August 4, 2008 at 4:23 pm (Random)
Tags: Ceramics, Vegan
As I promised last weekend, I have photos of Matt and I’s ceramic bonanza. I also have a photo montage of various things I have baked/cooked the past few days. Let the party begin!
Well Matt and I went to pick up our newly fired ceramics on Saturday. Don’t ask me what they did to get fired, as far as I know they are inanimate….but apparently the store had it in for them 
. When we picked them up, the woman said that a couple people at the store were really excited about our items because there was at least one vegan person that worked there. Which I think is great. I pretty much assumed that whoever dealt with our ceramics was gonna be like “these people are coo coo, call the wagon and get them picked up!”, but apparently that was not the case! Well without further ado, here are our creations!
Matt's Adorable Hot Plate Before Firing
Matt's Hot Plate After Firing
Besse loves me! Besse loves you too! Sweet cow, no?
I absolutely adore this hot plate that Matt made for me. He swore up and down that Besse was spelled this way, but I told him he was missing an “i” for the classic Bessie the Cow spelling. I do believe he was thinking something along the lines of Bessie and Jesse sound alike, so why wouldn’t they be spelled the same? Regardless, the cow has a somewhat unique name so I like it all the more! I actually preferred the lighter colors before firing, but it is still adorable. We just know for next time that they REALLY come out dark!
Puppy Treats Container Before Firing
Puppy Treat Container After Firing
We wanted a container for our boys treats, which are homemade (more on that later). Since we couldn’t bring the boys with us, we figured the next best thing would be to make it appear like they had helped us. We finally decided on differently sized and colored paws and a plain lid. We did the paws with sponges so it appears more like an actual dog paw. We’re pretending we had the boys put their paw prints on there….but without the guaranteed mess! Let’s see, a ceramic store + large dogs + paint + attempting to put paint on dogs = disaster!! Plus, I do not know if the paint would have been safe for them anyway! I’m ever the cautious mom
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My Hot Plate Before Firing
My Hot Plate After Firing
Not my best work but I love the “feel” of the piece. I learned NOT to paint the background before drawing the characters you want on the piece. Hey, I thought the paint would hide my drawings! But turns out PENCIL really hinders paint on a ceramic piece, dried or not *sigh*. Anyway, it turned out well. “So similar yet treated so differently. Why?” I was trying to portray the struggle to understand why people hold dogs and cats (at least in this country) so much higher than pigs, chickens, lambs etc.. Especially considering pigs have been proven time and time again to be more intelligent than dogs. Hey, considering how quickly I did it (I was somewhat rushing so we had time to complete everything) and how temperamental the paint was, I don’t think my drawings/creation turned out too terribly! At least in the end I have the meaning behind it, if all else fails
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I’m still trying to figure out where I am going to put the hot plates. I actually brought 3 home, the third is just a plain, multi-colored sponge piece seen here:
Sponged Hot Plate, Besse & Treated Differently Pieces
Any ideas how to perhaps hang these or to display them in general?
Okay, since this post has become quite long, I will share with everyone things I have baked/cooked lately in another post to come soon!
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July 28, 2008 at 3:26 am (Quotes, Random, Recipes)
Tags: Apologies, Brillante Award, Ceramics, Hoax, Quotes, Recipes, Veganism
Hi everyone! First off it appears that I have some apologizing to do. Some who know me best might just claim apologizing is a difficult thing for me to do….and a very rare thing for me to do. You see, I’m almost never wrong, hello! Well that aside, I must apologize for the annoyance and/or disgruntlement that I have potentially caused with the posting of the “Brillante Award“. According to others, this award is in fact a fake and was originally intended to be a chain letter of sorts. The information regarding the hoax can be seen here.
Personally, my brain never quite wrapped around the idea of an award being passed along, especially not with the odd number of 7 nominees being required. But, I thought it was awesome to be thought so highly of by a dear fellow blogger (Innocent Primate) and that was what mattered most to me. Sure it was difficult for me to choose 7 people to nominate, but I chose them carefully. I felt that nominating these individual blogs was my personal endorsement of that blog, and I was not going to take that half heartily! I understand that some individuals have become upset by this “hoax” but I truly hold no ill-will towards it. I see this whole situation as merely opening up my eyes to many many different blogs that I did not even know existed! Hopefully, whether the chain letter award upset you or not, you have discovered a new blog or two to read. Afterall, there truly was no harm done, at least not in the vegan blog world (I cannot account for other blog “worlds”) other than everyone’s expansion of reading material–how hurtful could that be?? Well if you dislike reading, recipes, blogs or veganism I’m sure it would be just downright awful. But serves you right for not liking those things! Jeez! 
On for further apologies! *sigh* This is painful…oh so painful! Turns out that my idea of saving numerous quotes for wordpress to automatically post at a time I specified did not work. Perhaps it is my lack of the inner workings of the wordpress gods but the multiple quotes all raring to go for everyone have yet to see “daylight”. I’m working on what the problem is and will hopefully be posting a brand spankin’ new quote right after this apology session. Yes, I’m calling this an apology session now….I’ll take it as some much needed therapy and move on! Never to apologize again! Maybe….
Why no new posts? It was the weekend afterall! How busy could one be? Slacker! Say what you will, but I was either busy, avoiding being home due to obnoxious/loud neighbors or just plain tired from the heat! But hopefully I will be bringing many new recipes, photos, ideas etc etc to you soon. The posts will include such goodies as: Watermelon Sorbet review, Double-Chocolate Ice cream review, Agave Mustard Tofu, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Homemade Ice Cream…..oh I have you drooling now!! Many more ideas wandering around in my head as well….we perhaps shall learn of them together Oh and I will FINALLY do my About page at some point as well!
I cannot wait to share with everyone my boyfriend and I’s ceramic fun we had over the weekend! We went to a paint your own ceramics place here in Denver and had a blast! We are currently waiting for the items to be fired by the store but next weekend we will have such goodies as: dog treat canister, multiple hot plates and a serving bowl for football parties (its a football!). I will have photos galore during the weekend for these pieces of art but I did want to share the adorable concept my boyfriend came up with! He decided to make a hot plate for me and he put a cow on it (adorable!). He then proceeded to write Besse (the cow apparently lol) *heart* (surrounding the cow) Vegans! Freakin’ adorable! Can’t wait to show you! I also painted a hot place on which I drew a rooster, pig, dog and a cat. I then proceeded to put my own quote: “So similar yet treated so differently. Why?” I would have made it more profound but I only had so much room! We then went paddle boating sunday afternoon, so my weekend was jam packed!
Again…I’m SORRY SORRY SORRY. Hey, take the sorrys while you can get them I say
P.S. I find it is almost worth it to bring myself to apologize just so I could use that adorable little “sorry puppy”!!!
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