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The Meal 2013

February 22, 2013 · 3 Comments

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!

A world meal 2013

 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)

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Breakfast with ComeHere

December 18, 2012 · 1 Comment

My dear cat ComeHere left this world on 121112.
It was tragic and extremely sad.
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So today, I decided to make myself a very special breakfast, and ate it so very slowly.
ALL in TRIBUTE to HER!
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Breakfast with Comehere

Cats come and go without ever leaving.  ~Martha Curtis
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ComeHere 2007
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I do know she will return one day and she with have a new coat! ~Lisa Rivas

Breakfast with ComeHere

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.  ~Jules Verne
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No heaven will not ever Heaven be
.
Unless my cats are there to welcome me.
~Author Unknown
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Love + Wings = Gifts

November 6, 2012 · 1 Comment

A beautiful ETSY Treasury  from the Flying Lesson 2012 Alumni…

CHECK IT OUT!

Love + Wings = Gifts, an Etsy Treasury

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
~ Ruskin

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Up! Up! … Turn Around …

October 19, 2012 · 1 Comment

Ups? …and up, up they soared… way above the crowd!
The “Fly Alumni“ are up and offering beautiful, unique its items at their Etsy Shops.

I am presenting this first treasury featuring some of the selected “FLYERS” work … and more to be.

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Shops are Up & Open, and they are offering Up treasures! … just Turn Around and take a look!

 “Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time.
At any given moment the floor may open up.
Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.”
~Edward Gorey (American Author, Illustrator, Designer and Artist, 1925-2000)

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A day of treasures from my Flying Friends

October 11, 2012 · 10 Comments

I pre-enrolled a few months ago in my very first e-course, called “Flying Lessons”. I then waited and waited until it finally started on August 20th. It is a 5 week course and I have just realized that the whole month of September just flew. I think it literally “whooshed by” …and this is due to the fact that I am having a lot of fun, learning how to FLY!
And in this course comes all kinds of tips and tricks in how to make our “Creative Biz Soar”, it is a gem of a course! 

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This e-course is given by the social worker Kelly Rae Roberts gone artist, a highly
creative and spiritual guru in so many ways. She is now one of my teachers!
And then all the amazing women (500+) that are enrolled in this class are now also
my teachers. We are all sharing & learning, and I consider this some serious flying!
     
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly”
 

To me the most important lesson from this course has been about learning how to participate openly in a global community of creative souls. Here all of us are learning to fly, to soar, to reach out, to share and realize the possibilities of connecting!

Many of us have Etsy Shops (a online marketplace for artists to sell their work) and through the famous “Treasury Feature of Etsy” we have realized we can share and appreciate each others work. Also we can spread the word of this work through the world of blogs which most of us have. This ties into the dynamic phenomena of Social Networking now taking place online, which is also a tremendous marketing arena.

Here are a couple of beautiful “Etsy Treasuries” curated by fellow colleagues from the e-course.
My piece “Inner Gem” is featured in both treasuries, and on the same day! Click MY ETSY to visit my shop!

Autumn by curator Kelly Dietrich

Lost in Autumn's Woodland, curated by Jennifer McCabe

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“I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world” ~ Sadako Sasaki 
A quote by a young Japanese girl, on the threshold of adolescence, developed leukemia in 1955,
from the effects of radiation caused by the bombing of Hiroshima. 1943-1955
 

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