Last night a 10′ tall caryatid sculpture was stolen from in front of Blue Genie Art’s warehouse on the eastside between 1-6am. If you see or have any info the BGA boys would appreciate any help in getting it back. Their contact info is here http://bluegenieart.com/contact-us/.
Flower Pins
Ian Shults at Wally Workman Gallery
Went to an art opening for Ian Shults’ new work, Party Animals last night at Wally Workman gallery. Continue reading Ian Shults at Wally Workman Gallery
Die cutting and stitching for hire!
Sewed up 18 yards (three 18 foot by 54″ pieces?) pieces of super deep shag fake fur. Rockin’ out cuts on my die-cutting press (message me if you need things cut or dies made.) Constructing rainbow dragon wings for parade club (HonkTX is March 22!) Fun projects this time of year. Continue reading Die cutting and stitching for hire!
Blue Genie featured in Sign Builder
Blue Genie Art was featured in an article about dimensional signage as art in Sign Builder Illustrated! Continue reading Blue Genie featured in Sign Builder
Japanese eggplant recipes
Was just talking about eggplant recipes with a friend and thought I’d post them here as well.
If sodium is a consideration they do sell lower sodium lite soy sauce and miso paste.
Easy eggplant and cucumber pickles my aunt taught me
(good as a side veggie with a rice dish)
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Slice eggplant into 4-5mm disks. Salt eggplant. Mix marinade in a baggie or container: 3 TBSP soy sauce, 3 TBSP vinegar (preferably rice wine vinegar), a little sugar. Marinate eggplant in refrigerator for 2-3 hours, shaking occasionally.
If desired, serve slices with a little hot chinese mustard.
Cucumber pickles: Long thin japanese cukes work best but I’ve used regular or english cucumbers as well
Mostly peel cucumber, cut into 3″ lengths, then lengthwise into quarters. Mix marinade as above, but add a couple of shakes of sesame oil.
Marinate in refrigerator 2-3 hours, shaking occasionally.
Continue reading Japanese eggplant recipes
Mini succulents garden
My son started a mini succulent garden at our friends‘ holiday party (terrarium and ornament-building stations for the kiddos = genius!), transferred to a Chris Levack olive dish it looks nice, doesn’t it? Concrete counter and tiles are by Eric Billig.
Blue Genie Art Bazaar!
The Blue Genie Art Bazaar is open today until 10pm and tomorrow Christmas Eve from 10am until 6pm for last-minute Santa-shopping in all price range. Give the gift of handmade (or to yourself!) and support local artists and craftspeople.
Admission is always free, plenty of free parking, bar and snacks on-site.
Marchesa Hall at Lincoln Village (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)
Lego build tray project
I am making some DIY lego build trays, inspired by this tutorial I found via pinterest (my lego pinterest board is here.) Instead of building the wooden framed board in the tutorial, I ordered 2 plastic handled trays in white, 2 10″ x 10″ plates, and a set from BrikTek that are supposed to be cross compatible. Judging by the measurements given in the Amazon listing, both trays should fit within the framed area of our Ikea Latt kiddo table, and the plates should fit within the tray area. We’ll see how accurate their measurements are…
Edited 1/25/13: I bought additional pieces at the lego store and was going to glue the boards together when hubby took over the project (he had the liquid nails adhesive at his studio.)
He cut the green plates on the bandf saw before gluing, and some of the gray small plates I bought so the final configuration was:
Rebranding as Nakatsu by JNA Designs
I’ve rebranded as Nakatsu and can be found now at the url nakatsudesign.com. All of the jnadesigns.com stuff still works as I’m switching over, but I think the new name suits the range of what I do much better, and is a welcome fresh start. Thanks for sticking with me!
Happy holidays, and hope your 2013 rocks even harder than 2012 did.
xo
jna