Sat, Sep 24, 2011 – 20:31
Well, I may not be that great at the “adding ingredients together in the right order” aspect of cooking, but when it comes to veggie slicing, I feel like a pro. Check out these little tiny slivers of onion for my recipe – and not a tear was shed over their slicing! I made Pot [...]
Sat, Dec 18, 2010 – 12:02
Quite a bit of time has been spent at work the past week or week and a half on preparing Aclewe’s Christmas gifts for the clients. Finding little gift boxes that would be the right size, mixing massive quantities of chocolates, folding the boxes, cutting orange Aclewe paper and then building the insets for the [...]
Fri, Aug 27, 2010 – 20:13
Junior’s Burgers & Custard commissioned another couple of items from me. First, a modified version of the menus I made previously, this time to fit in the backlit display at their Champaign location. I went with a blue background to make the letters stand out better when lit from behind. Second was the assignment to [...]
Sat, Aug 14, 2010 – 13:38
Things have been kind of quiet around here as I hunt for jobs and work on freelance stuff. Just finished a new design project this week for my client, Junior’s Burgers & Custard. They’re a local burger shop looking to expand, and of course they need a new look! Here’s the old menu style: And [...]
Tue, Mar 30, 2010 – 15:02
I wish I was at home in my nice hobbit-hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing! –The Hobbit, J.R.R.Tolkien With the end of winter here (it’s springtime in Rochester!), and the season of cuddling warm mugs under blankets at a close, I wanted to pay a tribute to what I drink the [...]
My birthday is March 4, the only day of the year that’s a command. In English, at least, as I learned trying to explain the joke to Germans last year. My little brother wrote me an alternative version of the first verse to “It’s Not My Birthday” by my favorite band, They Might Be Giants. [...]
Mon, Aug 31, 2009 – 21:15
Ahh… to be able to cook food of my own, according to my own tastes, made with the ingredients I’m used to. And back with Wegmans. Oh Wegmans… when I came to Rochester, I was no believer in those who touted your awesomeness. Now I know better. When I asked them for Edam cheese I [...]
I finally met again with my mom and wrapped up a project for her personal chef business, Come Home To Dinner, designing sample menus with which she can inspire her clients. She wrote up the content and spent hours looking through photos to pick the right ones. With my consulting we assembled the content, photos, [...]
Thu, Jul 30, 2009 – 22:43
Everything will be okay. I have to keep promising myself that the flow of time will take me in my best direction, that luck will see to my welfare as long as I keep my footing in the river and make the best of what comes my way. It worked well in Germany. My star [...]
Fri, Jul 24, 2009 – 16:38
I tried to get up early to go to Versailles, but I was pretty tired from not getting enough sleep lately and then lugging my luggage (ha ha) all over the place. As it was, I did manage to wake up around when I planned to, but I was slow about getting moving and it [...]
