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It felt good to hold the warm bowl in my hand.
(Carrot soup: olive oil, onion, carrots, water, salt, rosemary, thyme)
It felt good to work on the blanket, purl, purl, purl, turn, purl on...
Sometimes, many times I think, we make things too complicated.
At least I do.
Today's 15. Six layers, 2 different filters.
This wasn't quite the assignment for the last class with Lewis Rossignol, but I couldn't help myself.
Between trying to get Lola to eat, distracting Widget (who got put in the bathroom for awhile yesterday) and trying to get some sleep...I am not getting much else done.
I'll be back in a few days...
I am wondering if I can come up with 19 shades of brown for a comfort food square for the GOOD Enough COVID 19 quilt?
I have a problem with peanut butter.
It could be something worse though.
In an effort at portion control I made these:
For 12 cups you need:
1 cup of melted chocolate chips + 1 Tablespoon Coconut oil
Peanut Butter
A mini muffin pan and liners.
Salt if needed
For each cup: pour roughly 2 teaspoons chocolate to coat the bottom, add about 1 teaspoon peanut butter in the center, top with approximately another teaspoon of melted chocolate. Sprinkle with a bit of salt if desired.
Refrigerate until firm and store in the fridge (these will melt easily).
Thoughts:
These will turn out as good as the quality of your peanut butter and chocolate. Use what you like best.
With my favorite peanut butter, these are best eaten in one bite or they are messy. This can be resolved by adding other ingredients like powdered sugar. The recipes are out there to be found. This version cannot be sent to someone you love if you are inclined to share. On the plus side, a recipe can!
Peanut butter and peanut spread are not the same thing. I bought spread by mistake a couple weeks ago and regretted it.
Now I need to start collecting brown fabric for today's 15...
Out on the porch with Lola this morning.
Noticing.
Yes, signs of spring.
Reflecting (not altered).
Lola doesn't know what she wants.
I am not sure either.
Cleaning house a bit...a few random things.
Altered: layered to make the large patch of white behind the figures more interesting (my great grandmother and some of her siblings I think.)
Altered: the boat I've been drawing as a practice exercise. Both of these photos share two layers.
And...the "Buffalo Cauliflower" that I tried last weekend. There are lots of recipes out there so I am not going to link.
Basically:
Cauliflower broken into florets and rolled in a batter.
The batter: equal parts liquid to flour, I used garbanzo flour and almond milk. Spices and salt.
+
A coat of bread crumbs (panko).
Baked in a 425 oven for 20 minutes.
+
A coating of sauce (apricot jam in my case),
baked another 5 minutes.
I needed a little intermission yesterday.
Lola had another go at a dental cleaning.
The good news...she will never need another one.
The bad news...she has no teeth now!
The good news...It's finally been determined what is causing some of her health issues. There were a few more scary moments yesterday.
The bad news... She now has enough medications that I might need an organizer for her.
The best news, she is sleeping beside me.
Now if I could just get her to take all her meds... we are just about at the second to last resort, fake cheese stuff in a can. If that doesn't work, a different prescription.
Dr. Kim says she is a funny little dog and a trouper.
Despite all this, I continued to work on the lesson for the class I am taking.
This wasn't what the assignment was, but it's what I liked the best...
I tell myself, "Just keep going, it's all practice."
All this brings me to a thought...
finding the humor in the everyday.
I wrote one post.
Sat with it for awhile and then got caught in hmm...where does influence start and stop? So this is a second try.
Some drawings from a class I am taking called Sketchbooking with Lewis Rossignol (Carla Sonheim).
My "15" for the last two days.
I had to remind myself to be not compare.
To just enjoy the doing.
And then I went and listened to an old favorite because it came to mind.
This video is a little quirky but it's what I've got at the moment.
The challenges of making right now continue so the cat chronicles continue as well:
She is a wild one and every movement of the hand is an invitation.
My hands are a wreck at the moment, despite trying to keep her claws trimmed.
This morning she let me fold paper for a book. That's as far as I got before having to get out the 6 foot strip of canvas I use as a "toy." I drag it across the floor or dangle it in the air, Widget attacks. She runs, she leaps, she somersaults.
Lola watches it like a tennis match.
I wish I got as much exercise...
White yarn for the field note blanket.
Now if I could just remember where I hid it from Widget.
First, for Mo:
It doubles as a hat.
And then the snow...
I will be spinning white yarn for the field note blanket today.
Yesterday was a good day for baking.
No chocolate chips so I substituted Cocoa nibs, coconut, and walnuts.
I usually replace the vegetable shortening in the recipe I use with butter. For something different I replaced it with coconut oil.
Very different texture. But good.
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Like others I am wondering if it's time to try something different for blogging. I don't want visitors struggling to leave comments. While I haven't had trouble loading images (well occasionally I've had to try twice), they don't always appear without having to open in another window. Frustrating....