🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Embossed!

 

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Embossed! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! I KNOW this was a toughie my friends! And I seriously was wondering what I was thinking when I came up with this prompt lol...I write all the art prompts for the coming year in November and they surprise me just as much as they surprise you!! ☺

So, one of the definitions of embossed is "decorated with a design that stands out in relief"...I tried to do foil embossing art and it just didn't work out so I opted for some 3D trick art! Tweety seems to be popping out of the page!

⬆️⬆️ They look guilty of something! Jack is still doing very well my friends! Always happy to report that! ♥

LOTS OF BIRDS!!!

Chickadee - don't worry he landed on top of the trail cam, didn't fly into it!

Blue Jays

Grackle Fight! (Kind of Matrix-y isn't it?)

Hairy Woodpecker, Grackle and some Mourning Doves
(I'm sure it's a Hairy because I've seen this fella all week and he has quite a long bill!)

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋,  I had fun in the kitchen in the last week! I made some of my French Baguettes.

⬆️⬆️ And we need to dip those baguettes into something don't we? How about some Marinara Sauce! After this is all cooked, I blend it so it's nice and smooth - perfect for bread dippin'!

⬆️⬆️ Or a nice cheese fondue? This is my Smoked Cheddar and Apple Fondue.

⬆️⬆️ One of the key ingredients in this fondue is Homemade Apple Butter!

⬆️⬆️ I also loaded up on more Homemade Chunky Pizza Sauce.

On the video front:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I did a little Pet Doodle video!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw Upside Down Cake - With A Pineapple!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing my video on How To Make Cheese and Apple Fondue!

⬆️⬆️ I'm also sharing How To Make Slow Cooked Apple Butter!

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!)

May 11th: Hats
May 18th: Moon Phases
May 25th: Petals

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: Twisted!

 

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Twisted! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs is enjoying a carrot martini with a twist of lime! 

Comments: I counted 79 comments that I posted on Wednesday morning and I didn't get that message. I know I left a lot less comments on Blogs last week, so who really knows why I got shut down like that!

⬆️⬆️ I also painted a watercolor seahorse with a little twisted tail! I was just playing around with dots!

CALLING ALL BIRDING FRIENDS!!!

⬆️⬆️ I got some nice photos from the trail cam. I've been trying to distinguish Ravens from Crows. I consulted my birding book and I'm a little confused about the tail feather shape. According to my book's drawings, they really look like Ravens...but they don't seem to have the shagginess of a Raven. Are these American Crows?

⬆️⬆️ This is the heartbreaking scene I see any time I leave the house! Oh the guilt lol!!! Jack is still stable!!

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋,  I made a Cauliflower and Cheese (Jarlsberg) Quiche. I was inspired by Christine's Crustless Quiche last week!

On the video front:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I'm sharing my Seahorse Dot Painting!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw Fuzzy Monsters!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I've got the Cauliflower and Cheese Quiche video!

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!)

May 4th: Embossed
May 11th: Hats
May 18th: Moon Phases
May 25th: Petals

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: Library!

 

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Library! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Tweety Bird is enjoying a quiet morning reading at his local library. I wish I had time to read more!!! 

⬆️⬆️ This annoys me to no end...I finally have a morning to visit blogs and I'm SHUT DOWN. Grrr.

⬆️⬆️ Tweety isn't the only bird in this post! I got the trailcam set up in the back again! We have Mourning Doves - and friends, is that a Purple Finch?

⬆️⬆️ Grackles (TB your favourite! 😁😁)

⬆️⬆️ Tough guy Grackle puffing up!!!

⬆️⬆️ Here's a short video showing the Grackles and Red-Winged Blackbirds. I filmed it from my window because the slightest movement has them all flying off!

⬆️⬆️ Evening Grosbeak with a Red-Winged Blackbird

⬆️⬆️ Raven and Jack. Jack's monthly vet visit was good! He is still wheezing, but his breathing has not gotten worse, so (fingers crossed!) the tumour hasn't grown in the last month! ☺☺☺

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋,  I made a very simple pasta dish: Pasta Aglio e Olio - Italian for Pasta with garlic and olive oil. A whole bulb of roasted garlic went into this, with some olive oil, parsley and a little salt. With red pepper flakes (I omitted that) and Parmesan cheese (I didn't have any), it's the authentic recipe. I did add a splash of white wine though, it was so good! And you'd think the garlic would overwhelm but it didn't due to the roasting! I'll share the recipe soon, I haven't had a chance to write it all down!

⬆️⬆️ Speaking of garlic, the bulbs I planted in the fall are popping up!!! 

On the video front:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I'm sharing How To Paint A Tomato With Watercolors!

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

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing How To Make Easy Pie Crust.

⬆️⬆️ I'm also showing How To Blind Bake Your Pie Crust.

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!)

April 27th: Twisted

May 4th: Embossed
May 11th: Hats
May 18th: Moon Phases
May 25th: Petals

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: Brushes!

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Brushes! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!  Bugs is taking care of those pearly whites to make sure he can always chomp away at his carrots!

COMMENT TIP: If you are having issues leaving comments, (like we all do with Blogger), click your control (Ctrl) and F5 keys together (if you have those keys). This will clear the cache of that particular page and maybe....just maybe....you might be able to leave a comment! (I stress maybe!) ☺

⬆️⬆️ I pulled out my watercolor brushes and painted this abstract rainbow!

⬆️⬆️ 🐦 🐦 To my birding friends: I'm pretty sure I saw a Northern Harrier the other day on the blueberry fields. These photos are not that great but the behaviour was interesting. I read on the website Boreal Songbirds Initiative that the Northern Harrier male is: "usually seen gliding unsteadily over marshes with its wings held in a shallow V." I thought at first that it was having trouble flying, but it kept up this behaviour, seemed to be hunting. 

What do you guys think?

⬆️⬆️ More critters...there's a handsome little fox hanging around my woods, the trail cam picked him up the other night!

⬆️⬆️ I have tomatoes growing in the basement garden!!! The grow lights are doing their job!

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made some delicious Challah Bread! I love this bread. Our friend Jeanie posted her hubby Rick's homemade Challah bread on her recent blog post...it looks SOOO good. Well done Rick, makes me realize I need to work on my braiding!!! ☺

On the video front:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I'm sharing How To Paint An Abstract Rainbow With Watercolours!

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

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing How To Make Challah Bread!

⬆️⬆️ I'm also sharing my Grow Light Garden Update!

⬆️⬆️ And here's a quick video of Jack and Raven walking on the blueberry field trail!

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!)

April 20th: Library

April 27th: Twisted

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: Folklore!

 

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Folklore! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!  Granny is reading some Southern Folklore to Tweety Bird so that he can learn about his roots!

⬆️⬆️ Well, this doesn't really have to do with folklore, but I drew Dan Levy with charcoal pencils. He's the son of Canadian actor/comedian/writer/genius Eugene Levy. He has his dad's comic genes that's for sure! And the eyebrows! He wrote and starred in the really funny show Schitt's Creek. ☺

⬆️⬆️ Jack is doing okay, the meds he's taking are helping him to sleep and rest. He hasn't had a nose bleed in two weeks, I'm happy to report! I'm taking this day by day!

😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋, I made some bunny pancakes using my recipe for French Crepes. This was so much fun! Nice for an Easter breakfast!

On the video front:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I'm sharing How To Draw Dan Levy With Charcoal Pencils!

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

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing the Bunny Pancakes video!

⬆️⬆️ I'm also sharing a video about Tree Stratification. I bought some tree seeds last summer and I started them last week. I'll hopefully be planting 100 conifers on my land in the fall!

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!)

April 13th: Brushes

April 20th: Library

April 27th: Twisted

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: Primary Colours!

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Primary Colours! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!  Tweety Bird is ready for a 3D movie marathon!

Note: I wanted to let everyone know that I will be answering all comments from now on! I started with the last post, so check back if you are interested! 

 

The three primary colours are yellow, red and blue. By mixing any of these three colours, you can get all of the other colours on the colour wheel. By adding white and black, you can get different shades of the colours too!

⬆️⬆️ I also painted this robin's nest with watercolours. 

⬆️⬆️ I pulled out the charcoals yesterday to draw Donald Sutherland, it's been a while since I've done a portrait and I kind of miss doing them!

"Seaside" Spinach!!!

"Buttercrunch" Lettuce!

⬆️⬆️ Things are starting to grow under the grow lights in the basement! I have some spinach and lettuces popping up!

⬆️⬆️ 😋For our 😋 Dinner Date 😋,  I made a loaf of Olive Bread! This was so good, I dipped it in olive oil and Balsamic vinegar. A friend suggested it would be really good with brushetta too, I'll try that next time!

⬆️⬆️ I have another wine recommendation! Carnivor Zinfandel from California. At the New Brunswick Liquor stores, there are several vintages and I chose the oldest they had from 2020. This was SO smooth and full bodied. Rarely do I taste what the label suggest, but my palate was spot on with this one. "Bold notes of dark cherry and blackberry jam complement hints of mocha and toasted oak" - normally I cringe at any chocolate flavour in red wine, but this was so subtle that it worked! It's a bit pricey at $23 (where I live), so it's a once in a while treat!

On the video front:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art, I'm sharing How To Paint A Robin's Nest With Watercolor Paints!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids, I have How To Draw Spring Flowers! 

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden, I'm sharing How To Make Olive Bread! 

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!)

April 6th: Folklore

April 13th: Brushes

April 20th: Library

April 27th: Twisted

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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