Plain sneakers, right?
No.
Not at all. These are sneaky sneaks. These are for short gals like me. We want to pretend we are tall, but don’t really want to let people know we have height issue.
These 80%20 shoes have a hidden wedge. You can’t even tell. Must have. Must appear taller.
Tags: 80%20, buy definition, shoes
This is beautiful. There is no need for jewelry, or even shoes, really. Silk lined and silk blended fabric gets buttoned with bright white buttons in a kind of puffy, ruching kind of manner.
It’s beautiful.
Sized petite to medium. $383.
Pssst, you have two choices for sales at Maneater. Select designers (mike & chris, tehya, by francine, wendy katlen and juliana jabour are 30% off with code TAXED until April 18. Everything else is 25% off with code PEOPLEMAG.
Yeah, that’s right, this dress is on sale.
Tags: by francine, dress, fashion is art, maneater-threads 
If you are looking for a fabulous main course, Italian dish that is easy to make, and freezes great try this Torta Rustica. There are so many ways to make it that the recipe is almost needless.
Add whatever cheese-vegetable-meat combo you want,( this one was vegetarian) and bake in your pizza crust until done. Serve warm, room temp, or cold. Store it well covered for up to two days in the fridge, or seal and freeze.
I love this with black olive bread, a leafy, mixed greens salad, some black olives, and if you want, maybe add this toffee, dark chocolate bundt cake for dessert.
Torta Rustica
One recipe for pizza dough
¼ cup olive oil, mixed use..you may not need this much
1 Onion, chopped
8 Ounces mushrooms, sliced
4 cloves of garlic, chopped
2 Tablespoons chopped fresh basil
2 teaspoons dried oregano
2 Large tomatoes, sliced, or 2 c marinara sauce
1/2 tsp salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 lb fresh, cleaned, spinach
1 lb eggplant
1 lb thinly sliced proscuitto, or ham, or cooked Italian sausage if desired
1 lb red peppers
1/2 lb sliced provolone cheese
1/2 lb mozzerella, sliced
Cut eggplant lengthwise in ¼ inch slices. Soak in salt water for 20 minutes.Pat the slices dry with paper towel, line baking sheets with parchment paper, brush eggplants slices with olive oil and bake in a 425F preheated oven for 10 minutes on each side. Set aside to cool.
Saute the onion, peppers and garlic in 3 tbs olive oil until tender.
Reduce the heat to medium add mushrooms, basil, oregano, and salt, black pepper and red pepper flakes. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the onions and mushrooms are limp .
Preheat oven to 400F.
Roll out ¾ of the dough to a 16inch circle, approximately ½ inch thick. Place the dough in to a 9 x 3 spring form pan allowing a 1 inch overhang all around the pan. Layer each ingredient in the pan as desired, or dump them all in at once. Spinach does not need to be cooked prior to putting in Torta. Roll out the remaining dough into a circle to fit the top of the Torta Rustica. Lay it over the top and fold up the overhanging dough, crimping them together to seal the edges. Make 4 small slits in the top to let steam escape and brush with the beaten egg. Sprinkle with sesame seeds if desired. Place the Torta Rustica in the preheated oven and bake for 1 hour. Let cool to room temp before cutting and serving, serves 12.
Image: (c) Marye Audet Apron Strings and Simmering Things
Content (c) Marye Audet Baking Delights
Tags: casserole, Freezer Cooking, Italian, main dish, Make ahead, OAMC, torta rusticaTechnique Tuesday!
After finished Andromeda’s Pearls, I thought that it might be a good idea to share a really basic tutorial on bead embroidery, a project that can be finished in a few days (or even possibly one long day). Treasure Chest is the name of this piece. :-)
More and more often, modern jewelry is being influenced by techniques from other mixed media art forms. That is how Treasure Chest came to be: although I originally bought a set of watch-maker’s tins to use in some assemblage work and altered books, it occurred to me that a tin would also be a perfect little niche on a pin or pendant. Just the right size to hold a favorite token, the glass-topped tin can be sealed to make it permanent, or left loose to allow for an ever-changing display!
Materials:
Watch-maker tins
Rub and Buff
4×4 piece of buckram
4×4 piece of ultra-suede
E6000
Selection of seed beads to coordinate with button ~ delicas, 11/0, and 8/0
Cabochons, pearls, other beads, and charms to coordinate
Nymo 0 beading thread
2 metal loops
Fabric glue
Beads of your choice for the necklace strap. I used:
8×4mm fire-polished Czech crystal rondelles
4mm and 8mm fire-polished Czech crystal rounds
8/0 seed beads
Soft Touch beading wire, .019 inch diameter
4 crimp tubes
Lobster claw and jump ring
Bullion wireTools:
Sharpie pen
Long beading needles
Fabric scissors
Wire cutters
Chain nose pliers
Creating the Pendant
Creating the straps
Tags: Beading, beads, handmade beaded jewelry, jewelry, Mixed Media, tutorial, Wearable ArtCopyright 2008 Cyndi Lavin. Not to be reprinted, resold, or redistributed for profit. May be printed out for personal use or distributed electronically provided that entire file, including this notice, remains intact.
Remember how I told you about how we’re planning a water-themed birthday party in our backyard? Well my son came up with a great idea for a game. A wet and wild obstacle course. Friends will jump over the sprinkler, slide down the water slide, sit on some water balloons, and shoot balls with water guns. The kids are only six, so they’ll all be winners and earn prizes. I thought this was a great idea for a six year old. The party will be in mid-June and we’re really praying for great weather that day. It can go either way, we’ve had torrential downpours and temps of 90 some-odd degrees. All we ask for is a nice, sunny day.
Image: Morgue File
FabCrush is sponsoring a fabulous jewelry giveaway of two pieces by jewelry designer Gorjana! You can read more about Gorjana in this interview.
Tags: contest, Wearable ArtGet free shipping on any order more than $20 at Fred Flare for a week. Use code “Butterfly.”
Tags: fred-flare, sale
This leaf is not as fragile as a real one. It’s made of hand-cut and hand-tooled leather, made into the shape of a pretty gold leaf. The color is so vibrant and the look of a leather leaf is so different from anything else I’ve seen.
It’ll remind you of the golden chill of fall as the weather warms up. It makes me want hot cocoa.
18″ long. $65.
Get it at Stars and Infinite Darkness
Tags: necklace, stars-and-infinite-darkness, sunny rising leather
O.k…well maybe not a mile high.
This is a three layer cake that is moist and has a unique flavor that you can’t put your finger on…It is the buttermilk of course. Delicately tangy. Very vanilla. Moist, rich, delicious. I love it. I think it is my favorite white cake.
I found it in one of my vintage Farm Journal cookbooks, Blue Ribbon Recipes . I have changed it a bit but this is a fabulous recipe and would make a great wedding cake.
Since the cookbook is circa 1969 I am going to use this as my entry in Carla’s Cookbook Challenge.
The layers were thick and so the cake was very tall. I used straws to keep it upright, and the layers from slipping sideways. I used four straws, as here, and then pushed them into the cake so they did not show. See? I am stripping the pocket doors in the background..I haven’t gotten far…I feel like standing on a corner holding a sign that says “Will trade baked goods for restoration work”
I am pretty sure that the cake would stay moist for several days but this cake lasted all of …uh… thirty minutes…The benefit was that the family was totally quiet during the ceremonial eating of the cake…other than a few sighs, and mmmmmm’s….and lip smacking sounds there were twelve very quiet people at my table.
I filled it with a delicately tangy orange curd, and frosted with the Perfect Party Cake Buttercream, but using orange juice rather than the lemon.
Be sure to use whole buttermilk and not the skim or low fat types.
Mile High Buttermilk Cake
3- 8″ layers
4 c cake flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 c unsalted butter
3 c sugar
2 TBS vanilla
1 inch of vanilla bean, seeds scraped into the batter pod set aside (add the pod to the sugar bowl)
2 c buttermilk
6 egg whites, unbeaten
Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Cream butter and sugar unitl light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and vanilla scrapings.
Add dry ingredients alternately with the buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Add egg whites and beat at medium speed for two minutes. Divide equally between 3 greased adn wax paper lined 8″ round pans.
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes, reduce heat to 325 and bake for 25 minutes more, or until the cake tests done. Cool in pans 10 minutes, then turn out and finish cooling on racks.
Images: (c)Marye Audet 2008, Apron Strings and Simmering Things
Content (c) Marye Audet 2007-2008 Baking Delights
Tags: buttermilk cake recipe, buttermilk white cake, Cakes, delicious layer cakes, excellent, layer cake recipeMake Art Monday!
Well, the piece that you’ve been suffering along with me while it’s been in progress is done…and it actually has a name without me having to beg for help! Amazing. It’s made from pearls, pearls, pearls, and more pearls. Also, seed beads, crystals, and assorted glass beads and shells. Yay…it’s done!
|
|
