busiest day of the year. but I still managed to find some time to 1. relax at the lake with friends; and 2. write a post over at foodbeam.com
best day ever.

happy birthday to my bestest friend. love you.

since I can hardly move from my bed because of a lovely strep throat, I thought I would share little moments from my day, instead of the usual crafty pieces.
and I do truly think it’ll be this way around here until I recover. and when my body temperature will finally be normal (fingers crossed), this type of articles will be posted in the pretty days category.

I made myself some hot chocolate with cinnamon. it was so yummy and comforting.

materials
:: one cup of milk
:: a couple of squares of high quality dark chocolate
:: a pinch of cinnamon, ground with my mortar and pestle

and I sipped it as I was flipping through this sweet little book I bought in Paris for eight euros.
some of the images in there are so very inspiring and beautiful and colourful.

I’m quite happy with all the things I got done today. first, I design a logo for my etsy shop: my signature lollipops into a coat of arms. I think it nicely fits my lollipop guild - and more generally speaking - wizard of Oz addiction. I then got the logo to be made into a stamp, so I could stamp it onto the packaging. the stamp has both my email adress and etsy shop url.

as for the packaging, I thought it would be great to recycle all those printed paper sheets I usually keep to jolt down quick little notes.
do you think it looks pretty?

I also made a banner for the shop since I didn’t like the one I made in first place anymore - it was lovely though: a forest of coloured lollipops.

materials
:: 80g/m² printed paper sheet
:: clear plastic bag
:: black archival ink

this is the perfect example of what I treasure in art.
art is affordable.
art should be affordable.

to make this little card, I only used supplies I had at home. some piece of heavy weight paper, a couple of watercolour pencils and my favourite ink pen for the drawing.

when it comes to the embossing, I simply cut out three oval shapes into light cardboard and placed them underneath the not-yet illustrated card. and using an eraser, I revealed the shapes. I then flipped the paper over - embossed perfection.

material
:: daler rowney archival paper 220g/m²
:: sakura pigma micro black archival ink 08
:: daler rowney watercolour colour pencils
for the embossing
:: light cardboard
:: white rubber eraser

size
:: 21 x 10 cm