Time for some food....cake that is hahhahaha. I have bit the bullet and bought a new computer. This one is 4 years old and I have trouble posting in blogger and I have a sneaky feeling it's this pc. It needs a good over-hauling. I will just set this pc up with my quilt programs and games for John since it has a nice big drive. Tomorrow I will pick up an all -in - one printer to go with the new pc. Those printers are a dream. I have one already with the other pc. Oh I have 3, I'm a tech freak hahhaha....Anyway on to the food.

I threw the rest of dried fruit that I found in bags in the frig into a bowl...papaya, pineapple, and some other exotic fruit that I can figure out...golden raisens, walnuts, one stick butter and 4 mashed babanas.


I mixed that up with a mixing spoon that has a hole in it...just kinda stirred it around. Then I added 1/2 a box of brown suger, a squeezed orange and 1/2 squeezed lemon and stirred that around. This is how it looks. This is a quicky. Nothing fancy and ever so tasty and good for you..


I then added 3 cups of flour and some more juice and now it looks this good....and put it in a covection oven to bake for one hour at 350...will post finished cake when done...no icing or anything now....


I have not sewed or painted a lick for awhile now...I've been busy selling stuff on ebay and having a good time lol...but now I have the urge to paint, paint, paint....quilts will have to wait a week...more later....

Cake just done..I have this need to throw some rum over it hahahah..nawww. It is delish...

MY ASS OR YOURS?

Hahahhaha I thought that would get you all going. Ok something different for a change; let me give you the story. Long story short. I went to one of my favorite artist’s blog to read and see and by no fault of my own, to read the comments. Considering that the entire blog was dedicated to this one critic ( who has no name) who fancies herself as??? (asso hollo, I suppose). I just had to read what she wrote. Well she was making some negative comments about the artist’s new way of quilting. One would think that if you didn’t like what a person was doing, one would stay the hell away from that person’s blog true? But I guess she is something like a sex therapist. In more vulgar common language, an "effing know-it-all" that just had to make her negative comments. It was not good critique; it was just plain ignorant, ugly period. Well I proceeded to tell her that she must sit on her can all day with nothing better to do except go to the bathroom now and then and when she does, she probably has to make two trips considering her ass is quite large, one trip wouldn’t carry it all the way the first time. Well I immediately get this hate email from another person who was defending this ignorant first person with no name lol. Long story short…..she told me in not so many words that by the look of my fat face that my ass is probably bigger. Now I have never addressed this second woman with a name, in the first place. ..but she decided to dress me down. I, being the intelligent type as you all know lol, immediately guessed that she was the very same ignorant first person only this time she used a name. So I go back to the blog and read the second person, ( who wrote me the hate email comments) and on that blog, she called me immature and etc. hahahhaa…and then another clone with a name also, chipped in with, “grow up”. Ahhahahahah but if you all saw the other emails I got from the good bloggers, you would die laughing as I am. Well so much for the little excitement. Little does no-name know…how much I love it!!! Ahhahahahaha

Ok on to something else…Yesterday a lovely friend of mine came to visit and brought me these four gourds. She had already painted them red to do Santa’s with. But I guess that’s my job now lol…aren’t friends great? Especially when they come bearing gifts? Oh yes! I wonder if no name has finally made it to the bathroom hahahahhahaha..

Anyway, I am also making my tasty coconut cookie mix too. Here they are all done.

Oh boy did crap happen to me. I have sliced my finger. I was working on a new design a few days ago and I don't know what happened but the blade jumped the ruler and I'm ever so careful always. Well I fixed that real quick. I had no time to mess with blood. I got a wooden iron that I have at least a hundred from my teaching days lol. Here it is...you hold the iron right where your hand should be...you cut, stop..take the pressure of both iron and blade and move the iron up and repeat....hey it worked like clockwork..never again will I cut without my trusty iron..I even have some painted ones...

Ok now for some design work with all those fabrics I spent weeks painting..

.here is the start of some ....I thought I'd do some circles. I joined two piece of fabric together. Then picked out some others for the circles. Later on I refered to them as worlds, they just kinds looke like worlds. Anyway, I cut out size 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18 I think. Then I sewed them in. Oh I used the circle ruler that's called."cut a round".



Here they are all sewed in. Oh I sewed two piece of 18 x 45. The half yards that I painted and that would make a 36 x 44 more or less piece. I love the look and I have mixed feelings about cutting it in strips and I should follow my gut. I know it!!



&*%@*^%cuss and cuss&^%$....of course I cut it up and I want to die. I broke my heart..but we must move on....I just couldn't bear to cut that last piece so I left it like that but the rest is &%$..



I will never ever be able to repeat that piece sniff, sniff...damn damn. Ok let's put the freeking strips in...


It has lost that beautiful space deal that was going on. Well it's 2 am and maybe I'll like it tomorrow after I put the borders on.

Ok this is the way I finished it. What a lot of work. I have no clue how I will quilt it since it's painted fabric. It has a lot of texture already. I think this will be the beginning of art quilts..I do like the way one can just so anything and it works.



Another pic.

Ok, I didn't get to sew last night. Some little not so happy things happening in the family for a few days now. You know when a loved one gets old and stuff, we all have to take turns but all is going along as well as can be expected. Today I'm going to be home, so I started to sew my little design together this morning. Here it is all sewed up. The freezer patterns are hanging on the right. I think I'll file these for later use.



Ok, now it's time for chop, chop. Oh don't be squimish, let me do that, I must be brave, it was a bi**h sewing those curves hahahahha....here it is all chopped up. Ayeee, all that work, jeez!! but never mind. Now let's see.



Notice the strips on the left are a bit bigger? Well I made a mistake and had the ruler turned the other way with the 1/2 inch extra. Crap! I cut two strips before I realized it. The strips are suppose to be 2 ins. Oh well, I decided to be lazy and left them and cut the others at 2. Now it's time to cut the in-between strips at 2 also. Here it is with the in-betweens. And my laziness didn't pan out either. I ended up having to cut those two stips to 2 ins. lol.



Ok now this is where I need a little feed back. Notice that as I put the in-between strips in, the main design is going up, up and I have to do that in order to see the connecting of the undulating curves right? Well look at the chunk I'm going to loose when I square it up. Now I can extend the main design strips or I can go this way where the design does not meet at any angle. What you think?


By the way. I am doing all this in the Firefox broser. IE was the problem not the blogger. Firefox is great for this.

Just checking in for a quickie. I'm still busy getting rid of and selling stuff on ebay. I need room remember? lol Well I took a break and stopped panting the rooster to do a small art quilt, and that happened as I was trying to stuff painted fabric, 200 yards of it, into places where it didn't belong, you get the drift and can relate right? hahah. Here is a pic of the process. I drew some lines on freezer paper, cut them out and pinned them to the design board. Then I would take a pattern piece down one at a time and iron it on the fabric of choice and replace the paper pattern. Here they are all ready to sew into gentle curves. I will then cut it up and put strips between alla Ricky Tims'. My darks are a mix of browns, blacks and tints that were overpainted twice. The have a rich vibrant look and feel to them. I like the way they look a lot. At this point I'm going for contrast. Once I have cut it up, I'll decide on the strips.



This mess is when I'm deciding which fabrics to pick ...so many and so little time lol.



This is where I stuck some of them, in temporary lodgeing lol.



Notice the stips hanging from the end of the bin? the rest of the fabric. Those are the stips I rip off the selvage edge. They have the best colors. I use them to tie presents or hair ribbon or sell them as they are unique and beautiful true? And you know the worst part? I have even begun to dye yet. The painting of the fabic was to prepare me for the way I will dye. I already know that I'm going to dye the way I paint. I have 100 yards of pdf fabric and the dyes since last year lol. Ok, back to work, maybe I can have something to show later tonight.


Now, this is the second time I have written this post. I had to switch to Firefox. I dont' know why blogger is giving me so many problems with IE. I hope this works. I won't be able to rewrite it again.

I have been busy, busy, busy. Doing more supposing and thinking and wishing than doing hahahhaha...Well anyway, remember those funky chickens I got at JoAnns? Well I washed one of them real good to get the dust and stuff off and loveingly basecoated it three times in white acrylic and put it on the side to cure. I got ready to do some intense painting on it but decided to check the paint adherence. Well it scratched right offfffffff. W.T.H. Thank goodness I checked. I always do. So back to the drawing board. I took chickadees outside and wet sanded and hosed all the paint off, thank god I only did one. I then basecoated each one twice with "Bin." Bin is a sealer that will adhere to anything and give it tooth so you can then paint it, even glass. Here are my chickadees curing, bottoms up. Behind the chick you can see a door crown that I started to paint years ago from one of my favorite artists. "Helen Caven". She is dead now and I treasure her books and patterns. Her colors are my colors.


Well have a look at the door crown. It is so colorful and happy. I don't have much left to paint on there. This is one of the projects that I pulled out to finish.


It's still covered in plastic. I also pulled out Oweena the happy witch. I can't stand ugly green witches hahahah...My Halloween witch has to be colorful. She is almost done too.


blogger won't let me do anymore to this post. What a pain they are. OH oH they must have heard me. I edited and tried again and wahla!! Well here is the rooster man of the moment. I pulled him out to start. I had done the pattern on him. So here he is in the ugly stage.

I made him my self some years ago. I put two piece of 12 inch pine together and trace the out line then I cut out both pieces and glue them together. I'm amazed at all the things I have made out of pine. This guy is 28 inches tall and 22 inches at the wides point. When I used to do craft shows, I had this great rooster I had painted. I sold him and I think I have another wood cutout of him too. I love chickens. I might paint him too when I finish this guy. I haven't got a name for him yet.

Let's see if we can get Priscilla on today. When I did craft shows and I'm really tempted to do a couple this year. Priscilla was the ornament tree. I had lots of hand painted ornaments. I am in the mood to paint ornament so I'll be posting some soon...here goes. Does anybody have the problems I have with blogger? It won't let me post more that 4 pics.
She's a bit crowded right now because I can't find her other pegs. I'll have to go through the wood pile again or buy new ones and I hate that.

ahahahah I found them. I went into the wood pile again and found wonderous things. Oh my!! Now I'm going to spruce Priscilla up. The good thing about Priscilla is that she can be anyone she pleases to be just by changing heads hahahahha. Wouldn't I love to do that to my self hahahah. Well I can put A santa head on her or whatever. I guess when I use her for ornaments, Santa will go on and so oh. I'm just adding to this post as I don't have enough stuff for a reguar post. I will be working on some stuff and posting in due time. Hang in there fellas..

While I was rummaging through the wood pile I found all kinds of great stuff. It's strange how I remember everything I have. I found three sets of wood pyramids that I had commissioned my woodman to make out of 1 inch pine. My woodman is long dead now and anytime I get out a piece he made me, I think of him. He was such a sweet man. His name was Tom and his wife Sybil. They were married some 50 something years. Once a year they would come to visit me from North Carolina. They used to live in Orlando by me. Anyway, I still have the rolling pin he made me and there are some things I wouldn't dream of parting with. Thank goodness I always had several made, at least two, one to keep and one to sell lol. Here are the pyramids all basecoated a dark green and their bases which get glue on tonight. Then I will proceed to paint on them...Who knows what.



Notice the fabric in the back. I go in spurts. I guess the jewelry spurt is over for now and the quilting is on hold. I must put those fabrics away until the mood strikes again. I want to paint. I want to paint folk art. Hubby was laughing at me today. He said, one never knows what to find upon entering the studio...But he loves it all. Oh, I already fed him. Here is some of the wood I picked out to paint hahahahah....lotta wood there.


Oh my! ah almost forgot to show you my little chickadee. I got these in the garden section at Joanns ..Aren't they great? Here you see the original the way I bought them and the sealed and basecoated one, ready to paint a design on. I am thinking Talavera...Mexican.


And while I was taking pictures, I took one of Priscilla the jewelry tree. This is a 2x4 post with one of my painted heads and large pegs. Somewhere I have more pegs. I must find them. And blogger has quit on me again..Oh well tomorrow...

I will never ever make any comments about anybody who hoards piles of stuff. Take a look at my wood stash. Ceiling to Floor, wall to wall wood stuff to paint. Can you believe it? I got Americanised so quickly...hahahahhaha



This is what you don't see in the pic...The shelf on top with the big stuff...


And more stuff.....

I had fun tody rummaging through the wood pile hahaha..I found stuff to paint and I found stuff to put on ebay. I am selling everything...I need more room hahahhaha...Crazy woman today. I had to take the link out. It was making everything go to the bottom damn!

I was remembering a food today. We call these "dukunu". Here you might call it tamalitos. It entails cutting fresh corn off the cob and grinding it in this mill.


Now here is the corn all cut off and ready to grind. In the background you see the corn husks all washed and ready to make the duks in.




Here is the corn all ground up. An onion is ground in there and then some chicken bullion is added, salt, black pepper, a little hot pepper, some butter and olive oil, a little flour and an egg. You can also add meat but I prefer tohave some kind of stewed chicken or beef on the side. They are actually a mayan recipe and sorta vegitarian. And this is the way I remember my grandmother making them and they are so delicate and delicious.


I then do it the easy way. I take foil and line it with the corn husks, put in the mix and cover with more husk and then wrap them and put in steamer.

Of course there were two extra corns. Hubby just had to have some corn on the cob. How dare I cut off the corn hahahahhaha. I did 8 corns in all and it made a nice amount. They were delicious...

In-between the cooking, I was trying to decide how to quilt my art projects. These are one yard pieces that I painted. I pin them on my board and find a motion or invent one or let it lead me to one..whatever works and that is the way I will quilt it... Sorry will have to continue tomorrow. Blogger is doing it's thing again.

The traditional hot dogs and hamburgers just ain't going to get it today lol. I wasn't going to cook since hubby is away until much later today. Well, here's this half of defrosted turkey breast looking at me. I wanted to do a quick quick cook. I sliced up the trukey into slices, seasone it with everything plus jamacia jerk seasoning. Browned everything in olive oil, then threw in some crushed garlic and soy sauce and let it steam fry until done. While that was doing it's thing I did the veggies, mashed potatoes and mixed up a coconut cake. I was done in an hour. The food was in put-away dished and everything was in the dishwasher getting washed and the cake was baking...I am woman!!!!! hahahhahahahaha..here is turkey, oh I tasted...it is delish..

Coconut cake came out with a pudding effect in the bottom, it is to die for. I discovered a new recipe just from throwing things together that are availabe....

I'm being careful today and post the important ones first in case blogger does it stuff...here is the cake batter...it even tasted so good....it's a small cake. I have to watch my figure. lol


The turkey had a lot of meat on it still so I seasoned and browned it the same way ...added garlic and onions and 1 1/2 cups of water and made me a small soup for lunch. I had my soup with the coconut jonnies cake I made a few days ago...

A continuation of yesterday...lets see if I can upload the jewels today...


These are the painted wooden beads I tried to upload yesterday. It seems that blogger will only let you upload so many? I don't know. I was going to enter this in yesterday's blog but it wouldn't do it. It did it in a new blog tho hmmmmmmmm.

Ok, lets see if blogger will behave today and upload my pic...here goes...this is one of the demonstration canvases of one side of the box.

Wow it worked! and I wasted so much time thinking it was my pc. So anyway this is a continuation of yersterday's post. These are the big samples I use to paint for my students, while they painted on their sewing boxes. This is half of the cover on canvas.
Here is another side. These are such happy paintings.



The other side of the cover. I love the bright colors....




Here is the box with the little drawer open..cute eh?



This was just to entertain you while I painted beads you see? And here are some of the beads. First I base coat, then I glaze tints on and then I add fun stuff. Oh they are on skewers and I use them as mandrels as I turn them to put stuff on.
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Here are some of the jewels with stuff on. I am still playing. Ok blogger is at it again, so I'll have to wait until later or tomorrow... I just tried to upload the jewels and it was a "no cigar" again. So I got myself a big piece of cadbury chocolate (an no no) about 4 plugs and ate them with relish and returned...still no cigar...oh well at least I enjoyed the chocolate, shame on me hahahhahahahaha....

I’m baaack ahhahah. I promised. I have put the jewelry making to the side for now. You know how it is? Once you sell some, you loose interest not!!!! Lol. Well anyway, I feel to paint some wooden beads (island talk). So while my wet palette is soaking, I will entertain you with some pics.
I am mainly a folk artist. I love the whimsy and simplicity of it. I paint in acrylics. At the moment I’m using. “Traditions” by DecoArt. It is a lovely paint; it paints like buttaa (butter). And you know anything like buttaa, is always good lol. The wet palette keeps the paint moist and the brush you see in the bottle has a retarder and flow medium to help the paint stay open and manageable. Even though this paint needs very little help, I still like to use the mediums for translucency and applying more tints and etc. Ok, I admit it, I like to piddle around.


Here you see the beads in all shapes with a red dye on them. That’s how I bought them a million years ago. I have three buckets of them in green, red, white, blue and god knows what else but they are all sorted hahahaha. I usually wash and dry them and some of the dye comes off and they are ready to paint. Also I like to put out some of my painted objects from other projects to see what colors I used that I liked. Here you see some butterflies that go with a white wooden old world Santa. Wow the bead kinda look like cherries don't they?



Here is a close -up of one of the butterflies. See how you can actually make the acrylic paint work like an oil? I love acrylics. I do everything in acrylics, even a canvas.


Oh now the beads look like tomatoes hahahahha. Here are some pic painted on canvas that I found when I was pulling out my wet palette etc. These are from a seminar I taught years ago. It was painting on a decorative sewing box that was specially made for this session. Normally when I teach, I paint a larger picture on canvas so everyone cah see the fine detail of what's on the smaller item. Here are some of the sides of the box. One day I will frame them and hang them in one of the rooms. Oh the credit for this lovely design is "Margaret Weiking". A folk artist designer and this design came from one of her five books. Her books are no longer available. Ok blogger is playing tricks again. I shall return.

Is anyone having problems uploading pics today? I have a feeling that I'm wasting a lot of time trying to fix my pc when all the time it must be blogger? I'll just finish this later.