Do You Know How Much Work I Put Into This?

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Let's set the record straight... I don't even pretend that I can cook. In fact, I'm like a camel... I would go months without eating if it were humanly possible. That is how annoying I find the whole food-prep thing. But I DO love making art, and so when the second month of Lilla Roger's Make Art That Sells Bootcamp assignment had us drawing Jell-o, I knew I needed to do some hands on research.

Jello is transparent, and curved, and shapeless. I fired up Pinterest and started collecting dozens of vintage Jell-o dessert ads and images. I put pencil to paper and got my first ugly sketches out of the way (you always just have to get the ugly ideas out of your system before you can move on to create something more fun, creative and beautiful, I've found).

Pinterest did what it always does.... inspired me to tackle this jell-o making challenge. Southern Living came out with an entire gorgeous spread on vintage desserts featuring Jello. How on trend Lilla is!

So I bought several multicolored boxes of the stuff and decided to go big or go home. I was going to make a doughnut shaped, rainbow inner-tube of Jelloliciousness. Did I have a real, official gelatin mold? No, but... I mean, so what, right? I had this plastic serving dish that was sorta shaped like a an angel food cake- that should work right? So it began...

When it came time to actually pop the Jello out of it's mold, I'm not going to lie, it was intense. Do you know how much work I had put into this? How many pots of water I'd boiled? How many times I'd opened and closed the fridge door? I spent a better part of a Saturday afternoon on this R & D. And it all came down to this fateful moment, which my husband was apparently video taping for posterity. I've told you how it began... watch the video below to see how it ended. :)



Making Jello from Leigh Fox on Vimeo.

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