Anyway, if you follow me on Instagram, you might already know that my awesome best friend bought me a "late birthday" gift recently. A book that I've been eyeing for quite some time: Food in Jars by Marisa McClellan!!! I love it so, so much.
It's beautiful, isn't it?
I was browsing Pinterest recently and came across this board full of beautiful illustration inspiration... the works by Carson Ellis caught my eye and I decided to start doing some research on this talented artist. Turns out that, not only does she do album art/band posters/etc. for one of my favorite bands (The Decemberists), but she's married to the Colin Meloy, the lead singer! I adore them both.
Continuing my research, I found that Meloy and Ellis have created a series of children's fantasy books together, The Wildwood Chronicles. Check out this video to learn more about the books and to watch Ellis draw a coyote soldier (also to prevent me from going on and on and on about it!). I highly recommend this series to anyone who enjoys a good story.
Also gorgeous.
Anyway, you might be wondering why I'm going on about two seemingly unrelated books, but they have something in common that had been on my mind before ever picking up either book: GORP. Good Ol' Raisins and Peanuts. Trail mix! Food in Jars has a recipe for GORP granola and in Wildwood, Prue -the main character-, grabs a bag of GORP to take along on her adventure.... We have an abundance of raisins in our house, peanuts were on sale at my favorite grocery store and Halloween left us with a heap of M&Ms... this was obviously all meant to be.
Not to mention that it's easy enough that my six-year-old was able to make it (almost) on his own.
GORP (Good Ol' Raisins & Peanuts Trail Mix)
3 cups roasted, lightly salted peanuts
2 cups raisins
1 1/2 cups M&Ms (we used half regular and half peanut M&Ms)
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