Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Garden Salsa

One of the things I was most excited about when we bought our first house was the fact that I could grow my very own garden! The backyard needs a lot of work and doesn't have a good place for a garden just yet so i dug up a small area along the back of my house to plant some tomatoes and peppers to get me by until next year when i will have completed my garden box. I planted 4 tomato plants and 3 pepper plants. I ran out of room for the third pepper so I had to plant it in a pot. Come to find out as time went on, our dirt is so crappy that only weeds are capable of living in it. All of my plants died except for the one little pepper in a pot. So here it is..... my pride and joy... a little stunted in growth....




Since I only had these three little peppers I decided that they were perfect for making garden salsa (the rest of the ingredients stolen from my mothers always successful garden)

My husband the vegetable model

I decided to keep it simple and follow the recipe that came with my magic bullet.

1 full tomato
1/4 full sized onion
1 clove of garlic (didn't have so i used garlic powder)
a few sprigs of cilantro
1/4-1/3 Jalepeno Pepper (used an anaheim chili instead since that's what my mom grew this year)
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 green pepper (not in recipe but i added anyway since i grew my very own peppers!)

Give it several quick pulses. Salsa should be chunky.
Voila!! Atempts 1, 2 and 3. Moral of the story... magic bullets turn salsa into soup very easily.

Etsy Treasury

So I love Etsy. It is probably the best website ever invented. I've had a little shop on there for just over a year now. I haven't really pursed it all that much but it's definately fun to get an order every once in a while. My hubby may beg to differ with all the complaining I do when it comes to doing the work to fulfill the order.

Anywho, I made a Treasury on Etsy today. I have been collecting quite of few Yellow/Grey/White etsy items for when i finally have enough money to redecorate my living room and figured they would make a nice little treasury. Somewhere along the lines it turned into a "You Are My Sunshine" themed treasury. Cliche? Yes, who cares. Check it out. It is my life goal to make it onto the front page of Etsy.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c73fb176aa68eefed8f2bce/you-are-my-sunshine




Monday, August 23, 2010

My lovely header picture

Since i'm being a thief and stealing someones artwork to use as my blog header (not doing so great with the whole "made it myself" theme) i figured i should give them just a little bit of credit for it.....

This illustration is by an artist called Fontaine Anderson. She lives in Australia with the Kangaroos. She is inspired by her dreams, Japanese textiles, Egyptian gods, 1980's clip art, fashion and music.

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE her work!!! Here is a link to her website.

http://www.fontaineillustration.com/

Testing... 1,2,3

I've decided that if I start a blog to document all of my usually unfinished projects it might help me make them into not so unfinished projects. Hold me to it, guys... okay?

-E