Vanilla beans, flowers, and art

Have you ever made your own homemade

vanilla extract?

I found a recipe....

Homemade Vanilla Extract

4 oz. vodka

1-3 vanilla beans

Cut open vanilla bean.

Place in vodka.

Let sit for one month.

This is how mine looks after one week.

My vanilla beans were kind of dried,

but they are still working.

I can't wait to make a cake with this!

Below is some flowers that my

watercolor teacher brought into the studio today.

She got the bulbs at Christmas time

and look at them now!

Each flower was about 8 inches across!

Just gorgeous!

The art below, is an ink pouring

with watercolor.

Last week in my watercolor class I poured the ink

onto watercolor paper.

Next I crumpled up saran wrap and placed it on top

of the wet ink,

to create texture.

Then I put plexiglass on top of that,

with lots of books on top of that,

 to act as weights.

It dried all week.

Then on top of the ink pouring

I added a negative painting

to create and bring out flowers and leaves.

I'm not sure I'm finished with it yet.

I need to get away from it for awhile,

then decide.

I still think it needs a little tweeking.

I have to say this was fun,

and I will do it again.

Hope you all are having warmer weather.

I believe spring has arrived here.

Savor the Day!

Yvonne