🎨😋 Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Dance!

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is DANCE! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs Bunny is rockin' his track suit and doing a little break dancing! He makes the "handstand freeze" look easy! To be accurate, the style is called "breaking" or "b-boying".

I'm turning the clock back 40 years (yikes)...I went to Break Dance '84 with my friends. I was 16 and hung out with the breaking troop Mystic Crew. They competed in this and I think they won 3rd prize. It was SO MUCH FUN to watch these guys and gals breaking, spinning, freezing and popping! It's a very athletic and acrobatic dance style.

Here is my "Breaking Silhouette" painted with acrylics

I was very much into dancing in the 80's. I knew the "Thriller" dance by heart! I could also moonwalk. My friend Bertram from the Mystic Crew taught me the "arm wave", the "robot" and the "electric boogaloo", but I could never master the moves where you had to rely on arm strength. Weak wrists!!!

 

Time for a snack after all of that dancing. For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I made a very comforting and healthy Lentil Soup with Spinach. Click on the link for the written recipe and see below for the video recipe!

Jack and Raven

We got a little bit of snow on New Year's Eve but it's pretty much melted already. It feels like spring here in the Maritimes and I have to say I'm not hating it!

I'll be visiting your blogs this week my friends, I want to catch up on the TADD posts I've missed! And I want to thank those who sent me lovely holiday cards...it always warms my heart 💚to receive snaily mail! 🐌

Here are my latest videos:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art : How To Paint A Country Winter Scene

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids : How To Draw A Seal

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden : How To Make Lentil Soup With Spinach

⬆️⬆️ On my channel, Spiritual Rain, my latest "Bedtime Stories Podcast" features me reading the fairy tale The Little Girl and the Winter Whirlwinds

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:  (Prompts are optional!) Click on the link for inspirational images!

Jan 11: Coffee Shop
Jan 18: Matches
Jan 25: Clocks

Feb 01: Candles
Feb 08: Far Away
Feb 15: Lips
Feb 22: Ladders
Feb 29: Eggs

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: Word(s) for 2024

 

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Word(s) for 2024! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs just wants to feel comfy and safe in his little rabbit hole and I wish that for him too!

I have chosen "Harmony At Home" as my phrase for 2024. I've lived through a few rocky years and I'm done with drama and conflict. My focus this year is on me, my growing business projects and peace at home! Life is too short for anything else!! 💖

For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 it's pizza pizza pizza!!! I live so far away from any restaurant that delivery doesn't exist...and by the time you get home, any take-out is cold. To add to the authenticity of the take-out experience, I bought some pizza boxes on Amazon!

It was a nice quiet holiday, though I lost power for 2 days around the 20th. Good thing it was mild outside. This fall I invested in a generator so at least I could have some hot food and plug in my modem. The outage gave me an opportunity to finally do my Looney Tunes puzzle!

The pets got gifts from Santa! Jack got a little Snoopy, Raven got a little Rottweiler. Jack is declining very quickly, he may not be with us much longer, but I will keep you all posted. 💘

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Here are my latest videos:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids : How To Draw Hot Cocoa!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden : How To Make Cranberry Mimosas

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:  (Prompts are optional!) Click on the link for inspirational images!

Jan 04: Dance
Jan 11: Coffee Shop
Jan 18: Matches
Jan 25: Clocks

Feb 01: Candles
Feb 08: Far Away
Feb 15: Lips
Feb 22: Ladders
Feb 29: Eggs

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: Christmas Cookies

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Christmas Cookies! Porky Pig is so happy with his gingerbread cookies, I think he's on his last one!!! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

 

For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I made some Christmas Cookies! I made Shortbread Bites, they are so easy and delicious!

🌲🌲HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF MY FRIENDS!!! 🌲🌲

Here are my latest videos:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art :  How To Draw a Winter Tree Scene (this one is time-lapsed).

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids : How To Draw A Candy Cane!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden : How To Make Christmas Shortbread Cookie Bites.

⬆️⬆️ On my channel, Spiritual Rain, my latest "Bedtime Stories Podcast" features me reading the fairy tale Saint Nicholas And The Children.

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:  (Prompts are optional!)

Dec 28: Word(s) for 2024

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: Christmas Lights

 

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Christmas Lights! No wonder Granny didn't want to put the Christmas lights up herself!!! 😁 Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

 

For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I pulled out the waffle maker! These are really delicious. The only downside is that they get really soggy if you don't eat them right away, and it takes between 5-8 minutes for each one, so it's an "eating in shifts" type of meal! Still yummy though! I bought this a few years ago after reading Gigi's post about getting a waffle maker!!!

Many of you friends were right by my side when I was house-hunting from 2018-2020...when I lost the bid on a house in 2019...when I found and purchased my first home in 2020...when I had to move during the height of the Covid scare. Well, another dream of mine has finally come true. I have Christmas lights on my own home! This is a huge achievement for me and makes me so so happy!

Here are my latest videos:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art : I'm sharing my short video, How To Draw Tim Allen from The Santa Clause.

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids : How To Draw Snowflakes!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden : As promised, here is my video/recipe for my Goat Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms.

⬆️⬆️ On my channel, Spiritual Rain, my latest "Bedtime Stories Podcast" features me reading the fairy tale The Little Match Girl. 😞

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:  (Prompts are optional!)

Dec 21: Christmas Cookies
Dec 28: Word(s) for 2024

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: Snowed In

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Snowed In! I don't think Tweety Bird was ready for the big snowstorm! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

We got some snow this week, it's beautiful out. This Mourning Dove gave me a curious look one morning!

I wanted to share this with you. Our Blogger friend Soma from InkTorrents Graphics has a lovely webstore on her blog site. I purchased this handmade/handbound notebook from Soma. The photo doesn't do the beautiful blue colour justice, I just love it, beautifully done Soma. 💙

 

For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I made yummy Goat Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms! (click for the written recipe!) I'll have the video in next week's post if you're interested!

Here are my latest videos:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art : How To Paint A Snowy Winter Scene

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids : How To Draw Mittens!

⬆️⬆️ On my channel, Spiritual Rain, my latest "Bedtime Stories Podcast" features me reading the fairy tale The Elves and The Shoemaker.

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:  (Prompts are optional!)

Dec 14: Christmas Lights
Dec 21: Christmas Cookies
Dec 28: Word(s) for 2024

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: Pockets

 

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Pockets! Daffy Duck just realized he's late for the party! Better get a move on Daffy! ☺ Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

Speaking of pockets, Dancin' Santa has some cute little pockets on his be-hind that he shows off as he's swingin' his hips! Yes, Dancin' Santa has made his yearly appearance already! 😀 
 

For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I made a Mocha Yule Log Cake with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting and Meringue Mushrooms! (Click the links for the written recipes) Those of you who have followed my blog for years know that I make one of these cakes every year! This time though, I got in on film! I'm learning about Google Analytics 😕 and apparently the searches for Yule Log Cakes are at their peak at the end of November, so I decided to make this video now and publish it to see how it fares. Most of the cake (I ate some lol) is in the freezer for Christmastime! 🎄

Here are my latest videos:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art : How To Paint A Blue Night Scene.

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids : How To Draw An Acorn.

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden : Here is my video where I make the Mocha Yule Log Cake.

⬆️⬆️ On my channel, Spiritual Rain, my latest "Bedtime Stories Podcast" features me reading the fairy tale Little Snow White.

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:  (Prompts are optional!)

Dec 7: Snowed In
Dec 14: Christmas Lights
Dec 21: Christmas Cookies
Dec 28: Word(s) for 2024

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: Landscape

 

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Landscape! This piece is a mix between hand drawn and digital art. Road Runner is enjoying a relaxing evening in the desert as the sun sets. Wile E. Coyote must be busy plotting his next attempt to catch him!! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I made a very easy Cream of Chicken Soup - tastes just like the Campbells condensed stuff! The video/recipe is below!

Here are my latest videos:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids : I'm sharing How To Draw A Pumpkin!

⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden : Here is the video for my Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup.

⬆️⬆️ On my channel, Spiritual Rain, my latest "Bedtime Stories Podcast" features me reading the fairy tale Godfather Death!

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:  (Prompts are optional!)

Nov 30: Pockets

Dec 7: Snowed In
Dec 14: Christmas Lights
Dec 21: Christmas Cookies
Dec 28: Word(s) for 2024

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: Smiles

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Smiles! Daffy always seems reluctant to show us his smile doesn't he? ☺ Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I've been mostly eating soups these days in an attempt to rein in some wonky digestive issues. So I'll share some teas that I got for the holiday season! 

⬆️⬆️ I finally got my Stovetop Baked Beans video up on YouTube!

Here are my latest videos:

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art : I'm sharing my watercolour Fall Tree video lesson.

⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids : How To Draw A Yellow Apple!

⬆️⬆️ On my channel, Spiritual Rain, my latest "Bedtime Stories Podcast" features me reading the fairy tale The Robber Bridegroom.

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:  (Prompts are optional!)

Nov 23: Landscape
Nov 30: Pockets

Dec 7: Snowed In
Dec 14: Christmas Lights
Dec 21: Christmas Cookies
Dec 28: Word(s) for 2024

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: Trains

 

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Trains! Bugs Bunny is off his rails with that load of carrots he's hauling! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! 

For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋 I made a delicious Potato and Leek Soup! (See below for the video/recipe!)

I also made a skillet bread to go with the soup. Here's the very easy recipe:

1. Proof 1 & 1/4 tsp active dry yeast in 385 ml warm water (100-105 F).

2. In a large bowl, mix 3 & 1/2 cups bread flour with 1 & 1/2 tsp salt.

3. Add yeast mixture, mix with spatula until it forms a sticky dough. (Make sure all flour is incorporated)

4. Toss some olive oil into the bowl, turn the dough a few times, cover and let rise in a warm spot for 90 minutes.

5. Preheat oven to 400 F.

6. Lightly oil your skillet with olive oil then wipe off excess. (My cast iron pan is a 12" but a 10" would make a better fit I think)

7. Place dough in pan and press out to fit the pan. Cover and let rest 30-45 minutes.

8. Bake 30-35 minutes until the top is lightly browned.

Have you seen the new Donald Sutherland stamp here in Canada? I love it! I bought a pack!

 

↑↑↑  Here's a short video where I draw Kiefer Sutherland, the real-time video is up on Rain Frances Art.

Here are my latest videos:

↑↑↑  For Rain Frances Art For Kids : I'm sharing How To Draw A Broom!

 

↑↑↑  For Rain's Kitchen and Garden : Here's the video/recipe for my Dairy-Free Potato and Leek Soup!

 

↑↑↑  On my channel, Spiritual Rain, my latest "Bedtime Stories Podcast" features me reading the fairy tale Puss In Boots.

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:  (Prompts are optional!)

Nov 16: Smiles
Nov 23: Landscape
Nov 30: Pockets

Dec 7: Snowed In
Dec 14: Christmas Lights
Dec 21: Christmas Cookies
Dec 28: Word(s) for 2024

Click here for the 2024 Prompts!

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: Cold and Rainy

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

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Cold and Rainy! Tweety Bird doesn't seem phased by November's weather today. Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!

For our 😋 Dinner Date!! 😋I made some yummy baked beans. I'll have the recipe and video up in a few weeks on Rain's Kitchen and Garden on YouTube!

It's been a crazy week for me friends, so I'll keep this one short! But one more thing:

I've prepared the 2024 prompts! Here they are if you want to take a sneak peak:

Jan 04: Dance

Jan 11: Coffee Shop

Jan 18: Matches

Jan 25: Clocks

Feb 01: Candles

Feb 08: Far Away

Feb 15: Lips

Feb 22: Ladders

Feb 29: Eggs

Mar 07: Corners

Mar 14: Boots

Mar 21: Rabbits

Mar 28: Appliances

Apr 04: Churches

Apr 11: Wheels

Apr 18: Spoons

Apr 25: Disco

May 02: Crowns

May 09: Statues

May 16: Balloons

May 23: Vincent Van Gogh

May 30: Squares

Jun 06: Berries

Jun 13: Bicycle

Jun 20: Spirals

Jun 27: Sandwich

Jul 04: Herbs

Jul 11: Bench

Jul 18: Arches

Jul 25: Mouse

Aug 01: Bakery

Aug 08: Puzzle

Aug 15: Double

Aug 22: Ship

Aug 29: Swords

Sep 05: Wings

Sep 12: Sticky

Sep 19: Mushrooms

Sep 26: Costume Ball

Oct 03: Enclosed

Oct 10: Mummy

Oct 17: Vampire

Oct 24: Werewolf

Oct 31: Pumpkin Patch

Nov 07: Lanterns

Nov 14: Charcuterie

Nov 21: Pizza

Nov 28: Packages

Dec 05: Nut Cracker

Dec 12: Candy Cane

Dec 19: Elves

Dec 26: Cheers!

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:  (Prompts are optional!)

Nov 9: Trains
Nov 16: Smiles
Nov 23: Landscape
Nov 30: Pockets

Dec 7: Snowed In
Dec 14: Christmas Lights
Dec 21: Christmas Cookies
Dec 28: Word(s) for 2024

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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