Garden Lovin': Radishes

 

Never listen to people who do not actively garden about when to plant. 

Take that secondhand-misquoted information they got from some garden

center in a Home Improvement Store, and shove it into your compost 

pile. They might be full of it. If they throw some random facts about

 the Farmers Almanac, the still might be full of it. Run and find a 

real Farmer or gardener.

Please trust your weird neighbor that has been checking and turning

their beds since a month ago. Yes he lost some plants but most of his 

plants are thriving.

Had I paid attention and listen to my gut, I might have had radishes

now. Gardening and home-scale farming is really a live and learn 

situation. Thankfully, backyard farmer neighbor gave us some nice radishes. 

They are really bright and I can’t wait to eat them. I want to experiment 

eating the radish green. I heard that some people eat sautéed radish greens 

with eggs.

Live and Learn.

Best Wishes.

Sketchbook Sunday: Adventures in Temporary Hair Dyes

Dear lord all I really wanted was temporary blue tips for 

my hair for just one day, not blue hands. There are lots of 

wonderful tutorials over the Internet with chalks and stores 

are brimming with temporary dyes. One day the urge hit me 

to have slightly colored hair.

Damn that urge.

Round One: Several hours later + armed with my computer, 

I got hot pink hands and black hair.

Round Two: hours later + two little envelopes of royal blue 

goo and I have royal blue hands and black hair.

I have discovered how to dye my hands any color I need. 

Now if I could only find out how to dye my hair…

Best Wishes

M.I.A.

Spring is racing by and the summer heat is pounce soon. Meanwhile 

I will continue to be M.I.A. for the next few weeks until finals are over

until then enjoy this shot of this pretty bush in our backyard. I do not

know what type of plant it is. I know it’s a bush that blooms pale purple

flowers in the spring. A plant mystery.

Best Wishes.

Distractions

My puppy (she is actually an old maid) wanted to say hi. Who knew that a dog 

could bring so much joy?

Sketchbook Sunday

It is hard to keep spirits up with deadline looming. I combat the deadline blues 
with silly doodles or mini projects. I learned about the blues name generator thru 
Gingerhaze. My blues name turned out to be fat lip Jones. It was enjoyable to 
draw and color. I am working to get back to watercolor and learn to plan out my 
colors before coloring any section of a drawing. 

Current Project: Clothing Portraits

As the world starts to awaken from its winter sleep, my work starts to pile up in 
quaint little mountains. It a little disheartening is having to make the decision to 
stay inside the house when the outdoors are so appealing. I have to settle for the 
sunlight that creeps in from the windows. I hope that others have the luxury of 
roaming outdoors.

I am writing to present another project I have been working on. The project is 
called the Clothing Portraits. It is a little self-explanatory. It is a Portrait without 
any figure, instead using the clothes to represents the person. Clothes or how a 
person dress is seen as a sign of self-expression. So I was curious to see if clothes 
can be insolated from the human figure and still represent a person.

The portraits are quite small. The size is smaller than a postcard. It is crazy to 
see how many patterns and details I can fit into these little portraits. Shoes seem 
to be my obvious weakness in these portraits. I am not well skilled at illustrating 
shoes.

I am currently working from fashion magazines and catalogues from stores. I 

am planning to expand into documenting individual outfits from fashion blogs, 

lifestyle blogs, and of course Pinterest. And maybe as a finish I might document 

some of my own favorite outfits. I will be presenting more clothing portraits as 

I continue this project throughout the summer.

Best wishes

Current Project: Scarf Making

Some people believe in taking a break from needle work in the spring and summer. 

I have decided not to to that. Instead I will be slowly making this scarf though out the

summer. That way I will be nice and cozy when october comes. I am planning to have

four done by the end of the summer.

Best wishes.