project catchup

i realized a lot of my projects never made it here. please excuse any repeats.







red, white, black are kalie's wedding colors!



first 3D tote!



after months and months, i was finally inspired to make myself a tote. i was waiting so long for this! his name is 'allen'.



rock candy takes a lot longer to grow than we thought.





pediatric cupcakes for elizabeth's birthday!





happy chicken = free range + halal (happy in life and death!)





more pediatric cupcakes for patricia and kalie's birthdays!

dress!

i was shadowing an anesthetist today, and the female surgeon in the OR had on a scrub material dress! cool!

crafts

new bike!

birthday card, etc.

my roommate's birthday is tomorrow and this card is waiting for her on the kitchen table!



we also had a party on friday, which involved funfetti cupcakes and a peaches+cookies+cream ice cream cake and bowling! (desserts made by me of course.)

i am a ridiculously bad bowler, but i look SUPER speedy in this picture!

projects...

i haven't posted in a while. since, i've been super crafty!

starting with halloween ('08), i convinced my roommate to dress up as "things that are striped" after being inspired to wear ribbon!! she went as a zebra and i as a busy bumble bee! i wore a black shirt and pinned yellow ribbon all around me. too bad you cannot see my wings in this picture. miraculously, they turned out quite like insect wings, wire frame, white plastic bag body, and kind of tear-drop-shaped and turned down.



next i tried to think of something cute and practical to give my friends for christmas.




blank canvas totes with felt cutouts, sewed on by embroidery floss. all, of course, signed by me!



but maybe the best part of christmas was that i embroidered our stockings!




and then, after my first experience with an advent calender, it was off to winter break! i couldn't believe i had finished a semester of med school, 1/4 of our classes before step 1 of the boards. it had been a productive semester (wrt to projects anyway).

after the initial bento making burst, i had not kept up the lunches like i thought i might. right before break, i went to an asian grocery store and found some rice molds and veggie cutters! my second semester lunches don't quite live up to first semester, but i've been doing some interesting things with meatballs. [turkey+tofu+celery or turkey+tofu+bittermelon or turkey+tofu+eggplant or turkey+canned pumpkin (my favorite)]



finally, last thursday, i went to school for 8am class, but was 5 minutes late. so...i just decided to skip the whole day. i built a layout (and designed the logo!) for pnc's new newsletter!



then the second half of my day i made a birthday card for albert with all the extra felt i still have.



my roommate (the zebra) and i topped the day off with a grocery trip. it was the perfect day.

10/27/08 lunch

10/21/08 lunch

10/20/08 lunch

omg i've seriously outdone myself.

10/19/08 lunch

first earring hanger

omg i found this, which, i think is the only picture of my first earring hanger!

10/18/08 dinner

second bento.

hello kitty doesn't quite look like hello kitty, but i'll try to improve next time. i think the problem is all the face stuff is too high up. she actually should have a much larger forehead. and also the whiskers are too in the middle of her head. i should get props for the shape of her head though! not perfect, but hand formed! other people have hello kitty head molds for their rice. one problem was that the carrots for her bow did not stick well, so i'll have to think of a solution for either sticking them better, or use something other than carrots.



i also fried up a little stack of <3-shaped eggs to prepare for future lunches. i am getting really good at making these eggs!!

my first bento: 10/18/08 lunch

and hopefully more to come!

<3-shaped egg

today i was eating lunch and this boy in my class had a really cute lunch, which reminded me, i need to make cute lunches. this is also part of enjoying the small pleasures of life! i spent the afternoon looking up cute bento creations online, but realized i'd have to set my goals a little lower due to time and equipment and budget constraints. then i remembered...

when i was in the netherlands, i think this was in rotterdam, i bought a cute little heart-shaped frying pan! to make heart-shaped eggs and pancakes! so tonight i broke it out!

the first attempt looked so cute in the pan...



but when i tried to flip the egg, it didn't really look heart-shaped anymore. for the second attempt i whipped the egg before hand, and only used 2/3 of the egg...



but i think the heart-shapedness of this egg is still questionable. finally, for the third attempt, i just used the last 1/3 of the previously whipped egg...



i think it is definitely a <3-shaped egg!

being a doctor might be a miserable existence...

i'm starting to realize that being a doctor might be a miserable existence... BUT, i've also learned to enjoy life's small pleasures! here's a summary:

1. after anatomy finished at the beginning of october, i took out my cute sheets and blankets again!

2. then i was shopping at walmart (which i love to do b/c i feel like everyone hates walmart (b/c they are stupid and pretentious) and i just feel bad for it) and came across some awesome supplies and realized i needed to bring back the earring hanger! i had made one in my dorm room at mit, but the one i built last week (pictured below) is, without a doubt, AMAZING.



3. last week i started using my qoo lunch box and this week i started using my small hello kitty tote that is just about the size of a lunch for my...lunch!

4. tonight i rediscovered some cute pins i have!

5. and tonight i finally took pictures of the highlights of my CUTE room! photo-tour of my room begins here.

6. finally, since my last post, i've gone to some pretty good music! a couple weeks ago i went to see thee oh sees at the turf club. they were pretty good, but i REALLY liked one of the opening bands, skoal kodiak (who are local!). turns out turf club is a pretty great venue; they have a smaller stage downstairs and had a band (they were pretty good but i have no idea who they were) going while the upstairs was setting up between bands, which is pretty awesome for someone like me who was again alone and awkard at the show. i also think i like gay beast (also local), but have not seen them yet. AND! on tuesday i went to DEERHOOF! which confirms my theory that only asians can do cute. anyway, it was an amazing show.