I finished my entry for the They Draw and Cook holiday recipe contest. Shortbread!
They've made a list of illustration blogs they like, and I'm flattered to be in some good company. Thank you!
By: Paula Pertile,
on 12/21/2008
Blog: Drawing a Fine Line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Thank you Nicky from Nicky Bee Shop on etsy for featuring my Gingerbread Surprise card in this delicious Treasury!
(I'm down there in the middle of the bottom row.)
I painted that piece for my Christmas card a few years back. Its one of the few pieces I have that's all done in watercolors. I love painting that way, and don't know why I don't do more of it! Colored pencils have kind of taken over lately, but I think I'll go back to doing more painting this coming year. Yes, I definitely will.
Nicky has some really cool things in her shop. I love this cookie tin full of Christmas cookie ornaments!
People on etsy are so clever. I'm always amazed at people's ideas and creativity and productiveness (is that a word?).
I'm great at thinking up cool ideas, then tend to poop out before they actually get made. You could (and I have) spent hours looking at all the wonderfully crafty things on etsy. Very inspiring!
I'm baking today, finally.
Two pans of shortbread are in the oven as we speak. Peanut butter cookie dough is chilling and will get baked next. After that its my famous chocolate cookies which are actually Martha's recipe, but don't tell anyone. As for gingerbread, well, we'll see.
The house is smelling really good and the kitchen floor has a good dusting of flour and sugar on it, perfect for sand dancing (you know, the old soft shoe).
Its a perfect little visual recipe. I adore the reindeer images. And shortbread! My favourite thing at Christmas, I always make it.
Congratulations on being recognized, its well deserved.
Wonderful! I can't decide which character is the cutest.
OK, so you've been very busy lately, and you seem to be doing VERY WELL. Congrats on your blog award. Swear, it's one of the best blogs I read. Funny, informative, inspirational, adorably cute, between the art and the photos of the cats and their adventures... GOOD JOB PAULA!
How cute is this shortbread recipe? I love how the timer is 'tick, tick'ing, and the little reindeer (are they reindeer? or just 'regular' deer?) has 'ear buds' in, grooving on some hot tunes, I think. And I love the reindeer with the glasses, since I, too, am 'sight challenged.' I really like the style too! Glad you're enjoying it! Too cool!
I have never baked Shortbread; love eating it, but have never made it. Maybe I'll try your recipe this year. It is very simple, only three ingredients, and the outcome is SO GOOD. ...dipped in chocolate, OH MY... That sounds super!
Yeah, I know, about the 'fake tree' dilemma. Went thru it last year, before buying a very inexpensive FAKE tree. Think of it this way. I KNOW you are not into having trees cut down unless they're sick or dead. Me either. We need the oxygen... But yet, every year, I spend a LOT of money on a real tree that someone has CUT DOWN, only to toss it out with the trash in two weeks... That tree is NOT trash, that tree ...was... a beautiful expression of life on this planet. Yeah, I know they're grown specifically to be cut down, and I do miss that fresh 'Christmas tree' smell, but I just couldn't do it any more.
Have fun, keep the kitties OUT of the tinsel... and enjoy the holidays!