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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...
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!
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 were made for the Brand New Conference this Friday, Nov. 5th! Brand New is a one day event held by UnderConsideration on the development of corporate and brand identity projects. They have quite the line-up which I can imagine makes for a super full and intense day of identity talk. Don't worry though, there will be an after party.
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.
Based in San Francisco, Ammunition Group was founded by industrial designer and product development entrepreneur Robert Brunner. Ammunition specializes in product, graphic and interaction design "dedicated to bringing experiences that matter to market". They have over 25 years of experience among their team and recently made Fast Company's top 5 Most Innovative Companies in the Design category.
Strong Design Studios gifts an inspirational Scout Book to their clients each year. Check out our Case Study!
33 Wines from Dave Selden and 33 Books hits the Scout Books shop!
Record your adventures in wine tasting in this handy pocket notebook. Explore 33 Wines in this photo set, and find the books at the Scout Books website.
Design by Dave Selden. Manufactured in Portland, Oregon by Scout Books.
Cover: Chipboard 20pt. Kraft, Pantone soy-based inks
Interior: Quinault 70# Text White, Pantone soy-based ink
Binding: Saddle-stitch
Finishing: 1/4" Rounded corners
Specs: 3.5" x 5", 32 interior pages
Heather Wilson is a graphic designer, illustrator, and registered art therapist who recently graduated from the Art Institute of Portland! She created the character on her Scout Book to represent herself and judging from all of the above, she seems like a pretty awesome gal to me. Check it out.
Scout Book Classic: a new tool to stay ahead.
We're pleased to release a new Scout Book line into the shop. Scout Book Classic pocket notebooks boast a sturdy chipboard cover printed with Classic Red ink, and a variety of 32-page interiors printed in a soft Forest Green ink.
Get 'em in your familiar favorite interior styles–Lines, Grid and Blank–or try the newest Lists style.
The fabulous Melani Brown shot these photos of Scout Book Classic Notebooks in the wild.
Learning to you make your own salad dressing is not as hard as it seems. You can save tons of money, impress your guests and save space in the fridge door. All you need to learn is a few key ingredients, then you can mix & match to accompany the meal and your tastes. At it's most basic levels, salad dressing is simply oil and vinegar, perhaps with a grind of salt and pepper. If you have freshly harvested lettuce this may be all your salad needs. Something this simple won't always fit the bill, at times you may want the sweetness of balsamic, the creaminess of buttermilk, or the strong flavors of herbs.
I’ve been keeping a keen eye on my jalapeño plants waiting for them to come ripe. I spotted this recipe a long time ago and have been waiting for these peppers for months just to make it.
33 Wines from Dave Selden and 33 Books hits the Scout Books shop!
Record your adventures in wine tasting in this handy pocket notebook. Explore 33 Wines in this photo set, and find the books at the Scout Books website.
Design by Dave Selden. Manufactured in Portland, Oregon by Scout Books.
Cover: Chipboard 20pt. Kraft, Pantone soy-based inks
Interior: Quinault 70# Text White, Pantone soy-based ink
Binding: Saddle-stitch
Finishing: 1/4" Rounded corners
Specs: 3.5" x 5", 32 interior pages
1. Kaleidoscope 009, 2. Kaleidoscope 008,
3. Kaleidoscope 007, 4. Kaleidoscope 010
Kaleidoscopes made at Krazydad website
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
There’s not much I enjoy more than spending a day in the kitchen cooking up all kinds of goodness. Since there are only 2 of us in the house and we don’t eat lots of sweets or grain items, it doesn’t take much time to prepare the food we eat. I’m always happy when there’s a party invite or some other event that allows me to spend the day baking/cooking.
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 helped my friend with the food for a party, the theme was mini food. So I made tiny hamburger buns for the mini burgers.
I used this recipe: chiotsrun.com/2010/11/16/bread-for-every-occasion/
All you need to do it is cut the tomatoes in half, lay skin side down on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper (the parchment helps get them up later). If you want to, drizzle with olive oil and some freshly chopped herbs and sprinkle with salt and pepper, or simply roast as is, it’s up to you, I do both. Roast in a 225 degree oven for 4-8 hours or until reduced in size and slightly moist, cooking time depends on size of tomatoes and your oven. You can try raising oven temp to 250, but you may get some dark spots on the tomatoes, it depends on your oven. I like to put mine in the oven before I go to bed and set the timer for 6 hours. The next morning I check the tomatoes, remove any that are finished and continue roasting any tomatoes that aren’t quite done. You can taste one after 3-4 hours and you’ll be able to tell if it’s done or not. It should taste like concentrated tomato with a slightly sweet tang. If it’s still acidic and sour, roast for a while longer.
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...
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.
When Will Bryant and Mark Menjivar join forces, terrific things happen. Terrific chipboard things, to be specific.
Will and Mark worked together to create this identity system for the youth advocacy arm of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA). Mark works with TRLA to offer aid to youth experiencing homelessness. He got in touch with Will to help him create a series of print items that could be at once beautiful, useful and durable. From that collaboration came three print pieces: a business card, a pocket postcard, and a Scout Book with custom-printed interiors that acts as a Youth Rights Booklet. Will also did the lettering and design for the snazzy TRLA Youth website. Chipboard internet? We’re into it.
In addition to being a chance to create a set of fun printed pieces, Will looks at this collaboration as an opportunity to help out: ”Enabling youth [with] the opportunity to better their circumstances is huge! Most of the kids come from rough backgrounds, so having access to this knowledge empowers them and provides hope for the future,” he told us. “It’s a blessing to be involved with a project that does this.”
Heather Wilson is a graphic designer, illustrator, and registered art therapist who recently graduated from the Art Institute of Portland! She created the character on her Scout Book to represent herself and judging from all of the above, she seems like a pretty awesome gal to me. Check it out.
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.
Mia Christopher sent us three Scout Books brimming with juicy, colorful stuff. She brightened our week, and we hope that checking out this series of expertly experimental illustration has brightened yours. This Scout Book is the third in a series of three; be sure to see the first and second.
Itching to own Mia's work for yourself? Find it online at Arrow to Arrow, Renegade Handmade, and at Little Paper Planes. There are some original paintings in there that I'm eyeing...
Thank you to Mia for sharing the insides of her Scout Books with us!
I'm quite excited, I got a new Grain Mill and I also just received my copy of Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor. I made the basic bread yesterday and was very impressed with the texture and flavor of the bread. I have never been able to get the right level of gluten development with my 100% whole grain bread to get the kind of crumb I wanted. Yesterday my dough passed the windowpane test perfectly and it baked up into the most beautiful loaf of 100% whole grain sourdough sandwich bread!
"Some pursue happiness, others create it."
~Author Unknown
Make a kaleidoscope out of one of your photos ~ krazydad.com/makeyourown/index.php
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:
Here’s a quick poster I threw together for a small zine workshop I’m doing soon…
Zinesters Unite! Come and make a ZINEEEEE with the Canny Little Library at the Star and Shadow Cinema!
Join us on Sunday September 8th from 3-7pm and contribute to our first ever library zine - all materials provided!
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.
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.
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.
Jam band, anyone?
The prolific band Phish used the Scout Books during their North American tour last summer as swag for their fans–ahem, PHANS. With strikingly bold typography, these notebooks lay out a few Phish lyrics.
Rad!
Based in San Francisco, Ammunition Group was founded by industrial designer and product development entrepreneur Robert Brunner. Ammunition specializes in product, graphic and interaction design "dedicated to bringing experiences that matter to market". They have over 25 years of experience among their team and recently made Fast Company's top 5 Most Innovative Companies in the Design category.
Percentages of cyan type give wonderfully subtle texture to this Scout Book notebook by Cast Iron Coding . Beautiful, indeed!
Finished card detail with doors open. 5th Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap of 2012 Theme: Discover
Photo from Organic Gardening Magazine by Robert M. Peacock
Blogged at: www.lisepetrauskas.com
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.
Netherlands, Rotterdam, Theater festival De Parade 2007.
Wai and Kwannie are making their own poffertjes (small sweet pancakes). But why are they using chopsticks?
Oh wait, those are long stick-like forks provided by the bake your own poffertjes kitchen.