♥ Summer ♥
I finished my series. It was so much fun! Now I need to add the hangers, vanish the paintings and post them on Etsy. Should I post them separately or as a set? What do you think?
I’m getting super low on birch wood and decided to make a mini banner hanging with the 5 smaller pieces I have left. It’s going to say PEACE… I’m in the middle of drawing it out now. And again I have to decide on colors… oy vey! The hardest part of my creative process. Once I’ve chosen a color scheme I can create like a mad woman!
I’ll be starting Christmas gifts very soon. I have some ideas already about what I’d like to make for peeps. I can’t share them here till after the fact though as I actually have at least ONE family reader. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one reading my blog. I’m more than sure that’s true on most days. Hee!
Tonight’s supper is going to be a delicious medley of beef, rice and beans with a Mexican flare! I dug through the larder and found all the ingredients I need. I did however quit buying avocados … they are just too expensive now.
And now time for the final shoe to drop in my teeny shoe collection. Here’s this weeks installment of Tuesdays Toys.
Next week I’ll share the weather appropriate attire of my teddy bear. Fun stuff ahead! Stay tuned.
Ironically enough while I was making this I got a notice on my door to call this toll free number for your free gift… No obligation! Right… There was indeed a catch and I politely explained no thank you and got the riot act read to me. (I’m a curious person… I had to find out who was leaving delivery notice on my door. So… this is almost done… a few more coats of varnish and a wire hanger and she’s good to go to the front door.
We’ve had a plethora of sales peeps come to the door at dinner time and on Sunday evenings and it’s just gotten to the point past annoyance. So as cheerfully as I can I’m going to attempt to turn them away. I don’t spend between 1 and 2 hours making dinner to have some nimrod ring the bell and interrupt our meal just to come back to cold food. If this doesn’t work…. I’ll order one from where my parents got theirs… It’s a bit more direct… don’t cha think?
This gets the point across quite well. It’s dinner time… Back off! Nom Nom.
Come back tomorrow to see a finished painting I’m just putting the fininishing touches on now.
It’s that time of year again when things around us are happy and joyful. The season of candy! Lots and lots of candy. Soon little goblins will be ringing the doorbell for Nom Nom! Then we’ll smell the wonderful aroma of turkey roasting in the oven… and before we know it we’ll be bringing Christmas gifts to those we love.
With this painting I went with pink and spring green instead of the traditional red and green… something fun and whimsical instead this time. I’ll get to more mainstream colors soon enough. =) This is painted on watercolor paper with collage papers, rubberstamps, doodles, tinsel confetti and little bling stickers. The hat is embellished with fun flock… and yes, the pompom on the end of the hat is now drying. =) Oh the details! This is going to be made into cards once the glues all dried!
I posted all but one of my Autumn Owl ACEOs on Etsy today so click on over and take a peek!
I wanted to share my harvest from this year… This is a little less than halve of what we got from our forgotten potatoe plant we planted. We forgot to harvest (it was planted in an outdoor pot and our deck was rotten to the core… thanks to our diligent landlords maintainance.) This year when it started to grow I had the feeling whatever it was wasn’t a weed so I let it grow.. one day it hit me… “Oh yeah!” “We planted potatoes!” Here’s what we haven’t yet eaten!
They are a product of placing “this” in a pot outside and forgetting about it. I can’t wait to plant more next year. It was SO fun digging through the dirt to find an edible treasure. Each time I was just giddy! Funny huh?
Now for Whispering Wednesday…
- I love taking pictures of virtually nothing and turning them into digital art.
- I NEED to go through my art supplies to weed out what I don’t use and give the rest to charity.
- I’m a salt freak! Given the choice between a savory or sweet snack… I’ll take the salty one every time.
Speaking of snacks… I hear some trail mix calling my name. See you tomorrow for more Christmas in October.
I know… ATCs right! They are more than just an addiction. They can become a way of life. What I really love about them is their versatility. You can can do ANYTHING on them. This is a little painted doodle that I thought would be fun to send summer off with a smile. It holds promise for next years green shoots on the trees and opens the door for autumn to make a grand entrance… also.. since this was done yesterday it celebrated our massive wind storm. The last traces of summer truly did get blown away yesterday.
Now we open the door for fall. Tomorrow you’ll see one of the things that I think of when fall begins to approach, but for today… yep, it’s 2sday again and I have a brand new toy from my parents. It’s a bit of humorous eye candy to make you smile.
♥ Tuesday’s Toys ♥
What a gardenista right! …Eggactly!
This is what I’m playing with today. It’s called…”Love Shack.” I have a few fun ideas that will go into finishing this canvas panel which I’ll have done by the end of the week. I’m also working on a few paintings that got set aside before the move. It’s fun looking at them from a different location as my creativity has grown a lot since moving.
Here’s today 2sday’s toy!
Key-chain bling! I love stuff like this. Useless eye candy really… until it makes it’s way into a journal or a painting that is! Until then it’s fun to have a little toy to finger when I get fidgety! And speaking of candy… well food anyway. Last night I made cabbage rolls for dinner before they hit the plate I snagged a photo to share with you. Nom!
Tonights menu: Baked Sweet Potatoes and Pan Seared Parm Chicken! I’m getting hungry just thinking about it… Time to prep some food! See you tomorrow =) Peace ~~ Out!
I haven’t forgotten about you! I know I haven’t posted in a quite a while… especially for me but I’ve been up to my neck in this-n-that.
I’ve finished the commission that I’ve been working on and I’ve also been doing quite a few other things that I’ve been needing to get done… not to mention working around the house and yard. I was also hit with a touch to much of depression so I haven’t had positive things to say and didn’t want to share doom and gloom with you. No one likes to hear complainers aye!?
Here’s a beautiful mess on my desk I’m playing with today. I’m working on Psalms and will have Psalm 9 ready for Sunday of this week. I also started a new canvas painting that I’ll show you tomorrow.
I spent some time reading recipes to find something creative for dinner guests that canceled but I made the recipe anyway…. as you can see from the plate, someone…. went back for seconds!
Cupcake Lasagna!
… and they were really, really good!
♥ Psalm 8 ♥
We’re now all the way up to week eight on our Psalms. ☺ We’ve got quite a long way to go. Good thing we have lots of time!
Earlier this week my mom gave me a zucchini to make bread with as it was a bit larger than we like for sauteeing and stir frying. Instead of baking bread I decided yesterday to make zucchini fitters with it. Here’s my process in pictures.
First I grated the zucchini and ended up with a little over 2 cups worth.
Next I used my baby food processor and crushed half a stack of Ritz crackers which made approximately a cup.
Gotta have some cheese! I shredded about a cups worth. I don’t measure when I cook. I cook by site and taste. I added all these ingredients in a bowl along with 2 eggs and salt, pepper, fresh chopped parsley, onion powder and garlic powder. Then I used a pad a butter along with a drizzle of olive oil in a hot pan and let them cook till the eggs were set … then flipped them over and continued cooking. I put the finished fritters on some nonstick foil and popped them in the oven on warm to keep them toasty for when the fish was cooked.
They were melt in your mouth delicious and we ate the ALL! We had them with some yummy healthy fish cooked in olive oil.
It was a fantastic meal and nice and light. I’ll see you back tomorrow for more fun with creating. God Bless You!
♥ Flowers In Her Hair
I finished this little ditty last night. I used embossed collage paper for her dress and painted over the embossing with colors to go with the flowers in her hair. I also used a lot of glitter glaze on the dots and circles on this painting but my scanner didn’t pick up the yumminess. I’ll post her on Etsy tomorrow when I have a bit more time. I’m getting ready to dash downstairs to make dinner.
The commission is almost done and at the moment it’s drying. I’ll snap a photo for you later and let you see how it’s coming along. I should be done with it tomorrow and be able to get it in the mail on Friday … hopefully!
Whispering Wednesday
- Dinner tonight is courtesy of Bisquick! (I actually had all the frozen ingredients for this.)
- I listened to a documentary on Goebbels while painting today. What a creepy guy!
- I joined Pinterest.com this past week… awesome website! Join me.
Time to cook! Catch you on the flip-side of dinner ♥
He’s there somewhere… See if you can find where Hooper’s hiding. Hooper is the name of the squirrel who frequents our back yard…not to mention our Oak tree! While your hunting for Hooper you can get a glimpse of a bit of my gardening efforts thus far. Yes, that’s a lot of just plain old dirt out there…but picture it looking more like ‘this!’
Ewwww…Right?! So yeah… I’m making progress. Each week I hit the garden spot at the local grocery on my way in and pick up something I know I’ll want in my garden. I’m aiming on attracting birds, hummingbirds, and butterflies and I’ve read up on what flowers would work best… the one’s I’ve bought in the past few weeks hit the mark!
If you haven’t yet found Hooper here’s a cameo appearance of him finding the sunflower seeds I put on the top of the fence for him… I knew he’d have to stop and nibble and had my camera ready!
This is taken with zoom style so, no, Sushi Train isn’t really that close to my back door… but I don’t think I’d complain if it were. It’s very yummy!
Come back tomorrow for more peeks at my garden and week six of Psalm Sunday!
Look who showed up outside my studio window! He’s ready and willing to paint AND he brought his own supplies. What could be better. Let’s get some paint on those feet and walk em across a canvas. He even sits next to his lunch. Nom! I wish I were tall enough to grab a few of those acorns. =)
Yesterday I finished two ATCs with my Poppy theme. Here’s the first one… You’ll see the second one tomorrow.
I’m calling this one Poppin’ Purple Poppy. I tried to scan this yesterday and came across some glitches in my system… so my hubs fixed it last night and it scanned fairly fine. I ‘should’ have saved it then. Instead, because I was very tired I waited till this morning to scan and now I can’t get my printer/scanner to scan AT all. Sheesh. Union scanners… Grrrr! I don’t know what’s wrong. We had a brief power outage and now everything wants a raise to be reset. We’re even having Internet issues. ~ Extremely low bandwidth… so I have to wait around for the tech to come today to check out the issues. Bleh! The good thing is it’s cloudy and cool today. Yeah… you know me.. I’m *the sunshine is evil kind of gal*. I might change my mind next summer when I have a full fledged garden growing.
I bought Tuna steaks yesterday at Winco for dinner tonight. Nom! I’m debating between a salad or wild rice pilaf to go with. I’ll probably go with the salad so the hubs won’t feel bad about ice cream for dessert! That reminds me… I need to stick some of my yogurt in the freeze so I can have an ice dessert as well. =) I’ll save the wild rice pilaf for next week when I cook the Swai fish I bought. They say it’s the new Tilapia, and extremely affordable, so buy it while you can. I’m buying it vacuum packed and stocking up! NOM!
Speaking of fish….
I’ll *catch* up with you tomorrow with a fixed scanner… I pray! God Bless until then… and think…*Mocha!*
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