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Collecting Orange

Here's our collection today of the beautiful oranges that were uploaded to the Autumn Colour Week (flickr pool). So many ones to choose from, it was hard to just pick 4 lines. We are looking forward to the last two days, Brown (thursday) and Red (friday)!

Line 1: Chairs, girlhula; happy birthday biba!, Hyggelig happy; little chairs, vanessa e.; orange lids, Xanthe berkeley and welcome mat, Glitter Crisis.

Line 2: FOCA, Christopher Koelle; The Cabin Next Door, CWorrell; Kid ferry, Crownsquirrels; shelf, Something's Hiding in Here; and Colourfull Chard, Dalhaus.

Line 3: Alphabet Letterpress Greeting Cards, Hijirik; ink, jek in the box; tins, Mockduck; Everything will be OK by Michelle Cavigliano, My Zoetrope; and Ana Ventura, artstream gallery

Line 4: Letterpress Maple Leafs, Dingbat Press; Saffron, Stephanie Levy; Vintage Orange Crate Bellalulu Vintage; Knitalatte11; hazy days, Cre8tive outlet.

PICK A PECK OF PRETTY PICKLED PEPPERS

by Jeannette Ordas of Everybody likes Sandwiches

I'm attracted to bright, bold hits of colour. Pops of colour in my clothes, on my walls and definitely I love seeing colour on my plate. When I spotted these bright peppers at my local Chinatown market, I remembered seeing a great recipe in the September issue of Bon Appetit for pickled peppers. And because the writer was the always amazing Molly of Orangette, I knew they'd be good.

Oh boy, were they ever good! Crispy and crunchy and a tiny bit sweet with a whoa-baby! smack as the vinegar hits the back of your throat. I spent one recent evening just snacking on these right out of the mason jar, but the original recipe states that these would be great with cheese or topped on some pizza. And I'd bet they'd be fantastic on top of burgers, sandwiches or hot dogs.

Pretty Pickled Peppers
(Adapted from Molly Wizenberg in Bon Appetit)
4 large peppers (any colour), sliced into rounds with seeds removed
1 small onion or 2 large shallots, thinly sliced
2 c white wine vinegar
1/2 c + 1 T sugar
3 T water
1 T fresh thyme
2 large garlic cloves, thinly sliced
2 dried red hot peppers (or 1 t crushed red peppers)
1/2 t kosher salt

Add the sliced peppers and the shallots separated into rings into a large bowl. Set aside.

In a small pot, bring to a boil the vinegar, sugar, water thyme, garlic, hot dried peppers and salt together until the sugar and salt melt into the liquid. Pour the hot brine over the peppers and shallots and cover with plastic wrap until the liquid is cool .

Tightly stack the vegetables into a large quart-sized mason jar and pour the brine over top, making sure that all the vegetables are submerged. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours and up to 1o days.

Autumn Colour Week: Wednesday - Orange II

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Clockwise from the top: Vintage Bus Sign, Bellalulu; Letterpress Coasters, 12fifteen and collage print by Stephanie Levy.

inleaf design

Hijirik

Koelle Art

Something's Hiding In Here

Dingbat Press

Ben Floeter

Autumn Colour Week: Wednesday - Orange

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Wednesday is all about orange during our Autumn Colour Week and I'm looking forward to greeting the day with all the beautiful hues. I am running late here with my posts, so I will upload more of my orange picks later in the morning. In the meantime I leave you with this beautiful TTV fine art print by isphotography out of Quebec (where all the beautiful fall foliage is). Click here to see more orange images from our participants in our flickr pool! And feel free to upload your oranges too!

Uppercase No. 3

The latest issue of Uppercase Magazine is out this week ( October 1st) which is inspired by gentlemanly pursuits: woodworking, axe design, lutherie, bespoke suits, cycling and sailing. Many of the artists, designers and shops we have featured at Poppytalk, also are making the pages of this Canadian-based publication. So if you like Poppytalk, you probably will like the beautifully-designed, Uppercase. Read interviews with The Regional Assembly of Text, Geninne Zlatkis, along with articles from our very own contributer, Hulaseventy and San Francisco's Sfgirlbybay. Click here to preview the entire issue (for a limited time) and here to secure a copy.



Also, Uppercase is now accepting submissions for their November/December exhibition! The Confections show celebrates the fine art of candy packaging. They are inviting artists to illustrate and design their own wrappers. Come up with an irresistible cover for a novel treat or create a new design for an old favourite. The best designs will be featured in the winter issue of the magazine. Submit your artwork file via email info-at-uppercasegallery.ca (images should be at least 6 to 8 inches wide at 300dpi). Also accepting confections-inspired artwork and photography. Deadlines: October 23 (for inclusion in the exhibition) November 1, 2009 (for possible inclusion in the magazine)

Fresh from the Oven: Christine "Forever" Young

by Will Bryant

Brooklyn illustrator, Christine Young, is ace! She has a BFA in Illustration from the Parsons the New School of Design.

I love how she celebrates personality in line quality and figure drawing. Her work gets a giggle from me every time.
I think she needs her own line of tee shirts and then make versions for kittens & puppies to wear around.

Plus, Christine is soooper nice so you should probably like her a lot.

See more of Christine's work:

Portfolio

Flickr

Collecting Green

Another wonderful day of autumn colours, and we've collected a few "green" ones (from the Autumn Colour Week pool) to summarize the day. Thanks to everyone who participated again, the response has been wonderful! Please join us tomorrow again as we explore our next autumn colour, orange!

Line 1: Bottles, Daily Poetics; Collage, Daily Poetics; Green pumpkin, Oakmoss; Vintage truck, Artsy Mama and Knitalatte.

Line 2: Yummy & Company; Greenhouse by Fold; Television greeting card by Fold; Leslie Sophia; and The Grit by Monkey Puzzle Press.

Line 3: Sixaguilars; Green Tea card by Pink Bathtub Designs; Mayfly; Monogram Letterpress Notecards by Hijirik Studio; and The Dumpster Incident by Amy Greenan.

Line 4: Hens and Chickens, Futurowoman; A Gentle World by Futurowoman; Green tomatoes, Jo Stockton; Blackbird Print by 12fifteen and Lisa DeJohn at artstream

Autumn Colour Week: Tuesday - Green II

Ivory & mossvia Lily Jane Stationery

Vivienne Strauss

Mini Planter by Yummy and Company

sixaguilars

Above clockwise from top left: Coffee cup cozie by Wayside Violet; The Forest Cowl by Five Trees; Geranium Zip purse by inleaf; and Crown Sealer onesie from bespoke uprising.


Treatzone

Above clockwise: Ginkgo Biloba Necklace by Eikcam; Letterpress 30th Birthday card by a. favorite design; Desktop Bird by Quiet Animals; Paperguild Frame in green by Junky Heirloom.

Squirrel in the Attic


Charm School Dropout

There is a light... Chez-Sucre-Chez

Kimberly from Chez Sucre Chez has a new series of cross-stitch pieces up in her shop which we're betting Smiths fans are going to go bonkers over. She's taken a few of the band's lyrics and cross-stitched them in a script-y cursive font. Click here to see more along with the rest of her winter series.

Festive Pumpkins for Fall

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Love these pumpkin decorating ideas as seen on the Today Show this morning for all the pumpkin partying that's coming up soon! My favourites - the Christmas lights one and the mini-pumpkin wreath!

Autumn Colour Week: Tuesday - Green!

Continuing on with our Autumn Colour Week, today (Tuesday) we bring you all things "green" by starting off (above) with Matte Stephen's English Holiday print and below clockwise: Bicycles by arcanearts.etsy.com; WeSC Plaid Bongo Headphones; Notecard set from Treatzone. Please join us on our Autumn Colour week! Just blog or flickr your version of our scheduled colours for each day and upload them to our flickr group! Stay tuned for more green from us later today!

Leah Giberson

Where's Becky Bean

The Sparrow's Nest

Sycamore Street Press