🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Scratch Art and a Pina Colada!

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! 💓

On the video front:

For Rain Frances Art, I'm sharing a real-time art lesson: How To Paint A Watercolor Whale.

Here's the painting. ↑↑

For Rain Frances Art For Kids, here is How To Draw Little Red Riding Hood! I have fairy tales on the brain these days!

And for Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing a few videos! This one is How To Make 2-Ingredient Yogurt at home. It's so easy! You just need milk and yogurt and you're set for months!

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!

😋 For our 😋DINNER DATE😋, I made French Quarter Potatoes! These are so delicious! 

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!)

July 21st - A Poem

July 28th - The First Thing You See Today

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!

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Thursday Art Date: Playing Hooky! & 🎇 A Blog Announcement! 🎇

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?

🎆 PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR A QUICK BLOG ANNOUNCEMENT! 🎆

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! 

On the video front:

For Rain Frances Art, I'm sharing the real-time lesson for Little Red Riding Hood.

For Rain Frances Art For Kids, here is How To Draw Jam On Toast! Btw, my How To Draw Ice Cream video has gotten nearly 5000 views as I type this! Pretty neat!

And for Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing a few videos! The first is How To Make Strawberry Simple Syrup.

And How To Prune, Harvest and Transplant Grocery Store Basil Plants.

For Kathy's last Food Wednesday post, I've got my Pancakes with that delicious Strawberry Simple Syrup.

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!

And some Thin Crust Pizza!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more artistic 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!

July 14th - Scratch Drawing

July 21st - A Poem

July 28th - The First Thing You See Today

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!

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Thursday Art Date: Colourful June - Silver and Gold!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art Date (posted on Wednesdays)!! 😊😊 Today our theme is Silver and Gold! Following the prompt is optional! Please feel free to share any of your art, we would love to see it! ☺ 

Bugs Bunny is showing off his silvery glitter today! Don't worry! The braces are just for show, he wouldn't be the same without those buck teeth! 😊

Here is Henery Hawk from the Looney Tunes for Nicole's Friday Face-Off and Gillena's Art For Fun Friday! Why not share more of your creativity there?

On the video front:

For Rain Frances Art, I'm sharing my How To Draw A Horse Silhouette video.

I also have Henery Hawk uploaded as a #Shorts video (that just means it's vertically filmed and under a minute!)

For Rain Frances Art For Kids, here is How To Paint Popsicles (with watercolours)! This was a lot of fun!

And for Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing a few videos. The first is How To Make Cold Brewed Coffee...

How To Build A Lettuce Box & An Herb Box...

And I'm proud to say that My Summer Garden Is (finally!) All Planted!!! I'm so happy, and so exhausted! It took 2 months from starting the seeds indoors to finally having everything planted. Now I can slightly relax while I watch my garden grow!

This is how Raven sleeps. Look at those teeth!

If you want to hear Jack's Hound Dog Bark, I filmed him while we were walking - we saw a deer and he was very vocal about it!!

I had SO many eggs to use up this week! We pretty much only ate breakfasts as our meals! I made Belgian Waffles and Pancakes. I want to thank my friend Gigi again for posting about her waffle maker a few years back, that gave me the idea to buy one too! I love it! 

I also made a Broccoli Quiche.

And...a few scrambled egg dishes with toast. I mixed the egg whites with onions, tomatoes and mushrooms; and the eggs with tomatoes and chives! Of course each dish had some melty Cheddar cheese mixed in!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more artistic 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!

July 7th - Playing Hooky

July 14th - Scratch Drawing

July 21st - A Poem

July 28th - The First Thing You See Today

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!

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Thursday Art Date: Colourful June - Purple!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art Date (posted on Wednesdays)!! 😊😊 Today our theme is Purple! Following the prompt is optional! Please feel free to share any of your art, we would love to see it! ☺

Bugs Bunny is fascinated by his crop of purple carrots! Have you ever eaten one? 

Here is my charcoal horse silhouette for Nicole's Friday Face-Off and Gillena's Art For Fun Friday! Why not share more of your creativity there? I filmed myself for the horse silhouette drawing lesson and it's sitting in the "editing" pile! Life is getting very busy again! Actually I don't know that it got un-busy!

Here are some watercolour balloons! I made sure to include some purple ones in there!

On the video front:

For Rain Frances Art, I have another Art Therapy video: How To Paint Balloons With Watercolour Paints!

For Rain Frances Art For Kids, here is How To Draw A Turtle!

And for Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing a video on How I Hill My Potatoes!

The dogs are doing great! We're meeting Jeff tomorrow morning for Raven's new brace!

The garden is really coming along, though I haven't even finished transplanting my tomatoes or beets yet! I'll be out there this week making another raised bed. Here are some early strawberries, I do hope I can harvest these before the squirrels get to them this year!

On the food front, we've been eating a lot of Mexican style dinners. Here are breakfast burritos: a tortilla filled with fried onions and potatoes, some salsa, eggs, some Cheddar cheese and a wee sprinkling of cilantro. Yum!

Who can resist pizza? Not me! This is my Pour In The Pan Pizza!!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more artistic 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!

June 30th: Colourful June: Silver and Gold

July 7th - Playing Hooky

July 14th - Scratch Drawing

July 21st - A Poem

July 28th - The First Thing You See Today

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!

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Thursday Art Date: Colourful June - Red!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art Date (posted on Wednesdays)!! 😊😊 Today our theme is Red! Following the prompt is optional! Please feel free to share any of your art, we would love to see it! ☺

Daffy has red steam coming out of his ears...he's such a hot head! I bet this had everything to do with Bugs Bunny's antics!

Here's a 3D face for  Nicole's Friday Face-Off . I'll also be joining in with Gillena's Art For Fun Friday! Why not share more of your creativity there?

Here are some watercolour cherries.

On the video front, I have five to share:

For Rain Frances Art, I have my 3D Face Doodle.

I also recorded another Art Therapy Video, painting my watercolour cherries.

For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I posted a video on How To Draw Ice Cream!

For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I have a Garden Update to share...

As well as a quick video to show you a Wild Turkey Sighting in the blueberry fields!

I had to travel to Nova Scotia last week. Raven's brace was not fitting properly. The company that made the brace is called K9 Orthotics. The owner is Jeff, who has a prosthetic leg himself. He has devoted his life to helping dogs who need orthotics, braces and prosthetics...he is truly an amazing person. He is remaking the brace at no cost to us and he'll be passing by New Brunswick next week to fit Raven with her new brace so that another trip to Nova Scotia isn't needed!

I decided to make a mini vacation out of my trip and I brought the dogs with me to Burntcoat Head Park - it was very much like the Hopewell Rocks here in New Brunswick!

Raven LOVES the water, she was having so much fun! Jack prefers not to get his feet wet! Raven is limping a little so I have to make sure I limit her walking. I can't wait to get that brace back on her!

Before coming home, I stopped by a Dog Wash and the furries were treated to a "spa day". Pet Valu in Truro, Nova Scotia did the honours for free. All they asked was a donation to the local dog shelter, which of course, wasn't an issue for me!

It's strawberry season! I got some fresh local strawberries and made a nice strawberry shortcake type of dessert. The sponge cake is store bought and I whipped up some cream with a little Amaretto liqueur, delicious!

I missed visiting everyone last week, but I will be slowly catching up! I hope you're all well and healthy and happy my friends!!!♥♥

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more artistic 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!

June 23rd: Colourful June: Purple

June 30th: Colourful June: Silver and Gold

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!

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