Splatter Painting

This month I started a new challenge over at Instagram called February Flowers #28februaryflowers2022 #28februaryflowers hosted by @amanda_evanston. She gave out daily prompts this year and one of them was 'splatter'. So it is a flower a day for the month of February.

 Thanks to Lorraine for introducing me to this fun art coop.

I wanted to show you my splatter paint piece and a few progress photos.  I had never tried splatter painting before, hate making a mess you know.  But the results were quite a pleasant surprise.  The final photo was taken in the evening so if affected the colour of my cardstock background.

 

Chili from Scratch

 In a bid to cook healthier food I made my own chili using this recipe.  I didn't want to use a commercial chili seasoning mix like those from Clubhouse.  It tastes better than the one using a commercial seasoning mix!

I still used a lot of canned ingredients such as canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, canned chickpeas and canned kidney beans.  I did drain the cans before use.  It is not the first time I have made chili from scratch, but it has been a long time.  It came together very quickly and it is a good thing!

Pasta Sauce

 I made my own pasta sauce instead of buying my regular store brand in an effort to cut excess sodium from our diet.  I used this recipe, albeit using a can of crushed tomatoes.  It is quite flavourful and hopefully I can continue to do this.  It was good with pasta and a bit of parmesan cheese as shown above.

I added some ground beef and pork to the sauce as pictured below, it was good sprinkled with a bit of parmesan cheese.

The next step may be to use actual fresh tomatoes in the summer!

As a postscript to this post I found a supermarket sauce with less sodium and it is quite delicious so after all that I have to go with what the everyone else seems to eat!  

Colourful Breakfast

 Showing a colourful breakfast I had one morning.  I decided to microwave an egg for 35 seconds in a lightly oiled cup.  It came out over easy and I put it between a slice of multi-grain toast.  I ate it with cherry tomatoes, blueberries and blackberries.  A bonus was having just a cup to wash instead of a frying pan.

Paint Party Friday - My Niece's horse and the Moon

 Welcome to Kristin and Eva's Paint Party Friday!  This painting, an ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") is inspired by my niece's photo of her horse and the moon.  

Rain's Thursday Art Date - Excitement

 Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art Date's 'Excitement' theme.  Here is my interpretation!

I am guest hosting the art date for the rest of the month.

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February Feelings 💕
February 24th: Despair

Mythical March
March 3rd: 🐉 Dragons🐉
March 10th: ✨ Fairies✨
March 17th: 😇 Angels😇
March 24th: ✨ Unicorns✨
March 31st: 🐙 Mermaids and Water Creatures 🐙

This art date is all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

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