Today was a long day that involved a lot of snow, and food coloring.
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But of course! A snow bee! I love it! And I save exclamation points for special occasions too.
Hello! I found your site while looking for a stuffed naan recipe and stayed to look at the art. Beautiful!
OK, and I LOVE the anatomically correct (6 legs) snow bee. We still have a couple of feet of snow to work with. How did you make the yellow part? If I can’t make a good snow bee, may I feature your snow bee on our blog (with attribution, of course).
Paula
Hello, Paula!
Glad you liked the bee (and the art). Tonight I’m making paneer as a different stuffing for the naan recipe, so that will be up later this week.
I filled a spray bottle with water and added some fairly powerful paste food coloring, and then sprayed the mixture on the snow to make the stripes. If I had it to do over I’d make the color a little more orange (too many jokes about yellow snow) and I think it would still be authentically “bee-like”. I split some leftover cedar shakes for the legs and used a charcoal briquette for the nose.
And by all means, feature the bee! With all this snow around the country we need to get folks out of their snowman rut.
Best,
APo
Amy, we couldn’t resist talking about your snow bee on our BeeModern blog. Here’s the link:
http://beemodern.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/behold-the-snow-bee/
I love bees and art too!
Paula