Whew,

So I have been quite busy lately.

I'm loving looking over this residence hall,

and my glorious group of RA's.

Next week we are having Pirate week, a week long celebration of

Talk like a Pirate Day!

I've also been working on t-shirts for a couple of groups on campus.

This one is for the sousaphone section of the Pride of the Plains Marching Band

Their featured show this year features Beatles Music.

There will be at least one more t-shirt to come!

PSU Housing T-shirt

I had the opportunity to create the logo for Pittsburg State University Housing Theme this year, along with the T-shirt for the Resident Assistances and RHA members.

I think everything turned out really well. Hopefully everyone likes them!

Body Art

The other day I got into my mini van and sat on a penny that had been laying in the seat for some time geting warm in the sun.

It just so happened that it had gotten warm enough to brand itself into the back of my leg.

I'm now and forever going to be sporting Abraham Lincoln.

Illustration Friday

Another illustration for Illustration Friday.
This week's word was worn.

This is a gouache painting I did as a color study. Its of the windows in Porter Hall, which are currently being riped out and replaced. Its sad to think they won't be there next year.

Illustration Friday

I've started participating in this lovely little thing called

Illustration Friday.

This is the first of what should be many illustration.

The prompt for this week was Drifting

Art Night Photos

Art Night at Starbucks was a success!

Larry was a peach and helped me move and hang all of my art work.

He even posed for me like his pin hole portrait even though he didn't want to.

Holly and the Bongo Girls, (yes they all are bongo girls) came and were absolutely fabulous. The night wouldn't have been as glorious if they hadn't been there.

My art displays turned out really well.

These are some new bracelets that I have been working on, they come in every color under the sun so if you would like one let me know.

These are the bud mixed media pieces that I did last semester. I had some problems getting them to stay up in the window like that but they looked really lovely with the light coming through them.

Even though the art was pretty beautiful, the people who came to support it, and the artists were just as lovely!

Thanks to everyone who came! It was really wonderful evening that lifted my spirits immensely. I am now ready to kick start my art making for the summer!

Be looking for some new work!

Monkey Bread

Monkey Bread is something that my mother made when I was a kid, and I have made throughout my college career for my friends. It's a gloriously cheap treat to make, and completely fantastic for any gathering.

Food Supplies You Need: Brown Sugar, Cane Sugar, Cinnamon, 4 Small cheap cans of plain ol' Biscuits, 1/2 Stick of Butter

You will also need a bunt cake pan, a bowl for melting the butter in, a sealable container to shake stuff in, cooking spray, and a pretty plate to put the monkey bread on when you are done.

For 4 small cans of biscuits, put 3/4 cup to 1 cup of cane sugar, and brown sugar in the sealable container, and as much cinnamon as you see fit. Stir/shake it all up till there aren't any lumps. It should look like sand.

Melt a 1/4th of the stick of butter in bowl. I have found if you only use 1/4th of the stick at a time you don't run out and the biscuits don't get soggy.

Rip the biscuits in half, drop them into the butter, and stir them around a bit so they are coated.

Now put the buttered biscuits into the sealable tub with the stirred up sugar.

And Shake! When they are covered they should look like the little sugar biscuits you get at Chinese Restaurants.

Put the sugared biscuits into the bunt cake pan making sure that they are evenly spread out.

If there is any sugar left over, just sprinkle it over the top.

Pop the pan into the oven. Just follow the biscuit tube for temperature instructions. I have found that it takes the monkey bread about twice the baking time as the tube instructions say to bake the biscuits. It doesn't hurt to check it every 5 min or so after it has hit the 10 min mark.

This is a great time to get some crafting done.

The Monkey bread is done when it has puffed up to the top of the pan, the sugar is bubbling up the sides, the top is starting to get golden brown, and when you dig down into it with a fork, the middle pieces are no longer gummy.

There is a very fine line between burnt, and under done monkey bread. When ever you think it is getting close to being done, its ok to hover around the oven, being paranoid and checking it every 2 min or so.

Once its done put your fancy plate on top and flip!

And there you have it! Monkey Bread!

Once you have the sugar and butter, which you can buy for pretty cheap in large portions, you can make several monkey bread batches for the price of biscuits. Mine were 39 cents a can