Stuff I've made lately.

1. Triple Berry Cobbler. Recipe HERE. I used raspberries, blackberries , strawberries.

T-shirts Gocco Printed using my 6 year old nephews design. He cut the little heart shape with a spiral cut into it all on his own. It was so adorable that my sister-in-law decided to turn the design into shirts! We had a fun night printing. Love how they turned out.

More food! Puffy Oven Pancakes, also known as panakuken.

I made the apple variation:

2 Tbsp butter
2 large eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup milk
1/4 tsp salt
lemon juice and powdered sugar

1.heat oven to 400. melt butter in pie plate in oven and brush butter on side of pie plate.

2. Sprinkle 2 tbsp packed brown sugar and 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon evenly over melted butter in pie plate. Arrange 1 cup thinly sliced peeled baking apples (1 medium) over the sugar.

3. beat eggs slightly in medium bowl w/ wire whisk. Beat in remaining ingredients except lemon juice/powdered sugar.

4. Pour batter over apples. Bake 30-35 minutes. Immediately loosen edge of pancake and turn upside down onto heatproof serving plate.

Serve immediately sprinkled with lemon juice and powdered sugar if desired.

---or omit step 2 and cut baking time by 5-10 minutes to make this without apples

Gocco on wood.

raining in my heart print on maple wood veneer
Originally uploaded by space oddities

I decided to experiment with printing on wood veneer last night. I stopped by a specialty wood store and found this pretty maple wood veneer and then gocco printed Chad's "raining in my heart" illustration on it. The prints turned out really crisp. We already have one sitting on our mantle and it's so pretty.

While I was at the wood store I was also convinced to take a class to learn how to build an acoustic guitar (it didn't take much convincing.) I have no idea when I will have the time or money to do this but it is officially on my list of things to learn!

xo
andrea

Where do I begin?

First off, the cable for my camera has been missing since we moved over a month ago. Now that I finally have a way to upload photos, I have a ton to show you! Time to catch up!!

We moved at the beginning of May. Our lease was going to be up at our duplex and we were dreading the idea of continuing to rent. All of the great incentives for first time home buyers along with a lot of encouragement from my family made us decide to go ahead and buy. We found a great townhouse style condo in Verona, just on the edge of Madison/Verona and actually even a little closer to work than we were before. Here are a few photos.

We have a lot of work to do to get the place the way we want it. Nothing huge - just lots of small projects. A few big ones, I guess. I will be happy just to finish painting the living room. The pink/aqua dining room makes me happy. It's really hard for me to not paint EVERYthing that color.

Moving on: Gratuitous photos of my kids:

We've been having so much fun this spring. We've visited Wisconsin Dells a couple of times - once for a couple days at Kalahari (they LOVED the waterpark) and once for a day trip to visit friends and Robot World (I don't care if it's called Tommy Bartlett Exploratory now...I'm still calling it Robot World.) We have been spending lots of time outside - bikes, parks, water fights, parades, fireworks, hikes, zoo, picnics, walks to the library and everywhere else - I so love this nice weather. Chad has been absolutely wearing the kids out during the days. It's great! :)

Oh! Our CSA shares started last week. Here is a photo of our first box. Lots of greens! Big salads at the Thorson household this week. Week 2 was about the same except they added some chives to the mix. YUM. I can't wait for berries. Lars can't wait for broccoli. :)










Finally, we haven't been making a lot of new things just yet but we have ideas brewing. I have been working on an art journal project just for fun. Chad and I have been coming up with some ideas for new post cards and possibly shirts. As soon as I can carve out a bit of time to make these ideas reality, we'll have some new things to show you! In the meantime, I have been adding a few new things here and there into my etsy shop and have listed some oldies but goodies as well. I also started a facebook page for Space Oddities - you can visit us and become a fan by clicking HERE!

xo
andrea

art journal fun

I'm participating in an art journal swap that Laura
is organizing on Facebook. Each person will choose a theme and start their book before passing it on to the next person. I'm super excited about this project! It's probably not a huge surprise to you that theme I chose is: love notes. I am addicted to valentines and love text in my work so there you have it. Here are the first few pages of my book.

















I'm planning to bring it to Anthology this weekend for Laura to add to and pass on. Yay!

recycled book cover magnets and a THANK YOU!

First, a huge thank you to my wonderful, loyal customers, some who have put up with many weeks of confusion and some delay while my family moved. I have finally gotten back into the swing of things. Thanks for all of the well wishes and patience with custom orders.

I spent my first night in weeks crafting tonight! I found a goldmine of old books/book covers and cut tons of great images from old national geographic magazines. The ones pictured here are all from old Lord of the Rings/Tolkien books and some will be available in my shop soon. I will have lots of other new magnets listed this week as well! Sleazy seventies, fifties sci-fi, lots more.





























I have had a insanely busy (but great!) week and I'm so glad to be home. I'm even happier that I forced myself to find time to make something new! I feel a creative kick coming on. Life is good.


xo
andrea

Please Standby

Just checking in to say hello! I have been very detached from everything that doesn't involve packing, moving, painting, cleaning and calling various utilities and insurances, etcetera these days. We are moved in our new place and have a long way to go before we'll feel settled. But we love it! The kids adore having their own rooms, all of the neighbors seem fantastic so far and I don't even mind the smaller kitchen, especially since the trade off is much bigger bedrooms and a full basement. Yay!

I plan to re-open my etsy shop next week and hope to begin taking custom orders again early in June.

Hope all is well in your world!
xo
andrea

A good mail day

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Originally uploaded by space oddities

I was super thrilled to find a mailbox full of goodies when I got home from work yesterday! There was a facebook thing going around where you sign up to make something for 5 people/and can sign up to have people make something for you. I was lucky enough to snag a spot to have Laura AND Emily make something for me. So yesterday SURPRISE! I received this amazing collage made by Laura. It's perfect! I especially love the silly text and the birds. I asked Lars what he thought of the collage when we opened it yesterday and he said "It's pretty mama, I like the birds. Are they flying with me?" and Jette said "It's baby Jette and her brother?" So sweet. This will have a special place on the walls of our new home!



I also received this awesome cupcake trivet made by Emily.






















She said this is the first one she's made and is going to be introducing them into her line. Isn't it perfect? This will also have a special place in our kitchen when we move. So exicted! If you have to have one of your own you can take a look at Emily's shop.

In addition to all of the great handmade goodies I ALSO got a car adapter for my MP3 player from my dear friend Jessi in the mail yesterday. Now I can listen to all of my favorite music in the car. Excellent! Thanks Jessi!!

Well, I have not made anything new lately. I will probably be the last one to MAKE stuff for the facebook making stuff deal and I haven't made anything new for my etsy shop for weeks. Chad and I have been working on cleaning out our garage and packing so that we can hopefully rent our place ASAP and save on a couple months of extra rent. As long as everything goes smoothly we are moving in just 3 weeks!

It's looking gorgeous outside today and it sounds like it's going to be beautiful outside the next few days. Chad and I plan to take the kids bright and early to the first day of the famer's market downtown on Saturday. No, we are not vending…we decided to give it another year since we anticipated this spring/summer to be a busy one with our move. But we loooove the market…so we'll see you there!

xo
andrea