—I took a break from the incessant grading to make some #focaccia for my family’s lunch! It’s very easy: yeast, sugar, lukewarm water, olive oil, bread flour, coarse sea salt, and rosemary.
#academicfall #homebaking #fromscratch
—procrastinating with #mending yet again. But I really did need to get these jeans wearable again, because the other pair I’ve been working on suddenly needs a full back-end #patch job. Now I really do need to get back to grading…
#reducereuserecyclerepair #visiblemending #oldjeans #academicfall
—just submitted, with an hour to spare, revisions for a forthcoming essay on the lost #paintings of the (female) Banana Garden Poets of 17th-century #China. I have been working on them for a month, but I still needed to make a big push yesterday and today.
#academicfall #sinologists #arthistory
—it’s getting to the point in the semester where I have very little free time, barely even time to post. I #mended this #AlabamaChanin shirt on Sunday, just before the grading marathon started. Button craft thread on cotton.
#visiblemending #reducereuserepair #handstitching #academicfall
—ridiculously pleased with the appearance of this #homemade #no-knead #bread, fresh from the oven! And already calculating: it must last through Tuesday because I can’t #bake again until Tuesday evening.
#fromscratch #amateurbaking #academicfall #busybusybusy
—a view similar to the one from two days ago, but sketched outside! Still a little chilly but sunny and dry. Promised myself I would use the daylight to enjoy myself and do my work in the evening.
#urbansketching #pleinair #inkandwatercolor #textandimage #academicfall
—took a break from grading to #sketch the view from my window. Watercolor pencil + watercolor + ink.
#urbansketching #academicfall #textandimage #inkandwatercolor
—the easiest #bread, I make it once or twice every week, no matter how busy I am.
#no-knead #illustratedcookbook #inkandwatercolor #sketching #academicfall
—I don’t know why it took years for me to #mend three holes in this sweater, except that my workload in the fall means that I have very little free time. I’m glad I can wear this again! Embroidery thread on cotton.
#neverendingmending #visiblemending #handstitching #freeformembroidery #academicfall
—finally finished my big stack of grading, and I was just thinking this morning that it’s time to get these #oldjeans back into rotation. Here’s the latest round of #mending.
#neverendingmending #visiblemending #academicfall #reducereuserecyclerepair #handstitching
—I was in a space with an inspiring street view today but only had about five minutes to work on a #sketch, so I photographed it and finished it at home. I rushed to rough out the composition on site and the original drawing is quite wonky.
Maybe I’ll grade later?
#inkandwatercolor #academicfall
—it’s been a wonderful few days of rest and mending and cooking and #baking and spending time with family. Yesterday I finally baked a #plum #torte, from the recipe I posted last week. Back to prepping classes now. Halfway to winter break and sabbatical!
#academicfall
—this morning I had breakfast with a view. I undoubtedly should have been grading but was thinking that I needed to #sketch this gorgeous sugar maple before the rain returns this weekend and it drops its leaves. It was a great way to start the day!
#inkandwatercolor #urbansketching #academicfall
—I don’t see how I’m supposed to focus on grading when the trees outside are doing this. The dog also strongly preferred to be outdoors. All #watercolor (except for the writing) because I didn’t have my favorite pen, at least not until I came back indoors.
#pleinair #sketching #academicfall
—I received over two pounds of #plums from a friend earlier this week. They’ve been in the refrigerator until today, when I finally had time to process them. I made a #sketch, halved them and froze them. Next weekend: #torte!
#illustratedcookbook #inkandwatercolor #textandimage #academicfall
—this morning’s #no-knead #bread has an ear! I’m still doing the stretch-and-fold technique on it.
#homebaking #amateurbaking #academicfall
—at 1:00am I completed my first batch of 72 #homemade #mooncakes. I forgot how much a double recipe of mung bean filling yields, so later today I need to make more dough and wrap more of the chestnut cakes! #Midautumnfestival is Monday.
#harvestmoon #amateurbaking #academicfall
—quick #sketch (for me) in an inspiring #architectural interior, in a light gray marker with #penandink over that. No time to paint it. You can see where I got confused about a reference point and also the unfortunate bit where the person I was #drawing started changing position.
#academicfall
—just started on this year’s batch of #mooncakes! I’ll also be prepping classes, of course.
#amateurbaking #midautumnfestival #harvestmoon #academicfall #fromscratch #illustratedcookbook #textandimage #sketching #inkandwatercolor
—I’ve been #mending this shirt off and on for weeks. It had so many holes! Button craft thread on cotton.
#visiblemending #handstitched #reducereuserepair #academicfall
— #homemade #pizza with spinach, olives, and basil to celebrate the weekend!
#fromscratch #amateurbaking #academicfall
—trees are starting to turn red! I had a hour-long window between the end of office hours and my next appointment, and for 45 minutes of that time it wasn’t raining. Thank goodness for paper towels.
#USkSeptemberPrompts
25. Open space
#inkandwatercolor #pleinair #urbansketching #academicfall
—having time to do a #sketch was today’s reward for catching up with my grading.
#inkandwatercolor #pleinair #textandimage #academicfall
—I’ve been doing a version of the #stretch-and-fold technique on my #no-knead artisanal #bread dough, even though the recipe doesn’t call for it. I think it’s rising more.
It’s getting difficult to #bake during the week.
#amateurbaking #academicfall
—I received these beautiful apples and flowers from dear friends! I decided I could take a couple of hours for myself today. It’s still early in the semester.
#sketching #inkandwatercolor #textandimage #academicfall
—this dress had small rips created by an eager puppy years ago and has languished in my #mending pile ever since. I began by #repairing the eyelets then worked to reconnect them. I love the unruly texture. Hoping I get a few more crafting weekends before the grading starts to pile up! #academicfall
—after working on a Saturday, I decided to start entering our favorite recipes from this summer into my sadly neglected illustrated #cookbook. The #sketch for this one ended up as a #collage after some missteps with both the ink and the #watercolor.
#textandimage #mixedmedia #academicfall
—I finally finished the #alterations on this shirt yesterday. I bound the neckline, felled the seams, and #mended all the holes. Techniques are from #alabamachanin.
Totally paid today for enjoying my weekend by being completely swamped with work.
#academicfall #handstitching #visiblemending
—I forgot to start on the dough for artisanal no-knead bread last night, so instead I made Lacey Ostermann’s #same-day #rosemary #focaccia. Recipe and video tutorial are available on Instagram at _lacebakes_. It’s just out of the oven and I can’t wait to try it!
#amateurbaking #academicfall
—this t-shirt has always been too long and too low-cut for my taste. So today’s project was chopping off the hem, turning it into a one-inch-wide #pleated #ruffle, and #sewing it to the neckline. The technique is from #alabamachanin.
#alterations #handstitching #reducereuserecycle #academicfall
