I Like Thursday #389 good food, good art, first crushes, and a poodle

recent painting and doodles

 welcome to this week's list of likes

Fine dining

I made a pot of garbanzo bean soup, with fond memories of eating many bowls of it in Ybor City... it was easy and so good, many recipes online, I chose vegetarian version without sausage. 

I think leeks make every savory dish better

and I tried a new to me appetizer on Sunday... zucchini bites. 

grate one zucchini, salt and let weep out liquid, squeeze that out and add eggs, 4 tbsp oat flour, grated cheddar cheese and bake... I made a dipping sauce to go with, greek yogurt, chives, onion powder, bit of lemon.

for the first time my cinnamon bread came out dry and dense, so I made French toast with it...

and later bread pudding, a breakfast of champions!

Writing

I've been writing a lot of essays, for a memoir, and I think if someone asked what I do, I'd say, 

" I write" 

Once I said "student" then, "social worker" then many interesting jobs to earn money,  leading to Speaking/teaching/entertaining quilt guilds, then " artist"  Artist covers a lot of territory, but creating is always my main interest with paint/fabric or words.

 Beading

finished!

not many supplies needed

 I love beading, so I finally got supplies together and made this one.... I like how the seed beads look like diamonds. Instead of putting on a clasp, I made it long enough to go over my head.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUorVakvLhY&list=TLPQMDcwMjIwMjS4ZQ9vZc-ZOQ&index=1

   Drawing/painting

When I heard it was a friend's birthday, and recently learning she enjoys hedgehogs, I looked them up on google images. I thought I'd try to draw one, and well, looking at them closely I sort of fell in love with them... I drew/painted this on just a scrap of copier paper

and kind of wish I'd done it on nicer paper, but I really loved looking at this next to my computer all week... happy birthday Angie.

 Reading on audio books:

listening to a novel by a fave author, fascinating premise. A woman ends up staying at a house that leads her to a possible past life, 

Prompt this week

Who was your first crush? (Real or fictional?) how old were you, how did you feel, were you a romantic?  

well, in first grade, I kissed, and was kissed by Ricky Puleo   by the back fence. First grade, and he was so cute. I ran into him years later, we were both working in schools, and recognized each other immediately!!! He was still so cute. 

I had a crush on a neighbor, a year old than I. Mike, and I remember about age 12, we were sitting on my front steps one day, and he looked over suddenly serious, and said "I'd want to go with you, but you're a little too fat" crush turns crushing. Oh, I said, well, goodbye. I was chubby which in those days of the late 1960's was the kiss of death for romance. Nowadays it's called curvy and acceptable. 

Steve McQueen

I had some man crushes on tv stars and musicians... Adam on Bonanza, Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen. Kurt Russel just a bit older than I,

The actor that played the son on the Rifleman show... 

oh, Adam...

Always romantic, even my Barbie and Ken led romantic lives at my control. I spoke for both of them, he was always attentive to her. I think I must have written complete movies for them with dialogue. 

I knew what a romance was from Rock Hudson. I had daydreams of a boy that would hold my hand and dance with me and bring candy and flowers, and be able in my dreams of picking me up. 

Milo's Moment

I'm Mama's crush now!!! bol!

I don't have much to share this week. Oh the usual eat/sleep/play/poop... be kind to animals y'all, after all you're officially animals too. Love you... Milo the good

now visit these folk to see what they liked this week

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/  

grammajudyb.blogspot.com

http://littlepenguinquilts

https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/ 

princess bubbles creates   

https://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/

https://www.mmmquilts.com/2024/01/gratitude-and-glimmers-81.html

 craftscaviescontras   

 http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

https://www.homesewnbyus.com/

the knitty quilter

https://scrapatches.blogspot.com/ 

chasing my stories

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

 

 

   LINKING WITH 

https://brianshomeblog.com/ 

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/   

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/

               friday smiles