Nom Nom Nom....New Project!

I've all but abandoned my art-project-a-day project but have stumbled on a brilliant *new* project!

I've jumped on the Pintrest bandwagon and created a board for all the recipes I'll one day cook (ha, ha, yeah right.) My friends and I get together every Monday night for dinner and about 3 hours worth of tv. We usually take turns buying and/or contributing to dinner.

Brilliant idea- use my fancy pinned Pintrest recipes and make everyone dinner on Monday nights! We do dinner anyway and there's typically 4.5 of us = equals perfect cooking opp I would otherwise ignore. And I only have to cook once a week!

Today is the beginning of Nom Nom Monday and I decided to try the spinach and artichoke pasta bake with roasted carrots.

 Of course, I went and accidentally deleted some of the "in progress" photos, but here's the ones I managed to to not delete.

photo does not accurately portray the mess i made

ready for the oven

final product of nomness

I'm slightly ADD when it comes to cooking. I try to do step 1 while skipping ahead to step 4 in a recipe and it usually results in something being left out, added in at the wrong time and tasting weird. And I have a tendency to burn things. But- consensus says (unless they were lying): Yummy! 

Up next week: Dr. Pepper bbq with garlic and cilantro fries

5 by 5

I have about 17 varieties of Sharpies on hand to completely fill in a 5 by 5 square. And....go!

Next was to recreate some awesome squigglies.

And awesome enough, the squiggles bled through and messed up the shirt on the next project!

messy room

DEFACE THIS ROOM!!

six days, six messes

I haven't made a mess in 6 days (unless quasi-cleaning counts). So I made up for it tonight.

Mess one was to get comfy and list all my problems. Lucky for me, I have only two. Which I'm not publishing.

Mess two was to color in a grid with 10 colors of any medium in a patter and make a mistake somewhere.
I used watercolor pencils, so there were plenty of mistakes, mostly bleeding issues.

can you spot the mistakes?

The next mess was to cut out a shape with a piece of cardboard, drop it on the page and color or paint around it. Repeat.

I actually kind of like it. I see the ghost of a person with their head bowed.

ghost in the middle

Mess four was to fold a page several times and make random cutting with scissors. It didn't turn out half bad! Looks like butterflies!

pretty butterflies

Mess five was to doodle by connecting the dots in an interesting way. Kinda hurt my eyes a little.

And the final mess to make up for slacking- take a series of blurry photos on purpose. My niece would be perfect for this assignment :)

what a lovely couple

Today I performed reconstructive surgery. On this couple.

Sid & Nancy before the accident

Nancy & Sid after a successful reconstruction

the write mess

I like today's project the best so far. Today I wrote down 18 sentences, cut out the strips and rearranged them to make a new poem. It was a lot more difficult to decide on the sentences than I thought it would be....so I landed on 13 instead. This is my fantastical poem:

The Doctor just fell from the sky

People stopped and stared,

they just didn't see it.

It took forever to realize

Everyone, everywhere, glowed from the inside out. 

"I really fucked it up this time, didn't I?," he asked.

But all I heard were the broken bells. 

All I felt was the shrapnel of heart.

I'm a long time traveler,

I've come and gone and don't remember where I am. 

I saw a clash of color.

Who's singing now?

It wasn't me at all. 

multiple mess

Today I took an object I have multiples of, threw them randomly in the air and let them fall where they may.
I have an absurd abundance of plastic bags and I'm glad I didn't use them all. 

this was enough of a mess