I have now installed some new shop buttons in my side bar for my 2 Etsy shops!
Please come and visit them!
Also in the future I will be
offering beautiful pillows
and soom very unique purses!
And at this shop I offer interesting items
like my Web-eSTAMPS
a concept of mine to celebrate
the worldwide web.
For it has connected us all.
Also you can find here
my distinct water-bottles.
Offering a total of 7 designs.
Coming soon will be a
wonderful line of greeting cards.
The sorting and untangling of shapes… understanding and feeling… more to see coming soon!
I love threads to roots and then flowers, so I believe there is beauutiful way to connect them together.
The Pathways of Roots, Branches & Seeds… an intuitive path.
A meal with everyone… last year over 4,000 people from around the globe sat down together to share a meal.
Not only did they help to raise awareness about world hunger, but they also shared a community experience!
This event is created by the Art House Way: “THE MEAL”
One moment. One meal. One photograph. And now Let’s Eat!
I made Chupe Andino for this 2nd annual of The Meal! …a delicious hearty soup from the Andes
“Worries go down better with soup” ~ proverb
Here is the recipe for about 8 persons:
Ingredients:
1 chicken, in pieces
4 corns on the cob, cut in 3 to 4 pieces each
1 can of cream style corn
1 onion, finely chopped
6 cloves of garlic, peeled & chopped
4 large potatoes, cubed
2 cups of milk
1 cup heavy cream
1 bunch of cilantro
½ lb. of fresh white farmer’s cheese, diced
salt and pepper to taste
Preparation:
Place the chopped chicken in a large pot and cover with water, add onion, garlic and some branches of cilantro. Cook the chicken until tender, removing impurities that rise to the surface of the broth. When the chicken is cooked remove from the pot and let cool, debone and cut into chunks. Strain the broth and bring to simmer, add the peeled & cubed potatoes, corn on the cob, cream style corn, salt and pepper to taste, and chunks of chicken. Once the potatoes are cooked, add the milk and cream.
Serve with the diced fresh white farmer’s cheese and sprinkle with cilantro leaves.
Buen Provecho!
“He’s the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.” ~Wilson Mizner (Playwright, 1876-1933)
Today I went on a date! Woohoo! …and guess with who? …with myself, with “me”,
with the artist Lisa Rivas.
It’s called taking your artist out on a date.
An “ARTIST DATE”, is one of the two basic tools used in the book
The Artist Way by Julia Cameron.
So I packed some pencils and pens and a sketch book, and then headed over to
Shelby Bottoms Park in Nashville, TN.
First I made a stop and to pickup some Chocolates (the ones with wrappers that have quotes in them) and some Ginger Cookies!
Upon arriving I strolled around, and then eventually took a seat at a park bench right in front of the pond where there was all sorts of waterfowl. I opened the sketch book and then just let my hand float over the page and to have it respond to what ever it wanted to draw. I wasn’t allowing (from my ego) too much input.
I felt deeply relaxed and happy.
If had been a long time since I have done anything like this. Eventually shapes started to emerge and speak to each other. Well, that is what I imagined they were doing, since they were all on the same page!
I concluded they were talking about the return of the birds from further down south, a sure sign of Spring.
The weather was perfect, not too cold nor windy and the sun was shining, they should be heading back.
It felt good to be outside.
I also looked at the birds and their feathers scattered about… There was one particular goose or gander that was very flirty with me. He actually did a little dance for me, pirouetting on one foot! Very charming :heart:
So maybe after all I was really having a date with Mr. Silly Gander!
Live well, laugh often, and love much. ~a quote on a Chocolate Dove wrapper
Forty days after Christmas – the birth of Jesus – is February 2nd.
Candles were blessed, there was much feasting to be had,
and the drab days of February suddenly seemed a little brighter.
Candlemas is an ancient festival that marks the midpoint of winter,
halfway between the shortest day of the year and the spring equinox.
“Hawthorn Snow” • digital illustration – Lisa Rivas ©
This photograph of the Hawthorn Bush next door…
… and then a-blazed with some illustrator enhanced flowers,
is my way of creating a bit of Candlemas celebration!
…and them I decided to create a repeat pattern that can be used a festive place setting, a runner?
“Candlemas” • pattern/surface design – Lisa Rivas ©
“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.
Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
~Robert H. Schuller