posted a recipe for lemon cake on her Journal. [link] and it occurred to me that I did ask for recipe's in my holiday wish list. Why not post one of my recipe's that I like to use on line?

This one is one that I've used for some time now. It's normally one of the first things to go when my family is getting together and if I fail to make it at Christmas or new years, I'm jokingly shunned now.

Honey Crystal Almonds

2 cups whole natural almonds
1/4 cup honey
2 table spoons butter (peanut butter can be substituted if you make it 4 table spoons.)
1 cup turbinado sugar (Sugar in the raw.) (Normal sugar works just fine.)

1. spread almonds in a shallow pan. place in cold oven and turn oven to 250 F and roast 12 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until well roasted. (I've skipped this step in the past but the nuts do turn out better when the step isn't skipped.)

2. Over medium heat, in medium sause pan, heat honey and butter to poiling. Reduce heat to medium low, and simmer for 2 minutes. Stir occationally.

3. add almonds to simmering honey and butter. simmer and stir for about 2 more minutes give or take. then move almonds to a container sprayed with that non cook cooking spray and toss them with the sugar, till they are cool.

enjoy

Well I'm apparently starting to do something right with my art again. For I seem to have almost reached 30,000 page views. And just in time for the holiday season so Here's the thing. Snap a picture of the wonderful 30,000 page views and get a free piece of art. It's been a long time since I've been able to do gift art for anyone, and now that the stress of classes has come to an end, I'm feeling the energy to start something again.

Witch brings me to my next subject. If I were to start offering commissions online? would anyone be interested?

Well it is the holiday season, season for giving and all. had an interesting holiday idea that you can read about in her journal if you are interested. [link]

The idea is that you make a wish list, and look around at other people's wish lists seeing if you can grant them. You don't have to pay money, it's more, if you have an item you're not using, see who can use it.

My wish list:

1. Gift art. (*Eye roll.* I know I'm pathetic but it's always a major ego boost for me.)
2. recipes. I love to bake and cook and being that we're in a house where we're now cooking our own food a lot, I'd love a list of good recipes. baking, fudge, soup, rice. Plus gifting me with recipes will allow me to share them with other people. I'm probably baking for most of my Christmas this year.
3.Web tutorial links. good links on anatomy with humans and horses. Links on water color tutorials, colored pencil, ink, what ever.
4. Something sturdy that I can put my 10 gallon tank on for my gold fish. Right now they're in a 2 gallon tank. Just giving me ideas work too.
5. Links to Pegasus origami tutorials.
6. An illustration job.
7. A set of metal sporks.
8.
9.
10.

You're supposed to have 10 things but obviously I've run out of ideas.

My contact information, if you don't want to post information here on my journal, is spottedpegasus@hotmail.com

Anyways, if you post making a wish list, tell me, and I'll see if I can make a list of people here.

Ok so about two weeks ago, I find out I am going to have this homework assignment that both, frightens me and excites me at the same time. The assignment is to make a full body self portrait of myself that is representable more than realistic. Ok cool. I've taken a typography class many years ago, and I've gone to graphic design classes. It's going to be fun. Then my teacher goes, Oh. It's going to be as large as you are in real life.

*blink... blink blink.* And all I can think is. "Ok then."

Now, those few of you who know me in real life, know how tall I am. I can look over the heads of most crowds. I'm 6'2" and I can stick out like a sore thumb in some crowds. I'm tall even for playing woman's basketball, witch because I was so sick of being hounded in middle school by the coaches, I quit playing, and it was something I enjoyed playing. OH! And silly me. when I'm laying on the floor and the other students are measuring out the paper next to me, I asked for more. MORE I TELL YOU!. So now I'm staring at a roll of thick paper that is about 3 feet wide, maybe more (But I'm telling myself it's 3 feet for my own sanity.)and when I roll it out, it's going to be over 6'8" long. Aside from the larger sheep of paper that it came from, that was the entire roll, this is the biggest piece of paper that I have ever seen.

Again, I'm very excited, and slightly intimidated by this piece of paper. The only way that I think I'm going to be able to work on this project at home, is by taping the humongous page to a wall, and hoping that my inks don't bleed too far through it.

For those of you who haven't read the top of the journal for some reason, like it says. I have a desk. For all the years that I have been on DA here, I have been working on my art work without the aid of a desk. Normally I accomplish my work sitting on the floor with one of those artist boards in my lap. Even back when I did acrylic and water color paintings. Something I'm hoping to start up again.

I haven't had a desk because of my lack of space.If I had a place to put a desk, it would be in the way, so, when I was at the second hand store the other day, and I found a heavy duty folding desk that I could fold down and shove behind my dresser, I jumped on it. There was only one problem. I didn't have a car to carry it home for me. So I called up Ayesac, and we took turns carrying it on foot for the 8 or so blocks it took to get it home.

Did I mention that thing was heavy? Or at least the desk felt like it gained weight by the time we got it home. It was money that I really didn't expect to spend, but it's something that I've needed for a long time.