Masks

 Hi everyone. Happy Thursday to you.

Today I am joining  Rain's Art and Dinner Date.

This week's art theme is Masks. I find that idea intriguing, so I started a 2 page spread in my Halloween journal. Everything needed  more time to dry than I planned so that I have yet to finish it.

I drew and cut out a mask.  I painted it black (my first dry) and added some black glitter paste to it (my second dry). While waiting for that to dry, I used some stencil paste and a stencil to add some details to my background (third dry). When that dried, I rubbed in the green paint, which didn't take any time to dry. 

To finish the mask I made the eyes, and added them in, and then I decided to cut the mask in half and add that over the  middle of the 2 page spread. That meant I needed more glitter paste, and I had to wait for that to dry (my fourth dry).

I'm playing around with a story between these 2 TH people, but this is as far as I've gotten.When I get this page done I'll post the results, but for now you can come up with whatever story between these 2 you would like.

I'm going to link my page to Art Journal Journey and Elle's Fairytales, Folktales and Fables: Tell Me a Story challenge even though my page isn't quite finished. In so many fairytales someone is masked or in a costume, usually to trick someone or something else. 

I do have some food to share today.

I can tell it has cooled off, and autumn is here because my cooking desire has been clicked back on. It's been fun to get back into the kitchen and make more than simple hot weather meals.

One thing I made was a huge pot of 15 bean and veggie soup. 

I made my soup in my Instant Pot. My daughter gave me my instant pot as a Christmas gift back when I was still working. I don't use it quite so much being retired, but it is perfect for making bean soup because it eliminates the overnight soaking of the beans. I snapped this next photo when I put my beans into the empty Instant Pot  bowl, and I really like how it came out.

And here's the finished soup. 

Last week I had some leftover French bread that I chopped into small cubes and then used  to make some chocolate bread pudding.

This recipe calls for coco, chopped chocolate, cream as well as 10 egg yolks. It is really decadent for certain. 

And for my daughter's cookout/wedding this past weekend, I was asked to bring desserts. I made a pan of butterscotch blondies with chocolate chips and walnuts.

I also made a casserole of apple crisp. I used a lot of crisp topping so that everyone who had some crisp could get some topping, even if it is more topping than usually would be put on.

I heated it up and served it with vanilla ice cream. After the big BBQ meal my daughter and her husband (that still sounds weird) served us, along with dessert, nobody had any excuse to leave hungry.

Thanks for visiting. Have a great rest of your week and weekend ahead.