The Dismemberment Plan

This is a clip from a Jimmy Fallon show on January 20th of this year. I discovered this band when I was living in Virginia in my very early twenties, and I've been listening to them ever since. Back in those days they were considered "underground". I actually had the opportunity to see them live at the East Coast Surfing Championship in Virginia Beach in 2002 I think. They broke up about 7 years ago, but tonight I found this video and I discovered that they're back together and touring!

Emergency &I is still one of my favorite albums.

Very cool!

New Painting

Lips Logo, originally uploaded by lbizzle78.

My take on the Rolling Stones lips logo.

I'm In Love

I've been wanting a light tent for a couple of years and thanks to my dad I finally have one! I am officially in love with it. It's so nice to take a picture and actually be happy with it without any post editing. Now I'm experimenting with everything I can think of that will fit in the tent. Let me know what you think!

 

Winter 2010

I'm afraid I've been a bit lax with my blog posts for the last couple of months. The holidays are always a crazy busy time of year for me, and while it can be overwhelming at times it's always worth it in the end. I won't bore you with all the details of every holiday party, dinner, and get-together we attended, but here are some pictures we took along the way.

The first big snow fall of the season:

Christmas decor:

The Gullett cousins on Christmas Eve:


Gifts!


One of the things I didn't get a picture of is the light tent I received from my dad. I used it to take pictures of my gifts and I'm really excited about how well the pictures turned out. I hope everyone else had a great holiday season as well!

Slave Drivers

This is my graphical representation of what inevitably happens whenever we invite our bass player Dan over to our house to "hang-out".

He ends up spending 4 or 5 hours laying down tracks for the album we're trying to finish. Sorry Dan!

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies!

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving!  We had lunch with John's family then went to my cousin's house to visit with my family. Being vegetarians we had to bypass the tryptophan-laden main courses and instead opted for all the yummy side dishes John's mom made for us such as mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and biscuits.

I've been on a bit of a baking spree this week, and for Thanksgiving I decided to make pumpkin whoopie pies.  I had never tasted these delectable treats before, but I have seen pictures and they always look delicious!  Again with the help of my mother's KitchenAid stand mixer I made this recipe from scratch.
The recipe supposedly made 12 pies, so I made a double batch thinking I would need enough for at least 20 people. Turns out everyone else had made a dessert as well, and not many people had room for these dense little pieces of heaven. They were good, but very filling! I think if I make them again I will stick to a single batch and use more frosting in the middle. They were fun to make, and they turned out so pretty! What did you make for your Thanksgiving feast?

Homemade Sugar Cookies

I received a set of 100 cookie cutters as a gift a while ago, and I am happy to say that I finally got around to using them for the first time tonight.  I made pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies from scratch!









I used a recipe I found on a blog called The Crafty Penguin.  My mom is letting me borrow her KitchenAid stand mixer until Christmas, which made the process soooo much easier than mixing the dough and the icing (also made from scratch) by hand.

I haven't tasted them yet as the icing has to dry first, so I have no idea if they will be any good.  I have never made iced sugar cookies before so I'm excited to try them!  I don't have much experience with food coloring, so the icing isn't quite the orange color I was hoping for, but I'm not worried about it as John and I will probably be the only ones to eat them.

I think for my next challenge I would like to try making vegan sugar cookies.  I found a recipe which sounds pretty yummy, but I'll have to learn how to work with vegan cream cheese and egg replacer.  I'll be sure to post pictures when I try it!