CaringBridge :: Featured Template

Very excited to share this with you -

My friend and old CaringBridge pod mate Caryn sent me this link earlier about one of my CaringBridge templates being a feature on a news story   Click the little video camera to watch the video. Here is a direct link to Shelia Davis's CaringBridge site: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/sheilatdavis/journal

 

Desi Delights :: Product and Packaging Assignment

Think of Betty Crocker... Make her Indian ... Now you've got Desi Delights

Think of Chocolate Chip cookie mix... Make it Savory Rice Pudding... Now you've got Payesh

Here is my first Product and Packaging assignment.

My absolute favorite Indian food Abhrajeet's family makes is Payesh, which is similar to rice pudding. I like mine with noodles instead of rice, and thicker rather than thinner.  This idea sprang to mind when Abhrajeet suggested I start learning how to cook Indian food from his Grandmother. Coming from a mid-western family where my mom thinks that Ketchup and Salt is the only spice needed, it's taken me a bit of time to get use to the Indian dishes made at Abhrajeet's house every night. When I first had Payesh I was so thrilled that it wasn't spicy I asked for seconds. 

This package ideally would be used for as a gift to give to culturally interested individuals so they can start learning how to cook Indian food and as an introduction to Indian spices. The paper I chose is Mulburry Bark and Banana Leaf paper to relate it culturally in both colors and in resources. The shape of each individualy wrapped package is taken from incents containers and allows everything to be stacked nicely in the box. 

Lots of different ideas with this project and I'm very happy with how it turned out. 

Can't wait for the second packaging assignment.

Sphinx Senior Society Website :: Abhrajeet

I just want to move the spotlight on Abhrajeet for a little bit, as humble as he is about this I would like to show him off :)
This summer Abhrajeet took up the task of helping me with my own website after having very little experience with web design and CSS. At the end of summer he began working on the University of Pennsylvania's Sphinx Senior Society new site.  I can't find the original URL but the new site is here: http://www.sphinxseniorsociety.com/

It amazes me that Abs can write code better than any of the multimedia students I know at Stout and has more to show in his portfolio too. Can anyone say change in major? Kidding. 


I think our new plan will be for me to design the sites and for him to code. Let us know if you're interested in a site... it's almost time to start paying off those student loans. 

6 years and counting...

Today is Abhrajeet and my 6th year anniversary.

6 years ago there was no squishing in. 6 years ago the biggest highlight of the day was if you came to school on time so I could see you for 5 minutes before the bell rant. 6 years ago there was no date nights or sushi or drinking beer at the zoo. 6 years ago neither of us had our drivers license. 6 years ago Arny was only 10 years old. 6 years ago we had no idea that New Years would happen, that we would graduate still dating each other, that I would go to Wisc and you would go to Penn, that we would be able to make a long distance work, that we would fall in love with Great Danes, that you would enjoy spending time fishing on the boat, that I would really like Indian food, that we would celebrate the Holidays four times with different family members and that we would be counting down the days until we're back in Minnesota. 6 years ago was a day I will never forget. Thanks for giving me your suit jacket to warm me up. Love you.