Update in Photos/ FREE SHIPPING CODE!

New Japanese dishes I tried cooking! 

Tofu Tempura in dipping sauce, yum!

New style of earrings, making my own sterling silver earwires again

So proud of this piece! Wood grain sample pin, so beautiful!

Brand new earring design I'm also very happy with, ready for finishing.

Piles of my signature flower sliders now in 3 different sizes, how exciting :)

Newly listed Earrings available in my Shop today!

And the best news I have for everyone is: I finally got into Artscape!!

 I'm so excited to be taking part in this years Artists Market and I hope you all will get the chance to stop by and see me at this years show!

To celebrate this joyous occasion I'm giving free shipping on all my products in my Etsy shop  with this Promo Code:  ARTSCAPE11

use it at check out and receive your items free of shipping charges now through 4/30/11!

xoxox Amy

Food I'm loving

I've been busy in the kitchen the last few days, thought I'd share some of my favorite creations. I've been trying really hard to like salad (what kind of vegetarian doesn't love salad...? me...) so I've been spicing up those boring green leaves with more lovable ingredients like the one pictured above. My mom gave me some Chia seeds which are supposedly all the health food rage right now. I've been sprinkling them on salads and in my oatmeal. They're actually pretty tasty if you can get over the tapioca like texture.

The other thing I've been trying really hard to do is make my own hand rolled sushi/maki rolls. The ones pictured are just a plain seasoned rice roll and they were 美味しい  (delicious)!  

The last photo is not something I made but Jacques Torres chocolates my Mom got me when we were in NY a few days ago and I'm so in love with the "wicked fun" flavor which is a ganache with  ancho and chipotle chiles! 

What foods are you all loving right now? 

good day for gardening

new salad greens containers

organic lettuce is in my  future!

morning glory seedlings for transplanting out front!

Start of my bean trellis system, 2 more to go

so many seeds (maybe too many)

New indoor organic herbs and spinach containers

Finally started my first round of planting in the raised bed today! It was a perfect day for it too. I'm really excited to try the beans again now that I have a new trellis for them to climb. I'm planning on staking two more and then stringing up a twine system for them to have plenty to vine up around.  I'm also anxious to get my Japanese vegetable seeds that I'm going to try this year, namely my black skinned Densuke Hokkaido watermelon!!  ( read more about them here, very interesting) I've never tried fruit but I'm determined to grow at least one of these expensive melons. As you can tell I'm super excited overall to get things growing!

Update in Photos/ Loch Raven recap

Frozen Hot chocolate at Serendipity NY

Trying my hand at flowers/herbs this year!

Seedlings 14 days in, not so great looking because of the cold weather 

Better looking indoor seedlings!

New photos of work. Used some of these as jury photos for Artscape

At a recent show

Hey everyone! So it's been another little blogless stretch! I've just been so busy working for shows that I've neglected updating, so apologies. I just wanted to recap my last show at LR High last weekend by saying what an excellent turn out we had! As you all may be aware, Art and Craft shows may not be around anymore for BCPS schools and as an artist and alum from LR, I hope from the bottom of my heart they revoke this. That aside, I always love working the LR show because of the familiar faces and the great atmosphere! Thanks everyone who came out to support Art in BCPS schools and for dropping by to say hi!

In other news, it's Spring! (even though it doesn't feel like it, right?) and I've been waiting for the perfect day to plant my vegetables in the tilled/weeded garden I slaved over last week. I also decided to try a few flowers this year. I'll let you know if they survive :)

The biggest addition we have to our budding little backyard farm is: Chickens!  I finally ordered 4 day old chicks for my birthday. They are all different breeds so we won't be getting them until the end of May. We're super excited to welcome them into our yard! So now with some luck, I'll be bringing  veggies, eggs, and flowers to the table this year and the best part is: I know what went into them.

What are you growing this year?

xoxoxo Amy