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Ditching your wardrobe.

I think I overdosed on Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style. I cleaned out my closets, getting rid of quite a lot of clothes. I really envied the women he advised being able to walk to their closets or dressers and pick out surefire outfits they knew looked good on them.I have never been able to do that and it pissed me off.I also don’t have any of the 10 things on the checklist they say every woman needs to have in order to be in style except one very tatty old cashmere sweater and a couple of black dresses.
After about 4 episodes I thinned my closet of all the clothes I had that I didn’t wear or that didn’t look good on me which left me with hardly anything to wear at all. This show ought to have have a warning label of don’t try this at home unless you have a 5,000 clothes budget to replace everything you just gave to charity (or bagged, meaning to give to charity).

I veered toward black,baggy clothes pretty much all my life (body issues) except while in art school. But I was thinner. For me, wearing colorful more body conscious clothes goes hand in hand with how thin I think I am. The bigger I feel the bigger and blacker the clothes I buy. It’s definitely time to lose 15 pounds. Easier said than done but my weight and the style of clothes I buy and wear go hand in hand. I really won’t like anything I try on until I lose a bit of weight.

So it seems I will put off really restocking my closet or else I will end up with just another batch of heavy black shrouds in my closet. Besides, now that it is winter all I need is a great new coat! A. is getting me one for my birthday.Yay.

First Sketch of Bozzio

We’ve had Bozzio for over 2 years but I’ve never drawn him before today.
I’m pretty rusty but I knew the sketch would go well as soon as I began drawing him.Sometimes you just have the feeling as soon as you make the first few marks on the paper that you won’t mess this up.
If only the model hadn’t gotten up and repaired to the other room before I was done.
That’s Bozzio’s morning routine and he sticks to it art or no art.

Absolutely the best Apple Pie,ever.

What a bold statement that is. But even more shocking was that this was my 1st attempt at pie baking. Obviously, I am a genius.OK,I can’t take all the credit.I did look up how to make a pie as I hadn’t much of a clue beyond that I knew I needed crust and stuff to put in a crust and then bake it.

What I really wanted to make was a crumble and apple pie combination.

I found a good recipe on epicurious.com that I used as a guide.

To start you will need a premade graham cracker crust or regular pastry pie crust and a 350 degree oven.

The apple filling:

6 Macintosh apples, peeled and cored and sliced into wedges.

2 tbs of milk.

2 tbs of white all purpose flour.

3/4 cinnamon

Dash of nutmeg.

Some pear juice, about 1/4 a cup.I used Looza’s pear juice instead of lemon juice.
dash vanilla extract
1/4 cup of sugar.

1/2 cup brown sugar (mine had gone hard so into the microwave with a cup of water and soon it was soft)

In a large bowl toss apples with all the ingredients in list above. Spoon into pie crust.

The topping:

4-6 oz walnuts in pieces or pecans (walnuts are better I think)

4 tbs butter

4 tbs brown sugar

2 tbs flour

little squeeze of honey

another little dash of cinnamon

Squeeze in the little bit of little honey, mix up and refrigerate.

After the pie has baked one hour take it out and spoon the topping into the center. As it melts it will spread out. If you want it to cover more pie spread it out-but be warned if you used a lot of wet ingredients for the filling, ie juice, the pie will probably spill over as it cooks.This happened to me but didn’t affect the outcome as it was the best apple pie I’d ever tasted.

Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin

I just saw a demo of how the Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin could super enhance WP blog posts.I may not use it myself because I personally hate tooltips,which was a big feature.However I do like the option to convert a link to a badge that would insert a map into the text,making it look like a page a newspaper or magazine which is a look I p[ersonally really go for.Then at the bottom of the write post editing field is the flickr option.You select the pictures set you want to show and voila all your flickr photos relating to that post are in nice neat thumbs at the bottom of your post.
Pretty sweet.