Tulips

Today's piece is entitled 'Tulips'. It's acrylic on cardstock (11"h x 8.5" w).  It sort of just came together as I painted it, changing the colours several times until it looked right. I usually have a better  plan in mind beforehand.  But I was determined to make it work.

Linking to Sunday Sketches.

Easter Weekend

Happy Easter Weekend! L and her boyfriend are home from school and spending the long weekend with us.  L made these delicious cookies:

Easter Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are some of the chocolates I bought.  I ended up doing treat bags for the young adults, I couldn't help myself. What are your favourite kinds of chocolate?

Paint Party Friday - The Tower

Earlier this month, I stayed at a hotel for a night and there was a view of an old Tower from my window. I grabbed a sheet of the hotel's notepad (4" x 4") and started sketching its intricate details. So here you have it outlined in a fine point black marker and coloured in with watercolour pencils!  Today a condominium complex and parking garage has been built around the tower.

Linking to Paint Party Friday.

Puns

These are good, hope they'll give you  a chuckle!

     
> When chemists die, they barium.
>
> Jokes about German sausage are the
>         wurst.
>
> A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now
>         a seasoned veteran.
>
> I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid.
>         He says he can stop any time.
>
> How does Moses make his tea?
>         Hebrews it.
>
> I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then
>         it dawned on me.
>
> This girl said she recognized me from the
>         vegetarian club, but I'd never
> met herbivore.
>
> I'm reading a book
>         about anti-gravity. I can't put
> it down.
>
> I did a theatrical
>         performance about puns. It was a
> play on words.
>
> They told me I
>         had type A blood, but it was a
> Type-O.
>
> A dyslexic man walks into
>         a bra.
>
> PMS jokes aren't funny, period.
>
> Why were the
>         Indians here first?  They had
> reservations.
>
> Class trip to
>         the Coca-Cola factory.  I hope
> there's no pop
>         quiz.
>
> Energizer Bunny arrested.  Charged with
>         battery.
>
> I didn't like my beard at first.  Then it grew on
>         me.
>
> How do you make holy water?  Boil the hell out of
>         it!
>
> Did you hear about the cross eyed teacher who lost her job
>         because she couldn't control her
> pupils?
>
> When you get a bladder
>         infection, urine trouble.
>
> What does a clock do when it's
>         hungry?  It goes back four
> seconds.
>
> I wondered why the
>         baseball was getting bigger.
> Then it hit me!
>
> Broken pencils
>         are pointless.
>
> I tried to catch some fog.  I mist.
>        
>
> What do you call a dinosaur with extensive vocabulary? A
>         thesaurus.
>
> England has no kidney bank, but it does have a 
>         Liverpool .
>
> I used to be a banker, but then I lost
>         interest.
>
> I dropped out of communism class because of lousy
>         Marx.
>
> All the toilets in  New York 's police stations have
>         been stolen. Police have nothing
> to go on.
>
> I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.
>
> Haunted French pancakes give me
>         the crepes.
>
> Velcro - what a rip off!
>
> Cartoonist found dead
>         in home.  Details are sketchy.
>
> Earthquake in 
>         Washington ,  D.C. it’s
> obviously the government's fault.
>
> I
>         used to think I was indecisive,
> but now I'm not so sure.
>
> Be kind
>         to your dentist. He has
> fillings, too.__._,_.___

A trip to the liquor store

I don't really drink but made a trip to the liquor store to purchase these 2 bottles of alcohol for cooking. One is a port wine that I use to make a Chinese wine soup. They discontinued the EMU 999 Australian port wine that I used to use for this recipe.  The other is for a new recipe for Japanese simmered chicken with Daikon radish. It calls for Saki. I love Daikon radish and wanted to try cooking it. I'm quite happy with the way it turned out.  But that is a maybe a post for another day.

Creative Tuesdays - Skyscrapers

I decided to remove my original entry as I'm concerned about violating copyright. I saw an image of a tower in downtown Toronto and liked the perspective of it, as did the earlier commenters. However I've decided it looks too similar to the photo and noticed it has copyright. Sorries.

I've snuck in this photo of another take on the theme. Hope you like it, the copyright on this one is mine!  It's acrylic on cardstock (11" x 8.5").

Linking to Creative Tuesdays.

Iceberg

A new laptop

Well, I'm now the owner of a brand new Sony Vaio laptop! We were on the point of getting
the latest Lenovo which boasted 1 terrabyte of storage but the salesman convinced M into getting the Sony Vaio for its faster processor, although only 750 Gigabytes of storage. The Lenovo had excellent reviews but the reasoning is that processor speed outweighs storage. 750 gigabytes is a lot of storage anyway. New laptops seem to come with Windows 8 operating systems, which is a bit different than Windows 7. I'm adjusting however (curse curse).  In fact the laptop was hanging yesterday but it was likely the internet connection acting up because it worked fine at someone else's house.  Changing laptops is a bit like moving house, lots of things to adjust to, until you settle in.  M says we have 2 weeks to decide if we want to return it for whatever reason. 

If you are interested in caregiving issues, here is an interesting Canadian website that shares caregiver stories and supports caregivers.  I read it from the Good Times magazine website.