Monday, May 18, 2009

I completed an item off of my 'Want' list. It took forever to make these 5 doilies, but now I'm done! They look pretty awesome.

I'm going to be in Rhodes sometime shortly before June 14th this summer, for CSCL09 and if I don't go to Santorini, I might explode.
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Collard Greens with Cornmeal Dumplings Recipe from Anson Mills. I substituted turnip greens for collard greens, since my local grocery store regularly runs out of different forms of leafy produce. Pretty tasty, with a slightly spicy kick. Although, I'm pretty sure I was supposed to have more broth that I had...
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You probably can't tell, but that's a half-eaten, improperly prepared, sloppily shaped, hollow French macaron. Tasty, but wrong. I'm not really sure what happened, but it didn't work. Macarons are supposed to be tricky, so I'm not discouraged, just puzzled.
At least they were tasty.

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This weekend I took my 36" square canvas, mentioned in Large Art Piece, part 1 and painted a piece that reminds me of my hometown. If I ever get bored of the painting, I can always cover it in fabric and paint a chandelier silhouette over it :)
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| The previous sofa-art arrangement | Rearranging art on the floor for the dining-table-wall. |
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| Painted Fabric Silhouettes by Anna Maria Horner | Grand Chandelier Print by Duffy London | Chandelier I by Lisa Ven Vertloh |

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