She’s So Shy

I am SO shy. I am shy and socially awkward. In fact, it would be better for everyone if the only place I ever was, was where people are not.
That said, The Pioneer Woman came to town today and I was not about to miss it. So I packed up myself and my crippling insecurity, spent [...]

Filed under: Beautiful Things, Cooking, Gifties, Mad Mom, Not painting, On the web, Pet Portraits, Random on April 20th, 2010 | 13 Comments »

Anticlimactic

Yesterday, for about five seconds, so fast you’d miss it if you blinked, I was on the Rachael Ray Show.
It came about after I sent a proposal into the show after the success of Julia & Julia (my new favorite movie), suggesting that someone (me) could cook through a Rachael Ray cookbook for a year [...]

Filed under: Cooking, Mad Mom, Not painting, Random on January 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Set your TiVo. Or not.

Remember Christmas vacation? And I mentioned that I had filmed a segment for the Rachael Ray Show? Well they might actually air it on Monday, January 25. The producer’s exact words, in an email:
“…you should tape the episode on Monday the 25th because there is a possibility that a piece of your video might be [...]

Filed under: Cooking, Not painting, Random on January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

What I did on my Christmas Vacation by Rachael Rossman, age 36

I have a full-time job. And I don’t mean the one that includes pouring milk, doing laundry and feeding Webkinz. I mean a full-time, grown-up, wearing-suits-to-work kind of job. It’s not very often that I take vacation of any significant length, but I do try to when my kids are out of school. This year, [...]

Filed under: Art, Cooking, Mad Mom, Not painting, Procrastination, Random, Resolutions on January 3rd, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Recipe For a Happy New Year's Day

Despite the unfortunate events of the past 24 hours (hint: hundreds of dollars at auto mechanic and a break-in at my husband’s office) I am determined to cocoon myself in good thoughts (and chocolate if necessary) and make this a good day.  
As all good days start off, I began at Dutch Bros. with my usual [...]

Filed under: Art, Cooking, In the studio, Mad Mom, Not painting, Random, Resolutions on January 1st, 2010 | No Comments »