Sunshine!
Seattle can get a little gray and dreary sometimes, but when the sun comes out it sure is beautiful!
Tag: photography
Part of a healthy diet?
Vanilla-almond bread pudding topped with slivered almonds, raspberry sauce and vanilla ice cream. A good source of . . .um. . .calcium.
Arts and Crafts
I was feeling artsy and or crafty the other day, and decided I would try my hand at making some beaded jewelry. One of the things I tried was something vaguely steampunky — disassembling watches and reassembling them so that the mechanism shows. Sadly, many newer watches (particularly on the lower end of the price range) do not have the lovely metal gears that older watches have; but I think the end result was still pretty interesting.
Shots of some of my …
Pictures of Food!
I had a few close friends over for a casual birthday shindig. As far as I’m concerned, the entire point of turning 30 is to have an excuse to eat cake. I decided on a chocolate-almond-espresso cake, which I got from the Upper Crust Bakery.
It went really well with homemade French vanilla ice cream.
I also made quiche for the party:
I’ve made quiche many times before, but this …
Cake! And SALE!
Originally, I was going to post about this piece of lemon cake:
The cake was tasty. But now I have news, so I will post about that instead!!!
Scott Andrews at Beneath Ceaseless Skies has accepted my story “The Land of Empty Shells.” I’m really excited about this sale — Beneath Ceaseless Skies is a great market (go check it out if you haven’t yet, they’ve got some awesome stories!).
Interfictions II is looking for Cover Art
The Interstitial Arts Foundation is doing a search for cover art for their Interfictions II anthology. Interested artists can post their work directly to a flickr pool for consideration. I’ve submitted two photoshop projects of mine that I thought might be a good fit for the anthology.
Petal Fire:
Pencils Magnified:
Adventures in Quinoa
Last Thanksgiving, Maureen asked me if there was a side dish I’d like to bring, and, feeling rather adventurous, I volunteered to bring quinoa (pronounced keen-wah). I had never had quinoa, but I’d seen it described as having a nutty flavor. In my mind, quinoa would be about the same size as barley, and would have a flavor halfway between an oat and a pecan. Therefore it seemed like a good base for a Thanksgiving side dish.
Turns out, quinoa is nothing like that. It is …
Art Photography
Jessica (jess_ka) made several beautifully-decorated miniature rooms, and she let me stop by the other day and photograph them. Each room is built inside a box, and they have an astounding amount of detail for how small they are (it’s hard to tell in the photos, but I’d say the boxes are between 10 and 20 inches tall). I had a lot of fun playing around with the lighting and the post-processing.
Jessica did a lovely …
Shortbread Cookies
I’m in Olympia this week, visiting family, and tinaconnolly came to visit me. We made shortbread cookies:
The cookies have rosemary and thyme in them. We got the recipe from a post on Maureen’s blog. The recipe says to press the cookies into flat rounds on a baking sheet, but ours were kind of crumbly so we pressed them into a square pan instead. After making the recipe version, we tried a couple variations:
Christmas Food Pictures!
I’ve snagged an invitation to have Christmas dinner with Maureen, and am using it as an excuse to make my first ever attempt at homemade candy. (After all, I’ve only eaten dozens and dozens of cookies…obviously what I need is more sugar!) Candy is tricky, but I think it went pretty well.
I made the candied orange peel yesterday:
It came …
