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! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Trains! Bugs Bunny is off his rails with that load of carrots he's hauling! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!
For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I made a delicious Potato and Leek Soup! (See below for the video/recipe!)
I also made a skillet bread to go with the soup. Here's the very easy recipe:
1. Proof 1 & 1/4 tsp active dry yeast in 385 ml warm water (100-105 F).
2. In a large bowl, mix 3 & 1/2 cups bread flour with 1 & 1/2 tsp salt.
3. Add yeast mixture, mix with spatula until it forms a sticky dough. (Make sure all flour is incorporated)
4. Toss some olive oil into the bowl, turn the dough a few times, cover and let rise in a warm spot for 90 minutes.
5. Preheat oven to 400 F.
6. Lightly oil your skillet with olive oil then wipe off excess. (My cast iron pan is a 12" but a 10" would make a better fit I think)
7. Place dough in pan and press out to fit the pan. Cover and let rest 30-45 minutes.
8. Bake 30-35 minutes until the top is lightly browned.
Have you seen the new Donald Sutherland stamp here in Canada? I love it! I bought a pack!
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Cold and Rainy! Tweety Bird doesn't seem phased by November's weather today. Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!
For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋I made some yummy baked beans. I'll have the recipe and video up in a few weeks on Rain's Kitchen and Garden on YouTube!
It's been a crazy week for me friends, so I'll keep this one short! But one more thing:
I've prepared the 2024 prompts! Here they are if you want to take a sneak peak:
Jan 04:Dance
Jan 11:Coffee Shop
Jan 18:Matches
Jan 25:Clocks
Feb 01:Candles
Feb 08:Far Away
Feb 15:Lips
Feb 22:Ladders
Feb 29:Eggs
Mar 07:Corners
Mar 14:Boots
Mar 21:Rabbits
Mar 28:Appliances
Apr 04:Churches
Apr 11:Wheels
Apr 18:Spoons
Apr 25:Disco
May 02:Crowns
May 09:Statues
May 16:Balloons
May 23:Vincent Van Gogh
May 30:Squares
Jun 06:Berries
Jun 13:Bicycle
Jun 20:Spirals
Jun 27:Sandwich
Jul 04:Herbs
Jul 11:Bench
Jul 18:Arches
Jul 25:Mouse
Aug 01:Bakery
Aug 08:Puzzle
Aug 15:Double
Aug 22:Ship
Aug 29:Swords
Sep 05:Wings
Sep 12:Sticky
Sep 19:Mushrooms
Sep 26:Costume Ball
Oct 03:Enclosed
Oct 10:Mummy
Oct 17:Vampire
Oct 24:Werewolf
Oct 31:Pumpkin Patch
Nov 07:Lanterns
Nov 14:Charcuterie
Nov 21:Pizza
Nov 28:Packages
Dec 05:Nut Cracker
Dec 12:Candy Cane
Dec 19:Elves
Dec 26:Cheers!
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Halloween Decorations! I'll be carving pumpkins this weekend! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!
For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I made a Ghostly Halloween Pizza!!! (I'll have the video and recipe up on Rain's Kitchen and Garden on Sunday).
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Nov 2:Cold and Rainy Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Fictional Monsters (Literature, Movies, TV!) The Headless Horseman is one of my favourite characters in fiction! Do you recognize the carving on the pumpkin? 🐷 Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!
For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I made some fun string cheese broomsticks! (I'll have the video and recipe up on Rain's Kitchen and Garden on Sunday).
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Oct 26:Halloween Decorations
Nov 2:Cold and Rainy Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is In The Laboratory! Bugs is being very dramatic as Victor Frankenstein, but I think Daffy is kind of tired of it!
Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!
⬆️⬆️For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I worked in the cocktail lab to make a Halloween Eyeball Martini! (I'll have the video and recipe up on Rain's Kitchen and Garden on Sunday).
⬆️⬆️🔥Live Stream Update!! 🔥After suffering some technical issues, I have to divide my short film premiere and the live stream into two events. The Short Film Premiere will happen on Sunday October 15th at 11:00 am EST. Immediately following the premiere, I will be live and I'll have the link to the live stream in the description of the video and in the chat box! I hope to see you there!
⬆️⬆️For anyone interested, I'll be live on my Spiritual Rain channel on Friday. Joining me will be my friend Jackie and we'll be talking about superstitions! We'll also be interacting with the chat! Here's the link to that live stream!
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Oct 19:Fictional Monsters (Literature, Movies, TV) Oct 26:Halloween Decorations
Nov 2:Cold and Rainy Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊 I'm back! I took a well-needed few months off and now I'm back to blogging! I still have tons of work on my plate, but I'm much better able to manage it now.
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Potions! Do you remember the Looney Tunes short where Tweety Bird drank the Hyde Potion? That scared me so much as a kid! Those creators really made Tweety look terrifying!
Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!
I have an announcement! On Sunday October 15th, I'll be 💥LIVE 💥on my Rain's Kitchen and Garden YouTube channel! I'll be premiering a short film I created (it's a funny parody) and then I'll be sticking around to chat with my friends and followers! Click here for the link to the live stream. You need a Gmail account and a YouTube channel to join the chat BUT...you don't need to create a YT Channel with content, just click on "create channel" when prompted and that will allow you to chat. You can always watch without chatting or watch the replay if you like. Hope that made sense!
For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I made a really comforting Vegan Chili (I'll have the video and recipe up on Rain's Kitchen and Garden on Sunday).
Jack is still stable, the meds are helping with his nose tumour. He's really slowing down though. Raven is doing well, though hunting season has started and she's terrified of gunshots. Sigh! Baby Oscar is doing very well, no issues ever with him!
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Oct 12:In The Laboratory Oct 19:Fictional Monsters (Literature, Movies, TV) Oct 26:Halloween Decorations
Nov 2:Cold and Rainy Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Keys! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! And please showcase your foodie posts too for our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋
If you'd like to see my latest videos, please check out my channels:
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Oct 5:Potions Oct 12:In The Laboratory Oct 19:Fictional Monsters (Literature, Movies, TV) Oct 26:Halloween Decorations
Nov 2:Cold and Rainy Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Smoke! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! And please showcase your foodie posts too for our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋
If you'd like to see my latest videos, please check out my channels:
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Sep 28:Keys
Oct 5:Potions Oct 12:In The Laboratory Oct 19:Fictional Monsters (Literature, Movies, TV) Oct 26:Halloween Decorations
Nov 2:Cold and Rainy Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Cars and Trucks! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! And please showcase your foodie posts too for our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋
If you'd like to see my latest videos, please check out my channels:
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Sep 21:Smoke Sep 28:Keys
Oct 5:Potions Oct 12:In The Laboratory Oct 19:Fictional Monsters (Literature, Movies, TV) Oct 26:Halloween Decorations
Nov 2:Cold and Rainy Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Wizard Of Oz! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! And please showcase your foodie posts too for our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋
If you'd like to see my latest videos, please check out my channels:
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Sep 14:Cars and Trucks Sep 21:Smoke Sep 28:Keys
Oct 5:Potions Oct 12:In The Laboratory Oct 19:Fictional Monsters (Literature, Movies, TV) Oct 26:Halloween Decorations
Nov 2:Cold and Rainy Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Outdoor Furniture! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! And please showcase your foodie posts too for our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋
I just wanted to share a little bit about what's going on with me! I needed a break from blogging to focus on my business ventures.
Most of you know that I'm working very hard on my YouTube channels and I continue to do that.
I've taken many courses over the last few months on how to build a business online. I'm now in the planning stages of building two websites. One will concentrate on kitchen, garden and home; and the other will concentrate on art and host my art web store. When these sites are live, I won't be posting here anymore, but I will leave redirect links for anyone interested!
I plan to have these websites up and running in early 2024.
I've also decided I will continue TADD! Thursday's Art Date will be hosted on my new art website starting in 2024. I will provide weekly prompts and participate like I used to. I miss it a lot! I don't know that I'll have time to participate here on Blogger before the new year, but I'll try!
The pets are doing very well! Jack's tumour seems to have stopped growing with the addition of steroids. I'm also happy to say that Alex and I remain friends and the possibility of reconciliation is in our future. Nine months of separation seemed to have been a good thing! ☺
Canning season is coming up although the weather has been so wet here, I wonder if the local farms will have good crops this year, and if they do, I'm sure they'll be really expensive.
Let me know how you are all doing my friends! I miss you and I'll be by to visit you soon! ♥♥♥
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Sep 7:Wizard of Oz Sep 14:Cars and Trucks Sep 21:Smoke Sep 28:Keys
Oct 5:Potions Oct 12:In The Laboratory Oct 19:Fictional Monsters (Literature, Movies, TV) Oct 26:Halloween Decorations
Nov 2:Cold and Rainy Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊
🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Kitchen Furniture! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! And please showcase your foodie posts too for our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋
If you'd like to see my latest videos, please check out my channels:
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: (Prompts are optional!)
Aug 31:Outdoor Furniture
Sep 7:Wizard of Oz Sep 14:Cars and Trucks Sep 21:Smoke Sep 28:Keys
Oct 5:Potions Oct 12:In The Laboratory Oct 19:Fictional Monsters (Literature, Movies, TV) Oct 26:Halloween Decorations
Nov 2:Cold and Rainy Nov 9:Trains Nov 16:Smiles Nov 23:Landscape Nov 30:Pockets
Dec 7:Snowed In Dec 14:Christmas Lights Dec 21:Christmas Cookies Dec 28:Word(s) for 2024
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!
