Filed under: Haps | Tags: amelie, french, photo booth, photo cabine, roller skates
The last photo booth I went into was at a diner in Texas. My baby sister was four years old and had never seen one. I dropped in the coins and we went inside. She sat on my lap, and as the camera flashed in our faces, I tickled her ribs and we made piggy snouts. I kept the piggy snout picture and gave her the other three. I’m not sure if she still has hers, but I still have mine, and looking at it reminds me of a simpler time in my life. It was 1996, and I haven’t seen a photo booth since.
Recently my husband wanted me to see a French film called Amelie [Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain]. He said I reminded him of Amelie a bit, and he thought I’d enjoy her character, he was right. The movie was wonderfully quaint and creative, with a charming narrator, hilarious characters, and subtitles; I loved every minute of it. I won’t spoil any part of it for you if you haven’t seen it, but to say the least it sparked something in me. I sat mesmerized, eyes glued to the screen; I don’t think I sat back on the couch the whole time.
In it though was a photo booth, seeing it brought back to my mental faculties so many fun memories and that same sense of nostalgia you get when you find something from your childhood like your old roller skates. You know the ones you won three speed skating titles with, the ones you had those rainbow pom poms on. Oh come on… you know the ones you were wearing when you couple skated with Brad Hubbard… aaaahhhh Brad. Yeah, those roller skates. Those were the days.
Where was I? Oh yes, the photo booth on memory lane. That brings me to the point of this post… This is La Photo Cabine. It’s a superbly done online photo booth that I could tell you more about, but I don’t speak French. I can tell you it’s loads of fun though. All you need is a web cam and some funny photo booth faces (additional persons to share your absurdity with are completely optional), and no, you don’t need to know French to operate it. And bonus score, It lets you save your photos for free! Go on! Have fun and take as many as you like!
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Bring ‘em on!
So I found this delightful picture while cruising around on We(Heart)It (one of my favorite places on the web to find inspiration), but because a lot of what I find on We(Heart)It doesn’t include the original source of an image (more often then not it links a picture back to someone’s tumblr blog and you’re lucky if they’ve sourced it correctly. Usually they’ve “hearted” it from another blog who “faved” it from another blog and so on). Oh yeah, the picture.
Aren’t they just the cutest things! Totally brilliant.
Before this posting I decided to try and find the picture’s source and after only a little bit of googling I was able to locate it on Bakerella’s Flickr. Which then led me to her blog Bakerella.com. I also found a lot of other sites with similar recipes (even Toll House), but none of them had quite the charm of her little guys. Some used chocolate cupcakes as the “burger” part, some had the cupcake “buns” saved off around the edges… you know as a designer with a scrupulous eye I can definitely attest to these being the best of the bunch, whether or not they were the first on the block isn’t really relevant once you see them all next to one another. Thus our capitalistic system at work, and proof that “IT” really is in the eye of the beholder.
So with the correct credit found and given, I decided to make these babies for a party I recently hosted when a friend of my graduated college. They were a huge hit! And although I didn’t make the cookie “chips” (fries) or have the paper boats for them to hang out together in, it was no matter… they lasted like a nanosecond anyway. Here are mine!
I can tell you too… they taste amazing! You should check out Bakerella.com too for other yummy recipes… I hear she invented these wonderful little things called Cake Pops… I’ve gotta try those next!
Filed under: Art, Haps | Tags: dynamic clothing, skateboarding, t-shirt design
Filed under: Haps | Tags: dunk mug, jigsaw cookie cutter, kitchen, tea and biscuits
Two super cool items I hope to find in my kitchen soon… So I decided to (re)blog about them here so I can find the links later without having to add to my overflow of bookmarks!
The Dunk Mug or as I’ll call it my coffee and donut mug… Ooooh yeah… it’ll fit a donut… ’cause I’ll make it fit!
UPDATE: this cookie cutter is unfortunately ONLY sold in the UK and even though it’s pretty inexpensive itself… the shipping to the US is over $100 bucks! BUMZ!
If anyone know where you can purchase it in the US please let me know… I searched a number of places online and the all just link back the Cox and Cox website.
Super cute Jigsaw cookie cutter! I can’t wait to make chocolate chip cookies that fit together perfectly with peanut butter cookies!
Filed under: Art, Haps | Tags: dynamic clothing, skateboarding, tshirt design
I’m back at work with Dynamic Clothing! More to come, but here’s what’s new…
Today was picture day in my office. Yea!!! Not the dreaded “picture day”. Well, maybe you didn’t dread picture day, but my fat pimply face did.
No today was office picture day. As next week will see new paint on the walls and a de-cluttering of the tiny eclectic items I’ve collected over the years; ushering in an era of reorganization and a restructuring of my daily work space/home space… that is waaaaay over due.
It’s not easy to let go of things, but I am determined to do it… kind of like a spring cleaning of the mind. So I went through the office taking pictures of my favorite things so that I can print and frame them, thus keeping them… without keeping them.. at least in the office. When we finally are able to move and have our own place; I’ll be able to bring some of them back to life, but for now I must bid them good night.
Oh snap! Hahaa… well I’m not getting rid of Hazel and Cocoa! Never. They are my babies!!! I just realized they are in the photo collage :D No, I love them and they stay!
Filed under: Foodz, Haps | Tags: apple cider donuts, autumn leaves, deb perelman, hearth restaurant, smittenkitchen
OMfrickin’ werd!!!
With the holidays quickly approaching, I’m busy breaking out the cinnamon candles and pumpkin recipes; wishing ever so slightly that I could live in a part of the world where you can rake the yard only to pounce on the pile strewing golden leaves up in the crisp fall air. All the while laughing and playing, wearing a cozy sweater and scarf… football playing on a 42″ flat screen in a holiday decorated home that smells like…. Apple Cider DONUTS!!! aaaaahhhhh…… Okay yes, I’m really wishing hard that I had a 42″ flat screen.. and a kitchen where I could make these!
and theses….
I’m drooling.
Find the recipe at Smitten Kitchen! Which is seriously one of the BEST food blogs ever! Try clicking on “Surprise Me!” (a link under the logo) or just browsing Deb’s recipes… she’s hilarious and informative… and a fabulous photographer! I want to eat it all! :D
Filed under: Art, Haps, Pawtee | Tags: banana grafeeks, fliers, honolulu, kaleidoscope, local music, party, thirtynine hotel
Starting back in August this year, Banana Grafeeks was asked to create a series of fliers for the Honolulu hot spot, Thirtynine Hotel. The challenge, something tonal in color to change each month with a consistent theme.
The series promotes their ongoing Tuesday night Kaleidoscope party; a party highlighting Hawaii’s awesome local underground music scene. And let me tell you… if you think the only good music in Hawaii is Jack Johnson or Pepper; you’d be in for a more than pleasant surprise if the mainland record wigs would ever put up an ear over here, but i digress…
Of course we accepted; We love 39!
The results…
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Filed under: Haps | Tags: adamcpearson, adams scary apples, food blogs, halloween, happy lady eats, matt armendariz, mattbites
Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween… Boo! My puNkin’s this year turned out fabulous!
I ran across Adam’s Scary Apples, an unbelievably fantastic recipe, just a tad to late for this year, but they are so gorgeous; I am definitely making them next year! You can find it on MattBites.com.
Another great food blog I LOVE is Happy Lady Eats. When I read Happy Lady says, “…there won’t be much cooking here, but there sure will be a lot of eating”. I knew I was going to love it. There’s a whole lot more than just eating going on though, and the quotes she adds are super cute too!
You know it’s not like I didn’t eat enough candy yesterday, or the entire last week if you wanna know the truth… but then waking up the next morning to more food is well.. just great!
