"what I saw at sea" art journal page

Good Morning dear readers.  we finished are inspection for our apartment complex and of course we passed. I'm now able to get to do my art pages.  I believe their was a prompt from journal 52 about under the sea not sure but did this page anyway.  I found a lot of sea related stamps in that giant bag from the thrift store and started to play with it. I started this page with a light blue acrylic paint.  I then went over that with a dark blue oil pastel crayon.  Then rubber stamped with stampin up leaf that kinda looked like it could pass for sea weed.  Then used a fish stamp also stampin up stamp.  Also used the Micheal's sea shell stamp.  I went over it also with the Stampa Barbara bubbles stamp using studio g blue, black and red ink pads.  I used for the love of whales stencils found at thrift store and colored in with oil pastels.  Then glued collage elements from various magazines enjoy the sea view.  Thanks for looking at my art would love for you to join me on my fb page at http://www.facebook.com/lorraine2448 have a great day.

wordless wednesday-cross eyed kitty

Here he is sorry for not posting last week couldn't catch him. All photos were a total blur.

Getting Ready For Fall With A Goulash

Good Morning dear readers, as you can tell I love the fall and winter months more then summer. It's a time where we get to enjoy soups and stews in front of a warm fireplace, relaxing with family and enjoying videos which is my families favourite pastime.  Fall is also the time of festivals.  One of Conors favourite is Oktoberfest and he's been hitting me up for more German recipes.  This year I'm ready for him.  I found this lovely easy and quick goulash recipe at the Mr. Food site.  I have adapted it to fit my needs.  Here's what you'll need to make this lovely recipe.

2 lbs lean ground meat -- I used 2 1/2 lbs

1 medium onions -- I used a sweet onion

3 1/2 cups of prepared beef broth -- I used 4 cups

1 8 oz. package elbow macaroni -- I used whole wheat macaroni

1 tbs paprika

1 tbs garlic powder

1 tsp black pepper -- I used just enough to taste

1 cup sour cream

Brown meat with onions in large pot--love my dutch oven.  Add all other ingredients except sour cream.  Bring this to a boil and when boiling turn power down and let simmer for 6-8 minutes or until noodles are tender.  Remove from heat and add sour cream and then serve in bowls.  Voila lunch and dinner are served

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Sorry everyone the other pics did not turn out just the one I took outside.  The things we do to get a decent photo.

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Refreshing Blue Berry Milk Shake

Good Evening dear readers, well as you know I still have a lot of frozen blue berries in my freezer.  It was easy to find recipes just hard trying to figure out which one we would do next.  Because we are still having warm weather I thought a milk shake was in order and all you need is a pretty milk shake glass and  a blender.  So here's the ingredients you'll need and this recipe was adapted from one found in all me magazine.

a blender

milk shake glass

2 cups french vanilla ice cream

1 cup frozen blue berries

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup milk

Place all your ingredients in your blender and set on blend.  Then all you have to do is pour and serve.  Enjoy this refreshing drink.

First Canvass Collage-Coupon Queen

Good Afternoon dear readers, well here's a fun piece I just finished.  I got a lot of ideas from ronni johnsons collage book.  I used some new techniques for me in this piece.  This piece came about because I am a coupon queen those of you are regular readers already know about my shopping skills.  I decided to use my expired coupons has the background for this piece and then I water coloured part of the canvass.  One part I used the new stencil from amazon and did the trick with the gesso and made raised flowers on the canvass.  This piece kinda reminds me of andy warhol's campbells soup cans.  I used a picture from a magazine for my queen and cardstock paper for her crown.  Frankie my Siamese loves to roll in my coupons so I rubber stamped a cat on the piece.  The vet gave me a  bag when frankie went in for meds and it had paw prints on it. So I cut and glued them on the canvass.  I used paint markers to fill in the letter stencil for Coupon.  I painted some of the gesso flowers with acrylics and the fun part is I colored in around the white gesso flowers with black oil pastels.  Here's the canvass enjoy

                                         
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Frankies Corner-Human's and their Schedules

Good Evening dear fur friends,  I'm finally back to my Friday schedule.  Mom's been crazy busy and still is trying to keep to the schedule.  The weather is still making my allergies act up so been confined to the house. I long for the days I could go for my daily walks but alas mom says no way.  Now I know what my boy feels like when he has his allergies.  Can humans give cats allergies?  I will have to check this out my fellow fur friends and prevent this scourge from happening to others.  Have a meowy evening fur friends and humans who love us.  Here's some shots mom took with that new red box thingy can't seem to get this one to work well and I apologize for mom not getting my good side.  For those who love my moms art stuff that will be out later she's playing with it now HUMANS!!!

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Save Mart Shopping Trip-Free Milk and Free Eggs

Good Evening dear readers,  I took advantage of a good deal at Save Mart today.  They had a good deal when you buy 4 items i.e Kellogg's Cereal, Pop tarts, Keebler Cookies you get a free gallon of milk.  Another special they had was purchase 2 spam get free eggs so basically free breakfast.  The melons where .99 today as well.  Also waited for the meat guy and got reduced packages of meat today got to feed those teenagers.  So check your local Save Marts for good deals the sale goes on thru Tuesday of next week.  Here's what I got today.

24 pack Pepsi

2-spam packages

4-Kellogg's pop tarts

1-mayonnaise

1-gallon free milk

1-dozen free eggs

1-Michelina's zappems good deal at $3 for 40 count

1-cantaloupe

1-16 count bar-s corn dogs at $4.99

10- packages of various reduced for quick sale meat

before sales/coupons/discounts  $118.05                   after sales/coupons/discounts $72.15  Saved $45.90

which is 39%

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