Even though I fix dinner most every night for Mr. Bink and I. I've fallen off the weekly meal prep/make ahead that I would do on the Weekends. You know, prep veggies, pre-cook meat, bag or box up meal ingredients so that meal prep during the week is practically eliminated. Since I was awake at 4am Saturday morning I pulled out my handy meal planner and set to work. I find it a little funny that in Project Life my week is Monday thru Sunday, but for meal planning I go Saturday thru Friday. Now that I'm thinking about it... It's probably due to how I buy groceries and knowing that I will potentially have 1 to 2 guests for Sunday dinner. Just a side note... And Then... I go find what I have on hand so that I don't over purchase. My Planner goes on the Fridge for me to reference during the week and then unload the sacks after I return from the store.
I found a whole chicken for like $5 in the quick sale bin. So that's the first thing I break out and rinse... and maybe it did a little dance on its way to the pot with the onions, celery, garlic... for stock and easy shredded chicken, which will make my Chicken Divan super easy. Stock takes a while on low temp; so I moved on to Saturday's dinner, Kickin' Crockpot Chili... nomnomnom... I've made this several times and it is so good. I have a tendency to change receipes to suit Mr. Bink and I and this receipe the only change I've ever made was to add mushrooms. This chili is so awesome: low carb and gluten free. Follow the link, its worth it.
So, while the house was filling up with delious aromas I headed to the studio to piddle around a bit. I get so focused on whatever I'm doing that I tune out the rest of the house most of the time and since I needed to be aware of the awesomness going on in the kitchen I needed something I could walk away from frequently. I've had this stamp idea for a while now after seeing Frozen wilth Mr. Bink. So I broke out the carving block, carving tools, scratch paper, tracing paper and a pencil. I so wish I had a video camera so that I could really show you this process. Right... if wishes were kittens I'd have a house full...right... Step 1. I drew the designs I was thinking about until I was happy with them Step 2. used the tracing paper to trace them. Step 3. I flipped the tracing paper over and laid it on top of my speedy carve block. Then traced again... see picture 2... Step 4. started carving away the areas that I didn't want. When I thought it was how I wanted it I would stamp it off... see pictures 4 & 5. The raised areas I didn't want I carved away and I would repeat step 4 until I was satisfied. It is not as hard as you might think, if you love stamps as much as I do give it and yourself a shot at it. I watched a Kiala Givehand video (you can find her on YouTube) earlier in the week where she makes books and she showed a hand carved stamp of her own of one little word and carving these out brought it back to me and I thought,"I should do that for my one little word." The more I carved these little guys the more my one little word eluded me. It just so happened that I sat back in my chair and looked at my inspiration board that hangs above my art table and there was my one little word only it was two little words! I had written it down ages ago, don't remember where it came from, but I want to say that its from song lyrics; not sure... Delicious Spirit... Yup, that was it. Delicious Spirit. I wrote it out several times and when I liked a version I did the same thing as I did with the other stamps, but with handwriting the carving can get a little persnickety and fussy. But I love it... 
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