Salad, FRBs and a nice view

The other night, I made a really nice salad and had to share the image of it. It was so good with different textures and flavors. It was the entire meal with some bread and butter.

Today, while driving home from my Spanish class, I went through Byrd Park and saw this gorgeous tree.

After lunch, I packed up the two Flat Rate Boxes that I'd finished filling to send to soldiers in Afghanistan. I'm an official volunteer with Books for Soldiers. Please consider joining this group or sending a donation to keep the site up and running. You can become a friend of this group on Facebook, too, but it's best to actually join and send packages or letters or postcards. It's very rewarding!

Encaustic class #2

I'm taking classes in the use of encaustic (wax as an art medium) with Lynda Ray, who is an excellent artist with the medium. Check out her site here. There is so much room for experimentation after you have the basics. It's so much fun for me. Since I haven't used this material since I was in University, I'm like a newby and am playing around, learning how the medium works. I'm not sure of how I can set up in my own studio to do this, but I'm going to think about that a lot. This is a medium I could get into.

More of our Autumn weather.

We had heavy rain for several days. It was so windy. Here's a view out my kitchen window with the rain on the screen (which I never took out from the summer and in which you can see the tears made by a scared squirrel one day.) When the rain was lighter, I took the pup for a walk, and noticed all of the different types of leaves. Today was lovely, like spring. A nice surprise after the storm.

Perfect day to knit!

It's a cold, rainy, windy day in my neck of the woods! Brrrrr...so it's a perfect day to stay indoors and knit. I finished using the wonderful Merino/Cashmere/nylon yarn that I got at the Yarn Lounge. The mitts made from it are so soft and warm. I just posted them in (or is it "on") Fritzi, my Etsy shop.
Check them out!

I, also, decided to pull out the bread maker that I have on loan from my friend, Phyllis, and try to make a corn bread. It's doing it's thing. I'm hoping that I followed the directions exactly and we'll have fresh bread with dinner.

Veteran's Day - Remembrance Day

REMEMBER the past and those who gave their lives.

You can support the troops by sending packages. Become a volunteer with/or donate to Booksforsoldiers.com

Photo image from Flickr by E12DeepBlue

Autumn views

Here are some autumn views from a recent stroll with my geriatric "pup." The Gingko is one that is odor free thankgoodness!

The view down my street shows how the trees are changing color, and the interesting pumpkin display is on the next block.

I'm waiting for the rest of the leaves to fall off the tree in our back garden.

Notice our nice carpeting of leaves so far, and this is after I've done some raking.

Fritzi, new mitts

I finished knitting several pairs of finger-less gloves, mitts, using a lovely hand-dyed wool from Plain and Fancy. I've put them in Fritzi, my Etsy shop. I love the way they look and feel. The way the yarn is dyed makes each mitt look different. It's so interesting to see how these turn out. Now, I'm starting to use the merino-cashmere mix. I've never used such good (think: expensive) yarn before. I really like the way it feels and knits up. I wish there was a word like "yummy" to describe this yarn. Maybe that IS the word!

ThinkSmall 5 and me

Here are the images of the item I entered into this year's ThinkSmall5 exhibit. It's my first tooth shrine, entitled "Cabinet de Dentiste." I've been planning to create these to enshrine my detached teeth. (I can't say lost teeth since I have them and they are NOT lost, obviously. ha ha ha) The other image is of my piece that was in the Book Art invitational at ArtSpace, which just closed. In the background is C's piece. I just heard that my TS5 piece is in our local free newspaper, STYLE, which is exciting! I'm going to leave now...off to find a copy of the paper.

Random autumn images

The weather is cool, the rain brought down lots more leaves. There is a carpet of them in my yard; the clouds were captured over the bridge in Manchester on Saturday, when we went to deliver our work for the ThinkSmall5 exhibit.
The on-line catalog will eventually include all of the works in the show. I'll post my own images of my work once it's been posted on the official site. Oh yes, this is a teaser.

Yarn-y goodness

I was having an azul kinda day on Thursday, so I stopped at The Yarn Lounge on my way home from visiting my shut-in friend. I went from feeling azul to feeling very sunny!! It's all of this yarn-y goodness that perked up my mood.

I got some Pagewood Farm Merino/cashmere hand-dyed yarn, with the color name : maple leaf. It's sock yarn but I'll use it for finger-less gloves/mitts.
I, also, got two different yarns from Plain & Fancy Sheep & Wool Co. of Henderson, TX. Hand-dyed variegated wool. One is called "confetti" and the other is "autumn leaves." They have no web presence it seems, but a search will get you their phone number & address.

They yarns feel so soft and the colors are just so scrumptious. The finished products will go into Fritzi, my Etsy shop. Come see me there when you have time.