Todzi Loves You!

Todzi = Turkish  Godzilla

The birds take flight!

Last week I finally finished this little project. I wanted to use different stones or crystals, but I just had this blue stone around.

SVU moment: clay head

Tonight when Emrah saw the clay head I'm working in the car, it was quite dark and the staring head startled him, like the generally sinister beginning of an SVU episode.  We have a model, and it's my first clay head ever.  I haven't smoothed out the clay, but here is my creepy head. . .

Baklava

After buying phyllo dough from the Greek market nearby, I modified a recipe from "Sultan's Kitchen" so that the baklava contained unsweetened walnuts, pistachios, and dried apricots (my addition).  I also more than halved the sugar, so that the syrup's sugar to water ratio was roughly 1 to 2, and added more lemon, so that the syrup contained the juice of one lemon.