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Happy 8th Birthday to Dexter!

Alisa — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:49:45 +0000

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!

travel scheming

Alisa — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:37:15 +0000

chicago and san francisco are on the horizon!

details TK

michelle & chris

Alisa — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:29:43 +0000

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.

Celebrity sightings

Alisa — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:54:33 +0000

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:

memorial day in maryland

Alisa — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:38:25 +0000

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:

GP Grad Party Invite

Alisa — Sun, 23 May 2010 00:48:58 +0000

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

Cooking mistake?

Alisa — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:12:58 +0000

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.

Yankees game

Alisa — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:52:36 +0000

theee yankees win!

Chipotle Chili

Alisa — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:02:54 +0000

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???

red sky at night, sailors delight…

Alisa — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:52:21 +0000

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.