opal apples
does your supermarket have bright yellow opal apples? we just bought some for the first time and they were SO good. sweet and tart at the same time.
beer + food
so this is from over a month ago..i've been meaning to post it. for jay's birthday i threw him a little party and decided to have a kind of oktoberfest them - basically because i wanted to make pretzels. i made these soft pretzels [from martha adapted by smitten kitchen], apple strudel [without the prunes] and spaetzle served with wilted spinach from martha and a bunch of german sausages from trader joe's. the pretzels were really good and disappeared quickly. next i want to try bagels.
photo shoot::sneak peek
i had a photo shoot last friday at one of my projects and the photographer just sent over these four preview images. i am DYING to see the rest!
food
next year...
ugh, wish i had the foresight to make these yesterday! i am currently browsing for something to make with chocolate + coconut. but next year i will make these, trevor would love them.
thank you cards
more etta art transformed. i took some of her paintings, cut them into uneven strips, glued them on cards and used them as thank you notes for christmas gifts.
valentines
we made valentines yesterday which will of course be arriving a little late in people's mailboxes but oh well. i made heart stamps out of some corks and etta stamped with paint onto pink paper. i cut that and a bunch of other papers into hearts and then sewed them onto the cards. sewing paper is WAY fun. i did some other cards where i "appliqued" the hearts on with a zigzag stitch.
ps. champagne or beer corks seem to work better than wine corks. the knobby end was easier for etta to hold. the corks cut pretty easily with an exacto and the denser the cork the better - like the pink heart in the pic.
ty pennington
although i find him somewhat irritating, i am actually liking his new line of fabrics (including some coated cottons!)
littlephant
i LOVE this site! it's so bright and cheery - just what i needed to see after a week of nothing but grey, rainy northwest days.
i really want this dachshund poster.
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| images via littlephant |
shadow puppets
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| image via oregon shadow theatre |
i just found out about oregon shadow theatre in our whatcom museum newsletter. their shows sound amazing- beautiful visual displays accompanied by live music. they will be performing thumbellina here in march - can't wait.
button button
i happened upon this awesome store, button button, while we were exploring vancouver. they have TONS of buttons - i could have spent an hour in there. i got some orphan buttons for 10cents each [they are arranged by color in drawers like the red ones in the pic], some cool orange ones and a 1lb grab bag of mystery buttons for $4! i think buttons might be a new obsession for me.
branding
my first boss (he was my PA) out of school is going out on his own (which he sort of did a few years ago when he opened a branch office out in the country). he asked me to do his brand identity and it's been a nice break from... vacation, so to speak. i miss "working"!
after doing one option i did three more just to be sure, but he went with the first one anyhow. some background: tim has these ideas about having a different kind of practice - one where he takes on different roles like design/build depending on the client or just how things unfold. i think he really wants to be dynamic and versatile. and he's a talker! i actually think he would be a fantastic professor. so, with that in mind, it made sense to have a logo with two parts that interacted to make the whole. using a "CA", these logos were made to either mimic each other or form an overall composition together. in the first option, the forms seemed to take on a more organic architectural shaping in plan form whereas the other three are more like elevations mostly implied by a roof form. my favorite turned out to be the third, but i'm ok with the first.
five times the fun
just put these so-easy tags on - so excited to send this package to these 5 brothers and sisters!
christmas in the making
1. kitty felt bag
2. kitty fleece scarf
3. panda purse
4. art / gardening apron
5. lettered shirt
6. fleece dog
7. painted robot shirt
8. painted robot shirt (back)
9. gift bags
silhouettes
i made these silhouettes last night as some last minute christmas gifts to be shipped off to the east coast today. i traced a photo in corel, cut through the prints onto black paper and framed. cheapest, quickest christmas presents ever! it was pretty funny having a pile of little etta heads all over the table.
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