3 posts tagged “ooak”
The littlest munchkin was perusing my cookbook and latched upon this recipe this week. So we made it and though it was declared "too dark", referring to the chocolate, there was not a crumb left upon the plate. Two of the neighbors relieved me of the extra calories in their slices, thankfully, and declared it neither too dark, nor too rich for them! It's a riff off of the recipe found here. (We substituted sugar and a little water for the corn syrup, added a bit of orange juice to the berry sauce.)
Of course, things can't get too fancy around here, so we had to grow the test-tube dinosaurs from a birthday party on the windowsill.
I've finished a little suitcase, twice the size of the first set. I think it came out just perfect, and I hope Sara does too!
It's a surprise present for someone who will be going away for a birthday trip. The listing and photos will go up next week and I'll post a link to them in next Thursday's entry so you can see them.
Lastly, I've nearly finished the Valentines I need to give out. Do I need to make one for someone you know?
Send me their info and I'll send it to them...(or I can send it to you if you'd rather give it out...)
We are busy as bees around our home today so I thought I'd post in the morning to be sure I was coherent. I've yet to fill the planter in my front yard, so a rainbow decided to do it for me.
I also wish to present a new creature to you.
He's been clambering around on my desk, so happy to be finished. He's the prototype for a new line of creatures (but don't tell him that, you know how proud zebras can be.) Soon he will be lording it over the little people's room, but for a bit longer he'll be in the office with me. I need to study him to make a few tweaks to the pattern, and then you'll be seeing others!
No, I'm not locked in a tower, though sometimes I wish I could just lock the door when I'm drawing. I usually burn the midnight oil to do my artwork around here. (Yes, the time on those posts is real, it's late.) However, this piece was not done too late...
I was intrigued by my cousin's work on miniature dolls and asked her a few questions about sizing. She helped me with it and I decided to create a fairy tale bedroom set. To start, I picked Rapunzel and began researching the garden ideas. Most stories refer to Rapunzel's craving for lettuce, Rampion, or "Campanule raiponce" (Latin) to be exact. So I created fabric by painting a page full of them and printing it on printer fabric. Then I made a pair of miniature pillows with the fabric.
I was pretty happy with the way they turned out, so I decided to make pillowcases for them. I printed out some fabric with a flower I thought was German-garden worthy, a purple bearded iris. I then began on a quilt. It took me a while to figure out how I was going to have Rapunzel's hair coming out the window, but I used an applique stitch and it worked just fine.
For the drawing of the tower and garden, I used a technique called pointillism. You'll probably recall Georges Seurat's work using this technique. (However, I did not use his color control, placing specific colors next to each other to create "natural light" in his paintings.) Even so, it took quite a while to complete the artwork for the front of the quilt. When the hair arrived from a doll shop, I braided it to fall out of the candlelit window. I'm not sure what to charge for this piece (pricing, the bane of artist's existence.) When I do, I'll list it on Etsy for you as it is finished. I also ordered a bed to display it on, but it was broken in the mail so we'll both just have to wait while the wood glue dries before the whole picture can be put together.
