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Project Idea #7: Christmas Gift Tags (and Giftaway)
Read moreHere’s a little download-able cheer from our studio to yours: quick and easy Christmas gift tags. (I think I’m going to go with reverse brown paper bag wrapping this year – both due to our abundance of Trader Joe’s sacks and my fondness for brown paper packages tied up with strings.) However, bland wrapping paper need not result in a
Our Five Star Favorites: Cathy Loves Popcorn, Indiana
Read moreAlmost every day at 4 o’clock, my internal snack clock says that it is time for an afternoon break. I rise from the computer or drawing table and, almost like a zombie in a trance, I march out of the studio for my popcorn break. Not just any ol’ popcorn, only this one: Movie Theatre Popcorn by Popcorn, Indiana. This
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Fresh, Local, and Out of Season
Read moreBerkeley is known – starting with the efforts of Alice Waters and Chez Panisse – for encouraging the consumption of food that is “fresh, local, and in-season” – and there’s nothing limiting about that when you live in a place where it sometimes appears that everything is in season all the time. Above, you see the progress of the little