last night we canned our first passionfruit!!! first we cut the fruits in half. then we scooped out the saucey insides into a bowl.
we are saving the shells. evidently, there’s pectin in the rinds and if you soak the shells over night in water, you can peel the skin off easily and use the rinds [...]
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the passion fruit are starting to drop off the vine by the dozens. it’s literally sprinkling passionfruits over here! it’s great but we need to start canning them before they go bad. we started our long and arduous task of looking for mason jars. and we finally found them! who’d thunk that it would be [...]
yesterday i participated in my first art sale!
it was in venice in sue’s front yard. she and some neighbors put together the whole thing. there were like ten or fifteen artists selling stuff (and i think more came later on in the day). it was kind of a crazy weird neo-hippie-burning-man-raver vibe going on next [...]
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i went to disneyland. summary: 14 hours. 17 family members… more details later.
me and sara.
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my back aches, i’m tired, there’s paint everywhere and i can barely move. it was a great day! we ate, we drank, we bonded, we crafted! all in the shade of a beautiful palm tree. granted, there were ants and sometimes they bit, but all in all, it was a great day. thanks to all [...]
last week, i went to the clay center to pick up my finished pots and to glaze the ones that came out of the bisque fire. i didn’t get a chance to fill you in on what i did. so. let’s catch up now!
i was exhausted after the four hours, but managed to snap [...]
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tonight i did my very first linoleum block carving!! it takes a while to get used to the carving tools. but it’s really fun! i got the wrong kind of ink, so i can’t see how it looks on paper yet. i’ll have to do that part tomorrow.
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i picked up my finished pinch pots yesterday! and i LOVE them! they didn’t come out exactly, or even close to what i expected. but, they’re like children, i still love them all the same. i thought the clay i used was more of a white clay then it really is. so, i thought the [...]
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dan and i went to seattle for the weekend to visit his folks. we had a blast! we rode on a duk, watched a baseball game, hiked through meadows, ate ivar’s and used the internet on a plane for the first time!
here are some photos.
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