Thursday Art Date: The Workshop

Hello Friends! 😊😊😊😊

Welcome to Thursday's Art Date, today our theme is The Workshop. Bugs and Daffy are switching production companies and posing for a scene from Disney's Pinocchio! Gepetto's Workshop produced a sweet and loveable little boy didn't it? 😊

A workshop is anywhere you create something right? I decided to do a silhouette watercolour, perhaps a self-portrait, of my kitchen workshop! I love painting silhouettes! I've got a delicious, warming and cozy stew going!

Look what I forgot to bring out for Halloween!!! I made my own Bones Man!! 💀

The "a" key on my laptop keyboard has decided to stop working. I tried cleaning the keyboard, I tried compressed air, nothing works. You would not believe how many A's I use in my typing everyday! I am copying and pasting A's all through this post and it is tiresome....dare I say annoying???!!!! 

So I will keep this short my friends. I hope to get a new keyboard tomorrow!

Today's featured Artist is Aimeslee from Paper Paisleys Art Adventure blog. Aimeslee is a fun-spirited lovely lady who makes gorgeous and creative homemade cards! Please visit her! 💗  

LEAVE A COMMENT AND YOU MAY BE NEXT WEEK'S FEATURED ARTIST/BLOGGER! 

(If you do not want to be featured, just let me know in the comments and I'll respect your wishes!)

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more "The Workshop" creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗 

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Upcoming Art Dates For Rain's Thursday Art Date: click on the links below for a description of the theme and inspiring images!

November 11th: Soft
November 18th: Wisps and Winds
November 25th: Stripes

This art date is all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

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🎃 Happy Halloween and a Blessed Samhain!! 🎃

Hello Friends! Hope you have a spooktacular evening and a wonderful holiday for those who celebrate! I scaled it down this year (believe it or not!). Usually I carve much more elaborate pumpkins but this year, I've been having issues with pain in my hands, so I carved the standard Jack O' Lanterns! I think they're cute!! 🎃

I made some fun dishes the last few days, I've included all of my recipes, please enjoy!!

Haunted Spaghetti! The eyeballs are made from mini Bocconcini cheese and green olives.

Mummified Camembert (with Homemade Puff Pastry and Homemade Cams!!)

"Boo" Bark

Mulled Wine - so warming!

I'm plugging my latest video from my spiritual channel! I recorded a video of how I made the mulled wine and it's part of this video if you're interested!!

Witch Hat Calzones - I made these with my Homemade Crescents dough - it was so delicious with a filling of cream cheese, Parm, Mozz and green olives! Dipped in my Homemade Marinara Sauce! I think I know why my hands are so sore...all that kneading for the doughs!!!

Skull Cake

I found a nifty skull cake pan at the local Great Canadian Dollar Store and this is what the cake looked like before I frosted it. The pan was only $6!!! I used my recipe for Chocolate Orange Cupcakes and baked it about 5 minutes longer. 

See you on Thursday!!! 😊

Thursday Art Date: October Spooks! - 🎃 Villains 🎃

Hello Friends! 😈😈

This post is chalk-full of goodies! I hope you find something you like! 💓

Welcome to Thursday's Art Date, today our theme is Villains. During this time of year, I watch a lot of scary movies. Not just horror movies, but psychological thrillers as well. The Hannibal Lecter movies always make it on the roster! Bugs insisted that I leave him as is in Daffy Duck's dressing room - but I just couldn't do that to Daffy! Bugs is such a stinker!

I'm on a pizza journey my friends - trying to make the perfect toaster oven pizza. I started off making 9 balls of dough.

Day 1 was kind of a disappointment and I have no photos. Day 2 though - getting better...I baked one pizza with only a wee bit of olive oil and some Parm - it rose amazingly! But when I put the sauced/cheesed pizza in, it barely rose. I know it's because my toaster oven lost a lot of heat when I opened the door...so,

Day 3: I put my probe thermometer into the oven and waited until it hit its highest temperature 414F before putting in the pizza. This is close to perfection! I'll be documenting all of this in the near future for you! I have more pizzas to make this week before my Halloween feast!

For today's art date, I went with Edgar Allen Poe's villains...In The Tell Tale Heart, the villain is the narrator who believes the old man's eye watches him like a vulture. This drive's the narrator's madness to murder...

Here are parts one and two of Vincent Price, acting out The Tell Tale Heart - he's brilliant.

In The Raven, the villain is the mind...or is it the raven?

Here is The Raven, read by James Earl Jones - he does it wonderfully and actually The Simpsons did a version of this (read by James Earl Jones) for one of their TreeHouse of Horror episodes! Here's the link where you can watch it: The Simpsons The Raven.

In The Fall of The House of Usher, the villain is again, the mind...of Roderick Usher who buries his sister alive under the mad idea that she is the cause of the end of his family name.

Here is Christopher Lee reading The Fall of The House of Usher - he has such a great voice for these stories!

In The Cask of Amontillado, the villain is the narrator who entombs a man out of anger and vengeance.

Here is The Cask of Amontillado read by the wonderful British Shakespearean actor, Basil Rathbone.

I have a few new videos on my spiritual channel, if you're interested, please click on the images or on the links below:

Messages From The Universe

The Ghosts and Spirits Tarot Deck Walkthrough

I also made a video (time-lapsed) of me drawing my Poe villains.

For my art video, I introduced each drawing with a fun costume! I'll be celebrating Halloween on Sunday with lots of fun foods! I'm carving my pumpkins tomorrow too. If I have the time, I'll be posting about it this weekend!

Mexican Night

Crepes with vanilla yogurt and real maple syrup...so yummy.

I had some fun making a homemade spirit board this week! Also called a Ouija Board - I'm not at all superstitious about this, though I know some folks are! I'm going to try it out on Halloween night! 🎃

I also cleaned up my raised beds this past week and planted 16 more cloves of garlic for next year (like I need more garlic) - couldn't help myself! I have a HUGE bed of mint that I'm just letting be...and the bed in the foreground is all strawberries - again letting it be to see what comes of it! 

I'm still waiting to find out when my roof will be replaced...this is very stressful but I'm trying to roll with it! 

♥ The five furries are doing very well!  ♥ 

Today's featured Artist/Blogger is Glenda from Gigi-Hawaii blog. She's Gigi to me! Gigi lives in Hawaii, is a published author and shares her stories of life with her husband David. They are such a sweet couple and her blog is very interesting! Please visit her! 💗

LEAVE A COMMENT AND YOU MAY BE NEXT WEEK'S FEATURED ARTIST/BLOGGER! 
(If you do not want to be featured, just let me know in the comments and I'll respect your wishes!)

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more "Villains" creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗 

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Upcoming Art Dates For Rain's Thursday Art Date: click on the links below for a description of the theme and inspiring images!

November 4th: The Workshop

November 11th: Soft

November 18th: Wisps and Winds

November 25th: Stripes

This art date is all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

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 expires Friday at midnight (EST).

Thursday Art Date: October Spooks! - Broomsticks

Hello Friends! 😊😊

Welcome to Thursday's Art Date, today our theme is Broomsticks! I had to showcase Witch Hazel from the Looney Tunes for this theme!!!

"Bring me the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West"....commanded the Almighty Wizard of Oz to Dorothy! I had a lot of fun drawing Margaret Hamilton from The Wizard of Oz, in charcoals! Though she wasn't the director's first choice (uh...really?????) she was the perfect witch!

Here are my latest videos, please click on the images above or the links below if you'd like to check them out!

Let's Draw Margaret Hamilton (Real-Time)

Working With My Rune Stones

For the intro to my art video today, I filmed myself in my best witchy outfit!

My friends, October is my busiest month of the year and to boot, there is a big possibility that I will be having a new roof installed in the next month or so. I can't keep up lately! I will keep this short and I promise to catch up with your blogs by the end of this weekend!

Upcoming Art Dates For Rain's Thursday Art Date: click on the links below for a description of the theme and inspiring images!

October 28th: October Spooks - Villains
November 4th: The Workshop
November 11th: Soft
November 18th: Wisps and Winds
November 25th: Stripes

This art date is all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

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 expires Friday at midnight (EST).

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Thursday Art Date: October Spooks! - 👀 Being Watched 👀

Hello Friends! 😊😊

Welcome to Thursday's Art Date, today our theme is Being Watched! Bugs Bunny has been watching too many "Halloween" movies, he's imagining Michael Myers watching him through the window! Or maybe it's NOT his imagination???

I bought myself a Red Riding Hood cape! I finally had some fun wearing it! For my art videos, I always record a personal introduction and for this week's tutorial, I wore the cape and hinted that I was being watched! It was fun. 

Here is my version of Being Watched in charcoals. I thought about me as Red, being watched by a wolf...in this case, Benecio del Toro as The Wolfman. He played that character in the 2010 movie called The Wolfman. I thought it was perfectly scary!

Here's the trailer.

Here are my latest YouTube videos. If you'd like to watch them, please click on the images above or these links:

How I Use My Pendulum
Let's Draw Red Riding Hood and The Wolfman (time-lapsed)

I had a great Thanksgiving with all the fixins! I made a mostly vegetarian meal.

Cauliflower Gratin

Chicken Gravy and Cranberry Sauce

Stuffing with Homemade Bread

Mashed Potatoes and Braised Mushrooms and Carrots

Pumpkin Pie!

The mornings are very frosty these days.

But we all try to stay warm and cozy!

This week's highlighted artist/blogger is Elle from Empire of the Cat blog! Elle drops by once in a while and always has something very creative to share! This is her entry for last week's "Alien Worlds"! I just love it, please visit her blog! 💗

LEAVE A COMMENT AND YOU MAY BE NEXT WEEK'S FEATURED ARTIST/BLOGGER! 

(If you do not want to be featured, just let me know in the comments and I'll respect your wishes!)

That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more "Being Watched" creations! See you soon!!! 💗 💗 

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Upcoming Art Dates For Rain's Thursday Art Date:

October 21st: October Spooks - Broomsticks

October 28th: October Spooks - Villains

Click on the links for ideas and inspiration! Remember it's all about creating. You can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, baking, poetry...whatever you like! 🎨

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 expires Friday at midnight (EST).

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