unordinary

There’s a window shop a few blocks from my house that has a dumpster full of pretty wood scraps. I’ve been collecting them and making tiny paintings. The smallest here is less than 1 inch square.

And in my continuing quest for new and amazing breakfast foods, I’ve gotten into savory waffles.

black bean waffles (pictures with grilled tomato and onions)

1 can black beans ~15 ounce size (or refried beans)

1 egg

1/4 cup oil

1/2 cup corn flour (or corn meal)

1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour

1 Tbsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 1/2 cups (any kind of) milk

chopped chilies (optional)

shredded cheese (optional)

Process the black beans in the food processor (or start with a can of refried beans. I had black beans.) Place beans into a mixing bowl. Mix egg and oil with beans until relatively uniform. Add corn flour, wheat flour, baking powder, salt, and chilies, if you like it hot. (I crumbled up a dried chipotle chile.). Mix until dough forms. Mix in milk a little at a time. I like to start with a thick dough and mix in milk gradually because it keeps the batter from getting lumpy. If the dough looks too thick, add a little more milk.

Preheat your waffle iron. Grease both sides of the waffle iron with butter or margarine. If you are adding cheese, make sure to butter the top well. Add batter to waffle iron (mine uses about 3/4 cup of batter at a time). If you are adding cheese, sprinkle shredded cheese on top of the batter. close waffle iron and cook.

chomp.

I recently brought a pile of work into Multiple Threads in Oakland, and they took it all in on consignment. I feel a little more settled in to the city now. It’s like pieces of me have been planted in more than one place. Or like I brought my kids to the local school. Except not at all, because they’ll hopefully be purchased by the school patrons. Anyway,  Multiple Threads is planning a sale for burning man soon, which means someone might actually wear some of the weirder clothes that I like to make in real life. I got excited and started making some new stuff.

Inspired by this guy:

I cut up a found leather jacket and some yellow cotton and made a post-apocalyptic vest. It’s covered in pintucks and strappy bits, and I hope it’s a garment worthy of Grace Jones, who would look way more awesome in it than I do.

Model: me (unfortunately) Hair and Makeup: cornstarch

I was aiming to mimic desert dust with the cornstarch. Close enough?

There are two pockets on each side in the front. I prefer clothing that has some utilitarian purpose, and I usually try to work something useful in on garments which might otherwise be purely decorative. One more, with the pockets visible:

Bug heads make me less self-conscious…

My Cat’s face spider turned out to be a lady! Yesterday afternoon she built this:

Her name will continue to be Spiderguy, for the record.