The Life and Times of the Plume — Page 242

Sitting On My Duff

August 13, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

It’s true. I’ve been sitting around on my fluffy little duff this week. But the lack of productivity isn’t really my fault (though it sort of is). I placed a material order almost two weeks ago and had been waiting on it for ages and finally, I said to myself:

Well! Where on EARTH are my materials?

When I hopped online to check on my order status, I found out that I never actually placed the order.

*GROAN*

So, since sterling was in short supply around these parts, I turned to leather and finished up a belt and some cuffs when I was NOT running about town like a madhatter since life was also held captive by mundane errand running all week long. Sigh.

I must take a moment to also point out that besides having a fouled up supply order, this was a hard week. We’re talking zero flow. We’re talking everything that could go wrong DID go wrong, sometimes all at once. And then yesterday I had a filling performed at the best dentist on the planet and so I had an Angelina Jolie FACE for the entire day (as in my face looked like her lips), and my phone broke, and yadda yadda yadda. I’ll spare you the gruesome details.

The good news is that it’s August, I’ve fallen into my solo rhythm now and I haven’t been beating myself up over it. I’ve just been shrugging my shoulders and eating lots of fresh veggies and not stressing. It feels good. Every summer, I have to grow up a little bit. Every summer, I have to step up a little bit. From where I am now, the view is lovely and I’m going softly on myself.

Anyway, here’s a belt!

Now about the actual belt portion, it says:

KISS ME

I TASTE LIKE WILD RASPBERRIES

Sassy, for sure.

I often think about all the things I want to say to RW while he’s away. I want to tell him about my weird dreams, what I found in the garden, what I saw while out running, what someone said in an email….but more than all of that, I just want to yell in his face:

KISS ME

I TASTE LIKE WILD RASPBERRIES

Every man should be so lucky to hear such a sentence in his lifetime…

I reckon at least one of you wants to shout the same thing at your fellow so I made this belt for you,

you wild little pioneer woman….
It’s made to wrap around something sassy that has a circumference of 40-42 inches.

Sometimes it’s nice to let your hips do all the talking…

I’m off to pop a couple of things in the Etsy shop (this belt included)

and then I’m going to make lunch for a really lovely quasi-stranger-friend who is stopping by

and then she and I are going to head out to the reservation to

watch the pow wow.

Today I want you to:

1. Taste like wild raspberries.

2. Walk somewhere barefoot.

3. Sunbathe in an alpine meadow.

Happy Weekending!

Quillianna

Filed Under: belt, leather, sassy raspberries, sitting on my duff

Give ‘Em The Beets

August 12, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

First off, let me tell you, my kitchen smells delicious right now.

I just finished roasting some beets.

It’s a complete garden dinner tonight: baby carrots, spaghetti squash and beets are on the menu. I’m taking the carrots raw. I baked the spaghetti squash in halves with butter and brown sugar and the beets, of course, I roasted!

Beets are very easy to deal with and they’re about one of the very most beautiful things a garden can grow, in my humble opinion.

Here’s how to roast these gems:

1. Remove the tip of the root and the greens from the body of the beets.

2. Pop them in a lidded casserole dish with a drizzle of olive oil and bake at 350F. Smaller beets will roast completely in about 25 minutes and the fresher the beet the quicker it will cook. If you’re roasting biggies, check them as you go with a fork POKE POKE.

3. When your beets are finished, pull them from the oven. When they have cooled enough to handle, pick them up, one at a time, run them under cold water and rub them with your hands. The skin will peel right off leaving a delicious, smooth beet meat behind.

4. Dice these babies up or chop them into chunks and enjoy them alone, on a salad, or juggle with them. Just kidding about the juggling.

I prefer to take mine with a side of plain old goat cheese.

It’s pure deliciosity.

Seriously people. Seriously.

Best summer dinner. Ever.

Garden fresh.

Cultivated with love!

Tell me, how do you like your beets?

And if you are already a lover of beets, gimmie a yee haw!

Happy eating, you skinny birds.

Filed Under: garden, plume gables, summer

Confessions of Typewriter Tuesday

August 11, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

Filed Under: Confessions of Typewriter Tuesday

This Neon Bit Of Intergalactical Nature

August 9, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

Let’s talk about this insane thing:

…this intergalactical piece of spacedom…

…this oozing green piece of vegetational detritus…

…this martian stun gun…

…this gold tongued venus fly trap…

…this fruit blossom of supernova melon…

…I’m not even sure what to call it.

What does it remind you of?

I think it’s part alien, part lily.

It’s built of sterling, gold and resin. I’ve been working on it for a couple of weeks, on and off, resin takes time to cure…and the resin work with this design was a bit of a wretched chore…

It was designed to be worn on a pointer finger so that it can rest across four fingers, like a napping flower. The resin I used to fill the petals, or leaves, I colored an acidic green hue. It’s crazy looking. Psychedelic. The petals (leaves) were repoussed before they were forged so when you look down through the resin, you can see the trail of texture on both sides of the metal. It turned out better than I expected it would.

I love it when that happens…

Filed Under: New Jewelry, resin