catching snowflakes – Curious as a Cathy

Today’s post was a hopeful idea that I decided on last week but really didn’t want to say anything beforehand just in case I didn’t deliver. It’s been a long time since I’ve been on a date… an art date that is with Rain’s Kitchen and Garden and community. I missed this more than I realized. Last year was just crazy. I am struggling still to regain normalcy in my blogging routine. At least I’m holding it together for Mondays. Now to get other things snapped back into place – waist, thighs, hips, … blog. Ha-Ha!

Rain offers weekly drawing prompts but she encourages us to show whatever we’ve created. While visiting her place last week, I noticed one her tutorial video on how to draw simple champagne glasses. I didn’t have time to watch it but it did inspire me to sketch my own.

Celebrating the new year with the return to TADs!

This week’s prompt is aerial view. I took a quick look at Rain’s examples. One particularly inspired the direction my creative brain went but I didn’t come off with an image that will give you the feeling that you’re looking down onto something. After all, it’s art and isn’t art left to the artist’s interpretation? If you don’t mind, I’m sticking to that! 😉

The snow does make me happy, if I’m snuggly warm indoors watching it or dreaming about the white fluff through my illustrations.

Rain often reveals her creative endeavors from her kitchen. Last week, after making a return visit, Nicole included in her post that she made a Taco Casserole. My first thought was, “That looks like a Taco Bell’s Pizazz pizza!” Fueled with inspiration, I did a quick search for a copycat recipe and found one at The Country Cook. I made home-made enchilada sauce following an old recipe I lifted on the net many years ago and turned some left over pintos into refried beans for the recipe. My first attempt wasn’t too bad.

I think I have enough left over to build a couple more Taco pizzas for this weekend. I might even make a spicy Mexican chicken casserole with green chile rice on the side. Mexican cuisine is my favorite food ever! My plan for 2023 is to get back into the art groove. I’m not sure how successful I will be at making all the weekly dates but I will try. Just like blogging, sketching is for enjoyment and if I push myself beyond my capability then the fun goes away.

I’m going to wind down by giving thanks to the One who makes all things possible. First thankful is continuing to get positive feed from ENT doctor. The one remaining tube is hanging in there still in the perfect place more than four and a half years post-op. Both ear drums, the right more so than the left, are collapsed but he says the ear drums are clear which is very good because hen the ear drum collapses then it can allow debris (dry skin) to collect in the caved in area and it eats away the small bones of the inner ear. That wouldn’t be a good thing. Anywho, I’m still on the four month follow-up visit schedule which is an inconvenience but if it keeps me from loosing my hearing then I’ll keep doing it.

All day yesterday, I worked on a future post. I finished and clicked published but I didn’t realize I had the wrong publish date. A few hours later I saw an email to my designated address announcing my “latest post”. That freaks me out every time. Anyway, I pulled it back to draft and changed it to go live in March, so if you subscribe to CAAC’s email updates and you can’t find it now that’s why. I’m super sorry for the screw up! I’ll be back Monday boogieing to whatever music moves me since there’s no there and I hope you’ll join the party. Have a doodletastic day!