youth shirt design

I finally finished the Youth Shirt Design for Jeremy and the youth group. I think I like how the end product turned out. :)

(click to enlarge. this little JPEG looks absolutely hideous. I do abhore web-resized images.)

"scone" is pronounced "sk-AH-N"

Today I woke up to find Mom standing in my room, wearing her retro green apron and telling me that "Caroline, I have my apron on, you know what that means..." I sort of just rolled over and grumbled and then I remembered what she had said yesterday. She was going to make SCONES for breakfast.

You may think that I then jumped out of bed, but I didn't... typical me. However, I did mosey downstairs quickly enough to catch the mixing of the lovely scones. They turned out PERFECTLY.

Props to Mom!


We used the recipe from Baking Illustrated (whose taste in design, by the way, I TOTALLY dig)




I think these pics are kind of cool, with the motion and texture.








It's really clever... they have you "smoosh" the dough into a cake pan to get a perfectly round circle, then cut it.








And they browned up perfectly. We put dried cranberries, blueberries, and cherries in them, which really fit nicely. My GOSH were they delicious...They were light and fluffy, semi-sweet and just like heaven.

And it was amazing: each one of us only ate ONE scone and we were so full.

I hope you're jealous, Griffin... we made scones w/ heads! :)

playing in the park

Today Quinn had to go to Taiji lessons in Winterville, so me and Mom went with and we sat in the nearby park while he was in class. It's a lovely park and I absolutely love Winterville... course, the park kind of became a screaming yard full of the people that frighten you away from Wal-Mart. They were easily drowned out by a few My Chemical Romance songs -- the cigar smoke coming from a slightly terrifying male in his twenties, however, was not.


But there was this very cute (in temperament, if not exactly looks), scrawny homeless kitten that seemed to like us, for it sat on our picnic table with us for a while and generally hung out. It was timid though, poor mite.


A cliched picture of fall... still brilliant, though, crazy color.


This was posted on a dumpster. I hope you never get the urge to occupy it for any reason, because it is simply against the law.


Cool reflections experiment.


Social Civics, despite the ancient book from which I am learning, is proving interesting.


I liked this little illustration. I would totally cross my legs when voting, how about you?


And THIS was taken as we turned the bend, but look at it. It's a gas station sign, surrounded by picnic tables.... So, after you go inside and take your pick of delicious deep-fried, packaged food, stuffed with soy lecithin and preservatives, go ahead and just lounge by the sign and eat. Or, if you are feeling really ambitious, you could just get some good ol' barbecue from the place across the street and make a picnic of it...by the gas station sign. Right.

Ttyl.

random excursion into pictureland

These pics are from a few days ago, when I decided to get out the camera. I was also cleaning my room, so this is what I produced...


this was kind of fun, 10 second delay, a view from my desk...


I love my pearl necklace.


This is the leaf from a flower that was a boutonniere from Sara's wedding... it's an old leaf.


Bubblegum. Took me nearly twenty minutes to get this shot, and it could be better. :P


I like fans.

:)

it's genius

I'm writing this post to simply announce that I am in LOVE with the new Genius feature on iTunes. Apple, you did good.

Making ten different playlists for different moods filled with different songs was tiresome, especially when I'm really picky about music and I like some songs sometimes and I don't like them other times and it all just gets icky and time-consuming and if I had to quickly minimize iTunes while song searching because Mom walked by in her secret, lets-see-if-Caroline-is-slacking walk... I thought I would collapse. *yay for drama!*

Anyways, Genius is fantastic. All you do is choose a song that you feel like...



Click the Genius button at the bottom of the page....



And then you can listen to a whole soundtrack of songs that are like the first one you chose. Then you can save the playlist you made, like I did for those four songs, or you can clear and start over, or hit refresh to make a new selection if you don't dig what it gave you.

*sigh.*

(and I had no idea how easy it was to take pictures of you screen... kind of fun, really.)

holy moly

i would like to just say how absolutely

weird

it is

that i thought about my old blog TODAY, September 29, 2008

because September 29, 2007 was the last time i posted....

how freaky.
but ultimately cool.

cool little dude

this little dude's been hanging out with us on the porch. he's really tiny for a preying mantis.

mom said he would spit tobacco on me if i took a macro pic of him.
he didn't spit tobacco on me.

however, if he did spit tobacco, i wonder if it would be this:



hmmm....

sunsets and watercolor

You'd think, being a graphic artist of sorts (or at least an aspiring graphic artist) that my blog would at least have bit of spark to it, maybe some graphics... you would think.

I took pictures today, for the first time in mooonths. Sara has completely spoiled me with her delicious cameras and my (or technically Mother's) little FinePix 6 megapixel point-and-shoot really made me kind of sick. However, I was inspired by the Photoshop Seminar I went to a few weeks ago to collect pictures of textures, so that I can use them on pictures and so forth and so on. So I came up with quite a few.

And then there was a gorgeous sunset.







Then it stormed and so Mother (Mother does know best...) made me unplug my computer. I was left to wander rather pathetically around the house and snap unnecessarily at my blood relations until I thought of maybe making a watercolor painting.

So I did.




i really like this pic. drink up.

KIELBASA! <3

And, to follow a completely random title, I would like to say a few things. First, I love thesauruses, even when the don't show me what I want to see: A really long, delicious word for something simple like "random." Secondly, I found a very interesting, very slightly depressing site. I found it through a fun (if not tacky) little newspaper site for teenagers, and really it's quite mesmerizing. Check it out, takes only a few seconds:
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

As you will see, this site shows an eyeopening craziness: numbers of people dying, marrying, divorcing, being injured, getting cancer, HIV, abortions and so on. The amount of oil being pumped. The earths temperature. Of course, no one can really know what the real numbers are, but these are based on past stats and estimates. You can also choose whether you would like to see life trickle by in a yearly, monthly, daily, or nowly fashion...

Crazy?

Uh huh.

Well, Auf Wiedersehen, for now.
(My translator says that means "good-bye" in German. Those silly Germans.)

~ caroline barbie.... signs out

there's virtual paint on my fingers

hi there! ciao! i've been up to some things that i rather like, and felt like showing them off to whoever might see this. : ) also, i found a very cool place that you can find here: www.bittbox.com. here there are quite a few PS brushes and AI vectors that are free-for-personal-as well as-commercial use... so cool. the bitt-dude also posts recommendations to font sites and design sites and, well it's a nice website.

there, i found high-res watercolor brushes that look just like paint. i am in raptures over them and so you might see alot of paint for a while... : )

here is a flyer i made for la leche league of greater athens...



also, a flyer for the band, caughtoffguard...



and my favorite page of a signature book...but of course, this is mostly the loveliness of the picture (courtesty of sara wise photography), brushes (courtesty of bittbox), and actions (courtesty of gary fong) that make it pretty. : )




...ciao...