Lilly Loves Chanel

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with taking any of these images. All Lilly photos are from Cyana Trend Land.

Recently I fell upon the new images for the Chanel handbag campaign featuring Lilly Allen. I have a love for Lilly Allen. Despite being a little crazy or whackadoodle once in awhile, I love her spirit and attitude. Her songs delight me. They're beautifully sung but there's always something ironic, humorous, or a little "hey, f- you!" jab in there. It just feels... GOOD.

Now, I also have a love for Chanel. What fashion-lover DOESN'T love Chanel, or at least appreciate and respect it? Karl Lagerfeld, for lack of a better phrase, cracks me up. I don't know how else to put it. He's another one--totally crazy and totally whackadoodle. But instead of being annoyed with it, why not just laugh and be amused? He's doing wonderful things for the world of fashion and his photographs (Yes, Karl took these himself. At least so says the internet) of Lilly are AMAZING. I've always thought she was a super cute girl, but I'm in love with these photos. They're stunning. The high contrast, the details in the apparel, and her cheeky expressions??? I would totally print these as a poster series for my apt.... actually, that's not a bad idea...

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Popsicle Explosion

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I'm obsessed w/ cupcakes on a regular basis, but for summer time, I'm also obsessed w/ popsicles. Not just regular popsicles though. I could care less about those. I'm talking FANCY popsicles. GOURMET popsicles. Unique combinations and glorious flavor explosions in a colorful shell. It's fun, but sophisticated. It's a chance to experiment, but without serious commitment. It's easy enough to do, but an intricate and intriguing recipe process. The possibilities are ENDLESS!

These are the popsicles sitting in my freezer right now. Of course, they're sitting on a lovely tray and I tried my best to create a lovely photoshoot. But the assortment is quite varied. Here's the color chart:

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I might even be so wild as to post some recipes soon. What do you think? Would you be all for it?

Peaches galore!

One of the things I've been up to lately is baking. I know, if you know me, that's not a surprise. Recently, George (the bf) purchased a case of fresh peaches from what we like to call The Fruit Truck (H&S Citrus, technically). Well, it's wonderful because then we have tons of pure, delicious, fresh peaches. The bummer is that we have somewhere between 40-50 of these peaches and since they're so real and untouched, once they're good, you have to use them... FAST. So this is one of those peach adventures. A rustic peach tart.

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Actually it's a rustic peach-ginger-lime tart, with tender, flaky dough, freshly grated ginger, and key lime juice. Looks delicious, no? I glazed the dough w/ an egg wash and sprinkled turbinado sugar on top as well. Results? I took it to work and it was gone in less than 10 minutes. :-) I'd say the results were positive.

Still here!

I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted!!! OY! But I've been hard at work---at my day job, my cupcake-making job, and of course, my lovely paper-designing job. Recently I've been reshooting some photos of product. There's a craft fair coming up in Columbus that I'm entering and hoping I get accepted to show my stuff. Here's one of the many reshoots.

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