Yummy Giveaway notice...

Two of my Fave food items; chocolate and roses! The talented herbalist, Darcy Blue is mixing both along with other herbs as a special Valentines day offering. She's also giving away a free product to a lucky person! This product is going on my "list of want" for my lover this Valentine's Day!
http://gaiasgifts.blogspot.com/2011/01/chocolate-and-roses-valentines-giveaway.html

I'm joining up with Iron Craft for their weekly challenges

http://theironcraft.blogspot.com/

These kinds of challenges are fun and help to keep me motivated to get busy!

Hommage a Klee

 Playing with the dark of the year and Photoshop :)

new cowl finished!

Now that I live in a cooler climate, I can play with knitting and crocheting! This is a new cowl I just finished..... the idea was for it to look tribal... not sure the day-glo yarn carries that off; and also to use the Knifty Knitter that I bought 4 years ago. I don't like to store things that don't get used, so I decided it either needed to be usefull or go..... I did the body of the cowl with the large ring and then added on the design elements using my imagination :)

starting a new group

     Settling into my new/ old locale (I've lived in the Seattle area before) and looking to meet up with other crafters. I couldn't find quite a local group, so I'm starting one up myself! We'll be meeting at the Burien Press on 152nd St., from 5-7 pm on Tuesdays. It's right across the street from the library. This group is primarily for knit and crochet, and it's called Dang Knit!  I'm so hoping some of you will want to do some friendly yarn-bombing! ie, stuff we won't get arrested for :P

new necklace

This new necklace I designed represents Goddess energy: white shell for purity, the sparkle of clear consiousness, a moon dangle, dragonflies for the transformative power of nature :)

more yumminess

I was in the kitchen looking at a bag of tangerines from Costco; you know where you get like 20 of the beauties at once, and thinking "how are these going to get eaten?" Cause even eating 1 a day in my fruit salad for breakfast, they'll go bad before I can eat them all. My boyfriend love sweets, but there's no way he's going to peel a tangerine and eat it; it would be more accurate to say he loves SUGAR. An idea started forming in my head as I also had half a coconut worth of coconut meat......... "I wonder if coconut and tangerine together would taste like a creamsicle?" Now, I'm sure someone else has totally come up with this type of recipe before, but it was new to me, so I set out to try it. First I put the coconut into the blender with @ 2 cups of good water (I'm not very technical about measuring) Blended it up and strained it thru a nut milk bag (ok, it was really a wort bag for homebrewed beer, same diff)

I'll throw the strained coconut milk into the dehydrator to use as coconut flour or to roll up raw food treats

Love my Excaliber dehydrator. Next I peeled 5 of the tangerines and threw them whole into the blender cause I'm kind of lazy; blended them up and strained that in the nut milk/ wort bag into another container.

Then I poured the two liquids back into the blender to blend them together!

Yum, tastes just like a creamsicle, but not so sugary. Now I would be happy at this point but the previously mentioned boyfriend likes it sweet, so I chopped up some fresh stevia from my garden and threw it in. It'll steep in the juice for a few hours until we have dinner and I'll just pout it thru a strainer when I"m ready to serve! I prefer not to use the overly processed and bleached stevia powder from the store, but if that's all you can find I guess it'll have to do. Tell you what, the first person that subscribes to my blog and sends me their address will get a packet of stevia seeds in the mail. :)