Gen makes really delicious tiramisu, which literally means “pick me up”:

Espresso Corto (short):

And finally, a family of espresso cups with a little demitasse cup:

There you have it: onsies threesies.

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…

My love of sharpies + my compulsive desire to draw patterns = this girl

This CD label is the sum of my accomplishments this Saturday afternoon. I’m going to share it because it might make me feel slightly more productive if it makes it onto one or two more mixdiscs (which is hard to say).

Suggested Track Listing:

• Architecture in Helsinki: The Owls Go
• Christine Fellows: Paper Anniversary
• Chromeo: Fancy Footwork
• The Cure: Close to Me
• Feist: Sea Lion Woman
• Iron and Wine: Flightless Bird, American Mouth
• John Vanderslice: White Dove
• Shapes and Sizes: Island’s Gone Bad
• Of Montreal: Everyday Feels Like Sunday
• St.Vincent: Now. Now.

So just click on the thumbnail below and print it on sticky paper (you can get templates here, if needed)