Posts filed under 'Tidbits'
Fried Green Tomatoes & Rainy Chickens
It is fall in Portland, which means one bad thing: my garden is dying! It is too cloudy to ripen the dozens of plump green tomatoes still left on the vine, so tonight I decided to make fried green tomatoes! I used a fabulous recipe from VeganYumYum.com.
Chopped up green tomatoes, fresh from my garden.
Frying one side…
Then the other!
Completed!
The full meal: drizzle balsamic vinegar and place on a bed of greens (fresh from the garden, of course!), and chopped black olives.
Today it stormed….
The chickens don’t mind the rain too much. However, the do become quite muddy in their chicken run. And poor Little Miss, with her head full of feathers, gets muddy dreads from the rain!
4 comments October 18, 2009
Swingin Martinis Designs
I am posting to promote my friend Shannon’s super awesome company: Swingin Martinis Designs. She makes unique, very well made, crafty delights: purses, aprons, hair clips, clothing, and jewelry. She will even custom design the products by letting you pick out the fabric, at no extra cost. Shannon made me a custom made apron, make-up bag, and also a very adorable wallet and Nintendo-64 coin purse. I have been very happy with her products, and I get compliments on them all the time (especially the Nintendo-64 coin purse!). Did I mention her hand-made products are reasonably priced, and you get free shipping if you purchase over $30?
So, if you are looking for a great gift, or something special to treat yourself, definitely check it out!
Our Lady of Guadalupe Virgin Mary Purse (my personal favorite)
Bottle Cap Hair Clips
Pleated Purse
1 comment July 2, 2009
Green Porno
“Green Porno” is a series about the reproductive habits of insects acted out by Isabella Rossellini.
It is sexy, hilarious, educational, and a tad bit disturbing—a lovely combination of my favorite four things! Check out youtube.com for more.
1 comment April 10, 2009
Tim Burton Made Me Do It
I watched this really awesome Tim Burton interview, where he talked about his art process. His doodles, which he creates during dark times to express an emotional state, eventually turn into characters like Jack Skellington and Edward Scissorhands. I have always loved Tim Burton, but his art seems so much more profound after hearing him speak.
He lets his scribbles express himself; this is something I have always wanted to experience, but lacking the skills I never tried. But his scribbles are just that—-pencil lines! The hardest part is letting yourself go, and letting your hand move on the page.
Today at work I modeled Tim Burton’s doodles. My fine piece of artwork* (see below) was inspired by nightmares I had that morning of birds attacking me (Like in “The Birds!”), and experiencing the delirium of making phones calls to strangers all day long.
*sarcasm
1 comment March 31, 2009
Intersected
My old friend from college, Jamie, has become quite a celebrity blogger as of late. She posted this contest, to write a short blurb in response to her blog tagline. I decided to take up the challenge because of the interesting question it posed (and for the prize—a blog make-over!).
“That place where work, love, and life all meet and you wonder, “where the hell do I go from here?”
The journey is the destination.
I keep reminding myself this when things seem tough, when the road gets windy and the wind stings my eyes. I am 23, and at the beginning stages of all possibilities. I have no attachments, no boundaries—my youth, my age, my bright attitude is at its peek and it’s now or never.
It seems that my work is my life, and my life is my work, and surrounded by this pattern is all encompassing love. I do not see work, love, and life as separate entities, which can become intersected in a jumbled mess. They are three faces of the same coin, all interconnected by my own life-energy.
The beginning of my journey, and the destination all live in this very present moment. I have nowhere to go from here, because I have already arrived.
2 comments March 25, 2009
Great is language….
“Great is language….it is the mightiest of the sciences,
It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the
earth….and of men and women….and of all
qualities and processes;
It is greater than wealth….it is greater than buildings or
ships or religions or paintings or music.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: Great are the Myths (1855)
Add comment March 7, 2009
