Stephen Martin at Amelie's

White Christmas

The first white Christmas in Charlotte since 1947. Lucky.

Myrtle Beach Poster

Just some of my recent homework assignments.

Almost Forgot About The Marin County Fair!

I saw some amazing things and had a great time...this was a while ago though!

Here's a photo of 6 cupcakes. Blue ribbon winner.

AMAZING peach dumplings.

1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. water
1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 c. (1/2 stick) butter
1/2 - 2/3 c. milk
4 med. size fresh peaches, pared and halved
1/4 c. sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
Milk or half and half

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Whisk to dissolve sugar; set aside.

Combine flour, baking powder and salt in small deep mixing bowl; whisk to blend. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Gradually add milk, mixing with a fork until flour is moistened.

Gather up dough with fingers and press into a ball. Roll dough on lightly floured surface. Place a peach half on each.

Combine 1/4 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon; sprinkle 1 heaping teaspoon on each peach. Bring opposite corners of pastry to center; pinch edges to seal. Place in a buttered 2 quart shallow baking dish; pour sugar and water mixture around dumplings. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve warm with milk or half and half. 8 servings.

Substitute pared apple halves for peaches.

Ceramics 1 Thus Far

Just a few things I've been working on. The mask and 'welcome' stage are in progress.

I Want It: Decal Headboard

Check it OUT! This is the coolest thing I've seen decoration wise in a while. I want it! $55 is a bit expensive for something I'll be leaving in a year but still very cool.

http://www.whatisblik.com/shop/mid-century-gothic

Perfect Banana Pudding

2 packs of instant vanilla pudding

1 can of sweetened condensed milk

1 tub of cool whip

1 block of cream cheese

2 cups milk

1 box vanilla wafers

4 bananas

(Use hand mixer for all mixing!)

Mix milk and pudding mix together. In different bowl mix sweetened condensed milk and cream cheese until smooth. Mix into pudding mix. Fold in cool whip. In 13x9in container line with wafers and bananas. Pour in pudding mix. Top with extra bananas and wafers. Let sit in fridge for at least an hour. Serve cold.

The Art Wall

This is the beginnings of our art wall. We've got some paintings, photos, vinyl decal, wooden letters, posters, drawings, and digital renderings. OH and a 24k gold hat!

Inspirational Ceramics

I'm taking Ceramics this semester and some of our homework was to find some inspiration. I've definitely found a few really cool artists. check it out: Ayumi Horie, Erin Furimsky, and Eric Rempe are just a few.

Umbrella

This is old but I might hang it in my room.

Figure Studies

This is a long overdue post. These are some old figure studies of mine.

Art Wall

So I have a few ideas for the apartment. One of them is an "art wall" where we're going to take up a whole wall with a collage of art and inspiration. We're going to hang everything from plates, paintings, silver platters, jewelry, to notes, and magazine cut outs. I'm hoping that my artistic friends will volunteer artwork for the wall so if you have anything inspiring let me know =].

Some ways I plan to create order out of the chaos:

X Using only black, white, and silver frames.

X Same spacing between each piece.

X Evenly dispersing sizes.

Old Artwork: Fashion Illustration

I was looking though my stuff and realized I hadn't posted this. It's a piece that inspired many other pieces (color and design) and was a favorite of mine just because of the personality it has. It's all cut up now so good think I have a photo!