Melt Everything in My Mouth

Abe and I went over Chelsea and Sam's house to have a French onion soup and chocolate fondue for dessert. Good lord, everything is better melted. I was a happy camper, but my breath was toxic the next morning.

Juicy Treasure

Something pretty freaking amazing happened to me today. I went to good ol' local C-Town grocery store and blood oranges were 8 for $2. I nearly died. I took all the blood oranges in sight up to the cash register and there seemed to be some sort of confusion. I think they were priced incorrectly, but no one cared and I left with a sack of citrus gold.

Ceramics: King of the Forest

I finished my lynx mask back in December, but I just finally got around to hanging it on the wall and taking photos of the finished product. He is on our living room wall looking over his domain. Click here and here to see his earlier stages.

Abe is slightly disturbed that I have been collecting the whiskers our cat, Paws, sheds and sticking them in the lynx mask, but I am an artist! (I need to think of a good artist b.s. line about mixing reality with inanimate objects.)

The fact is that I just think it's kind of awesome- and I'm a crazy cat lady and there's nothing I can do to control myself.

Christmas in January

Tonight Abe surprised me with my Christmas present - yeah, a few weeks late, but I knew it was coming sooner or later. It was a well thought out move if you have ever been to NYC during the winter holiday season. I say that because he brought me to the tourist attraction called Top of the Rock (the observation deck at Rockefeller Center). We are big on rooftops and this one has been on our list for a while so it was pretty exciting. Thanks to the mild weather this week we were able to hang outside and watch the sun set. I don't care if it is a tourist attraction, everyone should go up there at least once and see the 360 degree views of the city. Also, Channel 4 news was on the deck doing the weather forecast so we got to stand in the background and wave our hands around (we didn't actually do this - we just watched everyone else doing it, it was so much funnier).

Central Park

Empire State Building

Craft Sunday - the debut!

So after oh, about 5 years of talk, I decided that 2008 will be the year my friends and I finally have craft parties. On Sunday I had 10 girls over to make our first project - Snow Globes! Directions are below. It was fun to find out that I can fit 10 people in my apartment - and it just got better when we tossed in mimosas, Bloody Marys, coffee, bagels and cream cheese! Lauren even made a nice little cheese plate.

The table of fun.

Colleen shows off her dinosaur diorama.

Piper shows off her dino in a tomato jar - this one didn't last too long. Make sure your jars seal tightly by using jars that formerly held foods - plus you get to recycle!

One of the best things was that I got to use all the glass jars I collect because I can't throw away anything. So save those pickle jars - you'll need them one day!

Materials:

• Glass jar with lid
• Distilled water
• Glycerin
• Glitter
• Waterproof glue
• Hot glue gun & glue
  

Hints:

• Fabric flowers look awesome floating in the water
• Definitely get plastic trees - allows you to create a diorama
  
• Use fast-drying glue. We used glue that needed to sit and it was a pain in the neck.
• Use rocks, plastic bottle caps, other items to raise your little figurines
• If you're trying to assemble a complicated scene you can use the hot glue to prop things together - but make sure to use the real waterproof glue too.
  

Directions:

• Glue your figurines, rocks, trees, etc... to the inside of your jar lid. MAKE SURE that the glass will fit over your figurines and that nothing is blocking the grooves to seal your jar.
• Fill your jar with distilled water
• Add a cap-full of glycerin to the water
• Add a pinch of glitter, flowers, etc..
• Screw on your lid
• Seal the lid with hot glue
• Shake and enjoy!