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!


Well, I cooked down about 20 pounds of mixed squash today, 9 pressure cooked quarts and each batch was a little different, and all were just delicious! I am freezing them as soup base, as well as simply heating up the puree. I fried up a large pan of bacon for seasoning the squash and bean dishes as well.  I added a few spoonfuls of bacon and drippings, a dash of canola oil, seasonings and a cup of water to each batch of squash, and cooked them at several times, with the same measured amounts of water (1 cup per batch) and 10 cups or so of cubed squash. 11 minutes was a smooth puree with just stirring with a spoon. 10 minutes was a chunky puree, and 9 was soft chunks. Delicious all! I made a big old batch of sourdough bread last week, and it is time to make more. I think I'll make some flatbread with my bedouin spice blend too! I have my Moroccan style salt preserved lemons for sale on my second ETSY site, LowTek. This batch of lemons was truly extraordinarily fragrant and delicious! I need to buy some fresh fennel seeds, then I can offer my own fennel lemon blend, it is so good! All the critters are happy just smelling the kitchen in action, they know they will have some of whatever I cook, and it makes me feel so happy when they give me loving looks and kisses at dinnertime! I have nearly completed my latest hummingbird  beading project, and I just realized I have not downloaded it from my camera yet. ( This explains why I could not find the pictures anywhere in my files! ) I finished cleaning and drying feathers my sister sent me from her parrots, and they are simply incredible, each one is a treasure! When time slows down a bit, a week or two from now, I am going to use a particularly lovely color group on a gourd designed with those colors. Perhaps several Christmas ornaments created from my tiny gourds! Very fun because ornaments are labours of love, and great canvases for new designs because they are tiny and quick to make! Well, goodnight from up the Chiliwist, it is time to make dinner, angel hair pasta I do believe, with a red sauce... Goodnight everyone, from up the Chiliwist, Lisette. p.s., I am posting a picture of one of my gourds, the poison dart frog I think!

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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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