Month: January 2015

IDK what to call this, but it was delicious.

Toasted sourdough with ricotta cheese and steak strips surrounded by mushrooms and spinach cooked in olive oil, all topped with garlic butter shrimp!

Too much food. Giving the rest to Aaron. :9~

gabapple:

gabapple:

Here is the curry recipe card! 🙂

reblogging so you all can make what I had for dinner tonight

mmmmm curry :9~

UPDATE:

  1. Since making this chart, I started using white onion instead of yellow, and I think it’s much more flavorful. Mmm.
  2. When I made this last night, I used carrot chipsinstead of baby carrots, and result is carrots that absolutely melt in your mouth. :9~
  3. As always, going to Asian import stores for Vermont Apple Curry mix is always tastier than normal S&B Golden Curry, but it’s potentially more of a pain to obtain. 

Happy Curry, everyone! <3

Xander as a fennec fox in the appropriate colors (he’s really a shiny Espeon, you know), drawn in slightly Sonic-esque style. 

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graveyardlilies replied to your photo: “I keep drawing while on ambien. It’s so much easier to draw that way….”:

Well, the ambien is meant to help you sleep, yeah? So maybe it calms your mind enough to let you think more creatively?

Could very well be… I start getting sleepy and forget to be anxious about it… I drew this as an experiment tonight after taking it, and everything felt fairly effortless, even doing the crazy coloring in autodesk with the copic markers. Hah, I should just start working on commissions every night after taking it… maybe I’d make some major progress. 

I keep drawing while on ambien. It’s so much easier to draw that way. This took 20 mins from start to finish.

…what does that even say about me? 

I watch cooking shows (Cutthroat Kitchen) and then pretend that I can make fancy food.

Sometimes it works?????? Mostly I just feel silly. But at least it’s always tasty! :9

ART

Here are some things that I have done in recent days.

Yes, my desktop died… but I was able to recover most of my data, and I think I have managed to fanangle my laptop into a useable state for drawing again, which means two things: commissions and comics. 

I am also job hunting and the furnace broke on Saturday night. Goodness it is cold. But we are hanging in there. 

answer the questions and then tag 10 people you want to get to know better

Tagged by nukawinter!

  • name: Melissa
  • nicknames: Gab, Gabapple, Gabbers, Gabblegabby, Gabfluff, etc etc etc
  • birthday: August 28th
  • orientation: demi
  • time and date at current moment: January 8th, 12:59am
  • average hours of sleep: 6-10hrs with ambien, 0-2hrs without 
  • lucky number(s): 4, 12, 144
  • last thing i googled: A phone number I didn’t recognize.
  • first word that comes to mind: Fish.
  • one place that makes me happy: dISNEYLAND
  • how many blankets i sleep under: Three, but I need like twelve.
  • favourite fictional characters: LOL. Ashitaka, Haru, Shinichi/Conan, Shiniji, Kyoya… … … I think I have a type. There are too many that I love. Simba. Leonardo. 
  • favourite book: Ender’s Game
  • favourite tv shows: Unsolved Mysteries, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Veronica Mars, Over the Garden Wall, Detective Conan, Scrubs, BBC Sherlock, NGE, Ouran (Aaron: you do seem a fan of murder…)
  • favourite beverage: Iced tea mmmmmm
  • favourite food: MEXICAN or Japanese curry.
  • dream holiday: Can I go back to the UK please? …or Disneyland. Both. Let’s have both somehow.
  • dream wedding: We’ve always said that if we were to get married again, we’d elope because omfg weddings whY
  • dream job: Author/Illustrator doing book tours and teaching at schools/libraries/workshops/universities. So a writer, I guess. 

Tagging: evERYONE. Just do the thing. 8)