My nephew learned to smile this week! In honor of this achievement, I made an animated GIF using three adorable pictures of of him! Click on it to view the animation.
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Day 180: Flip Book – Part 4
Ha ha! The video of my flip book is done and uploaded to You Tube. Thanks to Jim for assisting with production and making the adorable sound effects!
Day 179: Flip Book – Part 3
Finally! I finished the flip book today! Even though the drawings and animation in the book are very simple, it took a really long time to make it because I did 342 drawings–one for each page of the book.
I’m happy to say that I really like it. I plan to make a video of it as my project on Thursday!
Pictured is one of the drawings I did today of a cloud.
Day 178: Flip Book – Part 2
On Tuesday, I did more work on my flip book and made lots of drawings of a duck flying across the sky. I’m super excited about how this is turning out.
Day 177: Flip Book – Part 1
Eek! I am so excited to be making my first ever animation in the form of a flip book. The theme of my little piece is a summer day; on Monday I worked on some simple drawings of a rising sun and a little bee flying around. Yay!
I’ll post a video of the whole flip book once it’s done so for now I’ll leave you with a picture of my bee.
Day 176: Kale Frittata
On Sunday morning, I was super excited about making a kale frittata, first because I figured it would taste awesome and second because it would help me use up lots of the languishing ingredients in my fridge, including some fresh but wilting kale and a few types of cheese. I used this recipe from Eggs on Sunday as inspiration, but pretty much made everything up as a went along. It turned out great!
Ingredients
– 3/4 of one small red onion, chopped
– 2 cloves of garlic, pressed
– 2 teaspoons of olive oil
– 2 and 1/2 cups of chopped kale, packed tightly
– 8 eggs
– 1/2 cup Parmesan
– 1/2 teaspoon salt
– pepper
– 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
- Add the olive oil and onion to a cast iron skillet or oven safe pan and saute until onion has browned
- Add the garlic and continue sauteing from one minute
- Add kale, eggs, Parmesan, salt, and pepper to the pan and then top with mozzarella
- Put the whole pan into the oven and cook for approximately 25 minutes until the eggs have set
- Slice and carefully remove pieces with a pie server.
- Then enjoy!
Day 175: Sauteed Kale
On Saturday night, Jim and I made dinner together and I tried on the strange experiment of barbecuing kale. It didn’t quite work out (instead of tasting awesome, it just tasted weirdly smokey) so I brought the kale inside, put it in a saute pan, added a few cloves of garlic, a little more olive oil, and a few spoonfuls of the chipotle pepper sauce (the stuff that’s in the can with the actual chipotle peppers), and it turned out quite delicious. Definitely a kale rescue.
Day 174: Alien
On Friday night, I watched the movie Alien over at a friend’s house. When I got home, I tried to draw a “cute” alien. I made about eight attempts, but none of them really looked all that cute. I guess it’s hard to make such a horrible, hideous creature endearing.
Day 173: Fern
On Thursday night, I made this fern frond. I first made the stem using black marker and then cut lots of little leaves out from green-toned pictures in a magazine I had laying around the house. Then I glued down all the leaves and voila!
Day 172: Shadows
Wednesday’s photography theme was shadows. I made all of these in black and white, except the last one, which I loved way too much in color.
Making Made 