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Of course cupcakes are breakfast food. I already licked the icing off, that clearly makes it a muffin.

Autumn… I love everything about it! My favorite thing? Well… that would be sitting in front of a roaring fire in my coziest of clothes under a blanket with my kids watching football. Oh, but then I love picking pumpkins, carving them and roasting the seeds. Oh, also, the falling leaves, the smells, the chill in the air, my birthday, trick-or-treating, my anniversary, apple cider, the day getting darker earlier and earlier, watching my son play hockey, cooking of comfort food… Ok, I can’t pick just one… I love it all! Bring it on Fall!

I recently did a few drawings for an old friend to help promote my hometown’s Music Festival in August. So… mark your calendars! for Wellsville, NY’s Main Street Music Fest! It’s comin’ at cha this August 10th & 11th featuring live music, delicious food, a fantastic car show, a guitar show, The Texaco Country Challenge and of course the World Class Bean Bag Tournament! All events are FREE! So if you happen to be in the neighborhood stop on by! It’s gonna be a blast! And don’t forget to check out those posters, featuring a tiny bit of my art!

For more information and the opportunity to sponsor this awesome event, contact the Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce at 585-593-5080.

Or in other words, Happy Thanksgiving! To many Thanksgiving means football, food and Christmas shopping, but in my house, it means hockey, and plenty of it. For the past 5 or so years after the turkey and stuffing have been devoured, you can find my family at the rink watching my son in his annual Thanksgiving Weekend Ice Hockey Tournament. Here’s to hoping we do well this year. Go Stars! Gobble gobble.

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This was by far the messiest project! After constructing our forms out of food boxes, egg cartons and duct tape we made our paste. One part flour, one part water and a glob or two of Elmer’s glue. This whole process transformed me into a kid again. Dipping strips of paper into that gooey concoction and pasting them onto our creations brought me back to grade school art class. I think I was picking paste out of my hair and off of my arms for the rest of the day. After the Papier Mâché dried we gave our sculptures life with paint. Ella is very happy with her robot, that she has named “Mickey.”

Ever wonder what you can do with all those broken and barely used old crayons? Recycle them into a candle. We started the day by going on a reconnaissance mission digging through old boxes of art supplies we found a bounty of old Crayola Crayons. We then went through the painstaking process of peeling all the labels off. This took a while, I ruined a nail, and we needed to take a break for food. But after we were finished we sorted them into colors. Illustrated here using my cool iPhone app hipstamatic.

We melted them by color in this candle making machine I have (quite frankly, can’t remember where or when I got it.) We dripped the melted wax into a mold. I stuck the mold into the freezer between color drips. Apparently crayons can stay liquidy for a long time. After a few pours…voila. Instant cool candle. We used every crayon except the gold one, which Ella wanted to keep and not melt down. Today, it was her favorite color.