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www.myzoetrope.comMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.comBlogger953125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-54403879779960655372014-12-15T09:00:00.000-05:002014-12-15T09:00:00.972-05:002014 Freebie Holiday Gift Tags!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey friends! I have another freebie Holiday Gift tag this year for you. I loved wrapping my presents for my family and sticking these cute little dudes on them. Puts a fun little touch on them, without going all crazy (I'm not a very good wrapper...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Just <a href="http://myzoetrope.com/files/2014-tag.pdf" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration: none;">download the template </a>(right click-->save as, and then open up in Acrobat. The print quality is better printing from Acrobat versus your web browser for some reason.) Get some white card stock and print away! I just cut them out and taped them onto my packages, but you can also use a hole-punch on the top to attach a festive string to tie to packages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />If you end up using these, I would love to see! Share with me via <a href="http://instagram.com/myzoetrope" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration: none;">instagram</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/myzoetrope" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration: none;">twitter</a> or just link in the comments below. Also, feel free to <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/myzoetrope" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration: none;">pin these (and please link it back to me)! </a></span></div>
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Hey Friends! Just wanted to pop in and let you know I'm having a Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday sale this weekend in my shop. You can take <a href="http://myzoetrope.etsy.com/">20% off your purchase by using coupon code THANKS20 at checkout</a>. Sale starts now and lasts until Monday night at midnight EST. Thank you all so, so much for everything this past year, and I hope this holiday season is a good one for you! </div>
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-24991246899695217132014-10-24T14:14:00.000-04:002014-10-24T14:14:04.049-04:00Stella! <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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So, on September 27th at 5:50pm, Nik and I welcomed our little Stella into the world! She weighed in at a whopping 9lb, 3oz and 23 inches long. I was in labor for almost 14 hours and the last 4 were spent pushing (!!!) her out. I managed to go completely drug-free, due to my insane stubborn-ness, and definitely had a great birthing experience (despite the very very long 4 hours of pushing.) Guys, she is so insanely adorable! She cracks me up with all of her many faces that she makes at us, and I love her little cuddle sessions we have after nursing. She will be 4 weeks old tomorrow (!!!) and I don't even know where the time has went, seriously. It's so fun to notice little changes in her daily. She has already started to make some ooo and ahhh noises in the most angelic little voice, and her big tooth-less grins make me melt. Babies!<br />
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We are still figuring out the whole "leaving the house with a newborn" thing, so we mostly have just been adjusting to a family of three in the confines of our own home. I hope to venture out more soon! We are all doing great though. Breastfeeding is going way better than I ever could have hoped, I finally made the switch from using disposable diapers to cloth (she is finally fitting into the size of diapers that I bought before she was born), and she sleeps relatively well (at night she usually gives me a 3-4 hour stretch, followed by little 2-3 hours stretches.)<br />
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I opened my shop back up this week, but it is still kind of an adjustment trying to find work-time during the day. Figuring things out day by day. :)<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-57808934962697507572014-09-11T14:36:00.000-04:002014-09-11T14:36:41.707-04:00C'mon Baby Sale!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello! It's getting close to "go time" here with this baby girl (due in 8 days, eeep!), so I decided to have a last-minute sale before I shut down my shop for maternity leave. From now until Sunday night (9/14/2014), <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/MyZoetrope">use coupon code CMONBABY to save 20% off your purchase in my Etsy shop.</a> ($10 minimum purchase.) I'll be closing up my shop next week and will reopen it later on in September or early October. Woo! (and really, c'mon baby! I want to meet you!)<br />
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I have loooooaaaads of new prints and cards in the shop, as well as my new 2015 calendar. If you had your eye on something, now is the time to snap it up. A little peek at some of my new illustrations and cards below!<br />
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Thanks so much!<br />
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Michelle<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-54187387434470801862014-08-14T10:36:00.000-04:002014-08-14T10:36:19.159-04:00Painting the Roses Red<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I've been on a kick to paint more these days. I don't do it enough, it's one of my favorite things to do, and I want to get back in the habit of doing something artsy "just for fun" daily. I bought a block of watercolor paper, some new brushes, and I'm not stopping until the block is full. It just so happens that <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/">Spoonflower</a> is having a <a href="http://blog.spoonflower.com/spoonchallenge.html">30-day drawing challenge</a> right now, so I have been hopping on their prompts and going to town with my paints. Cosmic alignment or something. Anyways, here is a glimpse of what I have been painting, and you can follow along via <a href="http://instagram.com/myzoetrope">instagram</a> (and maybe I'll post a few more here in a week or so.) </div>
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-17211785047683262752014-07-17T11:54:00.000-04:002014-07-17T11:54:38.071-04:00Bits & Pieces<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Sooo, sorry about that extended absence. I'm not quite sure where time has gone recently. Each week, I briefly think "hmm, I should blog," and then I forget that thought again until the next week. Life is busy and good! I'm up to my waist in planning new holiday things for my shop, while simultaneously trying to put together a nursery (and other rooms of the house...slowly...), and trying to have a little fun too. With baby girl due soon (9 weeks to go, eep!) it feels like every weekend is spent on one project or another. September is usually the start of the holiday season for my shop, so it will be interesting to see how that will go this year. I plan to shut down my shop for 3-4 weeks when she is born, to get our bearings, and will hopefully be able to open again sometime in October. That's the plan anyways! </div>
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I've weirdly had zero regrets about moving so far. It's definitely a different change of pace in upstate NY compared to Brooklyn, but we've adjusted pretty quickly. The only thing that really makes me sad-faced is not being able to just walk anywhere at anytime. There really isn't anything walkable from my house, in terms of coffee shops or restaurants, just residential neighborhoods. But hey, everything is a pretty quick 10-20 minute drive, so it isn't that bad. </div>
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My family threw me a baby shower this past weekend and a fun time was had. I'm usually one to shy away from events that put me at the center of attention, but it was a pretty laid back picnic with close family. NO STUPID GAMES! Hehe. </div>
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Okay, promise to share more tidbits soon. xoxo. -Michelle</div>
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-30862242765684520372014-06-02T10:08:00.000-04:002014-06-02T10:08:00.598-04:00Ambition Panda<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let's talk about ambition. Diving in. Shooting for the stars. I'm well past my college years, but I've always found it important to still have a big goal in mind to achieve, even though it gets a bit harder when you need to figure that out by yourself (rather than achieve a certain grade or pass certain tests to graduate.) Moving to NYC, finding a job that had SOMETHING to do with my degree in Illustration, starting my own business, getting into certain big craft fairs, traveling to foreign lands, expanding my business, starting a family, saving for a house. These are many of the things that I have strived for and for the most part, succeeded in! People have different levels of importance in their lives, whether it be job or family or friends or seeing the world, and there is no one way to live a life. I think balance is key, but others throw themselves into one area of their life. So what are the goals that are currently taking up space in the back of my head everyday? Mine are mostly family-oriented, for obvious pregnant reasons, but expanding my business even further is taking up a big chunk too. The <a href="http://nationalstationeryshow.com/">National Stationery Show</a> (NSS) just happened in NYC and it has been a huge goal of mine to show at it for years now. I admit, I'm a little disappointed in myself that I haven't made it happen yet, but that only fuels me to make sure it happens next year. What are some of your big (or little! I want to crochet an afghan this year too!) goals? How do you go about making them happen? I have one big mega-list of life goals that I keep near my desk to remind me.<br />
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My pal <a href="https://jenipherlyn.squarespace.com/">Jenipher Lyn</a> wrote a book recently, called <a href="https://jenipherlyn.squarespace.com/book/">How Being Stubborn, Depressed, and Unpopular Saved My Life</a>, and this my contribution to her book launch blog party! We're already on week 5, Ambition a.k.a. Diving In, but you can catch up on her <a href="https://jenipherlyn.squarespace.com/blog/">blog!</a>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-32532465825404549162014-05-20T09:26:00.001-04:002014-05-20T09:26:30.449-04:00New Father's Day Cards!<br />
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Father's Day is coming soon! June 15th to be exact. I have <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/MyZoetrope/search?search_query=fathers+day&order=date_desc&view_type=gallery&ref=shop_search">two new cards up in my shop</a>, along with a few others from year's past, to choose from. No procrastinating! </div>
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So, if you follow me over on <a href="https://twitter.com/MyZoetrope">twitter </a>or <a href="http://instagram.com/myzoetrope">instagram</a>, you might have already gathered that Nik and I have picked up and left Brooklyn for good! We have lived there for over a decade now, so it was a not an easy decision. It was a really long drawn-out process over the last few years of deciding where to move to (we considered Portland, Maine and Hudson, NY as the other top contenders), but in the end we both went back to our roots in Rochester, NY. I grew up in a small town 30ish minutes from there, and we both went to college at RIT (and that's where we met!) My family still lives here and Nik's parents are only two hours away (soo much closer than from NYC,) and with a baby on the way, we knew we wanted to be closer to everyone. So! Rochester it is! We came up here one weekend in March, looked at a million houses, and found "the one." Definitely luck that we managed to find a house we loved in one weekend, and that our offer was accepted. These past few months have been a bit of a whirlwind with house/mortgage stuff, but we finally made the move up here last week. Still unpacking/organizing, but I will share photos soon! It's a biiiig change going from the hustle-bustle of Brooklyn and the tiny apartment living, to a much smaller city with a big house to fill. I imagine the adjustment period is going to last awhile as we try to get back into some sort of normal routine. We're both working from home now too, which isn't a change for me, but definitely one for Nik. So far so good! </div>
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-76525254205019634062014-04-13T16:00:00.000-04:002014-04-13T16:00:17.895-04:00Birthday Adventures<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIH2Ovcy53D3TwTKEvf_uZvk957Otv7bFglNRpjaTtjolv9TUSXyekdgPBGAw2eivIdBsBQLl7UzD2vARX1BSd3qjemjUrOivK0tXpmozR81QRUGkIF7a6-0KEdRncVR-RonAIaYQTg/s1600/79-roos-island01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIH2Ovcy53D3TwTKEvf_uZvk957Otv7bFglNRpjaTtjolv9TUSXyekdgPBGAw2eivIdBsBQLl7UzD2vARX1BSd3qjemjUrOivK0tXpmozR81QRUGkIF7a6-0KEdRncVR-RonAIaYQTg/s1600/79-roos-island01.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></a><br />
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Hello! Nik and I went on a little adventure yesterday, birthday adventures to be exact! We took the tram (!) over to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island">Roosevelt Island</a>, and spent a few hours wandering the island. It's mostly residential with parks, and an abandoned, kinda-spooky old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_Hospital">smallpox hospital</a>. Fun! Spring finally showed it's face, so it was nice soaking up some sunshine. </div>
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So, we had ourselves a little adventure on Koh Lipe. It took a plane ride, a filled-to-the-brim van ride, a long choppy speedboat ride, and a little golf cart ride to get there, but we were rewarded with paradise. Koh Lipe is a tiny island in the Southwest of Thailand, in the Andaman Sea, close to the Malaysian border. We had ourselves a <a href="http://www.castaway-resorts.com/">cute little beach bungalow</a> that was about 100 feet from the ocean. Crystal teal water and the dark shadows of coral in the distance. We were so excited to explore this little island and snorkle/kayak to surrounding ones, but the weather was not on our side in the slightest bit. It was the end of the rainy season there, but one last mega-storm reared it's head the entire time we were there. Seriously, we had one sunny afternoon, and saw the hardest downpours I have ever experienced. I thought our little bungalow was going to wash away into the ocean one night during a raging thunder/lightning storm. We still managed to swim a bit (the ocean was so nice and warm!) when it was only lightly raining, but didn't get to do any snorkling or kayaking. Super-bummer! Most of our time was spent at our <a href="http://www.castaway-resorts.com/">cute little bungalow</a> and their cafe (which was actually pretty tasty and vegan-friendly!) Lots of reading and sketching and eating. Nik and I are definitely more of the adventure-let's-do-stuff vacation types, so it was hard to just relax and do very little, but it turned out to be a nice contrast from the packed schedules we had in Chiang Mai and Bangkok.<br />
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Things I don't recommend: Leaving Koh Lipe at 9am, taking that speedboat, that packed van, and that plane back to Bangkok, arriving around 5pm, and then having time to kill with all your luggage before your plane departed later that evening (morning?) at 1:40am to head back home on a 21 hour flight. Definitely a scheduling oversight on my part, and we were in rough shape when we finally landed in NYC.<br />
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Worth it!<br />
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<a href="http://my-zoetrope.blogspot.com/2014/01/honeymooning-bangkok-thailand-part-1.html">Part 1</a><br />
<a href="http://my-zoetrope.blogspot.com/2014/01/honeymooning-bangkok-thailand-part-2.html">Part 2</a><br />
<a href="http://my-zoetrope.blogspot.com/2014/01/honeymooning-bangkok-thailand-part-3.html">Part 3</a><br />
<a href="http://my-zoetrope.blogspot.com/2014/01/honeymooning-chiang-mai-thailand-part-4.html">Part 4</a><br />
<a href="http://my-zoetrope.blogspot.com/2014/03/honeymooning-chiang-mai-part-5.html">Part 5</a><br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-17285814405643613872014-03-26T09:00:00.000-04:002014-03-26T09:00:11.794-04:00Honeymooning: Chiang Mai, Part 5<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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So where were we? Chiang Mai still! This is my last big photo dump of Chiang Mai and then I have one more post on the little island of Koh Lipe that we visited, to round out my Honeymooning posts. Thanks for sticking with me here!</div>
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So what else did we do in Chiang Mai, outside of the Lantern fest? Night markets, lots of yummy food, walking everywhere, drank a million fruit smoothies, and visited some more temples (though we did get templed-out after a certain point.) We also went on two different excursions outside of the city! One day we randomly signed ourselves up for a kayaking trip, neither of us having any sort of experience in a kayak before. They put us in some kayaks on a slow-moving river, and let us go! It was about 4-ish hours I think? Most of the time I was drifting by myself in silence, although I did slow down and wait for Nik a few times (slowpoke.) It was a small group of us and it was mega-fun! </div>
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The second out-of-town was the popular Flight of the Gibbon zip-line excursion. They picked us up bright and early, and before we knew it, we were flying through the forest. Even saw an actual Gibbon Monkey from afar! Don't have many photos from this or from the kayaking, since we left all camera's and phones in lockers. </div>
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Chiang Mai was definitely my favorite place of the three that we visited. Loved the more laid-back atmosphere, the more outdoorsy things that we could do there, and the Lantern fest was such a special event that I'm so glad we could be there for. </div>
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-25481286926213171482014-03-21T08:59:00.000-04:002014-03-21T08:59:00.210-04:00Little Bear-rito<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sooo...I've been a bit absent around these parts lately! Come mid-September, it will be a little bit more evident why, as Nik and I welcome our first little one into the world! We are super-excited and a bit relieved to finally spill the beans about this secret we have been keeping for the last few months. We told our family and friends this week and it was so fun! So yeah, I've been pretty tired lately, but otherwise okay in the pregnancy-sickness department. I'm 14 weeks today, so I'm pretty psyched to enter the 2nd trimester!<br />
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Belated, but I hope you had a love-filled day yesterday! I made some homemade Spinach-Mushroom-Tofu-Ricotta ravioli's (heart-shaped of course), and a key-lime pie for dessert. I used <a href="http://vegandad.blogspot.com/2009/08/easy-fresh-vegan-pasta.html">Vegan Dad's pasta recipe</a> and just kinda made up my own tofu ricotta with added mushrooms and spinach. Key-lime pie from <a href="http://www.theppk.com/books/vegan-pie-in-the-sky/">Vegan Pie in the Sky!</a> Delicious!</div>
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So, Chiang Mai was downright magical. We arrived right before the Lantern festival began, or Yi Peng.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_Krathong"> Loy Krathong and Yi Peng</a> coincided with each other, so it was actually two festivals in one that we were about to experience. You know all those <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/136796907405149586/">photos you see on Pinterest</a> with hundreds of lanterns being released into the night sky at once? Yeah, it's not really like that when you stay in Chiang Mai. If you want to see that, you find your way to this college outside the city, pay the tourist price because this isn't the real festival (they set up a separate festival, strictly for tourists, apart from the actual religious ceremony.) We decided to skip that because a) traffic is terrible and b) we wanted to stay where all the action was. So glad we did! </div>
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There were crazy parades multiple nights in a row, with magical glowing orbs floating above us like little golden stars. Thailand takes their parades very seriously, and even when it down-poured one night (like holy crap, tropical downpour), they still marched on like nothing was happening. </div>
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Also, there were lots of fireworks! Not like here in the US where things are set off by pro's and you just are a comfortable distance away. No, everybody and their bro were setting off firecrackers left and right. Attaching them to their lanterns (!!!) or just sending them into a crowd of people. So yes, watch your back! It was (a friendly) mayhem on the streets and it was AWESOME. </div>
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Sunday Night we went down to Tha Pae Gate for the night market and found the entire (giant!) street shut down for the biggest craft fair I've ever been to. So, we bought all the things. Quite the magical night strolling with hundreds of other people underneath a full moon and little golden orbs. Lots of food stalls set up (I found a strictly veg Pad Thai cart set up and another little cart with mini coconut pancakes that were adorable and quite nom-able) and lots of people-watching was had. After shopping our little hearts out, we walked down to the riverfront, where people were releasing their lanterns into the sky and their little flowered krathongs into the river. We released a lantern (harder than it looks in the wind!) and just wandered around soaking in all the festivities. It was nuts. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Everyone was watching a lantern that had gotten stuck in a tree and had caught on fire. This happened a lot and no one seemed to care? The fire eventually tapered out, but I was generally feeling a bit anxious every time I saw it happen. </span></td></tr>
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One of my most favorite things that we did the entire trip, was take a cooking class at <a href="https://www.maykaidee.com/cooking-school">May Kaidee's</a>. Seriously, this was so informative, fun, DELICIOUS, and made me so excited. May Kaidee's has two locations, one in Bangkok and one in Chiang Mai. Our class was made up of nine adults and two little kids (one was a baby, and the other kid was around 3-4 yrs old.) Half of the class was from Holland and half was from the U.S. We all donned our aprons and went through eight different dishes, taking time to eat and enjoy each one after cooking it. It was so great. We were each setup at a wok, sharing it with one other person (so, Nik and I were together,) and they would demonstrate the recipe first, and then we would make it ourselves. We would switch places at each dish, so that one person would be assisting with ingredients and reading the recipe, and the other would be in control of the wok. We made Tom Yam soup, veg stir fry, Pad Thai, Massaman Curry, Green Curry, Fresh spring rolls, Som Tam, and Mango with black sticky rice. So, all the favorites! The class lasts the whole morning (or afternoon, if you choose that time slot,) and fills you up! Everything was vegan, except you had the option to put an egg in your Pad Thai, if you were vegetarian. </div>
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I've already made a few curries and some soup since I've been back and I looooove how confident the class made me feel in making some very basic dishes. Very much looking forward to expanding on Thai cooking this year...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nik shredding the young Papaya to make Som Tam, or spicy papaya salad</td></tr>
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-23866180267257590942014-01-15T10:00:00.000-05:002014-01-15T15:54:43.147-05:00Honeymooning: Bangkok, Thailand Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nik and I arrived at the Grand Palace right when they opened, to beat the inevitable crowds and the scorching heat that gets worse as the day goes on. I thought I was super-prepared when it came to proper attire, but I definitely wasn't. I had on black jeggings, a short skirt over, and brought along a rather large scarf for my shoulders, but this was not enough and I ended up having to rent some clothes to be allowed to enter (you put a deposit down and it was returned to you in full at the end of your visit, so it wasn't the end of the world.) So! Don't wear "tight pants" and a scarf to cover your shoulders does not cut it if you are planning a visit here; they are super-strict!</div>
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We were lucky enough to have an overcast day, so the sun wasn't too much of a killer for us, but it was very crowded (I was pretty good at NOT including people in my photos.) Walking around with our mouths gaping open and taking in the old temples took most of the morning into the afternoon. There is so much detail in every single surface area here, but I found it pretty interesting that they regularly paint/refurbish every single thing. We came upon many workers painstakingly touching up old murals or applying stencils on ceilings and columns. Weird! I guess I thought everything would just be preserved as is...</div>
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Anyways, the Grand Palace lived up to it's hype and was one of my favorite sights that we saw on our trip! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Loved these murals, but I was the only that did apparently! There was never anyone checking them out and they were all over the place. The art history lover in my geeked out over them.</td></tr>
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After we finished walking around the Grand Palace, we moseyed over to <a href="http://www.watpho.com/index.php?lang=en">Wat Pho</a>, or the Reclining Buddha, which is pretty close by. The giant Reclining Buddha was cool, I guess, but you spent the majority of the time fighting other tourists to stand in the few spots where you can get a good photo. So, a little annoying! But, I LOVED the rest of this site. Everyone pretty much comes to see the Reclining Buddha, and then books it outta there, but Nik and I wandered around for a long time and were pretty much on our own. And in a crowded city like Bangkok, that was pretty golden. I kinda loved how the grounds of this place were not as pristine as the Grand Palace, and had more of a run-down ancient feel to them. We enjoyed the silence and the little hidden corners and temples we kept stumbling upon. So glad we explored the rest of this area. </div>
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So that was a big blog break, yeah? I guess I needed it! Hope your new year is going swell so far; Mine has been BUSY! I thought I would kick off the blog-silence by showing you some of my recent trip photos from Thailand. Yeah, Thailand! Nik and I finally took our much-awaited honeymoon this past November, and spent two weeks in the amazing/beautiful/overwhelming/smelly/hard-to-describe-but-easy-to-love country of Thailand. We flew into Bangkok (after a brief layover in Qatar), to kickstart the trip, and then moved onto Chiang Mai to join in the celebration of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_Krathong">Loi Krathong and Yi Peng</a>, and then relaxed on the island of Koh Lipe (though it rained almost the entire time...). I'm going to split these photos up into different posts, because I literally took about 500 photos while I was there, and it was a teensy bit hard to narrow it down to one post!</div>
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Anyways! Bangkok! We stayed off the beaten track a bit of the Khao San Rd. area (thankfully, as neither of us were really too fond of the super-touristy road.) We stayed at <a href="http://www.nouvocityhotel.com/">Nuevo City Hotel</a>, which was AWESOME. Seriously, they were so nice and helpful, and it was just a really clean, modern hotel. It was pretty much required that we would get up early to go sight-see, before the heat became too unbearable, and then we would give up and come hang by the rooftop pool in the afternoon, before going out again at night. Excellent! </div>
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Bangkok was hard to wrap our heads around at first. It's crowded and it's smelly and there was just SO MUCH, but I loved it and we definitely found our stride by the end of the trip. I'm glad we stayed closer to the Old City area, since traffic was pretty much impossible in this city, and the majority of the things that we wanted to see/do were centered around there. We went to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palace">Grand Palace</a>, took a cooking class at <a href="http://maykaidee.com/">May Kaidee'</a>s (AMAZING, more on that later!), went to a few crazy malls (and by crazy, I definitely mean crazy), ate a lot of food, went into many many temples, walked pretty much all over, took a few exhausting cab rides, tried out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_rickshaw">tuk-tuk's</a>, went to a <a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/siriraj-medical-museum">creepy medical museum</a>, and so much more. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">Thank you so much for reading this year, during this daily project. It's been fun and challenging and I'm oh so glad that I did it. I drew animals I had never heard of before and probably wouldn't have drawn, and it has made me a better illustrator because of it. Hopefully someday I can gather everything into some sort of published book that I can be proud of. I don't plan on doing another 365 project this year, but I am really excited to spend more of my time on more detailed illustrations. I plan to work on some bigger pieces each month and I'm psyched to share more as these progress!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">365 Days of Animals</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">364: Zebu</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">Pen/Ink/Digital</span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-65524840917075312932013-12-29T16:15:00.002-05:002013-12-29T16:15:44.573-05:00363: Zebroid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For real...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">365 Days of Animals</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">363: Zebroid</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">Pen/Ink/Digital</span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-60750688529723207832013-12-29T16:14:00.001-05:002013-12-29T16:14:29.974-05:00362: Zebra Heliconian Butterfly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">Pretty!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">365 Days of Animals</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">362: Zebra Heliconian Butterfly</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">Pen/Ink/Digital</span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-3603796124832968382013-12-27T12:58:00.002-05:002013-12-27T12:58:37.188-05:00361: Zebra Finch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cute little cheeks!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">365 Days of Animals</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">361: Zebra Finch</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">Pen/Ink/Digital</span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208305300628570724.post-64040975047614691102013-12-27T12:57:00.001-05:002013-12-27T12:57:39.924-05:00360: Zebra<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Love that each zebra has their own unique stripes, like a fingerprint.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">365 Days of Animals</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">360: Zebra</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20.796875px;">Pen/Ink/Digital</span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08270329884794498022noreply@blogger.com1