Kavi had a school assignment to make a ‘big’ piece of art. This is the sidewalk in front of our little free library — it took her two hours, and she was a little annoyed that she spent that long on it, but she was also super proud of it, and rightfully so. Nice surprise […]
It’s a little early in the season for watering the garden — I usually try to put it off as long as possible, both to save the planet and because I’m lazy. But it’s been gorgeously warm the last few days, and I’ve learned my lesson after losing too many new plantings over the years
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Ruby and white chocolate, with passionfruit marshmallow bits.
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#Spacecat with spring flowers.
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Ruby and white chocolate blended, with passionfruit marshmallow bits. I made passionfruit marshmallows to send out to some ICU staff, and that involves cutting off the edges (to leave neat squares), and I can’t stand wasting food, so I end up doing silly things like this with the leftover bits.
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Thalia are my favorite daffodils — a little smaller than standard, so elegant in their shape and the clean white. They spread really happily in my garden too, so I have more of them every year. I dug a huge crowded clump up, separated and moved them to a few other places, which went well.
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Watercolors with Kavi. Today’s lesson — painting in monochrome. We each did a sketch, then filled it in, with the key point that you have to kind of skip around the page, because if you paint next to an area that’s already wet, it’ll just blur together. I don’t know if you need to go
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Spent a little time sketching this afternoon. Originally, I was trying to do a sketch that I could use for the next watercolor lesson, but I’d forgotten that it was supposed to be monochrome, and both of these, I’d want to do in color. So they’ll wait to be filled in. I’m a little worried
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Sigh. I have to admit, I’ve mostly hit pause on all of the book launch activities around the cookbook, even the digital ones, because it feels so weird to be trying to sell something during a pandemic. I have this list of places to send press inquiries, for example. I think I probably should just
I think my masks are getting prettier. I know that’s not really the goal, but still, it’s nice to feel like you’re improving.
