Beer + Cake = A Happy Birthday

This past weekend we celebrated the birth of our dear friend Ethan. Ethan is what I consider a booze proficient. From making his own booze to being capable of drinking plenty of the stuff, he knows his way around a bottle. To make this day special I attempted a new cupcake recipe. Beer Cupcakes with Salted Carmel Frosting & Toppings. From what I understand Ethan seems to like cake, and Ethan I am quite certain he likes beer, so what's not to love? I'm happy to say it was a sweet success! For the full recipe visit the Brooklyn Kitchen site!

Final Pattern Design

So I finally finished my pattern design. I finished each of the matryushka doll designs and the ladies all finally get to meet each other. This was a fun project, I limited myself to three colors and I pushed for a sweet yet fresh design. You guys tell me if I reached that or not.

Ok no more nesting doll designs for a while, I swear.

Russian Sisters

Here are two more little Russian nesting dolls. I'm aware that they are similar in size and they probably wouldn't be housed in the same doll. Just pretend they are paternal twins...

Nestled in the Middle of the Week

Nesting Dolls! I heart them. The only doll that's cute...but also kinda creepy because they are housed in each other's bellies. This is one nesting doll graphic out of 6 that I'm putting together for a design. I'll progressively post them as they get hatched!

Quality Time with my best friend Telly Vishun (TV)

Summer has kicked off and school has ended for a the time being. Its been a mere two weeks or so and I've quickly adjusted to my vegetative state where I come home from work, watch TV and proceed to snack until dinner time. One of the many shows I've spent some quality time with is Flight of the Conchords. After many a folks have told me to watch this series, I have finally caved and Netflix'ed the first season (and only season unfortunately). I was weary at first, the main characters were soft spoken, awkward, and one looked kinda like Stephen King. So I knew this show was gonna be right up my alley! But really it is a great show, plenty of dead-pan comedy and quirky songs filled with innuendos that will make you laugh and blush. Here's a snippet of one of their diddys called "Most Beautiful Girl." If this song doesn't touch your heart, you must be soul-less. Who doesn't want to be considered pretty enough to work as a model part time?

I've also bee Netflix'ing a ton of classic films and subjecting Nick to watch a crap load of old musicals I never got to see growing up. I never knew the movie Cabaret was so progressive for its time. I swear throughout the film Liza Minelli's eyeballs kept getting larger and more dilated which gave her charm to boot! Jeez' rereading this post it appears I have been watching nothing but musicals, classic or modern alike. I better stop these rentals before Nick and I break out in song during our fights (oooh ala Westside Story style)!

Drawing Green for some Green

Whats lean, mean, and green. If you guessed Nick after I forced him to ride a roller coaster, well...you'd be half right. But alas the correct answer is SUPER PICKLE which is for another Woot challenge that team "Lunamara" is attempting. Josh and I have exchanged sketches. So let's see what generates! Stay tuned for the final products and see if they look anything like our pencil sketches. WOOT WOOT!

Woot Woot!

Good Monday to everyone! This weekend was a whirlwind of events, I am exhausted. Theres lots to discuss so lets get started. In regards to artsy fartsy stuff for the weekend I collaborated with a pal of mine, Josh to work on a tshirt for Woot.com. Woot's tshirt design contests have been running for quiet a while but it took me 45 derbies to muster up the gusto and motivation to submit one. Josh and I each did sketches than exchanged them so the other person could digitally paint the final product. Props to you Josh you are pretty artistically inclined for someone who works with computers all day! Anyhow Woot has one guy that REJECTS or ACCEPTS entries and I must say I'm not a great big fan of him. I'm sure hes power tripping through all those t-shirts, crushing the hopes and dreams of would be designers. His questionable tastes, practices and attempts to be bitingly funny when rejecting a design makes me think less of him.

Anyhow if you are a frequent Wooter that could vote or would just like to see our designs visit here! Remember you can vote for more than one, and I'm showing you two awesome ones!

Josh's Design or My Design

So help keep my little pig soaring to the top of the charts and support Josh's monsters in their destruction. Know that the prize money we receive will keep us sheltered for another month in our overpriced Bay Area apartments.

Other super doooooper exciting news. I got the chance to go to the fancy schmancy Pixar Wall-E Wrap Party. It was held in the very cool San Francisco Masonic Auditorium where a premier screening of Wall-E was held. Pixar really pulled out all the stops for this premiere, I guess you could say it was decked out from "Wall-E to Wall-E." ...I know why aren't I a comedian right?! Anyways there was this awesome dessert drink shot that tasted like raspberries and chocolate. If alcohol tasted like that I'd be drunk always! But more importantly the movie was fantastic and I really urge all of you to see it. You'll fall inlove with that little hunk of metal parts, I promise. Overall Pixar made a great film and provided awesome food. I see why all those artists want to work for them now, the kick ass dessert platter at the Wrap Party of course!