Homemade Pasta!

Nik and I received a KitchenAid Stand Mixer with the pasta-making attachments as a very super-generous wedding gift (I do have some posts about my wedding last month coming up in the next week or so! Waiting for official photos!)  recently, so you can imagine my excitement to dig in and play around with them. I went simple for the first time, using Vegan Dad's recipe for homemade pasta, and it worked wonderfully. Seriously, this was so easy. I thought it would be this time-consuming thing that should only be reserved for Sunday dinners or special occasions, but no, this was way easy. I took my time and it was still under 45 minutes, prolly half hour now that I know what I'm doing. Woo! I don't have a pasta drying rack, so I just laid them out on a tea towel and that worked fine. So pretty! I made a simple lemon-garlic-butter sauce and lightly sautéed some asparagus and scallions to mix in. Delicious.

I can't wait to try some flavored pastas, like spinach or sun-dried tomato. And lasagna!

156: Longhorn Cowfish

What funny little alien-fish. I mean, big fish! They seem like they would be little...

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156: Longhorn Cowfish
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Father's Day Cards!

DRAGONS!

YETI! 

Father's Day is coming up (June 16th!) and I have a few new designs in the shop this year.  If you are within the U.S., order by the 8th to comfortably receive it in time.  (Last year's are in there too, if you fancy them more!)

xoxo,

Michelle

155: Lobster

Lobsters freak me out. It's the bite-y claws. In 4th grade science class, we each were assigned live crawfish, from the local lake, to observe or something, and mine always pinched me! I tended to let my partner do all the handling...

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155: Lobster
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154: Lion

Rawrr!

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154: Lion
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Weekend Snapshots

This weekend was a doozy in terms of heat and sun, but Nik and I were determined to not hibernate in the AC...so we took the longest walk ever instead!  Saturday was my 10-year anniversary of living in NYC. Like, WHOA. Ten years ago I moved here with a car-load of my things. I was dropped off in the deep Polish section of Greenpoint, Brooklyn to sublet a room with an acquaintance of mine, whom I barely knew.  No job, not much money in my bank account, no friends here, and absolutely no clue how to get around in NYC by myself. My new roommate went on a month-long work trip to China two days after I arrived, so I was completely and utterly alone in this foreign city. I took small walks around the neighborhood, learning my way around, and worked my way up to trying out the bus and the subway to explore different parts. I would camp out in coffee shops in Greenpoint and Williamsburg during the day, sketching and dreaming and scouring Craigslist for jobs.  I found a job finally, when I had $50 to my name, and it was the start of a long journey to where I am now. This neighborhood and the city has changed so much over the last decade, and has shaped who I am and what I do today. I don't know how much longer I will stay here, probably not that long at all, but I have been making it a point lately to try to enjoy it as much as possible in the now. Brooklyn love!

Thus, a very long walk! 7 miles according to my Moves app on my phone! These photos are taken from Manhattan, on the eastern park, looking out under the Williamsburg Bridge towards Brooklyn.

Bad instax snapshot. We are hot and sweaty, lovely!

153: Leopard

Leopards sleeping in trees is a fave google image search of mine. :)

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153: Leopard
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152: Lemur

I LOVE lemurs. I think it's the stripes.

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152: Lemur
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