🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Frosty and Fun Food!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Frosty. Bugs Bunny has taken on the role of The Frost King! I drew this with pastel pencils on blue art paper! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! I'll be visiting blogs this weekend! Life is crazy for me!!! But I'm very happy! ♥

Halloween is over, but the only food I have to share is my Halloween fun food this week! So, 😋for our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I have a ghostly pizza, this year's Boo-rritos and skull cakes!

I carved Bugs into my pumpkin this year, it was a challenge alright! I also made shrunken heads out of apples!

On the video front, For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing these videos for the sake of having them embedded into my post (this helps Google and YouTube rank my videos in their search engine). Here's my video on how to make a Spider Web Cheesecake!

I also have a video on How To Make Shrunken Heads from apples!

Also, How To Paint Ghosts For Halloween!

Jack's eye growth came back, so he had to have it removed again at the vet, poor boy. He's doing okay though. Raven is doing her best to stay close to him during his recover!

Home stuff: I was having septic tank issues recently, actually it was a problem with the leech field. As with the house and foundation, I don't think the previous owners maintained the septic system at all. Before calling a company ($$$), I bought this stuff and it worked like a charm. They have a whole line of products that I'm going to use for maintenance, I love it because it's environmentally friendly and non-corrosive...still learning as I go! 

I've been blessed again friends with government funding for my home. First I got the tin roof, then the spray foam insulation done...now I'm being offered a mini-split heat pump and installation for free from the power company! I have more research to do but basically this is a system that heats and cools and is much more energy efficient than baseboard heaters and air conditioners! The assessment is today! There are so many programs out there, you just need to find them!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic 🎨 and 😋 delicious 😋 creations! See you soon!!! 💗 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)

November 10th - In The Woods

November 17th - Cups

November 24th - Jungle

December 1st - Bells

December 8th - Constellation

December 15th - Gift Wrap

December 22nd - A Christmas Scene

December 29th - New Year's Eve Party!

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Sunday at midnight!

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🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Trick Or Treat and Love My Dog Cake!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊 (The 2023 art date prompts are ready!)

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Trick or Treat! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs Bunny is dressing up as Daffy Duck this year. He's trick or treating at Witch Hazel's house! I hope she's in a nicer mood this time, the last time Bugs went to her house, she tried to toss him in a pot and cook him! 😲

I drew Jack Skellington from A Nightmare Before Christmas with ink pens and graphite pencils. I watch this movie every Halloween season!

Here are some painted ghosts for you! I'll be uploading the painting lesson on my kid's channel this weekend!

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made some fun Halloweenie food! Here is a Mummy Stromboli...after I put all of this together, I realized I should have called it a stromBOOli!!

A Spider Marinara Dip Bowl made from pizza dough! You just tear off the legs and dip them into the Marinara Sauce!!

Eyeball Spaghetti! Always a favourite!

Here's my Spider Web Cheesecake! I'll upload the how-to video this weekend! I made all of these ahead of time so I could record them and upload them to my YouTube channel! 

Boo-ritos from Halloween Past!

I think we'll be eating our annual Boo-Rito's on Halloween! ☺

I also made a treat for the dogs, the Love My Dog Cake!!

On the video front:

For Rain Frances Art, I recorded the Jack Skellington drawing lesson.

For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw Count Dracula!

For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing my Halloween Spider Marinara Dip Bowl!

The Eyeball Spaghetti video is a YouTube #shorts video, meaning it's recorded vertically and under a minute.

Here is the Love My Dog Cake video, at the end of the video I give Jack and Raven a slice and they love it!

Here is How To Make A Mummy Stromboli For Halloween!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic 🎨 and 😋 delicious 😋 creations! See you soon!!! 💗 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)

November 3rd - Frosty

November 10th - In The Woods

November 17th - Cups

November 24th - Jungle

December 1st - Bells

December 8th - Constellation

December 15th - Gift Wrap

December 22nd - A Christmas Scene

December 29th - New Year's Eve Party!

2023 Art Date Prompts are here!

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Sunday at midnight!

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🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Haunted House!!!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Haunted House. Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs Bunny is doing his impression of Chip Potts from Disney's Beauty and the Beast! Speaking of that movie, it's so sad that Angela Lansbury passed away, she was awesome.

⬆️⬆️ For today's prompt, I drew Herman Munster from The Munsters...after all, they do live in a haunted house! I loved that show!

⬆️⬆️ 😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made some delicious Banana Bread!!! (Recipe and video coming soon!)

⬆️⬆️ I also wanted to share my morning "coffee-cino" with you in my new Jack Skellington mug! ☺

⬆️⬆️ The house is FIXED...the guys did a great job and it cost me next to nothing - I'm so relieved!

On the video front, thanks to everyone for their congratulatory messages from my last post! ♥

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I recorded How To Draw Herman Munster With Charcoal Pencils!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw A Witch!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing Pet Care: Grooming My Dogs Nails Using A Dremel Tool.

⬆️⬆️ I also have some cooking videos! How To Make Thin Crust Pizza Dough.

⬆️⬆️ And How To Make Marinara Sauce.

⬆️⬆️ And Finally How To Make A 4-Bean Salad!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic 🎨 and 😋 delicious 😋 creations! See you soon!!! 💗 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)

October 27th: Trick? Or Treat?

November 3rd - Frosty
November 10th - In The Woods
November 17th - Cups
November 24th - Jungle
December 1st - Bells
December 8th - Constellation
December 15th - Gift Wrap
December 22nd - A Christmas Scene
December 29th - New Year's Eve Party!

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Sunday at midnight!

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🎇🎇 Celebrating An Achievement! 🎇🎇

I just wanted to send a big THANK YOU to all of my friends who have been so supportive of my efforts with my four YouTube channels! I've fallen in love with creating videos! 

I started my YouTube journey as a business venture. I even took a 3-month course on how to optimize your YouTube channel - which has proven to be very successful! 

Once my disability pension dries up, I will need added sources of income. Once you reach 1000 subscribers and have over 4500 hours of watch time on your channel, YouTube will "monetize" your videos. This means some ads will appear before videos and YouTube pays you a teeny tiny small percentage of money per minute watched. At first, I'm sure I will make probably one or two pennies per month at most! But as the channels grow, they very well could provide me with that added income I will need in 10 years time!

✨✨ Rain's Kitchen and Garden reached 1000 subscribers this past week!!! And I have over 11,000 watch hours. This was a goal I thought I would only reach in a few years time! This is a big achievement for me! ✨✨

Rain Frances Art is chugging along at just over 100 subscribers. I know that art tutorials are niche, and I'm very grateful for all of those who continue to support this channel! When I started this channel over a year ago, I really thought this would be the one that reached 1000 subs first! Lessons learned!

Rain Frances Art For Kids is quickly growing! I have about 130 subscribers there. This is such a fun channel and I'm so happy I started it! 

Spiritual Rain, which is my personal spiritual channel, has started to gain some popularity at just under 100 subscribers. I've met so many beautiful and kind people through the Tarot community on YouTube, it's been such a blessing!

Besides everything else that is going on in my life, I guess this explains why I'm such a busy bee!! 😊 

So thank you again my friends!  💗💗

🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Lost and Thanksgiving Dinner!!!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Lost. Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Instead of a Looney Tune this week, I drew a Disney character! When Snow White is cast out of her wicked stepmother's castle, she gets lost in the woods! That insecure queen turns herself into the witch to try to tempt Snow White into eating the poison apple! Here's a question....what's YOUR poison apple? What tempts you? 😈

⬆️ House Drama...we were investigating a leak in the basement...one of our neighbours is a contractor so he sent a few of his guys over to help us out. He decided to take a look-see under our vinyl siding on one corner of the house...

⬆️ It turns out that the beams and floor sill on that corner are completely rotted from water damage. See that grosse pink insulation? That should be UNSEEN, behind the exterior wall! I went right up there to look, and I could see my kitchen wall - exposed to the outside of the house!!! When the original owners had the power put in, the meter was never water-sealed or caulked so there was a slow leak over the last 20 years that basically rotted all of the wood around and under it.

⬆️ This is one of the beams in a dusty pile by the house. Pete simply put his hand under the vinyl siding and it just fell apart like dust in the wind (😡breathe Rain). Luckily they are making time this week to fix it for us - but it's going to take jacking up the house; and replacing the floor sill, the beams and pretty much the entire exterior wall from roof to floor. I think I want to just hide out for the winter and hope that there will be no more surprises when I come out of hibernation!

Good thing there was comfort food on the menu this week:

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I'm sharing my Thanksgiving dinner with you! Canadian Thanksgiving was this past Monday and I made my traditional Thanksgiving Poutine! ⬆️⬆️

For those who don't know, a poutine is a dish made with French fries, cheese and topped with hot gravy - well mine is made with delicious Thanksgiving toppings! 

For those who celebrated, did you have a nice Thanksgiving? What did you eat?

⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ The toppings were my Bread Stuffing, Cauliflower Gratin, Mashed Potatoes and Cranberry Sauce.

⬆️ I then topped the Poutine with curd cheese and Cheddar cheese...and poured hot Chicken Gravy on top! We were eating this for days! I'm going to link up the how-to videos below that I uploaded onto my YouTube channel!

On the video front:

⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I recorded How To Paint A Scene From Gretel And Hansel! This is one of my new favourite movies!

⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw A Mummy!

⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing a few gardening videos, first up: Last Garden Harvest! Fingerling Potatoes from the Tater Tires!

⬆️ I also kind of decided that I'm scaling down the garden BIG TIME next year, here's where I talk about that: Facing The Facts About My Garden! - Lessons Learned! Harsh Realities Every Gardener Faces!

⬆️ I'm embedding the video for my Thanksgiving Poutine and below for the toppings videos, for those interested!

⬆️ Here is the video for: Cauliflower Gratin

⬆️ Here is the video for: Bread Stuffing

⬆️ Here is the video for: Mashed Potatoes

⬆️ Here is the video for: Cranberry Sauce

⬆️ Here is the video for: Chicken Gravy

⬆️ The Coyotes are close again. They always get really close to home around this time of year. I was out in the backyard as they began howling! They were just down the road by the stream!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic 🎨 and 😋 delicious 😋 creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)

October 20th: Haunted House

October 27th: Trick? Or Treat?

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Sunday at midnight!

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🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Masks and LOTS of FOOD!!!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Masks. Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs Bunny is heading to a masquerade ball tonight. He chose to dress up as Marie Antoinette!

Note: I've changed the link widget time to end on Sundays at midnight. I used to leave it open all week, but noticed come Monday evenings, there were lots of spam links, so I'm going to see if closing it on Sundays will help with that!

Since the Halloween season is in full swing (at least for me!), I chose to draw a scene from the movie Halloween: H20. This is a scene where Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode. She looks up through the window in her door and who's standing right there? A masked Michael Myers! I tried to capture her horrified face with charcoal pencils on black art paper, but she looks a little more stunned than horrified in my drawing!

⬆️⬆️ 😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I have a lot to share this week! I've been experimenting with vegetarian food lately. I made a delicious Zucchini and Ricotta Cheese Burger with Herbed Aioli. This was great but it had the consistency more of a fancy omelet than a burger!

⬆️⬆️ I used my 3-Ingredient Homemade Ricotta Cheese for the burgers!

⬆️⬆️ Baked pasta with broiled Cheddar cheese on top is always a staple here!

⬆️⬆️ I've been experimenting with bread recipes lately. I have a large project for my YouTube channel that I'm preparing. It's all about bread baking - it's in the works! This was my first experiment making Old Fashioned White Bread - fabulous!

⬆️⬆️  Rain's Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies!!! A mix of dark and milk chocolate for the chips makes the flavour so wonderful. I use Lindt chocolate for these!

⬆️⬆️ This is the first time I made a Baked Apple Galette and it was yummy! Perfect for Fall! I found a recipe online but for the life of me, can't find it anymore...but there are plenty of recipes out there that you can try for this dessert! Next week will be all about Canadian Thanksgiving!

Doggie News: Jack is continuing to have eye trouble. He developed an ulcer on his left eye and we had to have a procedure done twice for him. After 6 weeks on antibiotic/anti-inflammatory drops, he is finally started to recover. ♥ Raven twisted her bad knee while playing. She was wearing her brace but her energy levels were through the roof and she overdid it! She is currently on pain killers and anti-inflammatory medication...she's hopping around on one leg...I hope she heals soon! But...this will be an ongoing issue with her. ♥

Frosty nights are here, I wake up each morning with a crunchy lawn! The garden is winding down. All I have left to do is harvest the potatoes from the tires and remove weeds and old plants for next season! I learned a lot about what I can grow here and what I can't!!! Look at my sorry harvest of tomatoes this year! Thank goodness I found that farm for my canned tomatoes! I'm trying to ripen these in my window!

On the video front:

⬆️⬆️ Here's a 10-second video, it's a Little Blooper from my garlic planting video!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I made a video of the Halloween: H20 Charcoal Drawing!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw Frankenstein's Monster!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing My First Potato Harvest!

⬆️⬆️ ⬆️⬆️  How To Make 3-Ingredient Ricotta Cheese!

⬆️⬆️ And finally, my video on Planting Fall Garlic!

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic 🎨 and 😋 delicious 😋 creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date: click on the links below for a description of the prompt and inspiring images! (Prompts are optional!)

October 13th: Lost

October 20th: Haunted House

October 27th: Trick? Or Treat?

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! 😋

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Sunday at midnight!

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