Foundation Primer

My friend S told me to mail away for this free sample of foundation primer. It promptly arrived in the mail. I had no idea what a foundation primer is, but daughter L came home and said 'Smashbox!  I use foundation primer!'  She was quite welcome to have the sample, glad it won't go to waste! Apparently you put it on, then apply your eye shadow and it has this long lasting effect or something.

Take-out Eatery

chicken katsu burger

chicken katsu noodle

chicken katsu noodle in soup

taro chips with nori and salt

Daughter L insisted on us going to this take-out Japanese/Korean eatery called Fat Ninja Bite that she discovered. It is a small place, the food was delicious as pictured above. The portions are quite large. My favourite are the taro chips flavoured with nori (edible seaweed) and a dash of Himalayan sea salt.

In other news, I hope you survived the time change to Daylight Savings Time which happened in our area yesterday.  I was so tired at the end of the day.  We are expecting a snowstorm to start this evening and through Tuesday.  The good news last I heard was that it was downgraded from 8 inches of snowfall to 4 inches.

Sunday Sketches - Cake

Welcome to Sunday Sketches! This cake piece is done on good quality textured dark blue card stock in acrylic (6" x 6"). If I have it printed up as greeting cards they could be used for weddings or birthdays.  I'm very conscious of adding some depth these days so I decided to add the black background.

Wine Tour

Daughter L had a getaway with friends at Niagara on the Lake. She stayed at a nice hotel and took a fabulous wine tour. In addition to excellent and plentiful food and wine pairing samples, she learned so much. It seems the region is a wine micro climate similar to the wine regions in Europe. There is a concord grape that grows there naturally but they had trouble cultivating the fine grapes such as merlot, pinot noir, etc. They developed a grafting technique which allows these wine grapes to grow on the trunk of the concord grape vine. Now they export these quality grapes to the winemakers. In addition, there is a local winery that makes its own award winning and highly rated wines.

The nice part is that the hotel where L stayed left roses in her room each day so she saved them for me, as pictured above! She wants us all to go on this tour but I'm thinking I'd be drunk after tasting about 2 wines, that's me!

Paint Party Friday - Happy 6th Birthday

It's Paint Party Friday's 6th birthday! Here is my party piece, what could be better than a yummy cupcake! It's done on good quality textured pink cardstock (6" x 6") in acrylic. Thanks so much to Eva and Kristin for hosting all these fun years, it's incredible how fast the time has gone.

18 years in the making

I picked up this Stevia chocolate bar for 50c on clearance for my diabetic husband. It has a real coconut flavour. He says it's ok, of course he much prefers a real chocolate bar. Maybe he is not fond of dark chocolate.

Adam posted an interesting fact on Alexander Fleming the other day. Fleming, a biologist, discovered penicillin accidentally in 1927. I went to Wikipedia to learn more about this. It seems Fleming was studying bacteria and returned from vacation to find that one of his cultures had become contaminated with a fungus. He noticed the bacteria around it had been destroyed. He published his discovery in a scientific journal in 1929. However subsequent clinical trials proved inconclusive. The problem may have been that it was initially used as a surface antiseptic. Fleming kept trying but gave up in 1940 just at the time some chemists (Chain, Florey, Heatley) from Oxford started to research it for mass production using government grants. They devised the correct structure of penicillin and were then able mass produce it. The drug was used to treat wounded allies after Pearl Harbour in 1944. This led to mass production and distribution in 1945.

It was interesting to me that this miracle drug was 18 years in the making! It certainly required a lot of teamwork. 

Scribble Picnic - Umbrella

Welcome to Scribble Picnic! The theme this week is 'Umbrella'. Here is my piece in acrylic on textured purple cardstock (4" x 6").