Foodie Photos

So here are some fun previews from the www.how2heroes.com photo collection--shot over the last 3-4 weeks at various homes and restaurants in the Boston area. Check out the homepage for recipes, techniques, and tips for great holiday and year-long classics! Oh, and for the photos too...

Lolo's Wild Rice recipe, WITH BACON. When this recipe hits, you'll love Bacon even more. I promise. Tess made this for us and we cleaned the plate.

This was on today's shoot: homemade vanilla infused vodka. We watched each step for making your own super fancy vodka in beautiful mason jars--makes some great gift ideas. The house was amazing too!

My first shoot! These are Chinese Tea Eggs, hard-boiled and soaked in tea and soy sauce. It gives the most BEAUTIFUL marbled look on the eggs, as well as the shells.

Feeling fancy? This dish was from Charles Street, a tea and brined duck with fruity garnishes. It smelled amazing, looked delicious, and the restaurant itself was wonderful.

Also from today's shoot, and one of my new favorite photos. This is also a homemade vodka, but made with espresso (takes considerably less time than the other infusions).

Drink Invitational Cards

So I've been working on some correspondence cards for myself/Lime Tree Cove that would be fun and cute and these are the first actual prototypes! Little watercolor splashes of color with photo edits overlayed in Adobe Photoshop, printed onto Linen folding cards (each card is about 3.5" x 4.875" when folded) with a hint of glitter rimming the glass.

The Green Margarita, which will have a drink recipe on the inside left fold, titled "The Passion Margarita" from various recipes found online.

The Pink Margarita, which will also have a recipe titled, "Pink & Fruity".

I'd really like to know why my printer had such issues with printing these...I have a small handful of very nice, although a bit off center, "seconds".

Lime Tree Cove

So I'm working with Lime Tree Cove to create some awesome packaging and design work for their product 'The Barmaid' and its related products, like flavor kits. I just thought it would be nice to post some of the patterns and packaging kits here. They can also be seen on my website. All 5 coming soon!

These are all of the packaging patterns for all 5 flavors. There is also a combo pack, but the pattern is just all of these flavors combined into one pattern.

Perhaps my favorite flavor AND packaging. This is the packaging for the flavor pack "fresh lemon", along with a proposed custom pattern for the Barmaid itself, which we may try to figure out how to do, depending on peoples' opinions.

The second flavor, "coco berry", which works wonders for Chocolate Martinis and winter drinks. Here is where you can see I've proposed to color the inside of the packaging (pink in this flavor's case) for an added glow.

More soon!