June 9, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Pretty birds in a Collection a Day. . .
Above, moths in fancy frames. . .I really like how the bottom one is turning out I think. . . they still will get some more additions.
Below, more from Marshall, a large white roll of paper from a friend, spread on the floor with old watercolors and pastels. Pretty swirls and dirty, dirty little hands.
June 8, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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A week of dealing with my stupidity and all those little complicated parts floating inside that don’t know how to fit together. The drawing of moths and accepting the results however inferior they may be to my expectations. Looking over next to my desk and seeing the wonderful abandon in my sons drawings and wishing for a piece of it. The specific choices in tape and glue and little snips all laid out on his table.
The God of the sparrow and the leviathon defined beauty, who am I to wrap it in garlands and lace?
June 6, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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I realize that this is necessarily presented in the most appetizing way. . . but I won’t go any further in that direction of thought. The cake happened to be waiting patiently to go to a family with a brand-new baby. A perfect baby might I add.
This, is an experiment, a delicious experiment. It is a husband pleaser in this house, but then again, any thing with raspberries involved is. The cake was soooo moist and wonderful, and the little bit of cheesecake is the perfect complement.
White cake with raspberries and a layer of cheesecake on top, all in one blow.
first, make this white cake recipe (minus anything having to do with oreos) from Annie’s Eats (this, is yet another Annie) and add in 1/3 cup sour cream at the egg adding part. insures a moist cake despite the longer baking time for the cheesecake part.
meanwhile, somewhere along the line, blend thoroughly (as in, use a mixer): one softened block of cream cheese, one egg, 1/3 cup white sugar and the zest of one lemon. set aside.
I actually suggest making these in cupcake form as opposed to the spring form cake pan I used, it takes far too long to bake through all the way. So, prepare preferred baking vessel, you know the drill, grease, flour, shake, dump or, insert cupcake paper.
do not over fill cupcake papers, also, if you using a spring form pan , fill only an inch deep. Drizzle on cheesecake mixture over cake batter evenly, but not perfectly.
I might also suggest swirling in raspberry jam instead of the fatal looking frozen raspberries. But yes, this is what I did, I sprinkled on some frozen raspberries.
so bake at 350 degrees until cheesecake on top is set (it can still jiggle slightly) for cup cakes about half an hour, for a spring form, about an hour. Remember to rotate half way through.
cool on racks and then chill before serving. . . and then try making it again someday, but this time with blackberries.
June 1, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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The babies of my friend Shosha, we went to Asheville a couple days and visited her one afternoon. These little ones are about to go back to their momma, until then she feeds them with a huge bottle, I love it. Marshall absolutely loved them also, they have such a sweet, calm energy about them, I think he really felt safe around them (as opposed to puppies, they jump and nip a bit too much and so Marsh does the same), when ever they would frolic so would he, and he even tried to eat like them, which I had to nip in the bud. They eat poison ivy, safely.
Below, back to Carl’s house in Flat Rock. Lots of babies, so small and soft, two weeks old.
May 5, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Arranging so much at the gallery that I can’t stop when I get home. . . the bulletin board, huge and looming by the front door is usually a literal vertical pile of things to save and not throw away. Now it is tidy rows of saved pages and more stuff not to throw away. . . but no longer a pile. Gotta love those melons.
April 24, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Serena Mitnik-Miller, via dear ada. I think maybe I could be found arranging these for hours and then committed to a mental hospital with a rare case of triangle obsession.
April 17, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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These are because the evening was so beautiful and I had to use a camera in that light. And because the porch isn’t often so inviting, more like shoes littering the path to the door, little dump trucks dumping on the sidewalk, pipe ashes scattered on the table, and then there’s the deer skull from my grandfather. He’s (skull) usually there, used to be hanging on Marshall’s tepee but then I thought it was really creepy residing on a toddler’s play tent so now he welcomes visitors in an extraordinarily freaky way. And he’s beautiful actually. And that fire is amazing.
Something else amazing outside, Kate Mathis’s photography of an olive harvest.
April 1, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
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Deb, a local farmer and craftsman, was sitting with her gorgeous handspun wool in the gallery at Art & Light when I came to take down my show and she graciously gave me a dozen beautiful eggs. They included these lovely ones above, look at those green ones! My grandfather had a hen that laid eggs that shade and always saved them for my mom. No need for dye here!
Below, evidence that I really am working, not just collecting random objects as one might think from glancing at my latest posts. How perfect that the colors should match those eggs. . .
Don’t the white ones look like teeth?
