We bought a new oven this week and it has a steam bake feature just for baking bread! I tried it out for the first time on this beautiful #sourdough loaf and it worked great. I also baked some sourdough biscuits this morning as well.
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Darcy Ellarby
@Darcye@mastoart.social
mastodon 4.7.3I am an American artist, now living in rural Slovenia with my husband and two cats. I am a Certified Zentangle Teacher, an avid fiber crafter (wool preparation, natural dyeing, spinning, knitting), and an aspiring mixed media artist. I also love gardening, sewing, sourdough baking, and foraging. I’m an experienced curler and have both played and coached at the national level while living in the US. Vegetarian (and occasionally pescatarian) for more than 40 years.
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I’m traveling to a Zentangle workshop near Toronto in a few weeks and someone has organized an Artist Trading Card exchange, so I made my first set of ATC’s ever! No idea why I didn’t do this before. I thought it would be tedious but it was actually super fun! These are a combination of #gelplateprinting and #zentangle. Today I custom made a little box to display them in and also covered it with one of my hand painted papers. #atc #artisttradingcards
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@Broadfork I want you to know that this post led me down a very deep rabbit trail and literally might have changed me as a gardener forever.
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@Kletskous I live in Slovenia and am new to mastodon.art so looking for new connections!
I’m back in the US for a few weeks visiting family and doing some other wrap up tasks related to our move and my husband stayed home in #slovenia. He sent me this photo with a simple “good morning”. This is my normal morning view, looking out the window of our bedroom. I miss it so much!
Today’s #baking adventure was #bagels! We got a new mixer and this was a perfect test recipe given the long kneading time. Here in Slovenia yeast is sold “fresh” and is refrigerated or frozen - very different than the active dry yeast I was used to in the US. They aren’t perfect but I think they are not too bad for a first try using new tools and new ingredients! Next time I will get them into the oven quicker after boiling (for shine) and also add the cheese topping at the halfway point.
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@cazmockett@mastodon.social well what a small world! Nice to run into you here! I am no longer involved in Jo’s club either. I recently sold my retail business, my house and cars, and most of my possessions, and moved to Slovenia. I am deeply enjoying this life reboot in a quieter and less stressful corner of the planet and making lots more time for art!
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@DarkSheepArts@mastoart.social thank you for the compliments! My lame is still packed on the pallets we shipped when we moved (from the US to Slovenia) two months ago so I had to break out (and clean up) the box cutter from my husband’s toolbox. 😫
My contribution to #caturday… meet George! He loves hanging out in the stairwell and meowing just to enjoy the sound of his voice echoing.
This morning my husband and I took a walk in a wildflower meadow near our house and I picked a selection of flowers leaves and grasses I thought would work well for gel plate printing. Here's what was inspired by my walk!