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Cavern Gorge

My Home Town

Travel up the gorge. Vintage post card. Watkins Glen, NY.

Just a little updating

Kilala - Husky princess

Just a little update

Been very busy. Always so much to do and so much I want to do. My brother Morgan inspired me to be more creative (I have been feeling stuck in a rut) so I have working on journal pages.
Here's a peek will show them when they are finished but this will give you an idea...

Today: groceries, garden, pool, swim, web site work, swim, make art, more web site work, wine, snacks, doggie running and will someone PLEASE get me away from Pinterest?

Saturday plans

I'm back to doing some oil painting. Kilala at the lake. Love mixing the colors and moving the paint around. Hoping to start another one this afternoon on a wood panel.

You have to read this!

History
Since our founding just before the turn of the century, the Dwight Yoakam's Bakersfield Biscuit brand has been synonymous with quality, comfort, taste and style. Over the span of our history, Dwight Yoakam's Bakersfield Biscuit Brand will use only the finest ingredients and employ only the best craftsmen available to bring you the best food product.

Our Humble Beginning
Dwight Yoakam's Bakersfield Biscuit Brand was founded by legendary entertainer Dwight Yoakam and Biscuit Boy. BOY was born in Oklahoma in 1952, just outside of the Seneca-Cayuga Indian Reservation.

BOY was the second of four kids born in to Carmel Carl and Charlene's family of traveling carnies who worked the midways, carnivals and fairs throughout the Midwest and south with their concession business selling caramel apples, cotton candy, funnel cakes, and roasted ears of corn on the cob (when in season). When the family business grew to include Charlene's Chicken and Biscuits, BOY learned at his momma's knee her time-tested recipe for buttermilk biscuits and showed such a knack for making them that he came to be known as Biscuit BOY.
When Biscuit Boy was about 16, he fell in love with Dori Rae Rattliffe who was out canvassing for the evangelical crusade of Reverend Ernest Fellows and his Traveling Flock of the Sacred Wounded (The Reverend annointed her the "Flower Child" who would pass out the token Roses of Sharon to the newly-saved converts who came forward during each service.) Boy followed his lovesick heart, leaving Carmel Carl and Charlene to join Fellows' Flock, taking his momma's biscuit recipe with him. For fifteen years Biscuit BOY stayed with the flock as an assistant shepherd, serving up his biscuits at tent meetings, until, at one fateful revival in Bakersfield, CA, the Reverend's oldest boy from a previous marriage spilled a story about his father's current double-marriage and shady history of handling donations, the news of which soon found Rev. Fellows serving a chunk of time for Income Tax Fraud.

Biscuit Boy, finding himself on his own in Bakersfield, was looking for work at a music store (since he used to tune guitars for his uncle's band that played the carnivals) when he happened to meet up with Dwight Yoakam who was buying some strings and a guitar strap. Dwight was in town for the Grand opening of Buck Owens' Crystal Palace nightclub and restaurant and, after learning of Boy's inherited talent for food, got him hired on as a cook at the Crystal Palace. Dwight asked Biscuit Boy if he couldn't whip up a little something special for Buck to celebrate the Grand Opening, so the two of them took Biscuit Boy's special recipe, incorporated a few of Dwight's own ideas, and prepared a batch of buttermilk biscuits. The folks liked 'em so much, they just had to keep making 'em.

Our Amazing Success
Since then, the incredible team of Biscuit Boy, Dwight Yoakam and their disributor Modern Foods, have introduced dozens of new food items into the marketplace, including Bean Dips, Mini Cheeseburkers, Chicken Sandwiches, Ribs and - of course - biscuits.
And that's how Dwight Yoakam's Bakersfield Biscuits came to be served at Buck Owen's Crystal Palace, and how they're now available at your local store. Just heat'em and eat'em.

Monday

It's official. I've been published in Somerset Apprentice (mixed media magazine for artists). Six  pages to hit the magazine stands March 1st!

Valentine wishes

My Valentine wishes.

Just a little news

"Conjuring"

Mixed media - acrylic paint, colored pencils, watercolor, collage, image transfer, etc

You can order a print of this artwork. Artist quality print on Somerset Velvet Giclee paper - 12 x 15 inches including a 1/2 inch border. Can be ordered in larger sizes.

January Friday the 13th

Journal page.

Some photos found

I have some photos from my art show. All the party food was really great. The proof of this is that most all of the photos are people shoving food in their mouths! (I only posted one) It was a magical evening  and couldn't have been more perferct. The show was at a gorgeous winery - gallery overlooking beautiful Seneca Lake. Music fantastic. Wine superb. There were over a hundred people there. AND I was driven there by three good looking single guys!

Kilala flying

Journal Pages

Collage week 3 - Misty's workshop

Mixed media, collage, acrylic

This was supposed to be a little one hour freeing up exercise for my class and instead ended up being 5 day, evenings, and nights. Done at last.

Painting day

What a great day I had today. Great walk out in the snow with my dear friend Sue and kee-ray-zee Kilala husky dog, worked on my class with Misty Mawn all the rest of the day, painted and posted a painting that 3 people commented on! Yes someone actually commented. I am not alone! I love this class. I feel like I've grown so much and it's only the beginning of week 2. And I even did the writing assignments. I also posted my first drawing on Flickr along with the painting above and the painting below. Jeez Ricky I feel good!

Where is January going?

This started out to be a self portrait but really doesn't look much like me.
Taking the snow doggie out for her walk (or should I say MY run) She thinks that I am a sled that she's pulling throughth the snow.

My Studio

I just couldn't give you a real impression of my studio with a photo so here is a little movie that I made. My old house is narrow and long with lots of small rooms. Everything in my studio area has to be compact and alot of it is movable. Unfortunately the front door is here so it makes it crowded when people come in the door. But it's what I've got and it's warm with the wood stove!

Some new jewelry on my new Etsy site!

My Etsy Shop - Star Dance Design

Art on a Cart