I like taking pictures A LOT; here's a sampling

I don't give many details about my photos so let me know if you want the story behind any of them.

We were made for each other

That makes one pair of "us" ....for the whole entire planet.

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Listening to: Gorillaz - Stylo
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I have a thing for robots.

Cooking with Dog Food

I should be in bed now, but I'm still fired up from tonight's cooking class. I knew it would be successful, but everything worked out better than I imagined and anticipated. Christopher is a great educator and awesome human being.





Hooray for 2am!



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Listening to: White Rabbits - Kid on my Shoulders
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Three Ingredient* Cookie Recipe

The other night I was telling my mom about a cooking class I'm orchestrating for Food Fantasies at the Pasfield House. I started to write a big long thing about it, but it's 10 pm on Friday night, tomorrow is my only day off and I'm trying to relax a bit. For now, let me say that I thoroughly enjoyed the trial cooking class we held on Wednesday! Meet my good friend and coworker, Dogfood. (His real name is Chris Sommer, but you know how it works, some call me Spaghetti, others call me Noodles, I get Jeannette-E quite a bit, and then there's the occasional Waa-Naa-Net....)

Anyway, Dogfood's giving (teaching!) the class on February 16th at 6pm at the Pasfield House. Click on that last link for more details. Go on - click it!

What was I talking about? Oh yeah, the cookie recipe....

Dishes and Dishes and Dishes

I love going to thrift stores and perusing the dishes. The selection always rotates from one interesting design to another and I never get bored sifting through the varying shades of blue and green, the rare reds and yellows, florals, fruits and vegetables and the patterns and prints - oh my!



Dishes are always affordable, usually less than a dollar each, and they make great mosaic material. But some dishes are too interesting or sentimental to destroy. Besides my crazy wall of plates, no two of my dinner plates are alike.

This kid made my day

There are so many great people who come through Food Fantasies, it's hard not to leave work with a smile on my face.

Mosaic Stuff

With all the time I've saved via not blogging, I've spent more and more time on mosaics. I'm working on one now that measures 24" x 44" and modeled after a quilted table runner my mom made for me for Christmas. I'm using broken dishes for the tesserae, though I may use smalti for the background. I'm undecided at this point.

The inspiration:


The mosaic, during the sketching process:


The mosaic, so far:


Eesh! Sorry for the crappy photos! They looked better on my phone.

Meow!

Roommate Life: it ain't so bad

Me: Are you sure you don't feel like going to the gas station and putting gas in my car? It's supposed to snow tomorrow.

WI Geoff: Sure. Let me wait until the washer stops so I can put clothes in the dryer.

(Sweet!)

The last time I got gas in my car, he put it in there. He also put up storm windows and fixed the gutter (that he broke back in July ;). Shoot, he even puts the seat down after he pees.

Come to think of it, he's done my laundry several times, delivered me Happy Meals, mowed grass, torn down my garden at the end of the season, takes trash to the alley, picks up dead animals my dogs kill, fixes stuff around the house, found me a replacement bicycle and actually, he gave me that bike that just got stolen.

We date other people, so we get or own room -and- he pays me to live here.

Having a roommate isn't so bad.