Lisette Root resides with her husband in Omak, Washington, in the foothills of the mighty Cascade Mountains. Her days are filled with artwork, home making, and caring for the many formerly homeless animals that she and her husband have rescued over the years. While living in Alaska for many years, she and her family had many exciting adventures mining for gold. Most of the time she home schooled their two daughters, Bonnie and Silver, and they had plenty of time to try new arts and crafts together. They took their animal family of wolves and cats with them on their adventures , which was actually an adventure in itself! Now, her home base is Malott Washington, and there will be lots more adventures to come!


What a beautiful day up the Chiliwist! Our heat spell has broken, and I can finally tend to my garden! During the hot times I simply water and harvest daily, but when it is lovely like today, I can weed and break new ground. I was very pleased to see how well the beets and potatoes are doing, and I have four or five kinds of squash going, and they are so good! I had so much squash day before yesterday that I cooked up some bacon, and cooked 4 kinds of squash together, it was so good! I had so much left over, I offered it to my wolves and dogs and they inhaled it! So what I can't dry or freeze I can share with my critters. My husband loves veggies raw, but he's pretty picky when it comes to cooked ones, but, I love them both ways. Last night I oven roasted fresh veggies with sea salt and a touch of canola oil, and they were very good. It was a mix of baby potatoes, beets, carrots, and squash, and also chicken drumettes, which is my husbands favorite. I also made a simple and yet gourmet dessert. I took fillo shells but a dab of my berry jelly, and a few freshly thawed raspberries and currants, and topped it off with a spoon of cool whip. It was very light but rich as well, and I will make more of those very soon! They were actually low calorie pastries, but with a depth of berry flavor . My husband had to go to the coast today to visit his parents, his father is having open heart surgery on tuesday, so a visit was called for. He said it went well, and that made me happy. Speaking of happy, last night we got a skype call from our daughter Silver, who is stationed in Cuba, and my darling little grandchildren sang songs for us! They sang "I'm a little teapot", and "Ittsy bittsy spider", and it was just adorable! They also sang a few songs which were a mystery but we loved them too! Skype is simply magical, and I can't believe how connected you can feel with your loved ones far away! It is a very strange time in the world right now, we have tools which can heal, and tools that can annihilate civilization. I want our world and our civilization to survive without killing each other. Why does it have to be so hard? Oh well, that is a subject for another day... Good evening to all from up the Chiliwist, Lisette

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Welcome to MelangeByLisette, I hope you find something interesting within... I love all forms of Art, and I have a great desire to try my hand at whatever captures my interest. I do not believe in mediocrity, or carelessness. When I create something myself, or when I am drawn to other artists works, I want to see a small piece of that persons soul in their work. I want to be able to feel and see the time of creation it took to bring forth a piece of art (any kind of art). After all, to me, this is what brings meaning to my life. The time it took to create a thing is non refundable, but extremely valuable. To love and to be loved, and to share that love with others, with art, for instance, is why I want to wake each morning. I truly love our planet Earth, and when I use her resources, it matters how I do so. I will always strive to do no harm. I am of course drawn to others who share this philosophy, and I seek them out if possible. In this last year, I needed to learn to use a computer to share my artwork. I don't drive, and I am a bit of a happy hermit, and I knew nothing whatsoever about computers and I would have been lost without the loving and extremely patient help from my sister Laura, who helped me every step of the way, thank you sister! I honestly did not believe I could do it, but here I am! My store is located on ETSY, and it is simply amazing, and I feel comfortable and happy there, and I feel privileged to be a very small part of it. I try to reuse, repurpose, and recycle whenever I can. I am always experimenting to that end. I am happy to share ideas whenever possible, and am open to creating special request items. What an amazing thing to be in touch with so many artists, tradesmen, and the whole wide world! Wow! I hope you enjoy my blog and my shop, which will have new works as often as possible. Sincerely, Lisette

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