Soap!

Just a quick note to show you the soap I made from glycerin, melted, added herbs from the garden, flowers for show, lemon zest, essential oils, and thats it! 

Three Cowls

Fall is here! The nights are colder, my hands are frozen from bicycling, and knitting season is in full swing to keep this fingers warm enough to bend and squeeze. This year I am all about the cowls. They are a quick project with lots of options and are more practical for being on 2 wheels than a scarf (think: scarf tangling in the spokes!) The last thing I need is another crash this month. 

This first warm and fuzzy is a mixture of purple/maroon bucle yarn and regular black acrylic, the second two different skeins: one blue, one multi-colored, the third cowl from maroon and white acrylic (for mom). Little ends sticking out! 

Oakland Museum of California

Every first Sunday of the month, the Oakland Museum of California opens for free perusing. I have gone a few months in a row. One of my favorite artists in the permanent gallery is John Ehn, who created statues of his family and friends in Woodland Hills, CA, after a career as a wildlife trapper in Michigan. The museum also shows a memory jar and memory board he created, which look like junk collages but in a most beautiful and grotesque way. The photo below is his work. 

The two following photos I don't remember who painted but am certain they are 20th century, and the final photo: well, that was me in 2011 in one car with too many things trekking through the great unknown of west Texas and beyond. 

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Shimmery Shit

These sparkly treasures came from the very best Goodwill store, in Fruitvale, back in June. 

For Jeff's firey birthday we all went out to see Sharon Needles and Peaches Christ perform Silence of the Trans at the Castro Theater. It was an evening of heels + hilarity. I wore these pink plastic knockers as Miami Party Girl Realness and the bag was a gift for Jeff, the original Shady Lady aka Anita Cupcake. So you see how this unfolded into monikers and glitter galore.

Jeff is a graphic designer, artist, and farm mystic. His website is here. 

Baked Eggs

Good morning! Or it is in the Bay, anyway. Fridays there is a farmer's market near Chinatown in downtown Oakland where a man sells chicken eggs for $3 a dozen - the best price around for humanely raised birds. And they crack open bright orange and have a pungency to them. A far cry from the drippy pale yellow-white eggs that I grew up on, from the grocery store, from a factory farm, from who knows where. 

Baked Eggs!

2 eggs

5 swiss chard leaves

1/2 C young arugula

1/2 tomato

1/2 C cheese curds

3 cloves garlic

tsp. salt

tsp. cayenne

any flat bread

Turn oven to 275f. 

Start garlic, salt, cayenne in a cast-iron pan with olive oil, then add tomato, arugula, chard. Add a tbsp. of water to keep chard leaves hydrated. Crack eggs over top of greens, careful not to break the yolk. After 5 minutes, using a spatula to hold the greens + eggs, place two pieces of flat bread under, cheese curds on top, and transfer pan to heated oven. Bake for 5-10 minutes, depending on how hard you want your yolks. I like runny yolks so I bake only for about 5 minutes.