I have celiac disease and I love juicing. One day, after I had bought a celiac book at the recommendation of a friend’s mom, I combined the forces of the two.
Here is a great very moist muffin/cake recipe for you to try:
1-1/2 cups nut flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1-1/2 cups juicer pulp/shredded carrots
1/2 cup butter / or 1 banana & 1/4 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup honey
2 eggs
1/2 cup raisins
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup walnuts or what have you
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine all wet ingredients, then all dry. Put in ungreased muffin tins or cake pan and bake at 350″ for 45-60 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.
Sometimes it bugs me how I often make really brightly colored clothing and good, and yet I don’t always wear these things myself. Also, when it comes to home design, I have always been a disciple of a Martha Stewart aesthetic. I wrote the woman a letter at 11 years old professing my adoration of her for godsake. With that said, I was just perusing the woman’s website, as I do often, and found this:
Martha's Take
Now, for the last four years, I have held up the same design in my three apartments I have lived in and here is the present:
My Room!
So, yeah, we’re totally on the same page. I love lawn prints and pretty things to surround me in my home, be it pillows, duvet covers, or eucalyptus arrangements, so I want to do the same for my Etsy Shop. I want to keep up the aesthetic I have, but also include dainty home design items and dainty accessories as well. I’m a 1920′s and 30′s architecture girl, as well as a Rococo, Art Nouveau, Eastern textiles, swirly nature-loving person. I do really appreciate modern design and sleek clean lines and this kind of design, but I feel coziest in cozy places.
Love this Room with pops of bright color!
Even mobile cozy! Alright, now I am so excited thinking about pillows, that I am going to go to my studio and make some. New designs coming soon! Happy Weekend!!!
It’s my first day off in three weeks and I am going to take full advantage! I submitted to my bed last night at 9:45 and awoke at 10:20am, recalling dreams about new apartments, riding on waterslides with dolphins, and parties with friends. Oh brain!
I also realized this morning that I have tomorrow and Friday off too, so rather than dig myself an early grave and continue doing work, I’m going to the woods! I’m hopping on a bus to my parents house and I can’t wait to play with our dog and watch movies and run through the woods at 100mph, falling in holes and climbing trees…. if my weary body can handle that.
So I teach sewing lessons at this great play in Chelsea in Manhattan and I had a two hour break in between classes yesterday and decided to go to the gym. It had been a little while and I was tired, but I thought, oh man, energy’s a comin’! After running and cycling, I felt worse. My body was like, okay girl, this is it! When I got back to the sewing studio to teach, I decided to tell my students that English was my second language because I was making no sense. I kept using grammatical endings incorrectly. I was dog tired. The gym was not my savior.
I had a really erratic sleeping schedule these last few weeks, having to be at some jobs on set at 6am and then having to work at other jobs til 1am, this created a wonderful dose of insomnia, my body confused as to when it should wake up. Last night I caught up! Sleep has always been a thing of mystery for me. It sometimes escapes me for multiple nights of lying in bed for 9 hours with no dozing. I aim to create rhythm and repetition in my schedule to doctor this. Sleep is important, man!
On a happy and healthy note, I have been writing a new play and it’s been really fun. I have been doing a lot of research to develop the characters by watching a lot of rock n’ roll documentaries and I cannot wait to perform it for my theatre company soon.
On that note, we are having a show at the end of this month in NYC for five consecutive weeks!! Here are the deets and the new promo video we filmed two weeks ago: Me amo rock n’ roll and me amo acting/theater/my company!
I haven’t had a day off in THREE WEEKS, but that isn’t stopping me. I have eleven orders to make tonight and I have a big audition on Saturday, so I am making myself something sweet and new to wear. I often start with an idea and then see where my fabric and sewing takes me, so I am starting with this idea:
A rough idea
Forgive the horrible drawing. It’s going to have a Peter Pan collar (my fav), a peplum, high waist and sleevelessness.
This morning my alarm went off and finished my nutty dream. It was the nuttiest one I’ve had in a while and I must say that I wish I could synopsize all of the details. I can draw it probably, but then I will be late for work!
I had a dream that I was riding a motorcycle really really fast up an endless escalating parking garage ramp for an hour and then wound up at a garage guest house where my friends Tygar & Delaney lived. Tygar greeted me into the kitchen and I kept trying to leave because I thought she didn’t want me there. Then I wandered into Delaney’s bedroom, which was “the big bedroom” and the size of a Kmart. To the right, she had at least ten giant ornate antique wooden beds in strange shapes (one was triangular and reminiscent of the Addams Family. She also had brass beds to the far right and I commented on the fact that I always wanted one, which I do. Delaney also had tons of grand giant furniture & she said that she had had to buy a dumptruck to get all this furniture from PA. I thought to myself, oh she’s a furniture conneisseur. I followed her over to the left where there was a loft above us and a tight space below. She started smoking a cigarette and I turned to look at what was beyond the loft and saw a giant projector screen, which was screening a video on bugs atop very very green vegetation.
The weird thing is that I can pinpoint exactly what in my day yesterday spawned this dream. For instance, after work, I passed a garden supply store, which had green green grass and plants. I also went to my friend’s house for the first time and he has very large grand antique wooden furniture. I also saw Tygar last night and walked home with her. Before I fell asleep last night, I thought about how I should make a fabric covered faux headboard for my bed, and lastly, I saw an amazing motorcycle two days ago and almost wanted to get on it.
It’s so incredible how the brain then creates a map between these things and thus, a story. High five, brain! I was thoroughly entertained.
It is fifty freaking six degrees in New York today and I took a walk during my work break. There is a HUGE American Apparel wholesale sale down the street so I finally went in to see how marked down everything actually is… I got kind of sickened by how much stuff was in there. Like 6,000 sq. ft. of neons and meshes and sweatshirts. I wound up being able to find some underwear that might fit me in seas of XLs everywhere for $1/pair?!?!? Woah.
There were a lot of good prices, but I almost never buy new clothes. (always vintage or gently used from thrift shops) I also paid and left and then got immediately mad at myself. I have so much stuff. I don’t need more, but everybody needs underwear, right? Even still, within ten minutes of buying undies and a long sleeve tee, I vowed that I would only make my own clothes or alter what I have from now on for a while.
I’m a vintage whore and I have enough to wear a different outfit everyday for six months. The end. Its beautiful outside though and being a nerd, I found a seat in an outdoor park with a giant screen showing a movie about marine life and promptly planted my ass down.
I LOVE Planet Earth and watching sea creatures do their thang…
Off to teach a sewing class! Happy Tuesday! It feels like Monday !
