My coffee maker quit working this weekend. It was tragic. Luckily I collect teapots and coffee makers. I pulled this beauty out and I am now caffeinated. 😉
This coffeemaker is by Proctor-Silex and was originally m ade in 1967 and was an Ebay find. It came in the original box too.
Before the coffee starts percolating. (It has lights in the bottom.)
After.
I grew up with my grandparents. They were wonderful people. We would take vacations that were quick trips from point A to point B in the most expedient way possible. I never knew it was because money was tight. It always felt like an adventure with bottled soda, peanuts, summer sausage, cheese and crackers. We would make touristy stops along the way to take touristy photos. It was fun and I loved it. I also appreciate it more now than I did when I was fifteen years old. I miss them very much. This is why I love captured moments. Nothing artistic or special about these snapshots except for the people in them and the memories they hold. These are from a trip to Oregon with my grandparents in 1976.
I love coffee and dragons and my internet search took me to a site called Sixth Leaf Clover.
The artist describes herself as: “Fantasy artist of both digital and traditional arts.” What caught my eye was of course, the dragons. I found two pieces labeled coffee dragon and tea dragon. These only seem to be available as 4×4 inch stickers.
These also happened to be on sale. So… wish me a Merry Christmas, I bought a few. 🙂 This is the Coffee Dragon.
Here is the Tea dragon.
You can also find The Sixth Leaf Clover on Facebook, here: 
Coffee is an obsession, a necessity, a way to relax, a time spent with friends,a way to reconnect, a conversation starter with friends I have yet to make.
It is also a medium for art. Below are some links to some very talented artist who paint with coffee.
Grab a cup of your favorite brew and enjoy. 🙂
Oddity Central has a blog post featuring six talented coffee artists including Karen Eland, whose painting you see below. Click the link for more:
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/6-talented-artists-who-paint-with-coffee.html
For more of Karen Elands works check out the article in the Telegraph below:
Another artist that I found is Michael Aaron. He does coffee and ink paintings as well as street art and sculptures. Here are a couple of his coffee paintings done on old ledger sheets. Beautiful!
Another coffee artist is Dirceu Veiga.
I love Audrey Hepburn and this iconic photo from A Breakfast at Tiffany’s, painted with coffee, was a must to share.
http://earfox.deviantart.com/art/Tiny-autumn-dragon-123025981 (above)
http://emilysculpts.deviantart.com/art/Autumn-Spirit-150008867
Now we go from tiny and small Dragon sculptures to the larger than life Sand Dragon by Ricardo Breceda
http://www.desertusa.com/borrego/Borrego-metal-sculptures.html
This is pushing my definition of a dragon- more of a serpent – but there is no doubt this is an amazing sculpture. Look at that head. Gorgeous!
Especially today. Hope you are having an awesome day! 🙂
We live just outside the city limits of a small community. Since we have yet to fence in our property all the way around, we often are graced with visitors. No, the neighbors do not just drop in, but their live stock does. I wish I would have had a camera when the neighbors billy-goat dropped by. He was huge and apparently did not like our dog. When our not so small dog, think tall enough to put his head on a dining table and weighs about 115 pounds, ran to meet him, the billy-goat reared up then came down for a head butt that sent our poor old dog tumbling. Needless to say we did not go out to greet that particular neighbor and our dog has since kept his distance.
This week we had much friendlier visitors. Two donkeys came to pay their respects and explore a while. They appeared hungry as they tried to get in the chicken feed. They did do a nice job of trimming the grass around the house and took a couple of carrots we offered. After about three hours they decided it was time to go home and made their way back the way they came, not before leaving us with several piles of fertilizer. They were thoughtful like that.
They were pleasant guests and I would gladly have them back anytime. 🙂
Awww
They decided the can containing chicken feed was really a hidden treat for them, even the bird feeder wasn’t safe. The light gray one eventually had it swinging pretty high. I had to run rescue it.
When they could not get the lid off, they went back to see if they could find anything else (notice the feeder is gone)
This one decided to try and make friends with one of our kitties. She put on a brave front until the donkey left.
She went in to stealth mode after this photo and stalked the donkeys. It was all good fun until one of them turned around and started walking towards her. She is a fast runner. 😉
Coffee and Captured Moments 