Paper Pie

Liz & Kalli #46 Sculpted

It's windy here in LA this Tuesday. I went outside for a walk earlier and nearly blew away! So, instead of hoofing it all over the neighborhood I decided to come back inside and work on my Tuesday art project. This week's word is sculpted; Liz's is on the top and Kalli's is on the bottom.

*Liz

No baking this week, but sculpted paper flowers instead. I got a kit from Paper Source which contains all the supplies necessary to make both small- and large-sized paper flowers. Sometimes working from a kit or a pattern is just what I need to relax and enjoy the process. There is comfort in knowing that my finished project will turn out; that someone else has put together instructions and has taken care to guide me in creating something beautiful. It puts my nerves at ease and that is nice.

*Kalli

This necklace was made by using a mold from a button to shape the clay into a quatrefoil shape, letting it air dry, then doing a lot of sanding and smoothing to clean up the shape. Then I fired it (scary!) with a mini butane torch until the binder material (holding all the silver particles into a clay) burned away and all the recycled silver particles attached themselves to each other and created a nearly pure silver charm. After burnishing and buffing, I added chain and a wire-wrapped chrysoprase stone to finish it. YAY!

You go, Kalli! That is some serious, science lab sounding stuff. The result of your nerdy work is splendid and beautiful. I love it! Do you wear safety goggles?

Liz & Kalli #45 Little

Hi there, it's Tuesday and time for the Liz and Kalli Tuesday Art Project. The word this week is little, as in small, tiny, of the pint-sized variety. Liz's is on the top and Kalli's is on the bottom.

*Liz

Here is my little breakfast or my petit dejeuner if I were in France. Baked goods two weeks in a row!? Perhaps once our weekly art project has run its course, maybe I can talk Kalli into doing a weekly baking project. Wouldn't that be fun? Just think how much more skilled we'd be after a year of that challenge. The photo above is of a little raisin pecan scone that I made this morning. I got the recipe from The Grand Central Baking Book (confession: the recipe was part of the content that Amazon let me scope out when I clicked to look inside.) I followed the recipe as written and opted to make 12 smaller scones instead of 6 jumbo-sized scones like you'd get if you were at the renowned bakery. I sprinkled some cinnamon on top along with turbinado sugar and they are quite a nice morning treat! They are very flaky and crumbly and I love them! I am definitely buying the book!

*Kalli

I found these little sterling charms that say hope and love and decided to make necklaces. The charms are paired up with either a crystal heart or a silver anchor (an old symbol of hope) and the lengths are adjustable. Little messages that go a long way.

I love those adorable necklaces Kalli. I'm pretty sure that little automatically equals adorable. Unless you are talking about fruit flies or termites or something like that.

Liz & Kalli #44 Dreamy

Oh me, oh my! It is a Tuesday and I am posting the Liz and Kalli Tuesday art project. I am going to be very diligent about getting back on our normal schedule with these posts. This week's word is dreamy. Liz's piece is on the top and Kalli's piece is on the bottom.

*Liz

I thought about the most dreamy way that I could spend the day and baking came to mind. I love it, and I rarely do it. It seems hard to justify spending a whole lot of time on pastry from scratch when there are so many other things to do. However, it is time well spent and I should treat myself this good from now on. I picked up my copy of Jamie At Home, which is a very dreamy cook book by a very dreamy British chef, and flipped to the section all about winter foods. This recipe for Blackberry and Apple Pie was there and it sounded, well, dreamy! I found the recipe online for you here. I highly recommend enjoying this pie with a spot of tea, some window gazing, and dreaming about the future and beautiful things and plans, etc. I love dreaming about plans, it is the actual executing of plans that gets tricky for me.

*Kalli

I saw these blush pink gerbera daisies at Whole Foods and had to buy them to photograph and enjoy the color in my apartment. The color just felt dreamy and romantic to me, without being too artificially bright like some gerberas.

What a truly gorgeous and romantic image, Kalli! That color does feel dreamy. I'm glad that we were both thinking along the same lines on this one; simple pleasures are the most dreamy things in life.

Liz & Kalli #43 House

Hello and Happy Valentine's Day! This week's word is house. Liz's piece is on the top and Kalli's piece is on the bottom.

*Liz

Today is a magnificent and beautiful day; it's 80 degrees on February 14! So, I decided to get out of the house and take a look around at the blue sky and to enjoy the sunshine.This tree is in my front yard and has the most interesting leaves. I'm not sure what kind it is but it has yellow flowers in the spring and summer.

*Kalli

I used paper to cut out a little house, tree and dog house, then I played with my new iPhone app, "Hipstamatic," to create the toy camera-style photo for a childhood memory kind of feeling.

It does have that toy camera feeling, Kalli! Oh iPhone, is there anything that you can not do?

Liz & Kalli #42 Spicy

Hello! Sorry I've been away from this spot for so long. I miss it around here. I've been busy busy with work type stuff. I'm also paying close attention to what I'm eating and I'm exercising regularly, so that takes more time than not doing those things. Cooking healthy suppers every night does not happen quickly. So eating has been eating my time. Har dee Har. Ok, let's get to it, shall we. This week's word is spicy. Liz's piece is on the top and Kalli's piece is on the bottom.

*Liz

See how that works? I really do have food on the brain. I want to make it very clear that the patterns that I used in this piece are from the Repro Depot Flora book. They are not my own and I did not create them. However, I did put them all together in this little composed bowl of spicy soup. By the way, the Repro Depot book is really wonderful. My dear friend Audrey gave me a copy a while back. Second By the way, I need a bowl of spicy soup right now because it has been raining all day long!

*Kalli

I was tempted to do something with food, but didn't have the right ingredients to cook, so here's a different version of "spice." When I was in design school, one of my professors loved to use the term "spice element" to describe one thing in a minimal layout that decisively draws your attention because of its punchy color or unusual shape. You shouldn't need to overuse the "spice element" to be effective, just use it with confidence.

Well done, Kalli!

Liz & Kalli #41 Flora

Good morning and Happy Monday to all! This week's word is flora. Liz's is on the top and Kalli's is on the bottom.

*Liz

For Christmas, Ryan gave me a brand new set of fancy colored pencils and up until this week I had not had the chance to play with them. I took the opportunity to do so here with this vintage pillowcase inspired flora piece.

*Kalli

I think Kalli's blue and yellow flora piece would make a nice appliqued placemat. Don't you? She says that the colors she used remind her of me. I agree and do not make secret my aqua and yellow obsession.

Liz & Kalli #40 Ten

Hi there and welcome to the Tuesday art project, coming to you on Friday this week. This week's word is ten in honor of 2010! Liz's contribution is on the top and Kalli's is on the bottom.

*Liz

The word ten really just begs for a list of some kind, so I did my favorite movies of all time. I think this list is pretty revealing and all over the place. You can see that I don't have exotic taste really when it comes to movies. I love offbeat and dark humor, the occasional tear jerker, and Joel and Ethan Coen of course.

*Kalli

This isn't really something I "made," so much as a work in progress outline of things I hope to do this year: in 2010 I'd like to contribute to at least 10 different charities or organizations by volunteering my time, effort or money. These are the organizations I've already started to deal with, and I hope to find a variety of others throughout the year. I think it's important to spread love and generosity around as much as you can, and then it always seems to come back when you need it!

Awesome and worthy goal, Kalli! You put my movie list to shame :)

Liz & Kalli #39 Peace

So it seems that the Tuesday art project should instead be called, The Any Day but Tuesday Art Project. I'm thinking that maybe in this new year I might be able to regain some sense of normalcy and schedule adherence. We'll see. I'm gonna try, really hard. So this week's word is peace. This was meant to be posted closer to the Holidays when peace is a word of the season, but perhaps it is more appropriate at the time of New Year's resolutions anyways. I for one would like a little more peace of mind this year and I am going to pay more attention to that in my life. I'm also going to try to maintain an attitude of peace while stuck in traffic. Traffic is a way of life in LA, so wish me luck. Ok, without further rambling, let me tell you a bit about our respective pieces this week. Liz's is on the top and Kalli's is on the bottom.

*Liz

This is the very last moment that I glimpsed the sun in 2009. We were at the ocean for New Year's Eve. In that moment of reflection on the year passed and feeling the hope and optimism for the year to come; I felt complete peace. The rhythm of the ocean, the sound of the birds, and holding hands with my husband also played no small part in helping me get there.

*Kalli

I thought of birds because I've always liked the doves that Picasso drew representing peace. These aren't drawn as loose as his style, but I thought they'd look good radiating out like this in repetition, and in earth/water colors to reference the abstract concept of "world peace," whatever that really means.

Interesting, Kalli. I like that you were thinking of peace as it relates to the larger world and I approached peace from a very personal angle. That is what I truly love about this challenge; what do words mean to different people and what images do people assign to those words.

Liz & Kalli #38 Ornament

 

Hello and welcome to this very exciting Holiday edition of Liz and Kalli's Tuesday art project. If you are wondering why I am posting on Sunday instead of Tuesday, it's because I have had quite the busy week prepping for this coming week. So here we are, this week's word is ornament. Liz's piece is on top and Kalli's piece is on the bottom.

*Liz

I found this really wonderful free PDF download from Anna at Twelve22. The PDF includes a drawing of this cute little house that you can print and assemble. I turned it into an ornament and now it looks right at home on our tree. You can find the free download here. She also offers a blank house template so you can draw your own house, but I really loved the house as is and kind of wanted to use this exercise as a chance to relax and meditate on the joy of coloring. I need that this time of year.

*Kalli

Sort of feels incomplete, as a pattern, I guess, but I had fun playing a bit in Illustrator.

Very cute, Kalli and seasonally appropriate. I like the rainbow sherbet colors. RAINBOW SHERBET, yum....

Liz & Kalli #37 Spoon

Hi! It's Tuesday and time for Liz and Kalli's little art project that has actually been going strong for 37 weeks. WOW!! I'm impressed with us, aren't you Kalli? This week's word is spoon, Liz's is on the top and Kalli's is on the bottom.

*Liz

Today I used a spoon to stir all of the ingredients in my banana bread. I had a few bananas that were getting over ripe, which makes them perfect for bread. This is the best recipe I have ever tried and endearing to me because my mom always made this bread growing up. It is my great grandmother's recipe and I'm going to share it with you right here. The best part, it makes your house smell delicious!

Banana Bread

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

1 teaspoon baking soda in 1 tablespoon sour milk (I squeezed lemon in milk to sour it)

2 beaten eggs

3 bananas mashed

2 cups flour

Mix ingredients in order given and bake at 350 for about an hour

See, easy peasy and SO yummy!

*Kalli

These spoons may be a Christmas gift for someone special, but today they are photo props! I like the repeating reflection in each spoon.

Me too, Kalli! What a beautiful photo. I want those spoons!