The Blog v2.0

Blog Facelit.

Reavel — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:30:00 +0000

Say hello to the new and redisgned/organized blog. This past few day I’ve been making some changes on the blog. Like I mention on an earlier post this week. Here you can see how the blog ended up looking after all the changes. I think it is more organized in some way.

Now from the home screen you can access and see almost everything. You can reach my networks, other projects and even my shop.

About: Includes infomation about me the blog my photos, where you can contact me and some privacy policy. It would be good if you read that.

Contact Me: Gives you a space to ask me questions about the blog, my art or anything you wanna know related to the blog and all its content. If the questions are good enough they could be even published on the front page of the blog.

My Shop: I practically moved the shop to this blog/site. From that link you can read all shop related like shipping information and payment of the orders and so on. After reading the info you can go shopping by clicking on the button provided on the page. If you see something interesting that you would like to buy or know more about it you can use the contact me form and please include links to the post of the item in question.

Archive: Archive of the blog posts since 2004 until the present day.

BlogRoll: BlogRoll includes my tumblr and google reader feeds all un one place. Now you know see what I like and enjoy.

Click images for full preview, thanks.

Left to right on the first row Home, About Me and Contact me pages.

Left to right on the second row BlogRoll [feeds, tumblr, etc.], My Shop and Archive

Book Project [pages 15-16]

Reavel — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:10:00 +0000

This is the page 15-16 of my Book Project

More Info: I will make a drawing on every page until it is done. The project consist on using the same text for inspiration. Even when what you end up drawing isn’t related to the subject/theme of the book. I will scan the text on the page and pick a phrase/sentence and from there I will try to illustrate it.

Plastic Bag

Abulance Plane

Ah! The Green Soup

Reavel — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:51:00 +0000

Lately I have become like a frequently broccoli eater. This broccoli eating is new for me. I know people always have this hate for broccoli just because it is green and looks like tiny green tree. I didn’t liked broccoli until last year. So lately I’ve been wondering what else can be done with broccoli and one of the things I normally see is broccoli soup. Not everybody does it the same way therefore I went to my handy dandy google site and hunt down recipes for broccoli soup or cream soup.

I found good ones Broccoli Soup with Cheddar Cheese from epicurious.com and Best Cream Of Broccoli Soup from allrecipes.com. I read the whole thing but I was missing half the items on the list. So I kept looking for how to make chicken broth but I didn’t had any of the the ingredients.

Went back to the google page and checked out some videos. Then I hit the jackpot. I start watching this video and it is this guy from TV so I say to myself he knows what he is doing and when he said you don’t need chicken broth I was ok this is it.

Made a mess on the kitchen just to have everything at hand. Did the whole thing but I added some extras like milk, black pepper, sazon [ajo cebolla oregano, etc] and some chives green onions. The whole milk water thing made it more ehh liquefied? Well the thing is that it didn’t turned out like I expected. I don’t even knew what the expect since I never did before but I liked it.

For next time I know that I can put more black pepper on it, more condiments to get the flavor that I was expecting. I also need cheddar cheese or a good cheese cause I only had single slices from Kraft. So yeah. What I did and will do again was to fry up some Queso Blanco/Queso de freir [white cheese]. I cut the cheese in slices until they get crunchy but not burn. They will end up looking like export sodas crackers or something like that.

That combination of queso blanco/queso de freir made the difference. Loved it and once I get all the right materials or well ingredients I will do it again and will try it out with different things. Good thing is that it is healthy. It only contains broccoli and I think that you get all your vegetable portions in one. Anyways here are some pictures. Ouh by the way I ended up happy cause after I saw the video again I think I really got the right consistency of the soup so it was all good. But don’t forget seasoning. VERY important. By the way the “brown” thing on the right is jugo de tamarindo [tamarind juice].

Organizing & Restructuring.

Reavel — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:30:00 +0000

This past few day I’ve been making some changes on the blog.
Nothing huge but more like organizing it. I Still have to come up with a great header banner.
Perhaps I will keep the same Reavel thing just change the watercolor background.

I’ll be closing down the “site” and will put all my attention on the blog.
It makes sense since I actually have everything linked to the blog.
Meaning there is no reason to keep the site.

Stay tune for more info.

http://reavel.blogspot.com will soon become http://reavel.net so it will change on its own no need to do a thing. Thanks!

Book Project [pages 12-14]

Reavel — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:25:00 +0000

This is the page 12-14 of my Book Project

End of the Road

Canada

Area 17

Dinner Room

Reavel — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Hello. Here I am with another DIY project I did yesterday.

I needed new curtains for my dinner. Even when I like all the sun that gets inside my house at night for me this becomes a burden cause when I turn all the lights on all my second floor neighbors can/could see me. When you like to walk around your house on boxers or underwear or whatever that is a HUGE problem. Therefore I said I need some curtains to avoid all that drama.

Went to Capri store [it is like a mini department store. you can find great things at great prices] and got two full flat sheets for the price of $5.95 each in the color that I needed them. Got home took some measures and started my project. I cute them up to fit the required space.

Then I sew/glued them up so they ended up looking as curtains. This can be done very easy if you use the sewing tape [Heat N Bond tape] you just have to iron the corners and thats about it. Do read the instructions when doing this. After that I just took some white acrylic paint and made the details or pattern you’ll see here. I am thinking of adding some black or brown in the same patter to the curtain so the colors show up on the curtain.

Haiti Earthquake…

Reavel — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:25:00 +0000

Ok! I will start this post been a little harsh… I am angry and mad with all this people talking bullshit about things they don’t know. I am also angry cause Haiti have always been a country in need. It is sad that it took an earthquake for people to kind of realize that hey they do need help. No fucking kidding. They always had.

I don’t know a lot of their history but I know they have been trough a lot of situations with no good outcomes –dictatorship, hurricane and now the earthquake–. At least on the news I saw a very good International response on the matter but my fear is that after a month all this goes back to nothing. I think that is the fear of many other people too.

Anyway if you still have a heart and feel perhaps you wish to go there and do something but you can’t take a plane and go there but you can donate now. Also be careful to which organization or people you donate. Look up for secure organizations that will really help in all this. Earlier today I saw all this text messaging and people asking for donations for the Haiti Earthquake situation. Since the world have become so corrupted I don’t trust everyone that says I am collecting for this and that. Sorry guys.

Therefore I just went to http://www.redcross.org and donated $20 to the@redcross for the International Response Fund which covers the Haiti Earthquake situation.

Go and do your part at http://www.redcross.org #Haiti. It could be you the next one in need. Help out!

PhotoBook: Around the Island

Reavel — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:12:00 +0000

YES! My photobook just got here today.
Woohoo! It is super awesome. I feel so happy the book came out perfectly.

The whole print is amazing.
The book is square 7×7 inches it haves 60 pages.
Available in soft cover or hard cover. [Watch Preview]

You can get the Photo Book on blurb.com.
Well here are some photos of the book.
Enjoy!

Around the Island

Reavel — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:51:00 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I went to blurb.com and made a photo boook with many of my flickr photos. The photo book is called Around the Island. It contains photos from many places I have visited in Puerto Rico.

The whole idea is to show other photos besides the ones you normally see on tourism books. We always get to see Old San Juan, The Morro and El Yunque es if those were the only places to visit or go while you are in Puerto Rico.

I also ordered one for myself to see how it comes out. It haven’t arrived yet. I think it is because of the Christmas season but I am really looking forward for it to get home so I can take some photos and share them with you guys.

The book is already available to buy via blurb.com. You can also find more information and see a preview of the book on that same page.

Happy 2010

Reavel — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:25:00 +0000

Feliz 2010…
This is a video I took from my roof top a while ago.

Enjoy!

Lots of blessings to all of you on this new year.