Rain's Kitchen and Garden!

Thursday, November 24, 2022

🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Jungle and Prize Winner!!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Jungle. Tweety Bird decided to imitate a Toucan this week! Actually it's more of an impersonation of Toucan Sam from the Froot Loops cereal box. Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

I also painted a Toucan with watercolour paints. Toucans live in the rain forest jungles of Central and South America.

🎆🎇 Congratulations Dorothy! 🎆🎇

Nobody guessed my really cryptic reference from last week's Bugs Bunny drawing, but Dorothy taught me something new so she gets the prize! Here was her guess:

"Rain, does your question have anything to do with the fact that Homer Laughlin China designed that dinnerware exclusively for Warner Brothers?"

Here was the reference: There was a British sitcom from the 1990's called Keeping Up Appearances. The star of the show came from a working class family but went out of her way to look as regal and proper as she could. Of course, hilarity always ensued from her antics. She often mentioned her "Royal Doulton with the hand-painted periwinkles" as a way to pomp herself up in front of her guests. And because Bugs' pinky was up, it was a joke about how some people see the pinky up as a sign of good manners - in fact it's the opposite according to etiquette expert Emily Post, so please tuck that pinky in (unless you like to joke around like I do!) 😃 Dorothy I'll be mailing out your prize in the next few weeks! ♥

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I baked up a storm! I am continuing my Bread series and this week's bread is Buttermilk Biscuits! These were so good!

I also made some Christmas cookies for the freezer. Chocolate Crinkles and some Rum Balls! (recipes and videos coming soon!)

I made some delicious Fruit Ketchup too. I love this on mashed potatoes! It's really good with scrambled eggs too. If you have a nice sharp Cheddar, you can plop a little on top and the flavour combination is divine. I used to serve my fruit ketchup with meat pies (tourtières) as well.

On the video front:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I'm sharing How To Paint A Toucan with Watercolors!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw An Owl!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing last week's pumpkin bread video: How To Make Pumpkin Bread!

⬆️⬆️ I'm also showing you how I rehabilitate little saplings that I buy from Costco. It's horrible to find a little tree covered with that fake snow gunk. I try to save one every year by removing that fake snow and planting the tree on my land!

⬆️⬆️ And I'm sharing the recipe video for the Buttermilk Biscuits!

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!)

December 1st - Bells

December 8th - Constellation

December 15th - Gift Wrap

December 22nd - A Christmas Scene

December 29th - New Year's Eve Party!

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 Sunday at midnight!

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Cups!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Cups! Bugs Bunny brought out his best Royal Doulton with the hand painted periwinkles for tea time today! IF ANYONE GETS THIS REFERENCE, please say so in the comments and you will receive a prize!!! ♥♥

Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made some pumpkin bread! Our friend Joyce from Octoberfarm sent me her recipe, holy pumpkins...it's dang good! I recorded this for an upcoming video!

I was thinking about all of the dogs who graced my life over the years. My childhood pet, her name was Fluffy...came to mind. She was an English Sheep Dog and she was beautiful. I drew her with charcoal pencils. ♥

And for the "cups" theme, I painted a cup of foamy, bubbly coffee! Maybe a cappuccino! I used watercolors for this painting! ☺

On the video front:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I'm sharing the lesson for the Coffee Cup.

⬆️⬆️ And I'm sharing how I drew Fluffy with charcoal pencils!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw A Rainy Day Umbrella! I figured it was a good drawing for November!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing the latest video in my "Bread" series, How To Make Banana Bread!

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!)

November 24th - Jungle

December 1st - Bells

December 8th - Constellation

December 15th - Gift Wrap

December 22nd - A Christmas Scene

December 29th - New Year's Eve Party!

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: In The Woods and BREAD!!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is In The Woods. Bugs Bunny stumbled into the woods to find an empty house with three porridge bowls, all ready for the eating! He didn't quite expect to be interrupted by the three bears! I think he's in trouble! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I have an ooey gooey cheese pizza with green olives!

I'm very excited to announce a new series I'm creating! It's a bread baking video series based on the Williams Sonoma Collections Cookbook titled Bread! I announced the new series on my channel yesterday and I'll be uploading bread baking videos every week. There are 40 recipes in the cookbook - I've already made 4 of them!

⬆️ Here is the 1-minute video! Of course I will post the photos and recipe links here on my blog as well!

⬆️ And here is the first video in the series: How To Make Old Fashioned White Bread!

Thursday, November 3, 2022

🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Frosty and Fun Food!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Frosty. Bugs Bunny has taken on the role of The Frost King! I drew this with pastel pencils on blue art paper! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! I'll be visiting blogs this weekend! Life is crazy for me!!! But I'm very happy! ♥

Halloween is over, but the only food I have to share is my Halloween fun food this week! So, 😋for our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I have a ghostly pizza, this year's Boo-rritos and skull cakes!

I carved Bugs into my pumpkin this year, it was a challenge alright! I also made shrunken heads out of apples!

On the video front, For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing these videos for the sake of having them embedded into my post (this helps Google and YouTube rank my videos in their search engine). Here's my video on how to make a Spider Web Cheesecake!

I also have a video on How To Make Shrunken Heads from apples!

Also, How To Paint Ghosts For Halloween!

Jack's eye growth came back, so he had to have it removed again at the vet, poor boy. He's doing okay though. Raven is doing her best to stay close to him during his recover!

Home stuff: I was having septic tank issues recently, actually it was a problem with the leech field. As with the house and foundation, I don't think the previous owners maintained the septic system at all. Before calling a company ($$$), I bought this stuff and it worked like a charm. They have a whole line of products that I'm going to use for maintenance, I love it because it's environmentally friendly and non-corrosive...still learning as I go!

I've been blessed again friends with government funding for my home. First I got the tin roof, then the spray foam insulation done...now I'm being offered a mini-split heat pump and installation for free from the power company! I have more research to do but basically this is a system that heats and cools and is much more energy efficient than baseboard heaters and air conditioners! The assessment is today! There are so many programs out there, you just need to find them!

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!)

November 10th - In The Woods

November 17th - Cups

November 24th - Jungle

December 1st - Bells

December 8th - Constellation

December 15th - Gift Wrap

December 22nd - A Christmas Scene

December 29th - New Year's Eve Party!

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Trick Or Treat and Love My Dog Cake!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊 (The 2023 art date prompts are ready!)

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Trick or Treat! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs Bunny is dressing up as Daffy Duck this year. He's trick or treating at Witch Hazel's house! I hope she's in a nicer mood this time, the last time Bugs went to her house, she tried to toss him in a pot and cook him! 😲

I drew Jack Skellington from A Nightmare Before Christmas with ink pens and graphite pencils. I watch this movie every Halloween season!

Here are some painted ghosts for you! I'll be uploading the painting lesson on my kid's channel this weekend!

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made some fun Halloweenie food! Here is a Mummy Stromboli...after I put all of this together, I realized I should have called it a stromBOOli!!

A Spider Marinara Dip Bowl made from pizza dough! You just tear off the legs and dip them into the Marinara Sauce!!

Eyeball Spaghetti! Always a favourite!

Here's my Spider Web Cheesecake! I'll upload the how-to video this weekend! I made all of these ahead of time so I could record them and upload them to my YouTube channel!

Boo-ritos from Halloween Past!

I think we'll be eating our annual Boo-Rito's on Halloween! ☺

I also made a treat for the dogs, the Love My Dog Cake!!

On the video front:

For Rain Frances Art, I recorded the Jack Skellington drawing lesson.

For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw Count Dracula!

For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing my Halloween Spider Marinara Dip Bowl!

The Eyeball Spaghetti video is a YouTube #shorts video, meaning it's recorded vertically and under a minute.

Here is the Love My Dog Cake video, at the end of the video I give Jack and Raven a slice and they love it!

Here is How To Make A Mummy Stromboli For Halloween!

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!)

November 3rd - Frosty

November 10th - In The Woods

November 17th - Cups

November 24th - Jungle

December 1st - Bells

December 8th - Constellation

December 15th - Gift Wrap

December 22nd - A Christmas Scene

December 29th - New Year's Eve Party!

2023 Art Date Prompts are here!

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

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Thursday, October 20, 2022

🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Haunted House!!!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Haunted House. Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs Bunny is doing his impression of Chip Potts from Disney's Beauty and the Beast! Speaking of that movie, it's so sad that Angela Lansbury passed away, she was awesome.

⬆️⬆️ For today's prompt, I drew Herman Munster from The Munsters...after all, they do live in a haunted house! I loved that show!

⬆️⬆️ 😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made some delicious Banana Bread!!! (Recipe and video coming soon!)

⬆️⬆️ I also wanted to share my morning "coffee-cino" with you in my new Jack Skellington mug! ☺

⬆️⬆️ The house is FIXED...the guys did a great job and it cost me next to nothing - I'm so relieved!

On the video front, thanks to everyone for their congratulatory messages from my last post! ♥

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I recorded How To Draw Herman Munster With Charcoal Pencils!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw A Witch!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing Pet Care: Grooming My Dogs Nails Using A Dremel Tool.

⬆️⬆️ I also have some cooking videos! How To Make Thin Crust Pizza Dough.

⬆️⬆️ And How To Make Marinara Sauce.

⬆️⬆️ And Finally How To Make A 4-Bean Salad!

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!)

October 27th: Trick? Or Treat?

November 3rd - Frosty
November 10th - In The Woods
November 17th - Cups
November 24th - Jungle
December 1st - Bells
December 8th - Constellation
December 15th - Gift Wrap
December 22nd - A Christmas Scene
December 29th - New Year's Eve Party!

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

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Sunday, October 16, 2022

🎇🎇 Celebrating An Achievement! 🎇🎇

I just wanted to send a big THANK YOU to all of my friends who have been so supportive of my efforts with my four YouTube channels! I've fallen in love with creating videos!

I started my YouTube journey as a business venture. I even took a 3-month course on how to optimize your YouTube channel - which has proven to be very successful!

Once my disability pension dries up, I will need added sources of income. Once you reach 1000 subscribers and have over 4500 hours of watch time on your channel, YouTube will "monetize" your videos. This means some ads will appear before videos and YouTube pays you a ~~teeny tiny~~ small percentage of money per minute watched. At first, I'm sure I will make probably one or two pennies per month at most! But as the channels grow, they very well could provide me with that added income I will need in 10 years time!

✨✨ Rain's Kitchen and Garden reached 1000 subscribers this past week!!! And I have over 11,000 watch hours. This was a goal I thought I would only reach in a few years time! This is a big achievement for me! ✨✨

Rain Frances Art is chugging along at just over 100 subscribers. I know that art tutorials are niche, and I'm very grateful for all of those who continue to support this channel! When I started this channel over a year ago, I really thought this would be the one that reached 1000 subs first! Lessons learned!

Rain Frances Art For Kids is quickly growing! I have about 130 subscribers there. This is such a fun channel and I'm so happy I started it!

Spiritual Rain, which is my personal spiritual channel, has started to gain some popularity at just under 100 subscribers. I've met so many beautiful and kind people through the Tarot community on YouTube, it's been such a blessing!

Besides everything else that is going on in my life, I guess this explains why I'm such a busy bee!! 😊

So thank you again my friends! 💗💗