T Stands for Tuesday

  Good Morning Everyone,
Another Tuesday is coming up-the holidays have passed us by, a bit of winter and almost mid January already-Wow.
   T on Tuesdays is where we share a blog post with a photo of our drink reference. You are welcome to join us with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth.
   If it was not for this group I would have no one to blog with-sadly-since all my original blogging friends are no longer blogging but prefer Facebook instead which I find sad. The plus side is I am enjoying blogging again and sharing my art and learning new things with a wonderful group of new blogging friends. I really appreciate you all very much.

  Over the weekend we were very cold-allot of flooding in Missouri-we had so much rain that they needed to open up the dams which causes all the rivers downstream to flood. It was quite the mess in some areas-and near our woods home-although our woods home would never flood thankful for that.
  We then got a good layer of ice, snow, and now the warm up begins-we will be in the mid 50's f Tuesday and Wednesday.
   A few days before the weather event I wired up two suet feeders-after two days we had some birds-perfect for the wintry weather-this morning the big one is empty so will refill it today. We have allot of small grey squirrels-I needed to really wire this up well so they could not open it up or run off with it-the racoons will do that too.

We had allot of this bird below-not sure what they are

 If you missed my last post, I grabbed some kids crayola watercolor paints to play with and made a journal page I am pleased with this one.  The moose was cut from my Yellowstone Forever magazine and this was a painting. the cut out trees were cut from a coffee whole bean bag, my trout stamp, and thanks to I think it was Deb that suggested printing off the words on a seperate paper-I loved that tip



  This is my first ever attempt at using paint in art-except for when I play with dyes on fabrics-much to learn as you can see. But the process of making this page was fun-and new to me.

  I went on Pinterest for mixed media ideas. I found a really good one with how to make 20 textures with gesso or modeling paste-these suggestions really opened up more ideas and fun for me. here is a link  You are probably familiar with these but it was all new to me as I have never worked with gesso or modeling paste before.  I do have a question-do any of you make your own modeling paste or thick gesso? if so does it mold or go bad fast? thanks

   This was a big football weekend to help decide who will make it to the super bowl. I have not been watching much football again this year-but when I saw that my favorite team since '67 The Green Bay Packers were in one game, and Missouri's team Kansas City Chiefs were in another game I had to watch. the KC game was wild and fun and I love their new quarterback and I have always liked their coach Andy Reid-he has accomplished allot in his career except he needs a super bowl win. The Packer's game was rather boring in comparison but they both made it to the next round. If they both win I will see them both in the Super Bowl that would be fun.

  I decided to move my loom to the room off the kitchen and where my computer desk is, and on one long wall bookshelves and vintage storage cabinets and dressers. I have it facing looking through those glass doors into the kitchen. This room has a light on the ceiling-the living room has no lights at all. This move frees up space in the living room-we are going for that room not to be cluttered. This will now give us some space next to the woodstove for oue mountain man and Native American things.

This room with my loom will be full with trunks and a few crocks as well that I kept too, we had a huge huge collection of crocks and I love them all-but no space here for the big ones. Behind this area-will eventually be cleared away so room for a blow up mattress for any out of state guests that should visit.

Don't look at the dust-that will be my task this week-cleaning and dusting and getting more things in order.

I emptied all of these boxes and more. I found places for some things, and other things to sell either online or take back to the woods house to sell.

My gnome collection-the photo shows them dusty-so I need to wipe these down with a damp rag. These will eventually go into a glass case These are sculptures and are all signed by the artist Tom Clark and each one has a coin. I believe these were made in the '80s
    I also have gnome plates that my Mom had gotten me-to hang on the walls-I will finally hang those too.

and I did find the perfect spot for my Yellowstone books-I had not filled these little shelves yet that are on a cabinet for the television in the living room-Perfect and I can see them when sitting on the couch
   I picked up the handmade pottery piece to the left when I was at Yellowstone in 2017

and I also picked up this pottery piece too back then at the Grizzly and Wolf center-it sits next to the tv and this is a print from a young cub.

I received a lovely New Year's card from Erika-and I love all the stamping-thank you so much

For my drink reference today I made myself something new.  Lakanto is my new favorite brand for keto sugars. No after taste and have not gotten any stomach issues from this brand, the sweeteners bake up well too. I have found the best prices on their online site-and I wait for sales-they had a really big sale around the holidays so I stocked up for baking this year.

This beverage is pretty good for something different You will see in the back the timer-it is for the sweet potato pie that is baking.

I have never made one before-just came out of the oven. Looks really good. I made a pecan nut crust-the edges of the nut crust always seem to burn a bit.

Yesterday I tried a totally new pumpkin pie recipe (Larry prefers sweet potato pie over pumpkin pie) that divided the eggs and whipped the whites so the pie came out very light, it also used molasses and lots of spices-came out pretty good too.

Happy T everyone, and Happy new week.