Vegan Vacation Porn

You knew I'd start with the food porn pictures right?

Blossoming Lotus was, by far, my favorite restaurant we visited on our trip. We went there twice!

Live Wrap (cilantro lime pate, tomatoes, cucumber, sprouts, and avocado in collard greens, with cashew sour creme):

Live Pizza (buckwheat crust with cashew cheese, basil pesto and veggies):

Tempeh Fajita (with onions, peppers, and lettuce, served with wheat tortillas, cashew sour cream and live green HOT sauce):

Chai Hemp soft serve. mmmmm. my favorite. I also tried the Almond Mint another day and that was pretty tasty also.


Sweetpea Bakery:

Cinnabun!

Snickerdoodle! So yum. Just like my mom's! chewy in the middle and crispier on the outside.


Vegan nachos with homemade cheeze sauce at Hungry Tiger, Too. Very mild cheeze sauce, but tasty. I give kudos to places that make their own sauce. It was very white beany and noochy.


Voodoo Doughnuts. Chocolate Coconut.


Late night pizza at Bella Faccia Pizzeria in the NE! We trekked up there specifically for this pizza and it was totally worth it.

Paradox Cafe. I had the tempeh gyro. The highlight of my meal was the soup of the day though, which was Kale, veggie sausage, and another important ingredient that I'm forgetting right now. The picture I took of it was a blurry mess. It was a rainy day (the only we had! yay sun!), so it was perfect.



Last meal in PDX was at the Vegetarian House in Chinatown. We had just missed the lunch buffet, but our meals were still most excellent.

Bean Curd pockets with Napa Cabbage:

Bird's Nest. This was crazy! I was expecting a cool-looking dish, but this exceeded my expectations! Crispy Potato bowl with Veggie Chicken, snow peas, and carrots with sauce. I wanna make a potato bowl!

I'm back!

I'm baaack! Arrived home yesterday morning, but was pretty much incapacitated from all the hiking that I had done and the red-eye flight that I flew. I called it in early last night. I have lots and lots of pictures and doodles and stories to sort through and will be posting them in the next few days. For now, here is me with the GIGUNDA three-leaf clovers that they grow out west and a beautiful waterfall that I hiked up and beyond (850 feet!!)

Greetings from Portland, OR!

Hello! I've been in Portland, Oregon since friday morning! I'm having a lot of fun; LOTS of walking around and exploring the city. Very quirky city with interesting and pretty sights and an odd assortment of people and surroundings. Today I'm renting a car and driving out to Multnomah Falls for a day of hiking and nature. Luckily, it's a beautiful day out and quite perfect for a hike.

So much good food! I took lots of pictures so far and will post them when I get back. Speaking of, I'll be back home on Wednesday.

xoxo
michelle

Apple of my Eye

Beautiful day out! This is that painting I was talking about. I've been eating a whole lot of apples lately, which is something that isn't very common this time of year. It's the only fruit at the farmer's market though! Lonely apples. And they have been pretty tasty too. Ohhh, I can't wait for summer fruits though. This is the time of year when I get antsy for more variety in my fruits/veggies. No more root veggies!

Anyways, this was painted with watercolor and gouache on a heavily gessoed pine board. 16"x20". Prints are available in my shop!

Yeah, I like pet worms

So I haven't had a chance to scan that painting yet, as it's been rainy and gross here and I don't want to chance taking it outside to bring to work and scan. Hopefully it will be nice out tomorrow and I can bring it.

I've been up to my ears in planters! I almost had a crisis when Home Depot ran out of the terracotta planters and the sales associate was real lame about telling me when the next shipment would come in. I scoured the flower shops of Greenpoint looking for planters and managed to find 6 and this cute little lady's shop. Thankfully, Home Depot restocked today so I bought a big supply (now to get them home without breaking any...hmm). People like cuteycakes. :)

I do have a drawing I have been working on to show though! I have had a thing for fat 'lil birds lately. I think it is because of all the twitterpated boy birds I've seen outside, chasing after the girl birds, with their chests all puffed up. I'm not quite done with this image yet; I think I want to do an antiqued version with sepia-colored lines on a yellowed watercolor wash. Anyways, pet worms make me smile.

apples with pb on it is so awesome.

First off, this makes me sad. I carefully gessoed this piece of cedar, that I got at the farmer's market, and sketched everything all out. The next morning, there was this GIANT crack right down the middle of it and it keeps growing everyday. Boo!! Lesson learned: fresh cedar does not like me and my painterly ideas and impatient ways, and this is what i get for contributing to its downfall. :(

see? sad.


Yesterday was Dr. Sketchy's Anti-art school and Amelia Danger was the model, in full ballerina awesomeness. She was a great model; Sometimes a little too good, with some kinda unnaturally bendy poses that just made me look like I drew her wrong. Her outfit was pretty awesome also, paired with the pink and yellow lights. I forgot my brushes, so just pen this week. She's holding a metric-ton of tulle in both doodles. 10 min. and 20 min., respectively.



I bought a big paper bag of apples at the farmer's market yesterday, so they made their way into breakfast this morning: apple cinnamon pancakes. mmm...


This morning, I woke up all bleary-eyed and rushed a few blocks down to Warsaw for Bust's Spring Fling craft fair. Had to beat the crowds! I got there at 11:30 and it was already bustling. I got myself some yummy smelly things from Lollibomb's booth and called it a day. Lots of fun free things too.

I have a brand new painting that I will, hopefully, be able to scan tomorrow. It's a bit on the big side. This will be a busy week; trying to square a bunch of things away before I leave for Portland, OR on thursday night. Yay vacation!!

Neat-O

My 'lil cutiecake planter is on the front page of Neatostuff today!

New ACEO's

I made some new ACEOs last night. The "Bee & Tipper" one is my favorite. I'll put them up in my shop later on when I get home from work.

Bee & Tipper:


Lady Loo:

Oh Sister: