'C' is for Cookie

While perusing the various vendors at the BUST Spring Fling Craftacular last Sunday, I came across the beautiful and yummy cookies of Tasty Morsels Bakery.

The Brooklyn-based company was founded by Crystal L. Horton, an award-winning artist who came to NYC in 2004 to for Masters in Fine Arts at Parsons. Once completing graduate school, Horton went on to work in the fashion world as the Visual Designer for a high-profile French company. But her interest in baking started long before school.

Seriously though, her cookies are a work of art and so so soooooooooooo good. She can help you with your own custom decorated sugar cookie, for she also makes her own cookie cutters. The sugar cookies featured in the photo above were amazing! Get online and check out Tasty Morsels. YUM!

BUST's Spring Fling Craftacular

I heart BUST magazine! On Sunday (May 17), the magazine for "women with something to get off their chests" will host the second annual Spring Fling Craftacular at the Warsaw in Brooklyn. The event takes place from 12pm to 7pm and admission is $2.

This year's theme is "Garden Party" and BUST is giving the over 2,000 expected attendees a chance to really get their hands dirty, with eco-conscious demos on guerilla gardening, growing your own food, and DIY screen-printing, presented by Trees Not Trash, The Farm Sanctuary, Provocraft, the makers of Yudu and many others. WOO HOO! Fifty of the best indie crafters from around the country will also be on hand at the event, offering their clever and cool crafts.

So yeah, get there early for you chance to win fabulous raffle prizes and snag a goodie bag, all while enjoying good food and drink and most of all, great rawk.

I Love Love Love 'Unlovable'

For about five years now, I've followed Esther Pearl Watson's hilarious comic, Unlovable, in the back pages of Bust magazine. Lucky for us, the Los Angeles-based artist and illustrator has collected these strips for a 400-plus graphic novel, published by the Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books. The cover has glitter, too. LOVE it!

For those who aren't familiar, Unlovable is loosely based on a high school diary Watson found in a gas station bathroom while traveling from Las Vegas to San Francisco. Set in the late 1980s, you get to know about the teenage trials and tribulations of sophomore Tammy Pierce. Pierce's earnest attempts to fit in at school and with her friends is funny and endearing, and sometimes embarrassing. You root for Tammy as she swoons over the hottest boy in school, and you high-five her as she puts off the immature antics of her kid brother, Willis. You also cringe when she tries too hard to impress her BFF, Kimberly Conway and her pizza boy boyfriend, Erick. You wanna help her out in gym class (C'mon everyone, we all hated gym!). Through it all, Tammy Pierce keeps a sense of humor. Don't deny it, you remember it well. Those days were such a pain in the ass, but they were the best.


(Image 1: Bust Feb/March '08)
(Image 2: Bust Aug/Sept '07)