In honor of this new listing, I want to present the tiramisu recipe that inspired the onesie.
This recipe is from the Surreal Gourmet show on the Food Network. He layers it into a tea cup and melts chocolate on top and lets it harden in the fridge to make it look like a cup of coffee. Our coffee cups are very, um, utilitarian and not conducive to delicious looking dessert presentation so I made mine in martini glasses and chose to sprinkle the top with cocoa instead of the melted chocolate. One less pot to clean, you know? Anyway, Ryan said it was the best tiramisu he ever had. And it was ridiculously easy so I will definitely make it again. The mascarpone and kahlua made it a little pricey, but worth it.

Cup O’ Tiramisu

• 3/4 cups espresso
• 1/4 cup Kahlua
• 16 x ladyfingers
• 3 x egg yolks
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup mascarpone cheese
• 1/4 lb. dark chocolate, chopped into tiny bits

Directions:

1. In a small bowl, mix espresso and Kahlua. Dip ladyfingers in the liquid, hold for 5 seconds, then reserve on a plate
2. In a mixmaster, or with a whisk, beat egg yolks, sugar and vanilla until ribbons form. Fold in mascarpone. Reserve.
3. In each of 4 coffee cups place 2 soaked ladyfingers in the bottom. Then add 2 tablespoons of mascarpone mixture. Add 2 more ladyfingers and another layer of mascarpone. The last layer should be approximately 1/2 inch below the rim of the cup. Smooth the top layer with the back of a spoon. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
4. In a bowl over simmering water, melt chocolate. Pour a 1/8-inch layer of chocolate over the top layer of the mascarpone mixture and return to refrigerator for another hour so that the chocolate hardens.

(from the Surreal Gourmet)

Defendius door chain. 

Eno Henze:

Juan Francisco Casas:

Jen Stark:

Jill Bliss:

EscHome - wearable office designed by Adam Kumpf:
Productivity meets Performance Art.

Mary Hale’s Monumental Helium Inflatable Wearable Floating Body Mass:
I just know you wanna wear it to your next gala.

Solio - solar charger for your Ipod or cell phone:
We could bring this to our party in the woods instead of the paper record player.

Toast Messenger:
If I had a breakfast restaurant, I would write a little note to each of my patrons.

Pock-It:
Post-It’s big brother.

Swiss Peace Knife:
Sans knife.

Smashing Magazine

TwentyIf

TechEBlog

Yanko Design

Favorite new thing: freezer paper. Up until just a couple days ago I didn’t even know what it was. It’s like wax paper but only waxy on one side. Which makes it perfect for using as a stencil - just cut out an image (cut out all the parts you want to be colored) and iron it on to your shirt (or, in my case, hoodie), waxy side down. You get clean crisp lines like a silkscreened image, but at a fraction of the cost and time. It works really well.
You can draw right on the paper side of the freezer paper, cut a sheet of it down and print right on it (I was scared it would wreck our printer), or print out an image in black and white and put it underneath and cut it out.
I want to order some fabric paint online because there is very little selection here. Actually, there is a huge selection of 3D puffy paint - who uses that anymore?! Apparently you can use regular paint, acrylic or something, but it won’t stand up to much washing.
We had Ryan’s little brother and his friend over last night to try this out. I found out that I am not very good at explaining things. I don’t like over-explaining things or repeating myself but that usually just means that I under-explain. So here are some good, thorough tutorials:
Craftster
Instructables
Neither Hip Nor Funk
Some warnings:
-don’t do anything too intricate
-if you have any inside pieces, make sure you keep them and mark the paper side with a pen or something because it is really hard to tell which side is waxy when the pieces are so small (for example, if I had wanted my deer on the back of my hoodie to have eyes and a nose, I would have kept the little pieces and ironed them on)
-iron straight down, don’t move it back and forth
-when painting, dab straight down along the edges or they will start to lift

I think I am going to rummage through my closet to see what else I can paint on. Hmm…

Check out Cathy’s site: Horn of Plenty
Tracy’s shop: Dear Pony,

I have a wedding-related story for each of these, if you can bear it…
First of all, Ryan bought an adorable blue/gray argyle shirt by Dear Pony for me to wear to a bridal shower when I was feeling particularly lackluster. It has silkscreened crows on it and the words ‘a murder of crows’. I love it.
As for Horn of Plenty: I wanted to buy one of Cathy’s glass pendant necklaces for each of my bridesmaids (four of them) and she kindly offered to bring in the ones she had from home so I would have a greater selection, which I thought was really sweet.
Do I sound wistful? If I do, I can assure you it has much more to do with wishing it was summer than planning a wedding. Don’t get me wrong, the wedding was great (especially the food) but what with Ryan losing the pants to his wedding suit a week before and not hiring a DJ until the day before… I’ll just say that I’m happy to be married to Ryan and I really just want it to be summer so we can go to the beach and wander through Cottonwood Market again.