Posts from ‘April, 2010’

**We interrupt our regularly scheduled posts to bring you something entirely different…a mere announcement.**
Things are crazy at Z as in Zebra lately (due to things being crazy in our life right now). I’m still growing a baby in my belly and creating projects for clients, etc…but on top of all of that, I am traveling [...]

My buddies Stephen and Melissa are huge fans of Lost, so it made perfect sense for Stephen to have a Lost-themed 33rd birthday party. Melissa asked me to make the cake and suggested that the Dharma logo would be perfect.
Admittedly, I’ve never seen a single episode of the show, but I do have the power [...]

My mother-in-love found this old hymnal at a thrift store and immediately knew I could use it to make a repurposed journal.

Old books are so awesome because the covers feature different variations of embossing or debossing. So neat!

Since this was an old hymnal, I used sheet music scrapbook paper for the inside paste pages.

I also [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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I guess I can bake faster than I can blog! That said, here are the shots from the cupcakes I made for St. Patrick’s Day.
The dry ingredients are the typical ones you’ve likely come to expect: flour, [...]

In September, I started an adventure. The goal was to work my way through an entire cupcake cookbook, one recipe at a time. The whole book features 113 recipes, and to date, I have baked, tasted, and posted about 38 of the 113 types; roughly one third of the book.

Some have been extra-tasty-ooh-let’s-make-these-again-sometime recipes while [...]

It’s not very often that I get to make journals for kids, so I was very excited when my friend Anne contact me regarding her nephew’s upcoming birthday.
Teddy will be turning 4 this month, and in Anne’s words, “he would love a personalized field journal to write down ‘observations.’”
How cute is that?! Anne did some [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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What, you’ve never heard of a Cupcake Kabob before?!

The first thing I did to prep the kabobs was grab a bunch of these:

And a bunch of these:

If I could help it, I didn’t want to repeat colors [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Halloween?! Yes, I know it’s April now. I didn’t choose the names for the cupcakes I make…I’m just working my way through the book. Never mind the timing, or the title for that matter, if it bothers [...]

This post is about dreaming up experimental ideas and seeing them through to completion.

I’ve been wanting to design a book like this for a long time (several years, if I’m being honest) and a couple weeks ago I decided to just bite the bullet and make it.

Besides, I had this amazing retro paper that needed [...]