What a great weekend!

Started off the weekend early (Thursday) by stopping by Leola’s Vintage Home and Garden’s Fall Open House!

They always have such delightful things!!!

 

Saturday, headed up to Warsaw, MO with friends to the Truman Lake Hook-In…….

Shame on me……no pictures except this one here…… (yes, I’m out of blogging practice, I promise I’ll

try to be better)

No, this is not a picture……this is a rug!!!!! (in progress)

Being hooked by Kathy Donaldson…….this is done in 1-3 cuts…..outstanding!!!! The stone stacked wall is just

as amazing as the horse and rider!!!! Totally blown away by this one!!!

 

Feeling recharged by the little get-aways and ready to share some of my own projects with you in my next post.

Nature’s Inspiration

I’ve got a FitBit, so I’ve been walking more.  Generally I walk in my neighborhood,

but occasionally I venture out on the Galloway Trail.

 

I always have my iPod, listening to podcasts (I love to listen to Jillian Michael….

she is funny as heck!…check her out HERE)

 

This is nice, because I always have the camera available to me as well.  These are

a few pictures that I took on my Sunday morning walk.  The autumn clematis is blooming

like crazy right now. So beautiful!

I also love this picture of the stacked stones in the middle of the creek.

Goldenrod is also in full bloom. You can’t tell from the picture, but the goldenrod

is about as tall as I am!!!

Hoping some of this translates into some artwork.  We’ll see!

Homemade Granola Bars

We’re always trying to eat healthier.  Rather than buying store bought

granola bars, I made some from scratch this weekend.

I love to cook from recipes, Kenny likes to just whip things up on his

own!

The recipe is from Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa.  Her recipes never disappoint

and this recipe was no exception. Click HERE to see the recipe.

I love dried fruit, so I loved these granola bars…..these have quite a bit of sugar from

the dried fruits, honey and brown sugar, so treat them more like a treat, not like a health

food!!!

 

Also, if you make them, take her tip and use your butter wrapper to coat the inside

of your measuring cup, before you put the honey in…..it comes out easier that way!

Everyone needs a kitchen helper!!!

Welcome Fall!!

It’s been so nice to have the summer off.

I tried to leave my schedule open, to make summer feel as summery as possible.

However, honestly, I’m not a summer person…..I don’t especially like the heat and I’m

excited for fall to be on it’s way.

Autumn finds me thinking of art projects and makes my creative juices flow.

I can’t wait to huddle up inside with hot coffee, sketch books and wool!!!

 

 

It’s been nice to not have much on my plate except for my

regular 9-5 (make that 7:30-3:30) job.

This has left me time to decide where I want to focus my energies.

I’ve become part of an art group that meets monthly and it’s a nice group of

ladies to get together with. We all do different art forms, but many of the forms are

overlapping and it helps to have different points of view to get different ideas.

I’ve also found myself doodling and sketching when I have a chance,

even if it’s on a post-it note.

 

So, I’m bidding summer farewell and welcoming fall with open arms!

I hope you’ll join me.

Be back soon!

Summer is winding down and I’ll be back to blogging after the Labor Day weekend.

Will be sharing

hooking

cooking

sketching

dogs

Kenny’s garden

and whatever seems relevant to me.

Hope you will follow along.

Goodbye August, hello September #sunflower

A photo posted by Tammy Burks (@tammylanet) on Sep 2, 2015 at 6:45am PDT

The summer of my discontent

Taking the summer off…….

Weirdest thing ever!

Mexican street corn sweet potatoes with creamy chipotle-avocado sauce. #whatsfordinner #foodie #spiralized #spiralizer

A photo posted by Tammy Burks (@tammylanet) on Apr 30, 2015 at 6:44pm PDT

I’ve bought a new kitchen gadget……yeah, I can’t believe it either…..I try not to get sucked into “cool tools” for

the kitchen because it seems like you usually have something on hand that works just as well and is really

much more of a multi tasker!

Last week I bought a “spiralizer” and I used it for the first time last night to make the dish above.

It’s called

MEXICAN STREET CORN SWEET POTATOES WITH CREAMY CHIPOTLE-AVOCADO SAUCE

and I got the recipe from this blog INSPIRALIZED

 

Sweet potato noodles with a Mexican sauce……who knew something so odd could taste so delicious!!!

 

Weather here is glorious and I’ve been doing lots of walking but not much creating…..well, I take that back…

we had art group earlier this week and I made some sweet magnets……will post those soon!

Have a great Friday!