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liquid sunshine

in an effort to eat and drink and be healthy/merry, I've been adding turmeric to my beverages lately and I think it's love. turmeric is such a gorgeous color yellow and carries a peppery but subtle taste. this by far is the easiest implementation - straight up in pineapple juice. I've also been making turmeric tea lately which I'll share a recipe of that in the next couple days.

100 days

at the end of April I started the 100 day project (thanks for the nudge Anika). I decided I didn't want to commit to just one medium so I chose the hashtag #lauramakesfor100days leaving me room to branch out from collage to drawing to watercolor, to maybe even cooking a new recipe every day.

so far I'm on day 21 of collage. it's something I've always loved doing in my journal and it's been a lot of fun. here is my first week, with more to come, and all are posted on IG and Flickr. (Please excuse the horrible inconsistent white balance, sigh, I'm working on it.)

challenge kick-off!

Yes I look forward to many years of looking at the triangles. - George Costanza

sunset

Saturday scraps

monochromatic

snip snip

modern art goat

thunderegg

kompletly addicted

deeelish

I kinda can't stop drinking Kombucha. the flavor is totally my thang - kinda tea meets vinegar plus or minus fruit (it's better than that sounds). PLUS it's low calorie and packs major health benefits for digestion and gut health, joints, inflammation, mental clarity, mood stabilization, you name it.

here's a recipe for making Kompot, Kombucha's younger sister.

March camera roll

I can’t believe I only posted once during March. What happened to March? I think Ferris Bueller said it best, "Life moves pretty fast." 

Lately it's been mostly work, gardening, Star Trek reruns, and weekend rockhounding.  I’m toying with doing the 100dayproject. I’m not sure what medium yet, but I like the idea of where it will take me.

In the meantime, this is a group of photos that may help paint my life’s picture of March.

Let's Make Patterns prompt "red & pink" combined with avocado

East KingCo Rock & Gem Show

lotsa fossils found while looking for calcite crystals in the mountains

one of my favorite people downtown

spring colors in our yard

seeds, sets & starts

Let's Make Pattern's vegetable prompt

my love of Doug Fir pinecones

Buttons checking out the bunny cake for Easter

hiking above First Creek

first s'more of 2016

sunny and 70s!

east side

mountain descending

Frenchman's Coulee

fantastic rock shop

summer in February

this last weekend we road tripped to eastern Washington which led to a very important question to ask myself: why do we not do this more often? in a very short amount of time, we felt like we were on vacation. these are just a few highlights of fantastic sunny warm weather, a couple hikes, and touristing in our state.

this week in coffee, or um tea

Moore Cafe, wow. this downtown/almost-Belltown coffee shop is darling, and to date has the most impressive latte art I've had. aesthetics aside, this was also the best matcha latte I've ever had! can't wait to go back and try one of their many varieties of waffles!

matcha latte

menu & goodies

my lunch hour nook for the day

fixings and flavored water

weekend well spent

this was even more fun than I had hoped

long time no matcha latte at Cloud City Cafe

plant shopping at Molbak's

in the search of pink for #colorcolourlovers

new month, new challenge (via CreativeLive, day 2 prompt: houseplants)

day 3 prompt: album covers (I now want to just draw album covers)