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Top Hat Pancakes With Scrambled Eggs Recipe

I put this recipe on my cooking blog but I liked it so much I thought I'd post it here as well since I made these pancakes instead of starting the mountain of work I have to have done by next Thursday and cooking is another form of creativity. Dang, that's a long sentence.
















Use a cookie cutter to cut a hole in precooked sausage patties.






















Pour raw scrambled egg in the center of sausage. Let the egg cook until nearly done.




















Pour pancake batter over the top; I used Bisquick. Flip when the bubbles form in the surface and allow the pancake to finish cooking.















Take the sausage center and place it over the scrambled egg.

In The Dark Altered Book

Our newest art class assignment is to alter a book; I found this novel at the library for 50 cents. The images are antique illustrations that I put through illustrator and printed on book pages. I love the lady dressed as a bat and the serpent skeleton is delightfully creepy.

Multiple Industry Ghost Sign Photograph

Loring Corners Ghost Sign Photograph

Coca Cola Ghost Sign Photograph

Crazy Bird Attacks Reflection

This bird saw his reflection in my daughter's car window and attacked. He eventually declared the battle a draw and moved on to find other combatants.

Origami Business Card Holder

I used a decorative sheet of typing paper to fold a business card holder and boy is she excited.

Umm, OK...

It's a good thing I don't live in Elk River since apparently the end is near. I checked their web site and they are giving away some pretty nice prizes; that 3D TV would come in handy to watch the end of news coverage or perhaps find out who will be the next celebrity apprentice (time permitting).

Put A Bird On It Crayon Rubbing Picture

My newest studio arts assignment was to do a picture made from rubbing a crayon or pencil over a textured surface. It's surprising hard to do without any guide lines and on uneven surfaces.

The wings are a metal holder that I keep silverware in–the top of the wings is the refrigerator door–the bird body is the top of a candy box–the back portions are a wood desk–the clockwork steam punk chest has gear work–the square tail feathers are from an antique mason jar–the lower tail feathers are garland.

Life Of The Party Carrot

I may need to join carrot people anonymous.

My Nemesis The Jellyfish

I've never been stung by a large jellyfish but stinging plankton seem to like me too much.

Goldfish Diva

Paper Boat Party Hat Sea Horse Drawing

The sea horse is a well known party animal. This one has a paper boat hat with a jaunty tassel.

Gator Party

Another party animal. I wanted to have the alligator play Pin The Tail On The Poodle but I knew my family would be rather irate with me since our dogs are half poodle and we love them dearly.

Rocket Bird

This superhero bird is ready to takeoff with her egg booster rocket strapped to her back. Rocket placement may be problematic for her tail feathers

The Sinclair Easter Dinosaur

Crocheted Round Rag Rug

I finished the rug last night while watching Doctor Who on DVD and Zelda tested it for me this morning.

Stampede Cake

A while back I made a 5 layer black forest cherry cake with too much whipped cream. The cake kept wanting to slide away so my solution was to stab it with chop sticks; a tradition was born.

This version managed to not slide out of the refrigerator but the cherries kept wanting to stampede so I corralled them with toothpicks.

Business Cards

My new cards have arrived.

Anti Nuclear Propaganda Poster Second Version

The instructor wanted us to redraw the posters at a larger size for critique. I thought the message was being diluted by having the tree and other buildings so they were removed in this version. Critique is tomorrow so it will be interesting to see if the class recognizes the nuclear reactors without the other visual clues.

Thursday: My classmates liked the first version better and it sparked a lot of discussion but the instructor and I agreed later that the revised version was a better design.

Anti Nuclear Propaganda Poster

I was a little reluctant to do a tsunami themed anti nuclear poster for studio art class since Japan's tragedy is so fresh.

I drew the silhouette of a giant wave about to sweep away a nuclear power facility along with a fishing village. The wave resembles a dragon's head as well as an open mouth preparing to chomp down.

The poster was drawn with ink in a sketch book. The goal was to draw a poster that conveyed a propaganda message without text or color.

The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock

I had a studio art class assignment to draw a movie poster using silhouettes with no color in my sketchbook. The goal was to make the movie understandable without any type to explain the image. It might be fun to do a more elaborate image in Illustrator or Photoshop rather than a quick sketch.