It's the snowiest season to date in Lake Tahoe, Sierra Snow Lab confirms.San Jose Red Lobster location has closed after 39 years.Fox News heir Lachlan Murdoch trolled over unearthed texts during SF visit.‘Appalling’: Salesforce CEO bickers with Kara Swisher on Musk, Salesforce Tower.California man dead after being mauled by four dogs, authorities say.Bay Area weather service updates forecast for atmospheric river. Horoscope for Thursday, 3/09/23 by Christopher Renstrom.If you already have a preference, you might nitpick the quiz results–but luckily, you’re able to revise the order before it goes through. If you’re a wine newbie like me, you’re going to be happy to try a bunch of stuff you’ve never heard of, and maybe develop some more precise interests. "The discovery aspect of wine." Joshua Sargent / SFGate But I also recognize I’m an idiot and most people who think this about themselves are putting on airs–me included. This is in stark contrast to Craggs, who said “some would call me a snob I’ve lived in Spain and Italy and used to be a travel editor, so I fancy myself as knowing a few things about viniculture. Still, I know what bad wine tastes like, and I haven’t located a drop of it in my Firstleaf box… and I tasted quite the sample size during the Zoom happy hour. But as you can tell by that last sentence, my palate is probably the least sophisticated of the group, and I might not even notice if they sent me a wine that I had precluded from my list. My selection of wines was probably the most in line with my preferences for wine, since I selected a bunch of red wines that seemed familiar and received a box of red wines that, so far, has been completely delicious. “I drink wine 90% of the time when I do drink, but I have a habit of sticking to the same thing.”ĭespite her preferences, “the algorithm did try to send a Chardonnay,” though she was able to remove it before hitting submit. “I’m not a wine snob by any means,” she continued. “You get the option to thumbs down wines you do not like, and I did that for every Chardonnay they tried to send my way.” “I chose sweeter wines, like Riesling (my favorite) during the initial taste analysis quiz,” said Senior Commerce Editor Ana Suarez. “I actually went through the quiz a few times because I didn’t like my options the first time.” “I leaned towards red, but got a mix,” says Director of Business Development Nyasha Bass. Others were a bit more confused about how the algorithm made its choices. The Bordeaux was fine, but I surprisingly enjoyed the Chardonnay–I take this recommendation as a win, because otherwise I might not have ever thought to try this wine.” So far, his selection seemed satisfying: “I’ve only dipped into the Bordeaux and the Chardonnay. “I chose a mix of red and white, leaning toward not sweet,” Director of Content Marketing Ryan Craggs said. Naturally, being stalwart journalists, most of us chose “adventurous.” I hand stitched these in place but the leaves were still too transparent and weren’t giving the effect I wanted to achieve.The process begins with a simple quiz: You select wines you like, followed by wines you don’t, and then answer about a dozen related questions on food and how gastronomically adventurous you are. Next up was to cut out a bunch of leaf shapes in two colors of silk organza. You can click on the photo to enlarge it so you can see the details better. I decided to use nylon organza and then burn it back with a wood burning tool to give it a leafy feel. I didn’t want it to be too dominant but just needed some texture. Next up, I needed some background foliage. Then I added some branches so the leaves would have somewhere to live. I cut out some tree trunks from silk paper that I had made a while ago in preparation for trees. You will notice that I turned this around so the darker area was closer to the top of the piece. It definitely had beautiful autumn colors, so I decided I would add some silver birch trees with their fall leaf color. It was a bit of a challenge stitching the shadows down after the piece was already laced to backing board □ What do you think? Better or worse? I would suggest that you don’t rush whether a piece is finished or not. How could I call it First Light if I ignored the shadows?Īnd here it is after adding shadows. And once I saw it, I knew the shadows were necessary. So I decided I would audition shadows with sheer fabric. But the more I thought about it, the more I agreed with Ann that it was lacking something. I had convinced myself that the marks on the background could serve as shadows as it was a bit abstract. I had hemmed and hawed about adding shadows. This is what it looked like on the last post. Before I get started on my new nuno felted landscape, I wanted to share the changes that I made to First Light, which I posted about several weeks ago.
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