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What Katie Does
www.whatkatiedoes.net
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A London web designer by day; would-be crafter / illustrator / knitter by any-other-time-i-can-find. Chatting about any cool design / art / illustration / craft stuff I see as well as my own work occasionally.
#2927 in All , #16 in Design

Homemade pasta

It’s obviously a sign of getting old that my idea of a really fun Saturday night these days is having the luxury of time to spend hours making something interesting for dinner. I got a pasta ma...

14 h ago

Red food poster up on Etsy

Just a quickie to say my Food poster is now available in a lovely Heinz-tomato-soup red. Mmm, I feel warmer just looking at it. Pick one up here!

2 days ago

Mid-century hotel style in London Bridge

Hilton Hotels just got in touch (you know, as you do) to let me know that last year they formed a merger with 8 Mint Hotels, and are rebranding 8 Mint’s properties under Hilton’s DoubleTr...

4 days ago

Owl sketch screencast

I think it’s always fun to see people’s work in progress, so I took this screencast while I doodled an owl in Illustrator the other night. It’s speeded up 20x! Here’s the fini...

5 days ago 1 person likes this

Snow Sunday

I’m not a cold weather lover, but a thick dusting of pretty snow definitely takes the edge off, hmm? Especially on a Sunday when there’s no need to go anywhere except a walk around the vi...

05 feb 12

A little room rearrange

I gave my little home study-come-craft room a much-needed tidy up and rearrange recently. The space works so much better now! I ditched my old desk (it found a new home thanks to Gumtree) which was m...

03 feb 12 1 person likes this

Cooking with Tim Anderson

I’m kind of a Masterchef fangirl – in fact, I love any cookery show on TV – so when Handpicked Media extended an invite to a cookery demo night with last year’s champ Tim Ande...

27 jan 12 2 people like this

Exploratorium and Musee Mechanique, San Francisco

Yes, my holiday to San Fran was officially LIGHT YEARS ago but this is the very last batch of photos. Josh insisted we go to the Exploratorium – a museum squarely aimed at children, with tons o...

26 jan 12

Letterpress workshop at Turnbull Grey

Lucky me – I mentioned to Josh months ago that I’d love to do a letterpress workshop, and he remembered and bought me a class for my birthday. It was held at Turnbull Grey in Clerkenwell,...

23 jan 12 2 people like this

Blog photo editing for lazy types

I thought it’d be interesting to share how I edit and grade photos for my blog, since I get a lot of nice comments on my photos. The secret is I’m really quite lazy with editing – I...

20 jan 12 5 people like this

Spuntino, Soho – review

Spuntino has been on my to-try list for ages, and what better time to go for it than on my birthday weekend? It’s been getting rave reviews since it opened last year for its speakeasy-come-dine...

16 jan 12 1 person likes this

Lisbon last year

I just got my PhotoJojo time capsule of this time last year, and was reminded of my birthday jaunt to Lisbon. I think the trip produced some of the nicest photos I’ve taken:

15 jan 12

Cooking the books

I got some brilliant cookbooks for Christmas – Simon Hopkinson’s The Vegetarian Option and Simon Rimmer’s The Accidental Vegetarian. I mix-n-matched them for tonight’s dinner:...

11 jan 12

Golden Gate park

Nearly done with the SF posts now! An afternoon walk in Golden Gate Park, featuring a cheeky squirrel friend and some unusual blooms..

10 jan 12 1 person likes this

San Fran lomo

Would you believe I still have a ton of photos I haven’t blogged from San Francisco, back in November? I’ll start with these crazy colourful ones taken on my Olympus OM10 with Lomography ...

05 jan 12

Recipe: healthy(ish) polenta pizza

I’m definitely feeling quite sluggish and podgy after an indulgent Christmas, so it’s – cliched – time for some healthy eating. I got some lovely recipe books as gifts so I...

03 jan 12

2011 in pictures

Happy Christmas! Hope you had a good one. Mine was fuelled with rum & coke, contained endless Wii sessions and spiked with some awesome pressies (about which more later). I just had fun looking ...

28 dec 11

December instagram

Off home to the family for Christmas tomorrow! Have a lovely holiday everyone, and I’ll leave you with some Instagram snaps from December.

22 dec 11

Alcohol Alchemy with Protein

If there’s one thing I like doing it’s learning about new things, and I like it even more when it’s booze-and-yummy-food-fuelled. To this end, we spent a fabulously enjoyable evenin...

19 dec 11

Shopping in San Fran

We got pretty lucky with the area of SF we stayed in: it was near lots of lovely streets full of shops and restaurants, as well as being adjacent to Japantown and not too far from both the coast and ...

16 dec 11

Etsy update: new booksy print

My new print design is finally ready and up in my shop! Inspired by a CS Lewis quotation that I thoroughly agree with, it’s a two-colour screenprint onto recycled paper stock. And just in time ...

14 dec 11

Quick diy Christmas cards

Two weeks today until Christmas! I spent a lazy Saturday evening, with Strictly on the telly and baked Camembert in the oven, making my cards and wrapping presents. The cards and tags are just basic ...

11 dec 11 2 people like this

Aldwych underground tour

I took a tour of the disused Aldwych underground station on Sunday, organised by TFL and the London Transport Museum. Despite their no-DSLR camera policy and a ridiculous stream of explanations as to...

07 dec 11

hello, Hello Lucky!

My favourite shop visit in SF had to be popping into the HQ of letterpress studio Hello Lucky and seeing their lovely team at work. We saw the huge vintage letterpress machines in action downstairs&#...

04 dec 11

Tea-mergency

A little doodle that came to me after yet another tea-related disaster: And worked up..

02 dec 11

SF: Dinners & drinks

Back to San Fran posts, even though the holiday feels like a long time ago now… A large part of our reason for visiting SF was the food and drink – it’s known for great Mexican food...

28 nov 11

Homemade gifts: marmalade & chutney

Inspired by the jam- and chutney-making class I took last month, I had a go at making some at home to give as Christmas gifts. I made a clementine marmalade and spiced tomato chutney. The cute mini j...

25 nov 11 1 person likes this

London Christmas craft markets

Get ready for a handmade Christmas – here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of festive craft fairs in London. November 21st – Decmeber 10th: Handmade-Christmas at Exmouth Market November 22...

24 nov 11 1 person likes this

Cycling the Golden Gate bridge

We cycled across the Golden Gate Bridge on a delightfully sunny day, with no sign of the famous fog. Photos taken on OM10 with Lomography Tungsten film We picked up the bikes at Fisherman’s Wha...

22 nov 11

San Fran signage

I love me some classic Americana typography, so all the signage around SF was a treat to photograph. And it’s even prettier all lit up in neons by night.

20 nov 11

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