Further Adventures in Food and Art

I've noticed a trend in a few of my posts recently. It seems that I have a thing for posting about the food I made, along with whatever piece I made or worked on. May as well follow that trend while I'm on a roll.

Today, I was in need of some delicious protein. Since the closest grocery store is the organic food store (back to that again), that is where I went. I picked up some arbitrary beef (something bloody and steak-like), and went home. Recently I've been on this weird schedule of eating breakfast late, and having lunch/dinner at 4 in the afternoon. It's not really a bad thing. Then I just have a snack later on at night. This meal was particularly delicious. I had a craving for fried mushrooms (along with beef), so I cooked up some of those and made some frozen vegetables. Still vegetables! I just don't have to worry about them going bad.   Mm-mm good!

As for art and creations, I was busy today. I made a couple of pieces for a gallery, started work on an order for an Etsy customer, and spent well over two hours beading the piece above. This is a collar type piece, made of fox fur, ribbon, and glass beads. Recently I've been enjoying doing bead work on pieces, and encrusting things with jewel-like things. Maybe that's just the magpie-pirate-aristocrat in me. I'm contemplating taking this piece further, but at the same time, I like it where it is. It still needs to be finished (in terms of clasp or what-have-you), but it's kind of neat, I think. In a weird tribal-royalty-chic kind of way? I think that recently I've been incredibly inspired by a Black Lotus Clothing photo shoot, in which Wednesday Mourning was the model. I guess by all definition, I'm inspired by the pieces by Black Lotus Clothing. However, I'm never inspired by any of their pieces, except for when they're modelled by my favourite alternative model.

Now I am more or less kicking back for the rest of the evening. I'm finally seeing Resident Evil (kind of), and it's not bad. Gotta love zombie movies! Though zombies have become a wee bit overrated and overused. Whatever the case... I find it important to see all of the classics.

Cabinet of Curiosity

This evening, I had a strike of inspiration in regards to arranging my curios in the fashion of a curiosity collection. I had many strokes of inspiration regarding making art and framing things and just having a pleasant evening after meeting a friend for coffee/tea/conversation.

The result of my hard work was the creation of a few nooks of oddities and strange things, and the compilation of an entire shelf with strange things and small things that I've collected. Though, the further result was realizing that I created a curiosity cabinet, but furthermore, my entire bedroom is a curiosity cabinet.

All of my strange things. I would try to go through all of them, but that seems like a lot of work. Regardless, enjoy all of the shoddy photographs, taken by the light of my very bright (almost too bright because it is lampshade-less) antique floor lamp.

Major Accomplishments

Right now you might be looking at the title of this post, and looking at the above photo, and then looking back to the title, scratching your head slightly, wondering if I really intended to write the title. The answer is... Yes, I did. Yes, the photo is of a sandwich, Babybel cheese, and some (relatively sad looking) apple slices. This was my lunch/early supper, and boy. Is it an accomplishment!

This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the first non-wrap, non-bun, non-grilled, non-toasted sandwiches I've EVER MADE. Am I proud? Yes! Was it delicious? YES! It was some 60% whole wheat bread, sliced chicken, mixed lettuce, and Caesar salad dressing. "What? Caesar salad dressing?" you're asking. Yeah! Caesar salad dressing. Try it sometime. This sandwich was basically a chicken Caesar salad in sandwich form. With the side cheese and apple slices, it was the perfect lunch, fun for anyone able to eat solid food!

Oh, I also learned that organic milk from a glass bottle tastes super delicious. Unless it's just my imagination. Whatever the case (placebo effect or not), I'm enjoying it.

In the realm of other things that I actually did today...

This is a red fox jaw with glass rhinestone teeth. It was missing the teeth, and it was actually why I chose this one. This is the first step towards being a neat (and weird) fascinator. Since this photo was taken, it has the addition of a fox paw which is for some reason antler shaped. I just need to add some kind of thing so that it can attach to a person's head. It's really quite pretty, actually. I might be hard pressed to give it up... Nonetheless, I have a goal to create a body of work focused on making pretty things out of dead things. I'm also going to make a fascinator out of a fox scapula and pearls or something of the sort. And a vintage birdcage veil, I think. More details on that later.