The idea began back in 2009 when I started my ongoing series of polaroid pogo prints, which you can read about here.
Do you know how hard it is to find good moss, let alone a large enough area that is consistent? Well, it took me since 2009 to find it. I’m glad that I kept hunting though. I think this poster would be a great piece for a nature themed child’s bedroom, or even the classroom. That being said, I also think it would go great in a living room, as that is where mine has been, not that I’m prejudiced or anything.
This poster is 16″x20″ which is a standard poster size, so frames this size are readily available. I bought the wooden frame in the photo above for only $12. The poster itself is professionally printed on matte photo paper. Please check out the listing on Etsy for more information.
I hope you like it. I’ve had poster design on the brain for a couple of years now and this is my very first, with hopefully more to come.
So, it’s been years now since I created my first “yearly list“. I didn’t even create one this year because I felt like I needed to focus on crossing off all the things on my previous lists, rather than continue adding to them. This last weekend I did another thing that I can finally check off… #16 from 2010 – eat falafel.
You might say I live under a rock, but it wasn’t until about 5 years ago that I had even heard of falafel. I think I’d read about it online and then like that it was popping up everywhere. It’s description was so foreign to me. I got this idea that it was a deep fried bready thing that I pictured to be like hush puppies, but that you ate it on a pita and it had some sort of white sauce on it. A bread item that you eat on more bread, hmmm, not sure about that? I found out it was a middle eastern food and had it in my mind that I wanted to eat it at a middle eastern restaurant in Chicago. That being said, any time I was in Chicago it was with other people and we had other plans, or I was afraid to ask about searching out some good falafel. I was also kind of building it up so that it had to be this big event – the FIRST TIME I HAD FALAFEL!
Fast forward to recent times. Right before Easter, Matt had a dream where he was eating a lot of vegetables. Normally he’s a MEAT-EATER, so when he woke up it got him thinking and he started doing some research about vegetarianism. He set himself a goal to see if he could go meat free for one month. (Insert My Big Fat Greek Wedding joke here). I am not a vegetarian, but this really has been wonderful. Suddenly he is being very open minded and trying (and enjoying) all sorts of things I couldn’t get him to try before (hummus, soy burgers, etc.) and together we are exploring all sorts of new meat alternatives (seitan, TVP, etc.). It’s been well over a month now and he’s still going strong. With all the new variety brought into his diet he hasn’t even missed real meat.
We’ve been eating out at this local pita place where we first discovered the glory of seitan (seriously, the good quality stuff, how is that not meat?). Then my friend Gail posted on facebook that she has become obsessed with this same pita place’s falafel. My friend Gail went to culinary school, has worked as a pastry chef, and has her own soup company. Her recommendation was all I needed.
We did a little research and decided to order a falafel pita with all sorts of veggies and tzatziki as well as tahini and voila, it was awesome! It was different than I expected, but in a good way. I didn’t really expect it to be like a meat substitute, but it really was. Instead of being bready, it was more like grains and legumes, but with the right seasoning and texture, it tasted much like veggie burgers do.
After seeing this image on flickr and then googling “washi tape keyboard” I had to take my own go at it (seen below).
I decorated my keyboard at work.
Now, if only I had a cuter keyboard at home to decorate. My keyboard at home has black keys and the washi tape is semi transparent so it wouldn’t work out as well.
Here are some links for decorating your keyboard 1, 2, 3
I liked the image that I first linked to at the top of the post with fewer taped keys and rough shapes, rather than trying to perfect each key. I have been wanting to get my own washi tapes for a while. For my birthday my sister got me a few that look like old newspaper and I bought a couple on etsy, BUT Heidi Kenney just posted that Target has a small line of tapes, 4 for $5. This is a huge savings, since you could probably spend that much on just one small roll online. I just more than quadrupled my collection. I’ve been wondering when American markets would catch onto this mostly Japanese trend and start offering their own lines.
Also, check out pinterest for a plethora of boards devoted to all the cute things you can do with these paper tapes.
edit: Amanda Kavanagh shared with me this link of another inexpensive source for decorated paper tapes.
More on Sunbonnet Sue’s history here.
I found a set of Sunbonnet Sue dish towels at my parents house that belonged to my grandma. Each towel is the day of the week with a different chore and I thought I’d post one each day.
More on Sunbonnet Sue’s history here.
I found a set of Sunbonnet Sue dish towels at my parents house that belonged to my grandma. Each towel is the day of the week with a different chore and I thought I’d post one each day.
More on Sunbonnet Sue’s history here.
I found a set of Sunbonnet Sue dish towels at my parents house that belonged to my grandma. Each towel is the day of the week with a different chore and I thought I’d post one each day.
More on Sunbonnet Sue’s history here.
I found a set of Sunbonnet Sue dish towels at my parents house that belonged to my grandma. Each towel is the day of the week with a different chore and I thought I’d post one each day.
I found a set of Sunbonnet Sue dish towels at my parents house that belonged to my grandma. Each towel is the day of the week with a different chore and I thought I’d post one each day.
