T Stands for Tuesday & Fabric Journal Page and Pizza

Happy Tuesday everyone,
     
     T Stands for Tuesday hosted by Bleubeard and Elizabeth (link in my right column) is where we share a drink related post. You are most welcome to join in the fun.

    Speaking of the weather we finally enjoyed rain and a cool down. We really really needed the rain, hand watering is just not the same. 
    Things are looking better in the veggie garden. I have blooms on the zucchini and cucumbers. The beans, cabbage, one broccoli plant, a couple pepper plants are looking better now. I will have around 6 indigo plants they are growing better now too. These indigo plants look completely different from what I had grown a few years ago. I had been gifted seeds from a dyer whose blog I followed She lives in Europe.  Those didn't get enough sun where I planted them, so they never matured enough for dyeing.
    In the big tubs the tomato plants look lovely, however one plant got totally eaten down to the stems over one night. Usually that is from those horrible large worms that love tomato plants but I did not see any What ever it was hope they don't find my other plants.

   My task I gave myself this past week was to finish my April journal page before the end of the month, and also to clean in the utility room. That is a small room but loaded with food grade buckets of foods, drinks and things. I did get the second big freezer cleaned and rearranged, went through all the buckets and found things I forgot about. I wasn't able to complete the work over the weekend as my allergies and asthma are now getting worse again. Late tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday) I can finally see the doctor.

   I had made a couple really nice videos of my journal page last night and again this morning. When I am not feeling good my voice is hard to hear so that really came through in the first videos. I got a good one-wanted to load on you tube this morning-which has to be done by 8 am for less data useage-well you tube was taking 3 hours to load-craziness. I even made another video that was shorter this morning and that needed 2 hours and 30 minutes-that is just crazy and would take up all of our data for sure-we have primitive satellite internet so it is much slower than what is available in the cities. I am always thankful though for the internet being so rural.

Sooooo I will be sharing photos instead. 

    I am quite pleased with the results. During April I did allot of 3 mile walks and I did the National Parks and Earth Day virtual races.  I had made several extra pages for my journal so next up is to make an extra page for my races.
  I can see now that my journal is going to be really really thick-I may need to split this into two 6 month journal books We'll see how it goes.

The photos will enlarge full size for better viewing just click on them

First look at page:

In April we had a very cold month for the most part with no spring-well maybe a couple days. We had hard freezes, hail, snow flurries and did I say cold?-wintry  So I wanted to show that with this silvery fabric I found in my crazy quilt fabric stash. I added pretty glass beads and blue stone beads, snowflakes. I made those dots-or hail-with puff paint-let dry-and then went over them with gel pens. I also was brave and stamped two snowflakes right on to the wool-so glad that did not shadow or smear.

The Baltimore oriole birds arrived end of the month, I ended up using 3 very large bags of oranges for them. I grabbed a piece of re claimed cotton fabric (when I was quilting more I liked using cotton clothing from the resale shops instead of buying expensive quilt fabrics)  that had allot of mixed colors in it and I then went over it with gel pens 

   The April full moon was the pink moon or fish moon, we had a Friday the 13th so added this black cat glass bead too. We had several ducks fly into the ponds and visit for a while. The large blue bead is a handmade blown glass bead and I needle felted silk noil for more water.

April brings lots of song birds and more owls-I love all of their songs. The brown fabric with the stamping was also from my crazy quilt collection of fabrics

In April I did many 3 mile walks-this month I am still having difficulty walking do to swollen ankles-sigh. I decided to add some glass beads and those leaf beads to make a path. More needle felting too. The brown is Navajo  Churro wool and the greens are silk noil and also a synthetic fiber that came in as packing material in a box my husband got in the mail The Canada geese pair were still here and sitting eggs in April. I stamped onto a piece of my corn husk papers-I have one sheet left now

Our Wisconsin friends came for a visit, and the hummingbirds arrived Our rabbit family is still around-they are cute to watch scampering around.

After I took these photos I decided the ducks flew in as a pair so I am going to sew on another duck bead

And I have these nifty glass owl beads that I think I will sew one of those on too

     Next up: I am anxious to try the eco printing on papers. My new iron water will not be ready for about 6 weeks so I am thinking of making up a solution of alum for the fixative-mordant. Stay tuned-we have a busy week ahead plus I need to check if I have something I can use for a steamer in my craft pots. 

    I had not made us homemade pizzas in some time. Sunday I decided to make Hubs a "real"pizza so he would not have to put up with my gluten free crust and I made me a pizza with a new mix by Bob's Red Mill. Their original version of this mix from years ago I was baking with as a flour but did not make a nice pizza crust. Their new version is awesome-so I am happy I found another good one. 
      Aldi stores have a very good line for gluten free and they had a really good gf pizza crust mix that everyone liked-but one day they decided to change it without saying so and it was terrible. So am happy this new one is a good one.  
      I am a from scratch cook-baker always but this gf baking is never always good or even edible from scratch so I have resigned the fact to use some mixes.

Wheat crust pizza I baked his in a 15" cast iron skillet

  Gluten free version I baked on a stone

While going through buckets I found one at the bottom of the stack with gluten free beers. I rarely drink beer never did-most have gluten-but I found one made with sorghum that is like a dark European beer-love it. My Wisconsin friends bring it down for me
    Perfect to go with my pizza

 In the beginning of the week when we still had a hot day I decided on a root beer float for a treat I used frozen vanilla yogurt (No vodka added this time)

I found a package of these stainless straws Some were bent like this one some not, some shorter and even came with a brush for cleaning I love these

Happy T Stands for Tuesday  everyone, I always enjoy your visits