Creative Tuesdays - Monogram

The current theme is Monogram.  It's a greeting card in acrylic and finepoint black marker (4 1/2"h x 5 1/4"w). I'm using a photo because the some of the colours don't look right when scanned.  Thanks to MMm for coming up with this great challenge to do something different!

Linking to Creative Tuesdays.

Salary Review?

Muscari

a week later

Look at the muscari in my garden, I took the last shot a week later in slightly different lighting
but I noticed how much it's grown already and looking so much more filled in.

Here's some humour for you:

A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley

motorcycle when he spotted a well-known heart surgeon in his shop.

The surgeon was there, waiting for the service manager to come and take

a look at his bike.

The mechanic shouted across the garage, "Hey, Doc, can I ask you a

question?"

The surgeon a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic working on the

motorcycle. The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and

asked, "So Doc, look at this engine.

I open its heart, take the valves out, fix 'em, put 'em back in, and

when I finish, it works just like new.

So how come I get such a small salary and you get the really big bucks,

when you and I are doing basically the same work?"

The surgeon paused, smiled and leaned over, and whispered to the

mechanic...





"Try doing it with the engine running."

Sunday Sketches - Outdoors

I saw this beautiful photo in the newspaper and felt compelled to sketch it. It was a 'Sporting Life, North Face ad'. I used a sheet of paper lying on the table. The piece is (11"h x 5 1/2"w) done with watercolour pencils.

Linking to Sunday Sketches.

GPS

This is so cute, should give you a good laugh today!

I have a little GPS
I've had it all my life
It’s better than the normal ones
My GPS is my wife

It gives me full instructions
Especially how to drive
"It's thirty miles an hour", it says
"You're doing thirty five"

It tells me when to stop and start
And when to use the brake
And tells me that it's never ever
Safe to overtake

It tells me when a light is red
And when it goes to green
It seems to know instinctively
Just when to intervene

It lists the vehicles just in front
And all those to the rear
And taking this into account
It specifies my gear.

I'm sure no other driver
Has so helpful a device
For when we leave and lock the car
It still gives its advice
It fills me up with counseling
Each journey's pretty fraught
So why don't I exchange it
And get a quieter sort?

Ah well, you see, it cleans the house,
Makes sure I'm properly fed,
It washes all my shirts and things
And - keeps me warm in bed!

Despite all these advantages
And my tendency to scoff,
I do wish that once in a while
I could turn the darned thing off.

Paint Party Friday - Big Vase

I did a greeting card in acrylic (5 1/2"h x  4 1/4"w) entitled 'Big Vase'. I saw this vignette in a store at the mall and decided to paint it. The vase was at least 4 feet high with a couple of giant tulips inside it. I think the turquoise side table beside it added a nice touch.

Linking to Paint Party Friday.

Queen Elizabeth cake

Last night I was able to hear Alexander Graham Bell's voice from this news article. I hope you have all the plug-ins in your computer to do this, I had to go to K's macbook as my Vaio couldn't do it.

Laurie recently posted this 100 year old family recipe on her blog and I decided to make it.  I love to learn about old recipes. It was delicious, made from dates. I used a 9 x 9 baking pan and baked it for half an hour, that was the only difference. And I didn't make the frosting. K loved it with ice cream. It's called 'Queen Elizabeth cake'.

Spinango Drink

I saved this interesting article for you. Did you know that pandas are picky eaters? We have some visiting Toronto.

I had this spinango drink from Extreme Pita and loved it.   I had tasted a sample at the gym recently. It's only 147 calories. It's something healthy to grab if you're on the go.  I suppose it would be easy enough to make your own.  They sell all kinds of frozen fruit at the supermarket these days if you didn't want to cut your own.  It's made from spinach, mangos, bananas, apple juice, orange juice