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The perfect Scout Book for the first post of the New Year! Astro Studios created these books to be sent out to their clients, colleagues and fans in order to promote a more creative 2011! Besides the great cover design comprised of sketches and doodles from Astros talented designers, these Scout Books are fully custom inside with a dot grid interior – a perfect unobtrusive guide for any sketcher. Packaged together with pencils and a note, Astro Studios supplied a “stylish place to sketch [ideas]… and start feeling better about the more prolific you.”
I've been wanting to make suet cakes for the longest time but I had trouble finding suet for them. Finally I broke down and bought a 5 gallon pail of pastured beef tallow from US Wellness Meats (I know 5 gallon is a lot). We'll be using some of this in our cooking, and some of it will be added to the homemade pet food. It will also be used to make suet cakes for our little feathered friends. We love providing suet because we get a lot of woodpeckers at our feeder by having it. A lot of other birds love it as well and it provides a good source of fat and energy for them during the cold winter months.
For my recipe & instructions: wp.me/prFIV-4Jy
Snakes, beetles, flowers, potted plants, snails—oh my! We're so stoked about these earthy Notebooks by Perrin.
Buy them! Just $10 in our Bookstore:
Every day this week, we'll share a new Scout Book filled with creative goodness from the members of Chicago collective The Post Family. Awesome!
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Chad Kouri loves paper. I might go so far as to call him The Collage Master. His work incorporates vintage ephemera, letterpress printing and found objects, which makes for a body of work that is at once tangible, nostalgic and visually spectacular. Find a bursting portfolio of Chad's work online at Long Live Analog, much of which lives happily in the interesting realm of digital-meets-analog. Geek out over projects such as his papercut desktop wallpaper for Kistune Noir, or his iPhone cases wrapped in digitized artwork of hand-cut vintage graph paper. Whoa.
Chad's Scout Book boasts a fantastic touch-and-feel, cut-and-paste quality. It makes me want to touch my computer screen.
One of our other favorite fresh summer tastes is pesto. I usually make a batch and we enjoy it on; homemade pasta, pizza, toast, vegetables, etc. My pesto recipe is very simple, I use walnuts or pecans instead of pine nuts because I always have some in the freezer.
FRESH SUMMER PESTO
1/4 cup of walnuts
2 cloves of garlic, sliced
1 1/2 cups of fresh basil leaves
1/3 cup good olive oil
3 T. butter
1/4 cup romano cheese
salt & pepper to taste
Add walnuts, garlic and basil to food processor and process until finely chopped. Drizzle with 1/3 cup of good olive oil and process until combined, add 3 Tablespoons of butter and pulse until blended. Empty contents into bowl and stir in cheese and salt and pepper to taste. Allow to rest for a few hours before serving.
Dutch processed cocoa powder mixed with strained raspberry puree, then left to dry out overnight. Perfectly berry-laced flavour, unsweetened!
Scout Books for weddings. What a great idea! We teamed up with the fabulous ladies at Ice Cream Social to help us design and create some beautiful little notebooks. They turned out great and are just one example of how versatile and personal Scout Books can be for that special day! They would make adorable favors, gifts for your out of town guests, or look great as unique invitations! We are so excited about all the possibilities and you will be too!
If we didn't already live in Portland, we're positive these Travel Portland Scout Books would make us want to visit. The talented Amy Ruppel created this two-toned illustrative representation of our fair city: big deer statues, Mt. Hood, evergreen trees galore.
Lovely.
Ever since Mr Chiots and I mentioned that we were building a teardrop camper people keep asking for photos. We were joking the other day that no one really believes that we're doing it, much less that we'll have it finished this month. Here's some proof for all you who keep wanting to know how it's going and keep asking for photos.
Mr Chiots has been spending a few hours almost every evening out in the garage cutting, sanding, wiring, measuring, nailing and putting together the little camper. The garage is filled with formaldyhyde free plywood, aluminum for skinning and various shapes and sizes of lights and other things needed for the build. We're building it out of all no/low VOC & natural materials.
Eighteen pounds of sauerkraut, that's how much I made 10 days ago. People keep asking me, "What are you going to do with all that?". I'll give a few jars away to friends, but we'll eat most it. It will be on our plate every meal until it's gone. The chiots will get some each morning as well. We even eat it for breakfast, head on over to Eat Outside the Bag for more about that and links to my recipe.
Every day this week, we’ll share a new Scout Book filled with creative goodness from the members of Chicago collaborative The Post Family. Awesome!
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"Scott Thomas is constantly trying to invent the next big thing." From the looks of it, he's doing quite a job.
Scott Thomas is a designer, an inventor, a thinker and an innovator. He counts President Obama among his clients, and served as Design Director for the Obama campaign. Scott recently curated and edited a book called Designing Obama, a publication that documents the presidential campaign's use of art, design and a grassroots approach to publicity and propaganda. Rad.
Scott filled this Scout Book with sketches for that next big thing he's working on. I'm thoroughly impressed with his planning and plotting.
Ina Weise is a young lady with quite a bit of creative experience under her belt. She is currently an intern at The Post Family, but before calling Chicago home, she studied in Austria, Poland, and her native Germany. Her command of geometric shapes is astonishing, and her work spans mediums from textiles to printmaking to apparel to installation. Her installation at the Post Family's Family Room Gallery will close this week; if you're in Chicago, stop in to celebrate the closing of her show The Following of One Thing After Another.
Ina explores circles in this pocket notebook, incorporating pen, pencil, cut paper, collage, xerox transfer and woven paper.
These Scout Books are HOT!
Mt. Hood Community College’s Integrated Media Program recently had it’s yearly Portfolio Show featuring the work of 18 graphic design students and 12 digital photography students of the class of 2010. They handed these Scout Books out to more than 500 attendees of the show and encouraged them all to vote on their favorite portfolio. The book was also used to take notes on each participant and served as a great take-away.
Thorsten Keller is a media designer in Hamburg and keeps this beautiful blog all about the city's architecture, design, and photography! He includes a calendar on his blog where artists and galleries can add in their own significant dates and interesting activities going on around the city. Very cool. Keller's notebooks turned out beautifully as well!
This recipe is simple to make and really inexpensive as well. An SLS free non-toxic toothpaste can run $4-10 per tube, since this costs less than 50 cents per batch you’re saving a bundle!
for recipe: chiotsrun.com/2011/02/09/vanilla-meyer-lemon-tooth-powder/
Every day this week, we’ll share a new Scout Book filled with creative goodness from the members of Chicago collaborative The Post Family. Awesome!
+ + +
"Scott Thomas is constantly trying to invent the next big thing." From the looks of it, he's doing quite a job.
Scott Thomas is a designer, an inventor, a thinker and an innovator. He counts President Obama among his clients, and served as Design Director for the Obama campaign. Scott recently curated and edited a book called Designing Obama, a publication that documents the presidential campaign's use of art, design and a grassroots approach to publicity and propaganda. Rad.
Scott filled this Scout Book with sketches for that next big thing he's working on. I'm thoroughly impressed with his planning and plotting.
I've blogged about my home canned tomato soup many times. It's one of my most popular posts, people are always writing asking the recipe and telling me how much they love the soup. It's one of the few things I can every year without fail. The first year I canned only 30 pints of it and it was gone way too soon. Last year I did 31 quarts and 7 pints and we only have 2 quarts left.
I use an old Squeezo to make my soup, this one was handed down to me by my mom. It's the one we used for applesauce & tomatoes growing up. It's a relic but still works great, and I love that it doesn't have any plastic parts. I love pulling it out, I even use the same block of wood on the counter that we used growing up.
chiotsrun.com/2010/09/16/stocking-the-pantry-with-tomato-...
The perfect Scout Book for the first post of the New Year! Astro Studios created these books to be sent out to their clients, colleagues and fans in order to promote a more creative 2011! Besides the great cover design comprised of sketches and doodles from Astros talented designers, these Scout Books are fully custom inside with a dot grid interior – a perfect unobtrusive guide for any sketcher. Packaged together with pencils and a note, Astro Studios supplied a “stylish place to sketch [ideas]… and start feeling better about the more prolific you.”
Every day this week, we'll share a new Scout Book filled with creative goodness from the members of Chicago collective The Post Family. Awesome!
+ + +
Chad Kouri loves paper. I might go so far as to call him The Collage Master. His work incorporates vintage ephemera, letterpress printing and found objects, which makes for a body of work that is at once tangible, nostalgic and visually spectacular. Find a bursting portfolio of Chad's work online at Long Live Analog, much of which lives happily in the interesting realm of digital-meets-analog. Geek out over projects such as his papercut desktop wallpaper for Kistune Noir, or his iPhone cases wrapped in digitized artwork of hand-cut vintage graph paper. Whoa.
Chad's Scout Book boasts a fantastic touch-and-feel, cut-and-paste quality. It makes me want to touch my computer screen.
Strong Design Studios gifts an inspirational Scout Book to their clients each year. Check out our Case Study!
I've been wanting to make suet cakes for the longest time but I had trouble finding suet for them. Finally I broke down and bought a 5 gallon pail of pastured beef tallow from US Wellness Meats (I know 5 gallon is a lot). We'll be using some of this in our cooking, and some of it will be added to the homemade pet food. It will also be used to make suet cakes for our little feathered friends. We love providing suet because we get a lot of woodpeckers at our feeder by having it. A lot of other birds love it as well and it provides a good source of fat and energy for them during the cold winter months.
For my recipe & instructions: wp.me/prFIV-4Jy
These cookies aren’t you typical gingerbread men/women. If you don’t like spicy things, you will not like this version. This recipe has as least double the spices of most recipes and I always use blackstrap molasses to make the flavor even stronger. If you’re a fan of spicy gingerbread you will really appreciate the flavor in this version.
Thorsten Keller is a media designer in Hamburg and keeps this beautiful blog all about the city's architecture, design, and photography! He includes a calendar on his blog where artists and galleries can add in their own significant dates and interesting activities going on around the city. Very cool. Keller's notebooks turned out beautifully as well!
NYC's OPEN Design makes fabulous work. Add the Scout Book to that roster, ladies and gentlemen.
This Scout Book was designed by Open for the US Initiative. The Us Initiative is a part of the urban re-invention projects organized by CEO's for Cities.
Open is an independent design studio in New York. They work on everything from identity systems, print, motion and web.
The US Initiative is spearheaded by CEO's for Cities. It is a national initiative to 'redefine the American Dream' by using the talents of the large percentage of people living in cities to improve life for everyone.
I got this book (Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It) from the library and I've made a few recipes from it. I've been making a lot of these things for years so they weren't new. I was really suprized by the homemade ketchup - I usually hate homemade ketchup but this is great. Of course I changed the recipe a bit.
check out my blog for the full report & edited recipe: chiotsrun.com/2009/10/20/homemade-ketchup/
You want to strain your finished maple syrup to get all the maple sand or sugar sand out of it. I ordered a piece of organic wool felt to use, but it hasn't arrived yet, so I'm using some cheesecloth.
For more maple sugaring fun: chiotsrun.com/2010/02/21/tap-tap-tap-maple-sap/
For dinner tonight we had: fried eggs, biscuits made with freshly ground whole wheat & rye flour, raw milk buttermilk & raw milk butter and a freshly picked salad topped with figs, blue cheese & a maple balsamic vinaigrette. except for the dried figs & balsamic vinegar it's all local!
These beautiful Scout Books feature illustrations of New York City's skyline from four different vantage points.
Lovely.
Every day this week, we'll share a new Scout Book filled with creative goodness from the members of Chicago collective The Post Family. Awesome!
+ + +
Chad Kouri loves paper. I might go so far as to call him The Collage Master. His work incorporates vintage ephemera, letterpress printing and found objects, which makes for a body of work that is at once tangible, nostalgic and visually spectacular. Find a bursting portfolio of Chad's work online at Long Live Analog, much of which lives happily in the interesting realm of digital-meets-analog. Geek out over projects such as his papercut desktop wallpaper for Kistune Noir, or his iPhone cases wrapped in digitized artwork of hand-cut vintage graph paper. Whoa.
Chad's Scout Book boasts a fantastic touch-and-feel, cut-and-paste quality. It makes me want to touch my computer screen.
Snakes, beetles, flowers, potted plants, snails—oh my! We're so stoked about these earthy Notebooks by Perrin.
Buy them! Just $10 in our Bookstore:
From the creator of 33 Bottles of Beer and 33 Bottles of Wine comes 33 Cups of Coffee. And none too soon as the Winter months are in full swing! Nothing comes close to a piping hot cup of coffee when it's chilly out.
In true 33 Books fashion, this journal comes complete with a flavor wheel, demystifier, and of course, a little something in the ink! That’s right, a few drops of coffee were added to the ink during the printing of this book.
So head over to your favorite coffee shop or brew some up at home and start your coffee-tasting journey with 33 Cups of Coffee in hand!
Luke Ramsey is awesome. He creates beautiful, intricate pieces of artwork that include zines, murals, paintings and prints. He also runs Islands Fold, an independent publisher and artist residency in B.C., Canada.
We ran into Luke last summer at the Portland Zine Symposium, and saw him sketching in a Scout Book! Quickly gave him another, and within weeks he had filled it up and sent us images. At long last, here is what the fantastic Luke Ramsey did with the 32 grid pages of a Scout Book.
Awesome! Thanks, Luke.
Strong Design Studios gifts an inspirational Scout Book to their clients each year. Check out our Case Study!
Ina Weise is a young lady with quite a bit of creative experience under her belt. She is currently an intern at The Post Family, but before calling Chicago home, she studied in Austria, Poland, and her native Germany. Her command of geometric shapes is astonishing, and her work spans mediums from textiles to printmaking to apparel to installation. Her installation at the Post Family's Family Room Gallery will close this week; if you're in Chicago, stop in to celebrate the closing of her show The Following of One Thing After Another.
Ina explores circles in this pocket notebook, incorporating pen, pencil, cut paper, collage, xerox transfer and woven paper.
I participated in the #100dayproject in 2018 and it was incredibly fruitful for both my artistic development and also my own personal happiness. There will be no travel for teaching this year, so I figured I'd give it another go. This little vase is made from the color-shift crackle sheet that I showed you last night. (Instructions for the sheet are now uploaded into the Crackle Compendium.) #the100dayproject #tbbt100 #polymerclay #polyclay #polymerclaycrackle #polymerclayslab #polymerclaysheet #polymerclayveneer #polymerclayvase #homedecor #colorshift #DIYvase #diyhomedecor #redbud #flowervase #makeyourown #thebluebottletree #gingerdavisallman #tbbtvessels
Opaque white ink on chipboard? Yes please!
These books are the result of the collective brainstorming of Andrea Raijer and Lindsay Arth, two of our fantastic Pinball team members.
Eighteen pounds of sauerkraut, that's how much I made 10 days ago. People keep asking me, "What are you going to do with all that?". I'll give a few jars away to friends, but we'll eat most it. It will be on our plate every meal until it's gone. The chiots will get some each morning as well. We even eat it for breakfast, head on over to Eat Outside the Bag for more about that and links to my recipe.
When you grow you own strawberries they’re so much better than what you get at the store, you don’t want to overpower them with too much sugar. I make homemade shortcake with real butter, whole grain flour, crystallized ginger and just a small amount of sugar. This lets the sweetness and flavor of homegrown sun ripened strawberries be the star of the meal. The shortcakes are cooked until crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. When cooled we crumble them in a bowl, top with strawberries macerated with maple syrup and a dash of vanilla. Then we top it all off with some raw milk.
For my recipe: chiotsrun.com/2011/06/10/friday-favorite-strawberry-short...