There’s nothing like a citrusy cake on a dreary Sunday. I like to see this as a triple lemony dessert – lemon zest is rubbed into the sugar for the cake, then there’s a lemon syrup poured over the baked product, followed by a lemon glaze. It’s the perfect lemon cake! Continue reading
In honor of what would have been the King’s 91st birthday, I’ll be carrying my moolah in my Elvis change purse. Happy birthday Mr. Hound-Dog!
Never knowing when inspiration is going to strike, I always carry a sketchbook with me. I carry a few different cases of pens and pencils.
I also carry hard drives and flash drives and cords and adapters and tools and a whole lot of other things because I never know when I’m going to need them.
I carry a lot of crap with me.
I’m getting better. I used to carry a Disgear Discus filled with data CD’s that had fonts and utilities. You never know when a digital emergency may arise.
Yeah, my backpack weighed a ton!
Jamming all of that crap into a travel bag and commuting to work with it has been putting a beating on my sketchbooks. It’s part of the reason I encrust the covers with stickers — to protect the doodle pads, but I don’t want to put stickers on my Pen+Gear Sketch Diary with the nifty clear sleeve. That wouldn’t do.
The book shifting around my bag was also smearing some of the pencil drawings within. The corners were getting dented, too.
I needed a way to protect my sketchbooks. What I needed was a new slipcase.
Thinly sliced apples over a flaky crust, finished off with an apricot glaze – this tart is really something special. And truth be told, I was looking for a reason to use this new-to-me rectangular tart pan! Continue reading
Happy New Year! More photos behind the cut. Continue reading
Today I present Miss Tina Garceau’s continuing series of collages using five elements. She calls the series The Friday Five and the gallery below represents her work for 2025.
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I figured I would wind up the year with another drawing of the Teenage Beast.
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