Thursday, May 12, 2011

We have visitors!


Melissa and Daisy are visiting us this week! Yeah! We love them!



Here is Daisy before going to the groomer for her annual 'Summer Shave' and here is the after!

 We're sure she's more comfortable in the heat this way...but is she comfortable with herself? We think so. Doesn't she look hilarious!!! I can't help to giggle at her during the day, but I love her just the same! Kisses puppers!!!!


ART in COOKING: inspiration for a painting? perhaps! I love the perfect circles of extra virgin olive oil and how they swam around each other like you would find in a 'live modern art exhibit' in MOMA!



ART in PAINT MIXING: this is always fascinating to me when I mix paint colors together! AMAZING!


Steve gets creative


Tell me you remember using Perler Beads when you were a kid! The ones you melt with an iron! (I know Tim will appreciate this!) Well, it's been a while since we were kids (clear throat and deep swallow...several years) so Steve got creative and dove right back into this beloved childhood craft with a vintage video game flare! What can I say...it's really awesome!



Q-bert and Tetris make for perfect adaptations to perler beads which have that classic pixel effect! (Although we should warn that it's a strain on the eyes when counting squares on your computer monitor! ha!)


And another shot of the canvas frames he built for me!


Then he got a hankering (is that how you spell hankering? is it an actual word even? if so, I'd like to use it soon with Bananagrams...) for sugar cookies from The Joy of Cooking. To be clear, I don't find that cookbook too much of a joy...no photos! But it's perfect for an engineer isn't it?  : )



Perfect sugar drop cookies!


Not-so perfect chocolate chip cookies....   : (  More like chocolate chip crepes!
Since the sugar cookies were successful, he made this classic, however, the recipe was wrong...it needed more flour than it called for...obviously! Come on Joy of Cooking!


Now that's more like it! These are perfectly puffy and perfectly tasty! I like it when Steve's creative with food! mmmm! Friends with benefits!