Filed under: collaboration, food, holiday by ramune

First off I would like it to be known that this post is brought to you from my lappy on the Bolt Bus somewhere on I-95 in Jersey. The Bolt Bus is the best thing since sliced bread. Prices start out at $1 a ride between DC and NY and they have free wifi! Insanity! I haven’t seen the pigs flying out my window yet, but I am keeping an eye out.

As promised, here are photos from this year’s margučiai (Lithuanian Easter eggs). Unfortunately this year was a bit rushed and I did not get to spend all day and night on them as I usually do. My sister, brother and I started a new “tradition” (we’ll see if we do it next year) of doing an exquisite corpse Easter egg between the three of us. We each started with one egg, would put a design on it, and then put the egg in a dye. Then the next person would add to the design and so on until each of us had worked on each egg. The bottom margučiai on this page are from that little experiment.

My signature Easter egg . . . a ramune (wild daisy)

Another egg

Another egg

Exquisite Corpse #1 – Collaboration between my sister, brother and me

Exquisite Corpse #2 – Collaboration between my sister, brother and me

Filed under: baking, favorites, food, holiday, process by ramune

Although I am not particularly religious, Easter is a big deal to me and my family. We have a load of Lithuanian traditions that I love. Two of my favorites are how we decorate our Easter eggs (that’s Project #22) and making Grybai, Lithuanian mushroom cookies. When I say mushroom cookies I mean they look like mushrooms . . . there are no actual mushrooms in the recipe.

This past weekend I baked the Grybai with my mother’s help and today I finished them off by frosting them. I documented the process and posted a bundle of photos in an Easter album on my Flickr site. Below are just a handful. You may notice my supervisor in a few shots (hint: frosting the stems).

Mixing up the dough

Rolling out the stems

Making the caps

Frosting the stems and dipping them in poppyseeds

The final product . . .

Filed under: design by ramune

Greetings! As I promised, here is the second creative project for the week (since I neglected to post one last week). This is also part 2 of the Cabbage post from January. I worked on two of the logo sketches for Rusty Cabbages this week and I am having a hard time deciding what to go with. Please leave comments on these and let me know which is your favorite and if you have any ideas on how I could improve them (I am mostly thinking about color at this point). Once I get this settled I am going to create a shop on Etsy to sell what is left in the Pilkasiulas “warehouse” and then hopefully start making new things to sell. Thanks for your comments!

Version 1 Color Options

Version 1 Color Options

Filed under: doodle by ramune

I have officially missed a week. To make up for it I will do two creative projects this week, one today and another in a day or so.

This week’s project is another doodle. As I was going to bed the other night I had an image pop into my head of a character with a massive head. I have learned that if I don’t at least sketch something out as soon as I think of it, I will forget it. Here are two versions of the character. I can’t decide which I like better. Thoughts?

Version 1

Version 2