A recipe, a winner, & some fairies

I made some peanut butter french toast with strawberry jam topping! It was great, not too sweet either.

In case you feel like trying it:
Ingredients
1/2 cup milk
3 eggs
1/4 cup peanut butter
2 tablespoons white sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon vegetable oil or butter
4 slices bread
Directions
Whisk together milk, eggs, peanut butter, sugar, vanilla extract, and cinnamon in a large bowl.
Heat the oil in a griddle or frying pan over medium heat.
Dunk each slice of bread in egg mixture, soaking both sides. Place in pan, and cook on both sides until golden, about 3 to 4 minutes per side. Serve hot.

Some people heat up the jam before they place it on the toast, I guess it spreads around better, but I don't think it's necessary.

I used the number generator to choose a winner for the 'Gypsy Dreams' painting and it picked #8 Angela from Free Spirit Haven.

Now i'm off to get things ready for the Fairy Day Party

Have a great day, I hope to see you here later!

More Cupcakes

Hello everyone..been working on the gypsy wagon and I decided to take a break and rest a minute or two.
I know I've mentioned before that I love sweets..I'm not gonna lie:)I like drawing them too, candies and cupcakes are so brightly colored and pretty, you can't help but be happy:)
I created this on an especially happy day. I call her Queen of Hearts and Cupcakes.

I also have a Guerrilla Friday picture..I left this tiny canvas on a bench outside a grocery store.

This is it for now,I hope everyone has had a great weekend!
It's back out to the wagon for me...!

Bees

The theme this week in the Take a Word Challenge is insects...Here is my version of a queen bee...this little lady is made out of paper clay and she's 2 1/2 inches tall.

Thank's for dropping by:)

Gypsy Dreams

when I was a little girl my dad made me a playhouse...

I remember it had a toy stove, a cot and a big trunk for all sorts of magical things.. a bitty tea set with dragons painted on it, thick stacks of paper, cigar boxes full of crayons and paints, two rag dolls named Lilly and Polly that just knew I was their mommy, and the gypsy bag!
The gypsy bag was a huge beaded bag that held ribbons, make-up, bits of costume jewelry and an ever-changing supply of clothing that looked very much like my mother's and sister's old things.

I would spend hours in my make believe world,(dressed as a glamorous gypsy queen of course) on a pirate ship, in a haunted house or just having tea in a gypsy tent with my two girls.

I was separate from everyone,on my own, so to speak(sigh).
As I grew older my playhouse began to fill up with 'stuff'. It sort of became a catch all area for things that weren't even mine.
It was very sad to watch this amazing place turn into storage.

Our home is very small, my studio is tiny! And while I appreciate what I have, I still yearn for a place of my own, a place of dreams, to imagine and create.


Guess what???? My husband has gifted me with the most adorable amazing little haven!
It's a 1958 vintage westerner camper!!!!!
this is it here....

It's painted an icky black right now as it was used for hauling ghost hunting equipment at one point:) but now it's mine and I'm all set to turn it into a gypsy wagon/studio!!!!!
I'm over the moon!!!
I'll be posting my progress in converting this camper and maybe asking your advice on decor if you don't mind.
When I'm finished I will have a place to dream, create, nap, lol... It can be whatever I want it to be, a pirate ship, a haunted house or a gypsy tent where I can have tea with my two girls:)

Now I have a gift for you...I will be giving away this painting on June 22nd, just leave a comment so I know you stopped by:)

Have a beautiful night!

PS the winner of the Sugar Queen give away is Jill from Bucks County Folk Art
**update**
the give-away is over:)

Sugar Queen

You know what you get when you combine this:

And this....

And this....

And this....

With this???

you get a candy crown!

Perfect for your sweetie, or yourself...
There's instructions on how to make one of these and so so many other styles in this book!
I made most of the candy with paper clay or artificial fruit, there's even some "fake" jelly babies on it:)
I was pretty inspired to make some of these too..

But sadly they were gone before the camera could flash:)
If you want to try out these cupcakes, leave me a comment and I'll send you your own 'sweet' package, and maybe some other goodies too.
Have a great weekend.

Wings only

I was sitting outside the other morning and about a thousand butterflies were swarming all over the citrus trees..OK, OK, maybe there were 5 or 6, but it looked like a lot more. I don't know about you but aside from the wings they creep me out a little. Either way they inspired me to paint these two butterfly winged fairies.

So something pretty cool has been gifted to me and I am going to share the news with you in the next post, also a giveaway for you lovely bloggers is coming up soon!
Hope you have a great week.

Wand Swap

this is my wand for the Spring Wand Swap hosted by Wendy at Bliss Angels
I was inspired by the amazing Lisa Kettle at Faerie Enchantment for this creation.
Thank you Wendy:)

Rosie and Marlena

I read Water For Elephants last year and fell in love with Rosie. I started on this canvas a couple of months ago, but you know how life goes...one thing after another kept stopping me from finishing it.
To top it off Helena had a painting mishap and her cup of rinse water somehow exploded and landed alllllll over this canvas...unfortunately it was a dark blue paint that she was using so I had to re paint the pale yellow background...that put off finishing for another couple of weeks..
either way I'm done and I think my favorite part of it are the circus peanuts I made out of paper clay:)
If you get a chance to read this book you should! it's such a treat.
have a great night.

untitled

I've been in a 'painty' sort of mood lately...could be the weather..it's been gorgeous lately, sunny around 78 with a cool breeze:)
I have yet to title this one...any ideas?


Have a good night!

Birthday 3/22/07

four years have flown by so quickly...I feel like I just had her! she went from infant to preschooler in record time..at least that's what it seems like.


She decided she wanted to go to the zoo.We couldn't make a move without the map..

She wanted me to take a picture of every single animal, living or bronze...I wont put all of them on here:)





So many incredible creatures, and she was fascinated by a spitting frog!

Stopped at a toy store and we had the place to ourselves for almost an hour before we left to go watch Tangled.




We had an amazing time, just me and my girl...I'm very grateful.
Everyone was ready for cake at the end of the day.



Thank you everyone for your concern...I'm feeling better now and I've actually made a few things to show you all very soon.
goodnight!