Sept. 2002, Mini Food Demo: Banana Split for Syl, the third for the day
Fearless Leader: so we can do banana splits again
Fearless Leader: I need to prep more ice cream colored clay
Fearless Leader: and make more sauce
Fearless Leader: I'll leave open cam on
Fearless Leader: but I should prep for the night owls
Fearless Leader: who are due to show up any time now
jude: I have no idea when she will get online. She told me she wanted
to see the food demo, but that's no guarantee she will be here early.
Her usual time is just past nine.
Fearless Leader: are the two of you ok, or are there any other things
you wanted to see while you have me all to yourselves?
Fearless Leader: mini food wise
jude: Nope, can't think of anything right now. Figures.
Fearless Leader: LOL
frogger70301: I'm good. Waiting on my lil orange to cool a bit so I
can peel it.
Fearless Leader: I'm cracking up here Jude
jude: I'll just tend to my chores and check in here from time to time.
Fearless Leader: ok, well I'm going to change the camera angle a bit
and start mixing for the late show
frogger70301: I got to say, though. I bought something I would have
never thought I would buy.
jude: Okie, sounds like a good time for a break anyway.
Fearless Leader: What's that Mitch, ya break for sure
jude: thanks for the corn demo. that was really Teat!
jude: er...neat!
Fearless Leader: Teat too
frogger70301: Origami paper. Lizard print origami paper.
Fearless Leader: even
Fearless Leader: WOW
jude: Right.
Fearless Leader: Love that animal print origami paper
Fearless Leader: for sure
frogger70301: can I use it for texture?
Fearless Leader: I'd slather TLS on it and paste it to a box
Fearless Leader: you can use it for color check
Fearless Leader: each cell
Fearless Leader: is a blend
Fearless Leader: of some sort
frogger70301: not this one.
jude: I do have a question, but it's not mini food.
Fearless Leader: nope?
Fearless Leader: Sure, Jude, what's up?
frogger70301: no, but it has the texture.
jude: Is there a way to transfer an image without using all the
fancy-dancy paper, etc.?
Fearless Leader: gosh
jude: I have TLS and some magazines.
frogger70301: glossy print?
Fearless Leader: Let's kick this idea around then
Fearless Leader: hold up
jude: My nephew likes Elvis and I thought and Elvis box would be good.
frogger70301: If it's glossy, you should be able to use the pages from
it.
Fearless Leader: I had some pictures cut out
jude: I have their catalog...Graceland, that is and thought I could
use one of the pictures there, they are pretty good, and put it on a
box.
Fearless Leader: why can we put one of these pictures on a sheet of
translucent and then paint over it with TLS?
Fearless Leader: like decoupage?
Fearless Leader: or even do a decoupage thing with pictures straight
onto a box?
jude: Hmmm...now that's an idea!
Fearless Leader: picture, TLS, picture TLS
sylsnovelties joined the room
Fearless Leader: like that
frogger70301: k, ladies. Pray for me. I'm peeling.
Fearless Leader: SYL
jude: Sending prayers.
Fearless Leader: please peel and lettuce play
jude: syl is online and I told her to get her arse over here.
jude: hehehehe
sylsnovelties: Howdy
Fearless Leader: She's here
Fearless Leader: hey we've been doing mini food
sylsnovelties: Oh my, Elvis!!!
Fearless Leader: and were waiting for you
jude: Geez....can't do a thing!
Fearless Leader: was thinking of doing TLS, picture, TLS, Picture
jude: Remember I was going to do an Elvis box, Syl?
sylsnovelties: I had to soak my leg, put it up, all that crap!
frogger70301: DONE!
Fearless Leader: like decoupage
jude: Oh, the usual! Dang!
sylsnovelties: Sure do Jude!
jude: Yes, I might try that.
Fearless Leader: Sorry Syl, shim poi poi
jude: This catalog has some terrific pictures!
Fearless Leader: MITCH
Fearless Leader: how did it turn out?
frogger70301: I like it!
jude: How did it go, Mitch?
jude: Syl, Mitch is peeling her orange!
sylsnovelties: Did a sunburn peel?
jude: It's just out of the oven.
sylsnovelties: Ahhh!
sylsnovelties: Oh, even better!
Fearless Leader: Syl I'll show you some of what was done and you can
tell me what you'd like to see first
Fearless Leader: ok?
sylsnovelties: ok
jude: What do you think?
sylsnovelties: Do I need to do screen shots, or has that already been
done? Oh yummy! Banana split!
jude: That was roast beef dinner.
frogger70301: I'm gonna send a pic through the list.
rubensmodel joined the room
frogger70301: Hey, Edie.
frogger70301: right name, huh?
sylsnovelties: Weird thing. I was sitting there tonight watching some
TV and wondering if I have the colors I need to do a banana split!
heeheehee
Fearless Leader: so shall we do banana splits?
sylsnovelties: yes, please
Fearless Leader: ok, I'll mix some ice cream colors
Fearless Leader: vanilla isn't white
Fearless Leader: it's creamy, a bit of yellow
Fearless Leader: a touch of brown
sylsnovelties: no, creamier
Fearless Leader: Strawberry ice cream is very pale pink
Fearless Leader: chocolate is a light brown
Fearless Leader: so that's the mixes I'll be doing
sylsnovelties: Yup, sounds right.
sylsnovelties: Ok, sounds good.
Fearless Leader: for the banana I used the pearl/white/translucent mix
Fearless Leader: with a touch of brown
Fearless Leader: for it's not really white white either
Fearless Leader: ok, so I'll change focus and start mixing the clay we
need
Fearless Leader: good time for a log save
Fearless Leader: and if Syl can capture this collection of foods here
Fearless Leader: that'll be a nice end to the early shift
sylsnovelties: got it
rubensmodel: hi! sorry, I was on another screen actually doing some
work <grin> they do pay me after all!
sylsnovelties: Hi Edie
rubensmodel: Glad to be here watching with you all!
jude: Mitch, your orange looks terrific!
jude: Just saw the picture you sent.
frogger70301: Thank you.
Fearless Leader: Mitch it does look great
Fearless Leader: Kathy did a good job on the banana split too
jude: She did? I'll go take another look!
sylsnovelties: Both look great!
jude: She sure did! It's great too!
sylsnovelties: Orange looks juicy!
Fearless Leader: had to make a bowl for the banana split
sylsnovelties: Is the bowl a leaf?
Fearless Leader: here's the banana, gonna cut it in half to get two
sides
Fearless Leader: yup
Fearless Leader: I use leaf cane and wood grain for food
Fearless Leader: hate to make dishes really
sylsnovelties: ok, got it.
Fearless Leader: boring
Fearless Leader: LOL
frogger70301: Wow, I'm gonna have to try a banana split tomorrow.
Fearless Leader: so I'll cut this banana half in half and round off
the cuts and put the two banana halves in the bowl
Fearless Leader: everything is uncured
Fearless Leader: including the bowl
Fearless Leader: that way the bowl will give
Fearless Leader: when your snuggling in stuff
frogger70301: The banana mix, is that all equal parts
Fearless Leader: ???
Fearless Leader: it's all mixed up
Fearless Leader: in a food processor
frogger70301: the white, pearl, trans
Fearless Leader: I break off bits and mix it down, they started out
equal
frogger70301: sorry, hit the wrong button.
Fearless Leader: but the mix... sometimes when I break off a chunk
Fearless Leader: it might have more of one than the others
Fearless Leader: I might chop it down smaller
Fearless Leader: depends on what I am making
Fearless Leader: but I rarely use white when doing foods
frogger70301: k, thnx.
Fearless Leader: always white with pearl and trans, for food is juicy
Fearless Leader: and rarely lily white
Fearless Leader: sorry I can't give you exact amounts, experiment and
trust your eyes
frogger70301: thnx.
Fearless Leader: I will form the ice cream into cone shapes, makes
setting them in the bowl easier if they are cone shaped going in
Fearless Leader: do the outer ones first
Fearless Leader: snuggle the middle one in last
Fearless Leader: that way the middle will be a bit higher, looks
better than way I think
Fearless Leader: now we will mix TLS with different clay mixes
Fearless Leader: one mix for strawberry
Fearless Leader: one for butterscotch
sylsnovelties: For the sauces.
Fearless Leader: one for chocolate
Fearless Leader: yes
sylsnovelties: Ummm
Fearless Leader: got to get some sauce on that ice cream before the
whipped cream
jude: Yay chocolate!
Fearless Leader: Burnt umber straight out of the pack is perfect
chocolate
Fearless Leader: dark chocolate
Fearless Leader: add white for milk chocolate
sylsnovelties: Jude, watch the food channel at 10 your time. a 10
pound chocolate bar.
Fearless Leader: so next to our naked banana split
jude: Best kind is dark chocoalte.
sylsnovelties: I like milk!
Fearless Leader: is the red mix for the strawberry sauce
Fearless Leader: I'll go through the three sauces without stopping
Fearless Leader: and before the whipped cream I'll stop to take any
questions, ok?
sylsnovelties: ok
Fearless Leader: any questions now?
sylsnovelties: so far, I'm with you.
jude: Do you bits in the sauces?
frogger70301: me too.
jude: Like bits of strawberries in the red one?
Fearless Leader: for jam, marmelade, bits are good
Fearless Leader: for this strawberry
Fearless Leader: the bits would be hidden
Fearless Leader: for the most part
Fearless Leader: on a slice of bread
Fearless Leader: I'd leave bits in
Fearless Leader: for berry jam and that sort of thing
jude: Okie, you figure they strained the sauce. Sounds cool.
jude:
Fearless Leader: for these, it's the homogonized sauce, no lumps
sylsnovelties: heeheehee lumpless
Fearless Leader: lump free zone here
jude: Soudns good to me!
Fearless Leader: so if there's no other questions I'll get to doing
these sauces
sylsnovelties: Last night NJ did chocolates!
jude: She did?
jude: I missed chocolates?
sylsnovelties: After you left.
jude: Dang.
sylsnovelties: Kay and I were fighting over who could lick the exacto
knife! heeheehee
jude: It figures.
jude: Who won?
sylsnovelties: We both have cuts on our tongues today! We shared!
jude: Oh, geez...
jude: Oh, lookie the sauce! That is so neat.
jude: I want a bowl of just chocolate sauce and whipped cream.
jude: And a big spoon.
sylsnovelties: heeheehee
jude: I haven't had real whipped cream in years.
sylsnovelties: me either. Cool whip is too easy
jude: Yes, but just not the same.
jude: I used to like freshed whipped. Yum.
jude: Oh, that is so neat the way she does that.
Fearless Leader: I'll take questions now
Fearless Leader: before I go to the whipped cream
jude: Do you put nuts on?
Fearless Leader: we could
Fearless Leader: I have stuff in the cooks mix we can chop up
Fearless Leader: after the whipped cream
jude: I actually prefer mine without, but most the world likes them.
Fearless Leader: before the cherries
Fearless Leader: I don't do nuts on banana splits
Fearless Leader: I like my nuts in Rocky Road
jude: Good for you.
sylsnovelties: I just want a spoon!
Fearless Leader: any questions before I whip this cream
jude: I don't do banana splits, but that's nother story.
Fearless Leader: once a year
Fearless Leader: I do them once a year
jude: Got to keep your toe in, right?
Fearless Leader: it's a pilgrimage to Mel's Drive In
Fearless Leader: listen to 1950 rock and roll
Fearless Leader: sit in a booth
Fearless Leader: have a banana split and a cherry coke
sylsnovelties: Oh yumm!
jude: Yes. I have a madness of sorts for hot fudge sundaes.
Fearless Leader: and pretend I'm a teen again
Fearless Leader: sing along with the songs with all the other boomers
Fearless Leader: LOL
Fearless Leader: on to whipped cream then
jude: Bob's Big Boy used to have the very best (after twohees) around.
frogger70301: K, I got a banana in a bowl.
sylsnovelties: Great Mitch!
jude: Fantastic, Mitch.
sylsnovelties: We have dairy queen here!
jude: My clay area isn't close enough to my computer to do. Sigh...
jude: Dairy Queen is good!
frogger70301: I'm gonna wait till tom to do the ice cream.
jude: We have a Baskin Robbins.
jude: Never been in it.
jude: That is interesting the way she mixes that with her craft knife.
sylsnovelties: Yeah, kind of mashes it up.
Fearless Leader: about whipped cream
jude: Right on the tile. I would probably put it into a cup or
something. On the tile looks better, easier.
Fearless Leader: be careful to not leave any lumps
jude: Right.
Fearless Leader: because the TLS doesn't show you
Fearless Leader: what will be a white lump
Fearless Leader: and clear clay
sylsnovelties: No lumps, ok.
Fearless Leader: until it's all said and done
Fearless Leader: so even though at this consistency
Fearless Leader: it looks ok
Fearless Leader: it's not
Fearless Leader: it's a lump trap
Fearless Leader: don't fall for it
Fearless Leader: now I will go back and whip the heck out of the lumps
jude: Like mashed potatoes...the lumps hide.
sylsnovelties: Can you feel around with your fingers?
frogger70301: that would prob be a little messy.
Fearless Leader: don't feel around with your fingers with TLS
Fearless Leader: it's sticky
Fearless Leader: messy
Fearless Leader: and probably a tox overload
Fearless Leader: on some systems
Fearless Leader: ya know?
sylsnovelties: ok, just checking.
jude: Really? That's good to know. I'd probably mix it with fingers.
Fearless Leader: also, the amount we use for minis
jude: Won't do that now.
Fearless Leader: what we use will just go into our finger prints
Fearless Leader: it's very little
Fearless Leader: our fingers bring dirt and grit too, it would waste
your TLS
Fearless Leader: you see how little I touch this banana split
Fearless Leader: use the tools a lot
Fearless Leader: fingers little
sylsnovelties: ok, got it!
jude: I am learning to do that, more and more.
jude: BTW, the last box I did had no sanding at all on it.
Fearless Leader: using the Tools? Jude?
Fearless Leader: more than finger tips
jude: Not one bit. I am amazed with myself!
Fearless Leader: like how we cover boxes
Fearless Leader: hold it from the inside
Fearless Leader: totally cool I thought you could avoid a lot of that
sanding
Fearless Leader: if we handled it with care in the construction stage
Fearless Leader: I'll put the whipped cream on this thing and let's
roll up some cherries
jude: I have problems holding things, so do what I can. The bottom is
ok cause of the lip where the top goes. The top itself is the problem.
jude: But, I did get it done with no dings and no sanding. It was
great.
sylsnovelties: You, pro, you! heeheehee
jude: Watch that!
jude: hehehehe
jude: OPh, wow.
jude: er...Oh, wow.
Fearless Leader: Syl, when folks ask a question, I give all the
information I can think of, not just for the person present now, but
for those who come to read the logs
Fearless Leader: so don't feel like I was slamming you honey
Fearless Leader: I download all I can think on the subject, it's for
those who are not here
Fearless Leader: like the informational salad bar
Fearless Leader: take what you need
sylsnovelties: No problem.
Fearless Leader: leave the rest
Fearless Leader: so what ya wanna see next?
Fearless Leader: food wise
rubensmodel: personally, I'd like to see the Dairy Queen Delivery Team
pull up at the office door!
sylsnovelties: Was that a salad a bit ago?
Fearless Leader: LOL
rubensmodel: You're amazing, NJ!
Fearless Leader: and you can be amazing too
Fearless Leader: I give away all my discoveries
Fearless Leader: I want our claymates to kick major clay butt
rubensmodel: hear, hear!
jude: Yay!
sylsnovelties: Sounds good to me! I want to do some for the craft
fair.
Fearless Leader: so this is Short Order Time
Fearless Leader: what's on the menu Ladies
Fearless Leader: it's your mini food night
jude: She did corn for me Syl!