ends on...wait for it...May 5th. 05/05. It's been updated with some text stating that there will be a livestream airing at the end of the countdown. Hmmm....given the red color scheme, familiar character graphic, and the number, I wonder if this could be making an announcement for a certain Persona game...? (I'm fully expecting either a release date for the game in Japan or more information about the Persona 5 anime that was announced last year. Either way, it should be good!)

And your friend and mine, GOG.com, has just launched other initiative to drain our wallets. They are running a "Bundleopolis" sale, where you can buy themed bundles of games for super deep discounts. I'll point out that in any given bundle, you can opt out of buying various games in each bundle; it will raise the price slightly, but the games are still sharply discounted overall. There are new bundles every 6 hours, and it's ending on Sunday! (Don't worry, none of the bundles are limited-time only, so you can just check on Sunday once everything is posted to see what you want.)

That's all for now! Miss Scarlett, signing out!

Odds and sods

Hello, everyone! I hope the weather this weekend was as nice for you as it was for me! (Well, a little *too* nice; I stayed out too long, and now Miss Scarlett is the same color as her name...ouch!)

Some fun little tidbits for everyone: both anime Kickstarters that I posted about earlier got funded! So both the Escaflowne Director's Cut and Skip Beat! will be dubbed into English and provided on home video on DVD/BD combo packs. Sweet! The cast lists have been announced, and I'm pretty excited. I can't wait to watch the English versions! If any of you contributed to the Kickstarters, thanks for helping out!

Also on some video game related news, we got some good MegaTen news from Atlus--although not quite what most of us were hoping. But the spinoff/kind-of-sequel to Shin Megami Tensei IV, "Shin Megami Tensei IV: Final" will be released in North America this summer! This is awesome, although there's just so many games being released for me to keep up with right now that I know I won't get around to playing it for a while. (I haven't even finished playing SMT IV, so playing "Final" is definitely going to have to wait.) I'm still holding out hope that news on Persona 5 is right around the corner, since that's my most anticipated game of the year. (Well, I'm holding out hope that it's not getting delayed again...)

Not...a whole lot in doll news to report? I've seen some of the photos of the new Monster High dolls, and they look very Barbie/Disney like. The first dolls in this reboot will be a budget line, so they're very...basic. Very generic, and stripped of a lot of the freaky fabulousness that made them so appealing in the first place. I'll wait a bit longer to see what the next few lines look like before I'm going to stop buying the new ones, I'll give Mattel that much. The photos of Ever After High's Epic Winter aren't too promising, either. Birthday Ball should be hitting later this month, and Birthday Ball Duchess might end up being the only EAH doll I get this year. (It's all for the best, I suppose; I have to shunt *some* money over for all these Kickstarters and games and whatnot.)

Well, that's all for now! I might not be posting much for the rest of the month, since some relatives are visiting from out of town, so my time will be spoken for. (Worse comes to worse, I'll see you next month, readers!)

Miss Scarlett Crafts! Baby Blanket, part 2

Can this be? The long-awaited, much-promised part 2 of "Miss Scarlett Makes a Sort-of-Tshirt-Quilt for Her Friend's Baby. When we last left off, I had gathered up all of my materials and was about to begin planning out what to do.

P.S. I just realized exactly how much typing I'm going to have to do, so this post is just going to be about planning the layout and such.

Miss Scarlett Cooks! Ham and Spinach Strata

Happy April Fool's Day to all of you! Miss Scarlett's here with a delicious brunch recipe that is no joke!

This is a delicious casserole-type dish that you prepare ahead of time and just pop into the oven the next day. Nothing could be easier! We made this for brunch on Easter, and everyone raved. Gooey cheese and savory ham---YUM!

I've got the whole recipe for you, step by step, after the jump!