Sweet paul

Pumpkin week, friday.

All good things must come to an end, and this is the last pumpkin posting this halloween.
Its been great fun to make these pumpkins and share them with all of you out there in blog world.
It could be fun to hear witch one was your favorite?
I have mine, but would love to hear yours.

I wanted to make a decopage pumpkin.
What I did was to copy old butterfly prints on my home printer.
Cut them out and glued them on the pumpkins with regular craft glue.
I really love this one, the green pumpkin looks like stone and looks so great with all the butterflies.
Colin Cooke shot all the pumpkins for me, thanks Colin.

I want to wish you all a happy halloween.

Pumpkin week, thursday.

Todays pumpkin is a little family scene from the forest.
Mommy and junior is having a yummy lunch while dad is on top of it all looking out for the hunters.
This is how you make this idyllic scene.
Cut a square hole in the centre of the pumpkin.
Scoop out all the seeds and stuff inside the pumpkin.
Cover the bottom of the pumpkin with moss.
In the front of the moss you stick in small trees.( mine are from a model shop here in NYC)
Put the dears in place and you are ready to go!
Photo by Colin Cooke.

Pumpkin week, wednesday.

Introducing the Fashionista pumpkins.
They have just stepped out of Michael Kors spring 2010 collection at New York fashion week.
(They thought it was a bit matchy matchy).
The girls are so happy with their new look, the new lipo have left them with just their heads, body are size -0.
So now they roll around on the upper east side.

These are so easy to make.
Cut out sunglasses and lips from fashion magazines and glue them on mini pumpkins with a hot glue gun.
The perfect little halloween gift to a fashionista, right?
Photo by Colin Cooke.

Pumpkin week, tuesday.

Todays pumpkin is inspired of the fashion designer Alexander Mc Queen.
He once made a whole body suit of studs.
I first wanted to cover the whole pumpkin with studs, but after finding out I would need about 1500 studs I just did one small part of it.
Just love the green color with the studs.
You will need one pumpkin and about 120 upholstery studs.
You just start pushing the studs in one by one until the whole part is covered.
The great part is that you can take the studs out and reuse them when pumpkin week is over.
Come back tomorrow to meet the Fashionistas pumpkins.
Photo by Colin Cooke.

Pumpkin week, monday.

Dear readers.
Im and very proud to give you the first ever "Sweet Paul's Pumpkin week".
Everyday until friday this week I will give you a new and fun pumpkin idea.
And I might even say that these are ideas I have never seen anywhere before.

The first pumpkin is inspired by my collection of vintage Louis Vuitton luggage.
But you can make it with whatever your favorite fashion brand is.
A Chanel pumpkin would be cool, or what about a Gucci one?
I used the new oil based pens from Sharpie.
its oil paint in a pen, really great stuff.
Waterproof, so you can place your fashion pumpkin outside.
I drew the pattern on by freehand and finished it of with a real LV luggage tag.
You can say its a homage to Louis himself!
Photo by Colin Cooke.

Crafty friday!

Its the party season and what do you do with that kid's table.
I used to hate kid's tables when I was a kid.
I wanted to be with the grown ups, I mean thats where the good conversations where and also the good food.
I always think you should serve the kids the same as you serve the adults.
Don't do the pizza and hot dog thing, give them real food.
Anyway, I came up with this kid's table for Country Living.
You just cover the surface with kraft paper and set out little pots of crayon to tic-tac-toe.
I stamped paper for place cards and used a marker to make place settings.
And the best thing is the cleanup after, just trow away the tablecloth.
Photo by Addie Juell
Have a fab weekend all.

AND BE BACK MONDAY FOR SWEET PAULS FIRST ANUAL PUMPKIN WEEK!!!!!!!!

SPAM!

Is it just my blog or are others as well getting a lot of spam comments?
Its such a waste of time.
Please stop!

On the lighter note, please check back on monday for Sweet Paul's first annual "pumpkin week."
I will give you a new and fun pumpkin craft project every day.
It will be pumpkinmania.

Hellman's mayo.

I did the food styling for some images for Hellman's a few weeks ago.
I really liked this dessert witch has a dash of a mixture of mayo, cream, sugar and cinnamon.
Sounds gross, but it was really good.
Photo by Don Penny.

Recipe monday

If you have been following this blog you will know by now that Im such a chocolate junkie.
I mean, is there anything better in the world then chocolate?
I don't think so.
But it has to be good chocolate, and yes, there is a difference.
Low quality chocolate leave this waxy feeling in your moth, while good quality stuff just melts and leave nothing but pure happiness.
So always spend a little extra if you can.
And make this tart please.
Your mouth will thank you!

Chocolate and hazelnut tart
Serves 6

1 1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 cup conf sugar
1/2 cup ground hazelnuts
1/2 cup, 125g cold butter, cut into small cubes
1 small egg yolk
2 tablespoons cold water
3/4 cup heavy cream
10 ounces good quality dark chocolate, broken in pieces

Place the flour, sugar, hazelnuts and butter in a large bowl.
Use your fingers and rub until a grainy texture.
Add egg yolk and water and mix the dough well with your hands.
Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
Press the dough into a 12 inch tart pan.
Bake at 350F for 12-15 minutes or until golden.
Cool on a wire rack.
Bring the cream to a boil, remove from heat.
Pour into a bowl with the chocolate.
Stir well and pour the mixture over the tart.
Cool and serve.
Enjoy!
Photo by Colin Cooke

Crafty friday!

LOVE THIS!
This is a craft idea I made for Country Living.
Its a tree cut out of vintage wallpapers and glued directly on the wall.
Great in any kids room.
Looks hard, but its not.
Make a template on a roll of finger painting paper.
Cut it out and tape it to your wall.
Then its easy to see if it needs to be bigger or smaller.
Cut out the tree in a wallpaper and glue it to your wall using wallpaper paste.
Cut out leaves in at least 3 different wallpaper patterns.
You will need about 60-80 of them.
Glue them on the tree with the same paste.
Sing a little song and maybe the birds will come and sit in your new tree.
Photo by Philip Friedman.