Garden flowers with beeswax and clearcoat finish.

The clearcoat is Krylon Acrylic Crystal Cear rattle can.  It seems to be the only clearcoat that takes to beeswax.  We'll see how long it holds up.

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Tofu Cheesecake

Blueberry Non-Dairy Cream Pie

 

Blend together

            8 oz. “better than cream cheese” (1 package)

            4 oz. soft tofu (1/3 package)

add

            1 tsp. vanilla extract

            ½ cup sugar

beat in

            1/3 cup “better than sour cream”

beat in one at a time

            2 large eggs

 

pour into

            9-inch graham cracker crust

bake at

            350° for 50 min

turn off oven; leave pie in oven for

            60 min

let cool and put in fridge

 

just before serving, put on the topping:

melt, boil, and simmer for one minute

            ½ cup red current jelly

brush a little bit directly onto pie

mix the rest with

            3 cups fresh blueberries

and dump onto pie

can be kept in fridge up to one week

 

hooks

This is just a pretty hook. It can be used for hanging your car keys, etc.

These two hooks are a pair: one for the calendar and one for pen&paper.

Here are close-ups:

forged menorah

hairsticks

forged steel.  finished with brush and grinder.

treated with copper sulphate.  coated with beeswax.

garden-hose hanger

blacksmithed, tack welded, and copper coated


priming for copper coat: 2 coats, 2-72 hours between coats. let dry

copper coating B: apply when primer is dry--two or more coats

vista red patina: apply when copper coating is pretty much dry


www.ronyoungpatina.com for info

(not yet completed)