Garlic and Herb Ravioli

  Ingredients: Buitoni Four Cheese Ravioli 1 Squash, sliced 1 1/2 cup Nature Sweet Twilights cherry tomatoes, sliced 1/2 cup basil, chopped 1/4 cup parsley, chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoons butter Salt & Pepper Parmesan cheese Instructions: Cook ravioli according to box directions (should take …

Mozzarella Sandwich

This is a super quick, easy sandwich that takes a few ingredients most households have (or can easily get) and it tastes like it should take hours to make. Ingredients: Sour dough bread Mozzarella cheese Pesto Tomatoes Salt & Pepper Basil Garlic Instructions: Take the sour dough bread and either cut the longer slices in …

Boozy Creme de Menthe and Chocolate Fudge Cupcakes

This is an all time favorite for my mother, who's love of hot fudge inspired this creation. It's moist, fluffy, and refreshing with its creme de menthe addition. Ingredients: 1 white cake mix box (I like Betty Crocker's Super Moist White Cake) 1/2 cup creme de menthe 3 eggs 1 1/4 cup water 1/2 cup …

Frottage

What is frottage? That was my first question when I had an art professor use that term to describe our next project. That sounded hard. I was imagining some classic European art form like fresco (done with wet plaster on walls or ceilings, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, anyone?) that would be fairly complex and completely out …

All Your Perfects – Colleen Hoover

I'm beginning to notice a trend with my books involving love stories. I promise I read other things too, but obviously my book choices as of late haven't gotten the memo. I've read quite a few of Colleen Hoover's books. Not necessarily because I'm infatuated with Colleen Hoover, but rather my former high school teacher …

Looking for Alaska – John Green

Looking for Alaska was John Green's first novel. This was published in 2005, which I begrudgingly realized was 15 years ago - and that resulted in me feeling older than I normally do and admitting that the John Green I thought was super great and popular from the get-go, wasn't really. I admit, back when …

Stippling

Stippling is an art technique in which a drawing or painting is created by the use of dots or specks. The best way to explain stippling is by showing examples, and that will probably make a lot more sense than this short definition. Without further ado, let's look at some examples. Fer Alcazar Savannah Uhler …

Never Ever – Sara Saedi

This has been my latest book conquest, and it left me with mixed feelings. As the little insert on the bottom of the cover implies, this was a new take on the classic tale of Peter Pan. Let me just say, I love Peter Pan. If I had to pick a favorite Disney movie or …

Surrealism

Today, I'm going to talk about an art movement, rather than a specific artist, such as last week's Dimitra Milan. This movement, clearly implied through the title of this post, is Surrealism. Now let's address some background of Surrealism before we get into some specific examples. Surrealism was in the Modern Art era, rising after …

The Wrath and the Dawn – Renée Ahdieh

This book was one of the first I read after a short reading hiatus (I know, awful how a lover of books can STOP reading for any period of time) and it was just...wow. Let's acknowledge the beautiful cover first, and then the masterful way the original Tales of Arabian Nights (or One Thousand and One …