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Have a great weekend!

Fruit Tart Attempt Numero Dos

Fruit Tart using Smitten Kitchens' Unshrinkable Crust recipe and Ina Garten's Pastry Cream recipe. The pastry cream recipe is easy to make and to die for! You could used store bought pie crust and the pastry cream recipe with some fresh strawberries, so yummy.  One alteration I did make on the Pastry Cream recipe is to add a bit more milk or a little less corn startch so the cream isn't as thick. This was my second attempt at a crust and it wasn't half bad. I the tart dough is a little hard to work with because its so crumbly, using alot of saran wrap helped.

Painting of Duck and Goose for Nursery

Every now and then I get inspiration to paint. Decided to paint the illustrations inspired by one of Avery’s children’s books for her room. I used 12 x 12 canvases purchased at Michael’s for 15 dollars for 7 canvases. Paints are actually craft paint. Whole project was less than 5 dollars of materials. It was however a few hours worth of relaxing painting. One trick I learned when painting is don’t mix your paints, your colors will be muddy if you are using secondary color paint (ie, paint was mixed with other colors to achieve the color).