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These posters came from a competition “What is graphic design poster competition” you can see many of the posters in the Flickr group. I really like how you can interpret the definition of design in so many different ways.

Hello everyone! I know it has been quite the hiatus for posts recently. Work has been unbelievably busy and draining leaving me utterly exhausted by the end of the day. But here are some wonderful farmers market photos taken by my sister at the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market. All of these photos are available for purchase on her Etsy shop Creative Recovery

Via Aviva Maltin

Via Share Some Candy

Via Soup.io

Via The Debonaire

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Via Yummy Fresh Grain

Via Live Winsor

Via Charles Anastase

Via Girl Hula

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Via Gutenberg

Via The Love Shop

I love packaging and I love pets. These bring both of those together in a fun and kitschy way. The boutique pet market is huge, and even seeing these great packages makes me want to go out and buy these products for my kitties or doggy nephews. (I know again I am crazy) All this wonderful packaging can be seen on The Dieline website.

So fun and colorful, the illustrations are great and the color palette has
a retro feel to it that I just love.

I love when pet treats are treated in a high-end gourmet way.
Gives some dignity and refinement to feeding time.

These would be great to use for cleaning the litter box,
practical and would look great sitting on the shelf.

These are just so pretty, I love the natural look and that bags
are recycled and use natural inks. Perfect for the birds.

Now giving your pet special peanut butter water is a little over the top even
for me but the brown and orange color with the white looks great.

Poopy bags! These are so great, and practical, everyone has to use bags to
clean up their pooches messes so why not get some humor out of them.

These are so pretty, and gourmet. I love the water color illustrations.

I have been eying this litter box for over a year now.  It is so slick and modern,
it is minimal has great design and cats have even more privacy than ever before.

Candied Bacon Chocolate Chunk Cookies! That’s right bacon, everything is better with bacon especially chocolate chunk cookies. I made these last week to send to my boyfriend for his birthday, he is away on location for the winter. So I wanted to make him a special treat and what better way to do that than with a chocolatey bacon dessert. These were very easy to make and I would highly recommend that to anyone bacon lover or not. The bacon flavor was very subtle and had more of a salty sweet flavor. Below is the recipe and some shots of the baking process.

Candied Bacon-Chocolate Chunk Cookies
adapted from The Great Book of Chocolate

Ingredients:

1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup semisweet chocolate chunks (Chips are fine.)
1 cup Candied Bacon Bits (recipe follows)

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 325F. Line three baking sheets with a Silpat liner or parchment paper.

2.  Beat the sugars and butter together until smooth. Mix in the egg, vanilla, and baking soda.  Whisk together the flour and salt, then sift them into the batter.  Stir in the chocolate chunks and bacon bits.

3. Using a small cookie scoop or a teaspoon, scoop the cookie dough into small balls, about 1-inch in diameter, and place them 2 inches apart on each of the baking sheets.

4.  Bake for 14-16 minutes, or until pale golden brown. Rotate sheets halfway through baking for even browning. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.

The cookies can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for 3-4 days, if they last that long!

Makes about 3 dozen 2-inch cookies.

Candied Bacon Bits
adapted from David Lebovitz

Ingredients:

8 strips bacon
1/2 cup light brown sugar

Directions:

1.  Preheat oven to 400F.

2. Lay the strips of bacon on a baking sheet lined with a silicone mat or aluminum foil, shiny side down.

3. Sprinkle half of the brown sugar evenly over each strip of bacon.

4. Bake for about 15 minutes. Midway during baking, flip the bacon strips over and drag them through the dark, syrupy liquid that’s collected on the baking sheet.  Add the rest of the brown sugar and continue to bake until a deep mahogany color. Remove from oven and cool the strips on a wire rack.

5. Once crisp and cooled, chop into little pieces, about the size of grains of rice.