we’re celebrating our xmas tonight by exchanging presents and eating tapas (including some jamon iberico that slipped into our bags from Barcelona), then off to celebrate with my family tomorrow. I’m *very* excited to give steve an awesome gift that I made over the last week or so. Will post about it in the new year.
I finally got around to making a 3D blocky, and I couldn’t be happier! Made from air-drying clay. The trees are from a model-making kit. I have no idea where the bird came from, but I’m super happy that I hoarded it. Snow is that great corn-based “styrofoam” which dissolves in water.
I’ll be back in January, so happy holidays!
original 5×5, watercolor and ink on 90lb watercolor paper
I’m a recovering klutz.
Growing up, I seemed to spill everything. all the time. I also had an uncanny knack for whacking the shit out of my elbows on doorframes, you know, just walking around the house. I’m going to go ahead and blame that on what must be exceptionally narrow door frames in my childhood home in Texas, since I haven’t done it my apartment here in SF.
But the spilling….yeah, that still happens. I used to get really upset when I spilled things, like it was proof of something wrong with me. ( I think I was really hard on myself growing up). Now, I don’t care. Which is much better. At least for my psyche….not for the carpet (which, now that I’m thinking about it, has a new largish coffee stain, courtesy of yours truly from last weekend.)
At least steve has become an absolute pro at spill alleviation and stain removal. Add that to the old resume.
Love this handmade wooden forest, by Mark Giglio. Great smooth shapes. I think this would make an awesome little vignette on a shelf…maybe with a tiny wooden bear?
$200 at his online shop, penpencilstencil
(Not) awarded today to the rain and my popcorn kernels, which refused to gracefully transform into kettle corn. Thank you so much for the wet clothes and burned sugar pan. I appreciate it.
No surprise that my mind when straight to food when I heard this week’s IF challenge “crunchy.” Also no surprise that I couldn’t pick just one.
1. carrot; 2. bacon (one could call bacon crunchy, right? one step past crispy in my mind); 3. peanuts; 4. celery; 5. pretzel; 6. apple; 7. bean sprouts; 8. biscotti; 9. nuts (almonds, peacan, hazelnut, cashew, walnut); 10. iceburg lettuce; 11. fried chicken; and, in honor of the holiday season, 12. candy cane joe joes.*
*I had to avert my eyes from them the last two times I was at Trader Joe’s. They are crack. If I don’t wait until mid-December, I can go through multiple boxes before xmas. It really isn’t a pretty sight.
Kate of For Me, For You had a great post today about gift ideas from AITA that reminded me of this post I’ve had in draft mode for a few weeks. So here it is!
I learned of the company Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and their root beer liquor, Root, from DesignSponge last month. At the the time, I was enjoying the wedding-induced overpurchase of Virgil’s Root beer. I have a fondness for almost all root beers, but Virgil’s is my favorite, because it isn’t super sweet and it is fairly complex, with flavors of wintergreen, herbs, vanilla, and spices.
The descriptions of Root sound similarly promising (“Incredibly unique in flavor, fairly clean on the palate with strong notes of birch, peppery herbaceousness, spices, citrus and vanilla bean,” “Imbued with notes of tobacco, vanilla and allspice,” “truly divine stuff, very much a root beer flavor but much more herbal and grown up,” “Straight up, it smells like birch and vanilla beans suffused with gentle wisps of pipe smoke. An ice cube releases some of the spices, dominated by the allspice.”)
And as if the concept and packaging design wasn’t enough, this little gem of a watercolor animation greets visitors to the website.
Love it. I’ve been contemplating a series of drawings related to adult beverages (with bourbon leading the pack) for a while now. This might be the push to get me to do it.
Aaaand… lucky for everyone who lives in SF, you can just head on down to Cask to pick up a bottle.
watercolor and ink, 5.5″ x 3.5″
Third in the “everything is the worst” series. It’s quite fun to draw these clouds. I imagine they are leftover from an explosion of some sort. Or something invisible burning. yep.
