Banquet Journal

tattoo envelopes

number one priority around here the last few days has been valentines, and the 49 cards that need to be made for the kids' classmates. of course we were using our amazing valentine's tattoos (snak...

bats

still playing with the black paper, this time making bat crowns, as the four (!) and the six are totally obsessed with the upcoming night of fright...

egyptology

love love love these painted banners hanging at the school...

new tattoos!

new tattoos in the shop today - totally different this time around. we played with scale and colour and the results are vibrant and fairly spectacular. i know for a fact that folks of all sizes hav...

glow in the dark bowling

awesome. potato chips never looked so good. except maybe here.

mask making

rainy day + two three year olds + cardboard + felts + old magazines + gluestick + scissors + string = one bad guy villain mask and one butterfly princess mask

the lumberjack zebra cake

tammy made some cake wizardry happen this weekend:  a lumberjack zebra cake had been requested, and she totally pulled it off.

Burrowing Animals

of all the work i do for banquet, the thing i love most are creating these science and nature themed prints. i love the drawing part, and trying to reduce something like a mole to a simple silhoue...

meeru & vikram

maybe because it's SO DARK OUT,* but what i mostly want to eat is indian food, specifically from these two books.** last night we took our leftovers and rolled them burrito style in a whole wheat ...

notebooks and back to school

big week for us here; the five starts kindergarten, and the two-fer preschool, never mind notebooks up in the shop... woo hoo!