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2010-01-01

Happy new year!

I'm sorry it's been so long since I've posted anything! We've had a very busy Fall, and in the coming months have decided to take it easy on travel & visitors. So, I thought it would be a good time to start up with this blog again.

I may have posts in the next few weeks about our travels, but for now, I just want to show you the thank you cards I made today. The water color paper was really tricky! it was very prone to bleeding. So, some were a little wonky, but I really like others.

These are the flowers Erik brought me when he picked me up at the airport a couple of weeks ago. I don't usually draw from life, but I was very inspired by their pretty lines and fading colors.

I also decided to try to draw this cactus for some reason!

Others include overipe kiwi's clinging to a winter vine, a dandelion clock, somewhat blurry beets, a hugley fanned gingko, medlars, pears, medlars and pears again, a giant radish, a unicorn, and one more kiwi vine.

2009-08-04

Discovering macro atoms, in a summer salad

2009-07-21

i <3 fruit

2009-07-12

Breakfast sandwhich

A twist on the classic butter and cucumber sandwhich :

2 slices of bread
thinly sliced avocado
thinly sliced apricot
thinly sliced cucumber
salt (sea salt preferred)
Cracked pepper (don't be shy with it)
balsamic vinegar
butter

Yumm.

2009-06-20

It's called getting carried away

And I do it so well.

After my relative success with the apple and pear for Jessie, I wanted to make a couple- oh wait, make that 7 -more pincushions... whoops.

Cutting out the pieces for 5 at once

Another one here, this one is for Michele

Notching the seams is the hardest/most annoying part... I really want some pinking shears!!

I have a little problem with buying crazy cute pins....

They aren't all finished yet, as you can see... they take a while, and I usually have Erik help with the hand sewing bits because I am really, really, a machine sewing kind of girl. I'll post little cameos of each of them as they are completed... if they are completed....

2009-06-19

Birthday gifts continued....

Also for Jessie, because she's so very cool, and I knew she'd appreciate, I finally figured out how to make the Heather Bailey apple and pear pincushions.

2009-06-10

Kiwi's are fabulous

I must have one

2009-05-22

Shades of yellow in the pantry

2009-05-12

Uwajimaya

So, when we have guests, we get out and do a lot of things. And I take pictures of those things, and put them into blogs. But I realized, the one thing we've done with every single set of guests, is go to Uwajimaya, and I have never taken pictures there.

So here you are, if you haven't visited us yet, here's your incentive ;)

Fuyu persimmons are my all time favorite.

like Japanese chia-pet-like things. Totally redonk, and adorable.

Lotus root. Michele discovered lotus root fries at the teapot - very tasty.

Just one small bit of a yellow fruit section. I love people who understand color... and it's a shame they didn't get their way with the whole produce section.

Fragrant sure, but edible? who knows.

Banana flower.

Good health vinegar! Available in 4 tasty health flavors.

Sake! In 5 ba-trillion flavors... I recommend the lychee. Lychee is an odd flavor, but it's very becoming on sake.

What is this???

My favorite dino-drinks! I brought Asha one, and she named it Princess Melon Gut. I have the raddest little sis evar :)

These are like big rectangular sushi's. My favorite is the shiso flavor, but they have a couple other vegetarian flavors that are also quite fab. I bought a bunch of pickled veggies in rainbow colors, so we can try making these for lunch!