Settled in the Maritimes of Canada, surrounded by the forest and Acadian Mountain Chain, I live a simple life of gratitude. This blog is a journal of my art, food, furkids, garden, home, my life and my thoughts. Thanks for reading!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! (Posted on Wednesdays!) 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is "The First Thing You See Today". Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!
Tweety Bird is very lucky! The first thing he sees each morning when he opens up his eyes is Granny bringing him breakfast in bed!! 💘 This will be my face for Nicole's Friday Face Off! I'm also joining Gillena for her Art For Fun Friday post!
I hope you're all getting my comments! I noticed that my comments seem to disappear when the comment form is on the same page as the post. The message above appears, but the comment doesn't always get to you! Just please know that I do visit if comments disappear! And if anyone from TADD who participated doesn't see my comment within 5 days of the post, please let me know!
David posted a beautiful photo on his blog last week of a Red-spotted Admiral butterfly. His wife Miriam took the photo and I asked him if I could draw it. Well, it started out looking pretty realistic, then as I usually do, I veered away from the reference photo! I still like how it turned out! I used Prismacolor pencils to draw this; and odorless solvent to blend!
The first thing I see each morning are the sweet faces of Jack, Baby Oscar and Raven!
When I remember to leave my curtains open a little, I also see a beautiful sunrise over the woods and mountains! I painted this with acrylic paints.
😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made a delicious Pull Apart Bread, using my No Knead Bread and blended Homemade Pizza Sauce for dipping! It's made with garlic butter, Mozzarella and Parm...all melted in the oven. A nice comfort food treat!
Breakfast Chalupa! Aimeslee told me it's not a burrito if you don't roll it up, it's a chalupa! Thanks Aimeslee! 😊
Another quick meal is roasted potatoes on tortillas with Homemade Salsa.
In the garden, I picked about 4 cups of blueberries! I'm lucky that I have wild blueberries all over my acreage. Too many to pick, but this is a good start! I think these will turn into blueberry simple syrup!
I also picked my garlic scapes! I didn't plant as many garlic bulbs this year, only 16. When the scapes start to curl, they're ready to harvest! If you don't harvest them, the plant puts a lot of energy into turning those bulbs into flowers and your garlic won't be as large had you snipped the scapes off!
I dehydrated them and ran them through the blender to make garlic scape powder! I'll be uploading that video in the next few weeks! 16 garlic scapes made about 7 1/2 teaspoons of garlic scape powder!
...and an easy beginner tutorial on How To Insert An Image With A Clickable Link in your post and on your sidebar. I used the TADD button as an example, but this goes for any photo with any link! If you'd like other Blogger tutorials, feel free to ask!
That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic 🎨 and 😋 delicious 😋 creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗
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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)
This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨
And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋
Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Wednesday!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! (Posted on Wednesdays!) 😊😊
TECHIE NOTE: Blogger changed the HTML gadget making it difficult to EASILY put my button on your sidebar. I'm about to make a tutorial on how to do that, so next week I'll have that ready for you!
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is "A Poem". Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Since Edgar Allen Poe is my absolute favourite poet, I chose The Raven as the poem I would illustrate today! Bugs Bunny is flipping out a little as he hears a rapping on his chamber door!
I painted this raven with watercolours. I love adding splatter to my paintings!
My Raven! 💜 Abandoned nevermore my sweet doggie! 💜💜 ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️
This is a beautifully sung version of The Raven. The band is called Omnia. There is a folky Celtic sound to this song, I just love it. The singing portion of the video starts at 2:15, so that's where I cued it up for you! I'm joining Cathy this week for her Monday's Music Moves Me post!
This is a painting I did in 2018. I shared this on my blog and in that post, I shared this poem. If you'd like to hear me read it, please click HERE.
😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made a delicious Potato and Gruyère Tart! I've had a wedge of Gruyère cheese in my freezer for months, so it was time to use it up! I'll share my recipe for Homemade Pie Crust as well, it's easy to make and so delicious!
Today's beverage is a wine suggestion, Apothic Rosé. I'm not a fan of their reds and whites, but they do make a nice rosé to enjoy in the hot weather! It's a bit of a dry wine, slightly sweet with a watermelon finish! The label suggests you might also taste strawberry, but my taste buds didn't detect it. This is great with some soft cheese and fruit! Make sure it's icy cold!
I went walking along the river this week, it's so beautiful there.
I love the rock formation, it looks like little dens and caves. The water is signature Maritime red-brown! Louise, I thought you'd enjoy seeing these!
Jack's hound dog nose is always working. During our walk this morning, he found a nice patch of Wild Blueberries To Snack On! Raven doesn't like them so Jack went to town!
That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more artistic and delicious creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗
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Upcoming Art Dates For Rain's Thursday Art Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)
This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨
And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋
Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Wednesday!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date (posted on Wednesdays)!! 😊😊 If you'd like to update the old TAD button to this new TADD button for Blogger, click here for the HTML code! If you put this button into your sidebar, don't forget to click "shrink to fit"!! Or you can just right click and save the photo! Thanks my friends! ♥
🎨 For our 🎨ART DATE🎨, the prompt is Scratch Art! Following the prompt is optional! Please feel free to share any of your art, we would love to see it! ☺ Bugs Bunny is looking very serious this week! I used black art paper with white charcoal pencils to create this scratch art. If I'm honest with myself, I had trouble with this prompt! I hope you didn't!
I had no idea what I was doing when I started this scratch drawing, but I guess it kind of looks like an owl! I'm joining in with Nicole's Friday Face-Off and Gillena's Art For Fun Friday! Why not share more of your creativity there?
💓 I'm VERY behind on blog visits, but I will catch up this week! 💓
Here's a quick video I did (half asleep I admit), showing you how Baby Oscar the cat wakes me up every morning!
I also have a video I'm sharing, showing you how I set up Rain Barrels To Harvest Rain! This is so frugal and the barrels keep my garden watered all summer!
I also made a Cauliflower Casserole. I had one frozen cauliflower left from when I bought a bunch of them last fall. I've made this casserole before and it's so good. Feeds an army!
And to celebrate my first dinner date post, I made a delicious Pina Colada!!
Do you like Pina Coladas???? 😊
🌟🌟 If you want to share art or food, please check out the link widget below! We would love to have you as a part of our community! Just make sure to visit the others and check back in case anyone links in later! 🌟🌟
I keep forgetting to update you on Raven!!! She got her new brace fitted and she's walking amazingly! She has to wear the brace from the time she wakes up until just before bed every day...likely for the rest of her life. But you know what? She can WALK and she LOVES it! ♥ I filmed the dogs walking on the blueberry field trail the other morning...they are just so cute together! Raven is full of curiosity and she just adores Jack! ♥
That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more artistic and delicious creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗
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Upcoming Art Dates For Rain's Thursday Art Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)
This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨
And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post!
Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Wednesday!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art Date (posted on Wednesdays)!! 😊😊 Today our theme is Playing Hooky! Following the prompt is optional! Please feel free to share any of your art, we would love to see it! ☺
Bugs and Daffy are playing hooky from work today! These big time movie stars can pretty much get away with anything can't they?
I tried my hand at anime faces for Nicole's Friday Face-Off this week! This wasn't easy for me! Anime (aa-nim-ay) is Japanese animation, very expressive art that uses imagery to tell a story. You'll recognize this style of art usually by the big expressive eyes! I'm also joining in with Gillena's Art For Fun Friday! Why not share more of your creativity there?
I did a very easy acrylic silhouette painting inspired by Little Red Riding Hood. Some of you may recognize this style, I've done it quite often, it's based on Bob Ross' style of painting!
I had LOTS of strawberries to eat this week. I found 3 pounds for $10 at the local market. Since the squirrels pretty much snacked on all of mine, I decided to buy some! This is Homemade Goat Cheese on my Homemade Baguettes with strawberries and a little bit of that strawberry simple syrup!
This art date is all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨
Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Wednesday!
