A Happy Tuesday with deviled eggs !

good morning

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One of a series of WONDERFUL photos by Laurent Laveder.

Busy, busy day, but I wanted to stop by for just a chat.

I found yummy and different recipes for hard boiled eggs that I wanted to share.

Is anyone still eating hard boiled eggs?

We are.

But that's okay, as we both like them.

I have promised to make some deviled eggs however.

I subscribe to the magazine "Woman's Day".

You can check them out at http://www.womansday.com/

In their April 2012 issue, they are celebrating their 75th anniversary.

Right up front they have a flip out page with 75 delicious ways to cook eggs.

Great!

They gathered different, favorite recipes from the past 75 years.

Now, some of them totally do not appeal to me,

but lots of them did!

Here is a sample:

Egg-Bacon-Watercress Salad

Chop 8 hard boiled eggs.

Toss with 1/2 pound cooked bacon,

1 bunch watercress (chopped),

1/2 small red onion (thinly sliced)

and 1/3 cup red wine vinaigrette.

March 1972

Here is one of their deviled egg recipes:

Horseradish Deviled Eggs

Cut 4 hard boiled eggs in half.

Mash the yolks with pepper
and 2 Tbsp each mayonnaise

and beet horseradish;

spoon into the whites.

April, 2002

 

If you have never heard of Jan Brett, illustrator, or if you have never been to her website, you are missing out on some real treats.

http://www.janbrett.com/

I recently visited and downloaded quite a few of her adorable coloring pages.

Here is one to tempt you:

'Beatrix Bunny'

and another one:

'Mabeline Bunny'

Yes, I know - they have colored eggs.

But hey, those are Spring Eggs, not Easter Eggs -

I'm sure!

I do love the books she has illustrated also.

Check her out on Amazon.

Well, that's it for today.

I hope you enjoy checking out Jan Brett's website

and

Laurent Laveder's wonderful photographs 

and

perhaps trying out a new hard boiled egg recipe

from Woman's Day magazine.

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A Day on the computer

Welcome!
I have been up since 8am, and those of you that know me, know that is almost an impossible thing for me!
I really don't function well until around 10am. Even if I am, well, standing up. Beware! The Sleep Fuzzies are mostly in control!

painting by Kay Chorao

Those early college classes? Not good for me; yet every semester except one, all the way through college, I had one of those 7:30am classes.

And wouldn't you know it, it always seemed to be a 'core' class:

Sociology 101

Psychology 101

Bible Hermeneutics

Basic Science 101

I wonder what my poor teachers thought?!



"a crescent moon for breakfast"

photography by Laurent Laveder

Any-Who-How, I have had a day at the computer.

First up, editing and size adjustments for some of my new Collage Paintings.

Yep, I think I have come up with a name:

Collage Paintings by inkspired

Do you like it?  Here are a couple of my newer ones:

"Gypsy Camp"

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

"Mermaid Preening"

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

"M'lady's canter"

http://www.inkspired.etsy.com/

Right now I seem to be enjoying either Camelot era knights and ladies, or mermaids.  I am pleased with how my "Gypsy Camp" turned out, as that is my original design. The others I have borrowed ideas from different pattern sources, although no entire scene is all from a pattern. You know me, I have to do that creative thing and twiddle here, and smooch a bit there....

Here a couple of Collage Art Dolls that are entirely original to me, and made of recycled junk mail, catalogs, those irritating flyers on your door, etc.
I have just listed these today:

"Mermaid Pearls"

original Collage Art Doll by inkspired

"Vintage Snowflake with Pearl Chains"

original Collage Art Doll by inkspired

So, that was time on the computer.

I also edited and re-listed several items.

Then of course I had to edit some already listed items.

Sigh.

Then I did some Treasury Upkeep.

You can make Treasuries on etsy.com by picking out 16 items from 16 different shops (and you can't include your own) with a theme.

(refer to a previous blog on how to put etsy treasuries together)

Well, the good thing about it is items sell!!! I always hope I had something to do with it. A few people have dropped me a note and said they purchased something that was in one of my treasuries. It makes it fun. However, that leaves a blank spot in the treasury.

Today I went back through several of my treasuries and added in new items to fill the empty (sold) slots.

I worked on:

"A Parliament of Owls"

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTc2MTA5M3wxNzk5MTU3ODc1/a-parliament-of-owls?index=0

and added a few, including:

Original 9x7 watercolour Eyes of Owl

http://www.happyapplebumblee.etsy.com/

and a needle felted handmade green owl:

http://www.thingsbyv.etsy.com/

"Hazelnut, please" treasury:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTc2MTA5M3w5MTY5ODAzNDQ/hazelnut-please?index=3

Hand Carved from Hazelnut Clay, Potter

http://www.kittingercarvedclay.etsy.com/

Actual Hazelnut earrings! way cool....

http://www.teresapollini.etsy.com/

I thought this picture was such a great advertising shot!

The listing is for 6 Vanilla/Hazelnut Scented Wax Tarts:

http://www.ambersaromas4u.etsy.com/

Next, "Forest Wings" treasury:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTc2MTA5M3wxNzEwMzM3MjUx/forest-wings?index=1

Spotted Owl art print from original watercolor

http://www.amberalexander.etsy.com/

Gold Sugar Owl Screen Print

http://www.liwbanks.etsy.com/

Owl Tree Branch and flower&leaf Mold for Resin, Fondant +more

http://www.whysperfairy.etsy.com/

Oh, and many more, in a few more treasuries.

Then I worked on a few more Collage Art Dolls,

resizing and trying to get the actual color more realistic to what it is.

I also listed a new necklace I've finished:

hand beaded necklace with inkspired's original pattern

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It is so much prettier than the picture shows. It is extremely difficult to photograph shiny and iridescent beads!

Then I worked on photos of my altered paper dolls, getting ready to list them for the first time...

"Clockface Tropics"

original altered paper doll by inkspired

Do you like it?

I have so many darn ideas, it gets hard to settle on just a few things to do,

at once of course!!

Oh, and there was the nice coffee and chat with a good friend this am

(the reason I was up so early!)

and letting the dog out

and letting the dog in

and doing 3 loads of laundry

and plunging the toilet (oh hooray, love to do that....)

put dirty dishes away

sort laundry

smear peanut butter on the pills that Tanner needs to take every day

let Tanner out

let Tanner in

feed Tanner

let Tanner out

let Tanner in

hang up laundry

spend time in the basement organizing

sigh....

think it's time to go sit in my chair

and watch one of my 'new' movies -

"Honey I Shrunk the Kids"

or

"The Help" (loaned to me by a friend)

or finish

"Monty Python's Holy Grail"

( a present for Michael, but he fell asleep half way thru it last night!)

or...

oh well. I'll just close!

It is time to finish my

Day at the Computer.

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Good Vegetable Soup

Jam

'Peace' in the Fulu language, Nigeria

'Carrying the Moon on her back'

part of a series of Moon artistic photographs by Laurent Laveder

Well, I am going to the chiropractor this morning to see if I can get rid of these terrible headaches. I do so hope it helps.

Makes me very very grouchy.

Really.

Grouchy.

I thought you might like the recipe for this really tasty vegetable soup that I made the other day.  I started out with no recipe, just a refrigerator of vegetables that I didn't want to spoil!

1 large pot with lid- I use the largest I have.

3 peeled and cut potatoes, bite size or so

3 carrots, peeled and cut into med size circles- bite size

1 package of large white mushrooms, all of them, sliced

1 small jar of pimiento. I rinsed out the vinegar first

a handful of edamame beans. (Fancy name for soy beans, fresh,green)

3 teaspoons of beef bouillon, dry

2 bay leaves

about 1 tsp of dried fresh parsley

about 1 tsp of dried fresh basil

a pinch of oregano

some salting with onion salt - to taste, so not too much - maybe 1/2 tsp?

Some sprinkling of onion powder. Maybe 1/2 tsp? or so?

1 can of tomato pieces (Or you can use a can of tomato sauce, NOT paste)

2/3 of one red bell pepper sliced and chopped

some stalks of fresh celery, chopped, including leafy tops - about 6

1 can of pinto beans

several pods of garlic. Not the entire head, just the parts inside.

                 I'm sure there is a cooking term for these,but I have a headache and

                  can't think of it!

1 /2 Cup - 1 Cup Pace picante sauce, medium hot

Add enough water to cover well.

Set on a medium burner, and put on lid.

Stir, and set on a low burner once it is hot throughout. Let it simmer (which means an occasional bubble on the surface) until you serve. It just gets tastier the next day.

That's it.

I also like to add 1 Cup of Pace Picante Sauce to my chili.

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have a super day!

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