Allora…

Can’t believe you’re turning 8 today! My favorite dorito picnic partner!
Love you.

Even happier with a dora pop!

pink eye takes over!

chicago and san francisco are on the horizon!

details TK

the planning begins! one of my greatest friends Michelle is getting married to the wonderful Christopher! I’m in the wedding…along with Bea! another great cohort. Michelle asked me to do their save the date’s and of course I’m all in. I need to find some time to get together with them to do an actual portrait for them.

I started playing with the type and the numbers. luckily they have some great numbers that will be fun to play with while designing this.

Since I am in the city typically more days than not, I have seen some famous people about. Especially around LC, the celebs run free. Here is a list, so that I don’t forget.

Christine Baranski

Tom Cavanagh

Val Kilmer…looking less like this version of himself:

and more like this version:

I had a great relaxing 3 day weekend in maryland for memorial day. it was hot and swampy just like summer on the east coast should be. We had the blow up pool in dan’s back yard going in full force, lots of food, drinks, and just hanging out. Ava and Sophie kept me busy and laughing even though they were pretty sick…. Here are the pics:

My little not-so-much-of-a-baby-anymore cousin GP is graduating from HS, and Aunt D asked me to design the invitation for his graduation party using a nice photo taken by a friend. Cool! Two early versions….pls note for family – the date on the invite is not exact. It is just placeholder text. In case you were planning a trip to Croton for the party.

Version1
Back page of card (Left) Front page of card (Right)

Inside of card

Version 2
Back page (L) Front cover (R)

Inside of card

Ok. So last night I tried to make Pasta Carbonara…or a form of it, which I have never made before. Typically that has pasta, eggs, milk, cheese, and pancetta/some kind of glorious pork fat. Since it was my first time around the Carbonara Block, I consulted my Giada cookbook quickly enough to see “Whisk egg and cream…blah blah blah” and “return drained pasta to pan and add cream mixture”. Well I probably should have read the rest of the recipe. However, what came out of it was actually quite good. really good actually. Would be some great hangover food.

After cooking the fettucine I returned the pasta to the pan, and added 2 eggs and skim milk which i had whisked together. My mistake was that even though the burner was off, the pan was still way too hot for the eggs. It ended up scrambling the eggs. Oh well. I added lots of cracked black pepper (in fact my grinder broke and dumped a whole butt load onto the pasta- nothing went right on Wednesday) crushed red pepper and parmigiano reggiano and salt. It was great.

this looks totally gross, but believe me. it’s no stranger than lo mein or fried rice with scrambled eggs in it.

theee yankees win!

Recipe TK (tk is publishing speak for ‘to come’ or ‘it’s not in yet’) can you tell i have a ton of chipotle’s in my house???

not really red in this pic, but it was definitely pink…

in totally unrelated news, pedro had a rough week too and decided to sleep it off.