cook, wear, create

Things that have been catching my eye.....
What a tasty dessert, like tiny Neapolitan ice cream layer cake awesomeness of an idea. I want to try this before fall really sets in and frozen desserts are no longer what I am craving all day long.

This is pretty much what I want to look like/be wearing every day. Perfect outfit once again Kendi. Not a surprise though she does thing where I just want to steal. her. closet. Le sigh.

And this crazy exciting tutorial makes me want to whip out my paper collection and whip up a couple of these cute paper teacups. Who doesn't like teacups?!

And that's all for now so here's hoping everyone has a lovely, crisp leaf crunching, beginning of fall, apple cider sipping weekend.

baking: cocktails

okay so beverages of an alcoholic nature aren't really baking, but the mixology process does feel similarly precarious and specific. And I was doing a lot of this during the summer. For my job of course. This was work after all, I wasn't just sitting around being a lush. I HAD to do this. These are just a few pictures I happened to capture but there were many MANY drinks that were concocted during the long quiet periods, and or whenever I wandered into the walk-in refrigerator and saw something that looked like it would benefit from being mixed with some booze. I will add a few recipes from my notes at the end.
Here we have the Jens kick-in-the-pants:

Pollyanna

Orange/Rosemary sparkler

aaaaaaaaand the Five Dollar Margaret. No I didn't make this last drink up, but a friend found the recipe online and I just had to try it. Cause of my name and all. And it had Kahlua so it couldn't be totally terrible right?


Five Dollar Margaret
1 oz Amaretto
1 oz Chambord
1 oz Kahlua
2 oz Cream
Shake all ingredients with ice until frothy. Serve over ice with optional cherry garnish.

Pollyanna
3 slices orange
3 large chunks pineapple
2 oz gin\
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
1/2 tsp grenadine
Muddle orange and pineapple in the bottom of a shaker. Add other ingredients and ice and shake well. Serve over ice with orange, pineapple and cherry garnish.
And of course, it goes without saying but..... please drink responsibly.

making: what I'm working on....

Been busy in the (makeshift) studio. AKA my friends converted kitchen table as my gypsy-ish nature means I currently find myself away from the, um, official studio at this current juncture. But despite my nomaticism, I am still finding myself in a creative way, and there are always projects to finish so I (to quote the glorious Tim Gun) 'Make it work!!' and make a studio space where-ever possible.

And in this case my studio is a kitchen table, and my sewing machine out of the back of my car. But I've got this big stack of cut out triangles, which were intended to eventually become pretty affirmation banners. I've been systematically working my way through the lettering, a tedious and lengthy process that involved lots of old episodes of Project Runway and various cooking shows and now that this portion was done I found myself needing to do all the prep work necessary to sew the onto the ribbons to finish the whole thing.

So that meant going through and cutting all the corners and then folding all of the pennants and cutting all of the ribbon and paper clipping all the letters together in order (this step was very important so I didn't hold them up when they were all sewn together and have a string of gibberish)and then it was time for some vrooooooooooooom power sewing!

Which resulted in all these cheerful banners! Well several of them. Takes a good 20 minutes to sew each one so I am still working my way through the pile but it was a very satisfying work day, and still a work in progress so there will be more updates as the project, well progresses. So look for more updates. I will keep working on this, in between I will be doing some baking for a friends fundraiser (who doesn't like rice crispy treats? whoever that is I just don't trust them) and squeezing all sorts of other things in as well so stay tuned!

cook, wear, create

I have been a bad blogger this week, busy with other things and not posting anything and that is very terrible of me and I apolagize to the few people who may be reading this babbling whatever-this-is but I will try to get back on the bandwagon and make up for it next week. In the meantime here are a few things making me hungry, inspired, and devoured by closet envy. Enjoy.
Yesterday was the ice cream cones 108th birthday and it is sooooo hot here this week I want ice cream all the time so I think I will be celabrating this, um, is it a holiday? a day late. And perhaps all weekend long. Found all sorts of mouthwatering recipes and eye candy, but this recipe for key lime pie sounded perfectly refreshing and delectable. Yum. I want some right now.


I want red pants. Like these. I swear I would wear them all the time.

I have a desk chair that I keep repainting and recovering but I love this super simple chair and think I will have to keep it in mind next time I am redoing my own. File on the to-do list.

So here's to a beautiful weekend, though it is the first days of fall I don't feel like it at all, particularly since I am living in shorts and sandles. I will be out enjoying the sunshine and soaking it all in while I can cause soon the time of sweaters and socks and stuffed-chicken layers will be upon us and I need to get my vitamins while I can right?

cook, wear, create

I am trying to come up with new ideas for easy things to make for a friends fundraising bake sale and came upon some super simple candy recipes with very few ingredients that seemed like they would be a good fit. I will defiantly be trying this rocky road bark first.

Looking towards fall I am starting to think about the possibility of colder and maybe eve wetter weather and this clear raincoat is so delightfully whimsical it's a great idea. Maybe some rain-boots would be a good idea too?

One word for you: AMAZING! I want to make wallpaper patterns like these. Really I just want to do beautiful gold patterns and cover, well, everything with them. So inspirational. Must. Make. Things. Now.