green things...

introducing the first of a series of books (i hope) featuring what i humbly acknowledge as a rocking beaded design on the front cover. now at and coming soon to ye olde shoppe there on the left. this is my third attempt to find a useful application for these beaded thingies, which i can't stop making (they're shiny! they sparkle! they are great to work on whenever i feel anxious!). they take a long, long time to make, which is why these books are going to be the most expensive things in my shop.

anyhoo, i bought three green t-shirts for $7 (total!) at a thrift store on saturday, and yes, this announcement is just as exciting to me as the one above. no amount of piercing sun or dry desert wasteland-ness can cause my green t-shirts to wither and turn brown, no matter what may happen to the other green things here! so HA.

well, anyway, tomorrow will bring another book (not green- possibly purple, red, or red/blue), and more irresistibly charming anecdotes as well, i'm sure.

toodles.

LOVE this treasury...

and i'm so happy that i get to be in it!
treasury of northern ny-ers!


ps- the woman who made the pretty woven scarf (above my b book) is actually a family friend. ha. ;)

yay for grey

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=66360&show_panel=true

"a moonlit garden", et plus

1) i'm very honored to be in this pretty treasury on etsy, which will be up until saturday:

i really like the blues and sparkly silver/whites :)

2) bart and i found a coffee table on the curb yesterday! it's a fairly simple construction of solid, honey-colored (stained?) wood (i want to sand it and restain it something dark). it's large and sturdy, and the perfect replacement for the cooler that's been doubling as our coffee table for the past four-ish months. i'm very pleased with this acquisition- now we won't have to buy a coffee table when we move.

3) yes, we have to move. when we signed the lease in january, we knew full well that there'd be a possibility that we'd have to move out at some point over the summer, so this came as no real surprise. i will be pretty sad to have to leave this place, since there's pretty much no way we'll ever get a similar set-up. but it has been good while it lasted, and we trust that god will provide. :)

4) to celebrate the arrival of the coffee table, b and i played scrabble on it last night. after a lot of agonizing and taking way too long, i finally put down "animator"- one of my first 7-letter feats (with the timely aid of two blank tiles), for 72 points. not as good as bart's "braziers" across a triple word score last week (101 points), but still. ;)

5) i should get back to work- lots of books to sew! :)

things and stuff!

1) i just baked cookies! my mom used to make acorn cookies - oval-ish butter cookies with a pinched-point opposite a "cap" of chocolate and chopped pecans. not actually made from acorns, though you could try such a thing if you felt like going through all the steps necessary to make acorns less poisonous. :) anyway, i have been craving that almond flavor again, so i found and then heavily altered a recipe. the result is a soft, crumbly, nutty, almondy cookie. i doubt they will make it through the weekend!

here is my reinterpretation of the above recipe:

1/2 cup butter, melted (i figured there was no way around this)

1/2 cup sucanat

1T stevia (equivalent to 3 T sugar)

1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 t almond extract

1/2 cup almond meal

1/4 cup flax meal

1 3/4 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 t baking powder

1/2 cup chocolate chips, melted (i used 1 cup, but this makes waaaay too much)

preheat oven to 375. whip butter and sweeteners, add milk and extract. combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl, add to wet ingredients. roll a tablespoonfull or so of dough in your hands, then flatten it slightly and pinch it in one spot along the edge. place on a buttered baking sheet. bake 10-12 minutes. transfer to wrack and let cool completely before dipping in chocolate. then let cool again. yield: 22 cookies (that's how many i got)

they really do look more like acorns with the chopped pecans sprinkled in the chocolate, but i never cared for them and don't have any on-hand anyway. as they are, i think they look more like this. hehehe.

2) bart and i played some frisbee again last night. we moved up a level to throwing it to each other while the other person jogged to the left or right. it was fun! after returning home, we went through several boxes of electronics/computer-related thingamabobs. there's going to be an e-waste collection at a nearby church in a week, and since bart has a lot of that sort of thing, mixed in with perfectly good and useful things, we set aside a half hour and ended up going through all of it. and designated a good 75% as e-waste! yay!

3) i have been doing my daily-drawings on a near-daily basis...sorry for the lack of posts.

4) i just finished listening to "1984" a couple days ago, and am now listening to "cooked". both are good and thought-provoking, but "1984" was a lot more intense than i thought it would be. i'm kind of surprised it's taught in so many high schools. i think i would have been slightly traumatized if we'd been forced to read it.

5) this post is quite long enough, thank you. happy weekend!

je heart...

google maps! i could browse it for hours- our planet is fascinating! i find myself particularly drawn to cold, remote places, for some reason.

le tres random!

1) i have been shirking my daily drawings. saaaad. i think i actually kind of burned myself out. but i've still been pursuing creative things this past week- got some prints made of my work at kinkos, made a few pairs of earrings, and finished a couple other little projects that have been on the back-burner for a while.

2) i just remembered a song from 4-H camp. it started like this: if i were not at 4-h camp, this is what i'd be! if i were not at 4-h caaaaaaaaaamp, a _____ i'd be! and then a little slogan-type thing from that "job", which was, of course, shouted more so than sung. my favorite was: if i were not at 4-h camp, this is what i'd be! if i were not at 4-h caaaaaaaaaamp, a carpenter i'd be! SIX! BY FOUR! YOU NAIL IT TO THE FLOOR! *BANG!* one of the other things "i'd be" was a poultry farmer or something like that (help me out here, marls and kel)- after which we shouted KILL THE CHICKEN! KILL THE CHICKEN! WRING ITS LITTLE NECK! *SQUAWK!* that was back in middle school. i wonder if they still sing that part. i remember some of my friends being a tad nauseated by it. meh! the only other one i can remember was "stewardess" (kinda weird- it was a co-ed camp...): "coffee, tea, or me, sir? here's your little bag. *BLAHGHG*" not very appropriate, now that i think about it...(do you remember any of the others?)

another favorite was SHARK ATTACK! doot-dooo doot-doot doot-doooo! accompanied by screaming and running around :) i often returned home from a week of camp with a raw throat from so much shouting. can you believe that? ;)

3) a new sleep-quote from bart!: "aw man, the quality control was back there! d'oh!"

4) bad idea: white tile floors. they never, ever look or stay clean. i guess the only good thing about white tile is that, unlike nasty white linoleum (hopefully no one out there is particularly attached to their white linoleum floors), it won't scratch or stain over time. my family in NY used to have white linoleum flooring in the kitchen, but this was a notably bad idea because the kitchen is a main thoroughfair (???) and in places like potsdam, which is to say, places where they sand the roads in winter, easily-scuffable flooring has about as much a chance for survival as...well, anyway, the floor looked really bad. when i was in ninth grade, we had it redone (and it looks awesome...wait- am i gushing about linoleum flooring??). shortly before that, though, my mom and my brother michael and i sat on the floor and drew allllll over it in permanent marker. so awesome!

5) bart just told me about this website: runpee.com. it arms you with valuable information for when you can safely "run pee" during a movie at the theater and not miss anything super awesome.

6) happy long weekend!