Golden Rays

The golden grain swayed in the wind like the careless blond curls of a child.  Bending down playfully and catching the light reflecting it right back in a radiant warm joy.  Small individual grains escaped into the wind without worry, as the curls run away from behind a small girl’s ear, without caution.

Curiosity Caught The Boy

He peered my way, the curiosity practically pooling around him.  Fidgeting, unable to pay any attention to his English, now that there was a secret to be heard.  I couldn’t help but smile, trying to keep from giggling like a little girl at a boy with cooties.  I accidentally slipped, teasing him with comments only to be met with even greater curiosity.  I could see it in his eyes, just bursting to know.  He grabbed the toe of my shoe, shaking it pleadingly, like an adorable child wishing with all his might for a toy in the window.  He threatened with joking, knowing it was useless.  His insistence, however, didn’t drain.  He continued, making it known that he intended to know my secret.  As the minutes slipped away before the starting of our class he tried frantically to get me to spill.  It was too enjoyable to see him be so unexpectedly curious that I could hardly give up such a small secret.  It was underwhelming compared to the mountain that now stood in its way. 

Night Walk

    

I walked up the hill towards the golf course, letting my shoes sink slightly into the snow with each new step.  The cold seeped through my shoes and kept my toes captive, but I hardly noticed as the wind demanded my attention, tugging at my scarf insistently.  It rushed past my ears filling the quiet night like the echoing trains in a deserted subway station, complete with the flickering lights of the campus left far behind. Lacing my numb fingers through the chain metal fence I peered through the smooth metal rings to see the familiar ever billowing smoke clouds push and shove as rude as always to make their way out of the smoke stacks, over the icy Ohio river and spread far and wide across the sky to keep all possible stars out of sight.  The river, however, was not put out.  It cleverly reflected just as brightly as the hidden stars, making due with the multicolored lights.  The waters continued the milky way of sparkling glimmers up the mountains on the other side of the flowing river of stolen lights. 

Life Is Like Knitting

 Life is like knitting.  You start out small, and it seems to take forever to make any progress, watching the yarns slip through your hands, unable to hold onto it more than a moment if you wish to go on.  No one knows what you’re making and you yourself are not quite sure how it will turn out, but you go one anyway because you can’t stop without giving up all hope.  You only wish to look back on your hard work and progress at the end and be content with how you managed to pull through all that time.

Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls

CREAM CHEESE CRESCENT ROLLS

This is pretty amazing for a morning with coffee, or milk!

It's also simple and cheap ;) 

All you need are:

2 cans of Pillsbury Crescent rolls

2 (8oz) pkg cream cheese (original) softened 

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

1/4 c melted butter (I found that was way too much so I only use half that, which is 2 Tbs)

cinnamon

1 c Sugar
(and if your family likes jelly then a half a jar of jam I used blackberry)



And it all goes into a 9x13 pan

 If only it were that easy :P


Toppings: 
set aside for later

 

 Put on back in the fridge to keep from getting gushy

         

 Open one pack of crescent rolls and if you're unlucky like me this will happen and you'll have to do that nerve racking muscle testing pull apart maneuver but however you get it open, just open it. 

 Then lay it out in the pan without separating it.
I finger pressed it against the sides just for my own sake.

 Next to the cream cheese!
I lied, the butter doesn't go with the cream cheese, it goes up with the toppings,
 but I'm not taking the pictures again, so just be happy.

 Put them all into a mixer
except the butter, I lied again...
 
 sine this troublesome butter is being annoying let's just deal with it right now
you're gonna melt it it.
I feel like they lied to me now...

If your microwave desiced to make the butter spit up after 20 seconds of time 
then just stir it up it'll melt the rest on it's own.
Then set this aside with the toppings for later.

The real toppings picture
 
Now, back to the cream cheese! 
Make sure your cream cheese is soft, you can do it with a knife
by just making sure it's easy to cut. 

Or you could just do it my way... 

Note: plain cream cheese isn't the best tasting thing in the world... :(

 mix it altogether

 then, if fate loves you like he does me, this lovely thing will happen to you
take a knife and push it out mostly then put it back down.

 Mix it on a high speed till it looks something like this.

 glop it all into the pan on top of the crescent rolls

 spread it out nice and smooth

add the jelly is you please.
Note: spread it nice and thin, it's easy to let it overpower

then just open the other pack of crescent rolls
 I swear every time...



 careful to keep it somewhat together and lay it over carefully

Then paint it over with the lying melted butter. 

 because mine is half and half I only put cinnamon sugar on half and the half over the jam side is plain sugar. 
Hense the bad farmer's tan.
 
Place it in the oven at 350 for 25 minutes
or until nice and bubbly and brown
 should look something like this:

Then just cut it and dig in! 
kinda messy but amazing! 

  

Truly yours,

Belle

Cooking Hard? Don't be silly!

So, I'm gonna be totally honest.  I don't like to cook if, one, it's not easy, and two it's not gosh darn good.  I'm no amazing chef.  I simply do what I'm told and hope it comes out well.

And sometimes it just doesn't,...

But that's okay.

 and as Taylor puts it just 

 I honestly think cooking is one of those special things that will be easily lost.  

It's so important, but with all the fast food restaurants now a days it's so much easier to go out and get food than cook it yourself. 

Or maybe you don't think you're good enough.  Well, that's a lie cause, 

Anyway, I'm gonna start putting up some things now about cooking because I think that people should know how easy, fun, and no big deal it is.  If you're a perfectionist you're not gonna like me, but I promise to have lots of pictures of it! 

So, I hope you like my new tab! 

Truly yours,

Belle

Classical Taste

Today, I was kinda hit with a question. 

What happened to classical art?

 

Okay, yeah, it's not that great of a question at first, but just wait, just wait.

So, I love, absolutely love marble sculptures. I think they are just about the most amazing artwork ever.  If there was just a museum filled with marble sculptures I'd be in heaven and could stay hours upon hours just going through it.  

It just amazes me. 

These guys had some serious talent.  

To get such detail out of rock and keep it completely smooth.

But, a question that was brought up to me by a friend was, why are we not doing this anymore?

I actually don't know, and I wont pretend like I do, but I thought it was an interesting thought, 

because if you think about it, if people want to have talent and be great why don't they want to get better, not get worse...

The way you can see through the veil almost is an absolutely incredible.

I think people are missing out when they don't see these statues nowadays. 

The value of talent in art is being lost I think.  Art now is definetly not being over taken by modern art, but it's giving more attention to it, which I think is sad because this art here has so much talent and time, and effort that went into making it.

There is a natural beauty that anyone can see in the human body, or in nature, but to ignore that and make useless junk that's glued to a canvas is silly because there's truly so much potential. 

Where has our search for beauty gone?  We're going downhill in so many ways.

Not only in art but in all areas, but our art is a good example of our downhill slide.  In 100 years will our new generations want to look back at a bunch of trash glued to a wall?  Will they want to see a black canvas with a white dot.  To be honest... you can only look at a white dot on black canvas for so long... there;s only so much depth to that... Does this tell us something about our society?  Are we becoming more and more shallow?

Truly, the most fun part of this post was laughing at these statues with clothes on them.  It's pretty great, don't you think? I would personally be a fan of people picking up this art, sculpting new age marble people with modern clothes. I would go to that museum. :P