All things beautiful

terça-feira, 24 de novembro de 2020

Microwave chocolate mug cake in five minutes

4 tbs flour
1/4 tsp backing powder
4 tbs sugar
2 tbs cocoa
1 egg
3 tbs milk
3 tbs oil
3 tbs chocolate chips (optional)
Small dash vanilla
1 large mug

Add dry ingredient's into mug, mix well. Add egg mix thoroughly. Pour milk, oil, mix well, add chocolate chips and vanilla, mix well. Put mug in microwave, cook 3min at 1000 watts.
Serve with cream, enjoy.

Filhoses de Abobora/Pumpkin Fritters

Ingredientes:

abobora cozida e passada pela varinha magica
farinha
ovos
agua ardente
raspa de lima
pinhoes

Janta-se tudo numa tigela, a farinha e consoante a quantidade de abobora ate atingir uma massa que seja maniavel.
Os ovos costumam ser dois ou tres.
Depois de bem batida, deixar a descansar em lugar quente ate levedar.
Fritar em oleo bem quente, pequenas colheradas.
Escorrer e passar numa mistura de açucar e cenela.

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well-stocked fish pond… If we don’t give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked…As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them — to restock the trout pond, so to speak. —Julia Cameron

PADDED PATCHWORK

Instead of plain patchwork, I made this bedspread padded patchwork. I cut two squares, one slightly bigger than the other, the bottom square being the smaller. I pinned the corners, pinned a pleat on the sides, sewed all three sides by machine, filled the square with poly fill, then sewed the open side with machine. I put the blocks together by pinning them together to a design then sewed with machine.

segunda-feira, 23 de novembro de 2020

Some of my Crosstitch Projects

String Art

My Crosstitch Bedspread

Here's a dozen of my favorite things never to apologize for:

1) Never apologize for acting on your instincts.
2) Never apologize for being passionate.
3) Never apologize for being smart.
4) Never apologize for demanding respect.
5) Never apologize for saying no.
6) Never apologize for not embracing someone else's agenda.
7) Never apologize for disagreeing.
8) Never apologize for your faith.
9) Never apologize for your own sense of creativity.
10) Never apologize for ordering dessert.
11) Never apologize for being funny.
12) Never apologize for living your truth.

Every one of us casts a shadow.

There hangs about us, a sort of a strange, indefinable something, which we call personal influence--that has its effect on every other life on which it falls. It goes with us wherever we go. It is not something we can have when we want to have it--and then lay aside when we will, as we lay aside a garment. It is something that always pours out from our lives . . . as light from a lamp, as heat from flame, as perfume from a flower.

The ministry of personal influence is something very wonderful. Without being conscious of it, we are always impressing others by this strange power that exudes from us. Others watch us--and their thinking and actions are modified by our influence."

"Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity." Ephesians 5:15-16

~J. R. Miller, "The Shadows We Cast"