sweet cuppin cakes

Baking cupcakes with an old friend- perfect Sunday night! Check out these cute minis we made for an event at the bookshop today, complete with halloween purple and orange icing and ghosty sprinkles! We used the snickerdoodle recipe from martha stewart's cupcake book. Delicioso!

making books

I signed out a copy of Eco Books by Terry Taylor and have been messing around learning about bookbinding and such. This is a little book I made to test out the techniques from a bud light lime case and some legal and graph paper. Very happy with the results, and looking forward to learning lots more complicated techniques! Highly recommend this book, stay tuned for more.

Second Sweater for Knit Class

Here are some photos of the second sweater I made for my knitting class last semester. The top bit is knit on the machine with a mock drop stitch and the circles are all hand crocheted and assembled. Hope you like!

I've just finished this sweater for my knitting class this semester. I am so very proud!

The yarn I used is actually many different colors of donated yarn held together to make a crazy marled effect, and only one extra red yarn is added for the ribbing compared to the main body of the sweater. It was knitted on a hand operated Passap machine and then assembled by hand. Hopefully it will be accepted into the fashion show, if so more pictures will follow in a month or two!

RAFIA!

So, here are the 30 rafia flowers I made for the Studio Tord Boontje exhibit to come next fall at the Philadelphia University Design Center (as previously mentioned in the lace exhibit post). Other students made other components and they will eventually be assembled into big curtain panels and hung over a full wall of windows. I'm pretty excited to be a part of such a neat project, even though these took me forever to finish! But they are done, and are quite lovely, so all is well. One more thing to cross of my list before graduation!

Lykke Li

These are some photos take by a friend at the Lykke Li show in Philadelphia a few months ago. Lykke Li's first album, Youth Novels, is an absolute obsession for me at the moment. Her music? Girly- yes, fun- yes, and definitely inspired. She is like nothing else out there, and is refreshingly different from so many female musicians who care so much more about what they look like than what they produce. Check this chick out!! Photos taken by Aimee O'Neill

A related obsession- Black Cab Sessions is a fantastic site where artists are invited to do short performances in the back seat of a black cab. The creators have chosen excellent artists (including my two favorite Swedes- Lykke Li and Jens Lekman) and the performances are really very impressive- honest and compelling. Very cool idea and executed perfectly!

Moonblood Tees

Moonblood is as hip as they come in Phila, PA! I was lucky enough to intern last summer at Amy Eldon's other business, Printfresh, and purchased some discounted Moonblood tees from her for myself, my boyfriend, and my sister. They are some of my absolute favorite things, so comfortable and perfectly fit with really unique illustrations. Unfortunately they are a tad pricey for my normal range, however, I am sure they are attainable for many. For all the indie-cool-goodness: Moonblood