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June 26, 2007

Videos of the day

I found these videos today on Neatorama and just had to post them. So yeah. Here they are.

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June 20, 2007

Chai love

So I was inspired by the menu of an exclusive and expensive so-cal bakery to make chai cupcakes. I added unsweetened chai mix from Trader Joe's to a box of white cake mix and baked the cupcakes. And I also added some of the chai to basic homemade cream cheese frosting. Put the two together and you get a very sweet and delicious cupcake. Yum! Kudos to Sydney for getting me so fired up for cupcakes in the first place...

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June 18, 2007

Nesbit

My good friend Lauren had the great idea recently to start a blog in order to keep in touch with fellow friends and Biola grads etc. And so began Nesbit. It's been going for about a month now with promising results. Only time (and some of us actually moving away) will tell whether it continues.

Our main topic and discussion will be art (our art, other's art, old art, new art...), so although Prettypineapple is still my primary personal outlet, Nesbit will enjoy the fruits of my artistic discoveries and outbursts. Check it out if you wish...

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June 15, 2007

SOFA and new work

The SOFA class ended today. it was sooo fantastic to be able to sit in on it. It was the perfect opportunity to make make make.

One of the girls in the class made this yellow cape and Kayo took a spin in it.

Here is Jamie working on her Bread Loaf Bag. She learned how to make a blanket stitch, yay.

And Sydney sewing her little pretties.

Mmm.

Here's some new work. Pipe cleaners sewn into pink fabric. Green flannel ruffle and black foam roll. Wormlike...

Other new work. Paper sewn pipecleaners and cardboard.

Closeup.

Totally random, but we had wanted to try making a Vodka infused watermelon, but didn't want to wait the few days it takes, so we just cut up a watermelon and added peach schnapps, tequila and lime. It was sooo delicious. Fun fun.

That's all for now.

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June 12, 2007

O-Oreo

Today I randomly got the idea that it would be fun to try and make homemade oreos. It was! Here is my pictoral evidence of the experiment:

So I'm not going to tell you what's in the filling, because you don't want to know. At least it tastes REALLY good...

Here are the little marble-sized dough balls pre-squish.

And post-squish, accomplished by pressing them down with a cocoa coated cup.

All the little baked chocolate wafer cookies, happy.

Filling the cookies, give a little squeeze.

The happiest plate of tiny homemade oreos. They taste nearly exactly alike, only they are better because they aren't so dry but they are still crispy. If they didn't take so darn long, I would make them more often (ok, they are time consuming and terrible for you...whatever...) Fun.

Also as you can see by the sticker on my shirt, I visited MOCA with some friends today. It was fantastic. Thanks for miss Sydney for suggesting the trip. I bought the book from the "Poetics of the Handmade" exhibit.

Lovely lovely lovely and inspiring and beautiful show.

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June 03, 2007

Stained Glass Fun

I'm sitting in on the S.O.F.A. class at biola this summer. (That's Sculptural Objects and Functional Art). It's a quick three week class, but it's with Kayo, so it will be three weeks of goodness. Plus Jamie and Sydney and some others are in the class, so that's always good. Anyway, this first week we worked on stained glass. I haven't gone to solder it yet, but here's a picture of all the copper foiled pieces...

The design is based on a painting of Lauren's. She has been working on some vellum drawings and artist-tape pictures which she then interpreted into paintings. So I thought it would be neat to take the process one step further by interpreting it into a stained glass. Yay. Here's Jamie working on her awesome cassette tape stained glass...

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June 02, 2007

Living Devito Loco

I worked a job last night at a BEAUTIFUL house in Beverly Hills. It was a graduation party for the daughter of (?) Danny Devito and Rita Perlman. It was a really nice party and they were great hosts (not always common for famous people of LA). Danny Devito is so much smaller in person, he is so very short. But he is nice, and apparently tells some very fun stories. Also, Rita Perlman looks fantastic for her age and and was very sweet in person. So yay me, I saw celebrities.

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