Delicious! I am surprised so many even made it into the bowl.
Raspberries
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Rhubarb Harvest
My son tried dipping rhubarb in white sugar for the first time today. The dentist he saw this week said juice was terrible. Ha ha, he would be appalled but rhubarb and sugar dipping is such a fond memory from my childhood we had to do it. It reminds me of those long summer days of fun as a kid and the tasty goodies we enjoyed from the garden, like Mrs. Blais’ raspberry jam and our elderly neighbour Rose’s pickled carrots. I remember eating a whole jar with my little friend Sarah on the rock wall by her house one day. I don’t recall getting sick from eating too many just how good they tasted.
Lazy Saturday
Playing with cardboard.
Apple Crisp
Autumn = Apple Crisp
Sketch Thursday
I will make this post brief because I just spent 10 min. deciding on how to spell the word sketch and started to doubt the spelling of Thursday as well. Sometimes words just don’t look right even when they are, does that ever happen to you? I had to go look both words up!
I was chatting to my sister yesterday and she mentioned that drawing classes at university are getting shorter. I was disappointed by that news because my drawing classes were my favorite and most rewarding classes. This started me thinking about drawing and I realized that I need to do more of it. I am often working on drawings and doodling out ideas, but not in the same way as you would in a drawing class. So for my first sketch I worked from a photo of H. mainly because I have been meaning to sketch the subject matter for some time, but I think I would like to set up a still life or try some sketching of my son in action as well. If I am successful and anywhere close to being consistent on this I will post this work on Thursdays. I also need to find my white conte for highlights, I tried to use white acrylic on H.’s nose and other spots but it didn’t really work out. It feels good to draw like this again and I can really see how rusty I am.
Dinosaur Dig
My sister made this mini dinosaur dig for her girls with rice and plastic toy dinosaurs. They dig them up using some of their paintbrushes. They will play for hours with this. My niece M. learned about dinosaurs at her Montessori school a year ago, and the summer following that school year went to Drumheller in Alberta where both girls spent some time at the Fossil World Discovery Center where they have a fossil dig for kids. She has been interested in anything dinosaur since then. My niece says she loves this little fossil dig because when she grows up she wants to be a paleontologist.
Fall Leaves
Beautiful, but where did summer go?
Cushion Pouffe
I have been trying to create somewhat of a Montessori environment in the house for my son for the past few weeks. One of the things suggested was to have floor cushions to make their space which is mainly the floor, table legs etc… more comfortable, beautiful and pleasant. So I made a Pouffe (no not Snooki’s hairdo). I used my Amy Butler fabric and sewed it to canvas from scraps I had lying around from making my canvases for painting, in order to make it stiffer and stronger. I stuffed it with an old comforter that has been sitting in our linen closet taking up space for three or four years. It also works nicely as a foot rest for M. and I. As you can see today I matched the color of my socks but not the pattern, it adds visual interest. 🙂
Artwork from the North
My sister brought me these cards back from her trip to Whitehorse this summer and I liked them so much I decided to frame them and put them up. I couldn’t get a good picture of them on the wall so here is a photo of them just standing on the table. They are nice either way. I am very pleased with them and the frames I found for them. The artwork is by Richard Shorty and you can see more of his work at his website. He has some beautiful prints for sale.
Cheese Biscuits
If you live in Saskatchewan you have been feeling that unmistakable chill in the air. The leaves are already turning color and falling. This turn of the weather is a sign of things to come, things we don’t want to think about right now. So my advice is to make these cheese biscuits with some nice chicken soup. It may sound like I am advocating emotional eating, and in this case I am. I think I am going to have another one of these right now with a cup of hot tea. Here is my recipe.
Preheat oven to 400F
cut 1 and 3/4 cup margarine into
6 cups flour
1 tsp salt
6 tsp baking powder
then add
1 cup grated cheese of choice (I like cheddar)
and add 3 cups milk to this
mix it up but not too much
you can top with a bit of grated cheese as well
and bake for 15-20 mins depending on your oven
While they are baking mix a couple tablespoons butter or margarine whichever you prefer, 2 or so tsp dill weed and a tsp or more of chopped garlic and melt together in the microwave or stove.
As soon as the biscuits are out spread this garlicky butter mix on top and enjoy!