Sunday, December 24, 2023

Christmas Eve Eve

 Interesting easy lunch yesterday


Pasta, roast chicken, big handful of cilantro (no, I don't want to know if you don't like it, thank you!)  with a lot of pepper and hot spicy flavor, raspberries and blueberries for dessert. 

And the friend who brought all the dipped chocolate treats and went away with an artwork sent me this picture of it in its new
home.

Here the general area, a kind of gallery, and here showing it in contrast to a goldwork stitching of wheat. She bought the wheat out of a show I had years ago, and liked the contrast.

The work is Three Sisters, mixed media with black gesso, made from a Styrofoam printer container, sardine cans and handmade beads, among other things. Many references in it to family, differences, likenesses, inevitability. This piece dates far back, to the seventies probably.

Happy day, everyone, shrimp for Chrissy Eve dinner. That's about the sum of today's ambition.







39 comments:

  1. Happy Christmas! I need you to give some lessons on interesting easy lunches. Yours looks delicious. I've been washing dishes and pots and pans for 5 days of preparation.

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    1. I think your situation with SG is quite different!

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    2. He almost didn't survive the day, but he redeemed himself. Excuse me while I wash some more dishes.

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  2. And I so wanted to say something about cilantro! I'm having shrimp tomorrow. Your easy lunch looks delicious (no cilantro comment). Your art piece is beautiful and looks good where she put it.

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    1. Yes, as soon as you're asked not to, you instantly need to say something! I get that. Thank you for the nice words about the artwork. She loves it, so it landed well.

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  3. so nice when an artwork is appreciated and gifted. a gift for both the recipient and the giver.

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    1. Definitely. My work has a small audience, so it's always good when there's a successful connection.

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  4. Your art has found the perfect new home!

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  5. And as I read this, it is Christmas Eve day for real.
    Wishing you so much coziness and contentment. And lots of love.

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  6. Merry Christmas to you and your family, love your lunch, it does look yummy. Got homemade cauliflower soup here for our lunch.

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    1. That reminds me of the cauliflower in in freezer, thank you. Maybe soup, maybe cauliflower cheese.

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  7. So nice to know that your art piece is enjoying a new home where it obviously is loved and appreciated.

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  8. Thanks for giving us a look at the artwork! Have a great Christmas!

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    1. Thanks for both. Good Christmas by the sea for you and D. I'm a pote!

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  9. Happy Christmas! I like the mixed media art.

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  10. Happy home for your art, and I like the companion piece too! Would certainly have enjoyed your lunch. Taking a shrimp ring to a party with family tonight. Fa la la la la...

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  11. Salt fish is our Christmas Eve meal. Newfoundlanders always had salt fish before several days of turkey started.

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    1. Fish on Christmas Eve is an old tradition. Growing up it was a day of abstinence from meat, as the eve of Christmas Day, a major feast day on the Catholic calendar, so often fish was the choice.

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  12. I love that the art is cherished and given prode of place. Happy Christmas to you and HS and thanks again for warming my hands!

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    1. Thank you and you're welcome, it was a pleasure.

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  13. Your artwork is so varied and fascinating.

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  14. Happy Christmas!
    Your meal looks delicious. I hope you have a relaxing holiday.

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  15. The food looks great. Happy Christmas to you.

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  16. Wow. It looks fantastic. I bet your very pleased. I know I would be.
    Merry Christmas to you and your near and dearest

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    1. It worked out nicely. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

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  17. Chicken and cilantro (coriander here) is a match made in heaven.
    It is Christmas day here so I can honestly say Merry Christmas.

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    1. thank you! As of the Eve, it's Christmas here! I know it's a bit iffy for you, but Merry Aspirational Christmas!

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  18. Season's greeting to you and to HS. Keep enjoying each day of the next year.

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    1. Thank you, and Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you too. Yes, I think enjoying each day is a plan.

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  19. Merry Christmas! May your day be peaceful and happy!

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  20. You cracked me up with the cilantro.
    I always here a love/hate over that herb.
    Me ... I LOVVVEEEE it!
    It's gotta be in the homemade salsa for me.

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