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Friday is a wonderful day for cooking with the weekend ahead and all those plans. We were looking for yummy pics with yummy recipes when we found a wonderful website called The Kitchn that will save you if you ever don’t know what to cook or want to make something special.

Today we’re sharing a good one, full with sugar and easy to make: Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies by Nealey Dozier for The Kitchn.

Originally found by http://vi.sualize.us/makestuffcreate/ on VisualizeUs Photography by Nealey Dozier

The ingredients you’ll need:

Three tablespoons- butter

1/2 cup of granulated sugar

1/4 cup of milk

Two cups rolled oats

One tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa powder

1/4 cup peanut or hazelnut butter

3/4 cup Nutella hazelnut spread (or 1 cup chocolate chips)

Two tablespoons hazelnut liqueur (optional)

Time to work. The preparation:

1. Take the butter and melt it over medium-low heat in a pan. The, add sugar, cocoa powder and milk and mix until they combine.

2. Go back to the peanut butter and stir Nutella and Frangelico until melted. Then, add the oats. Continue stiring until all of the ingredients are combined.

3. Reduce the heat to lowest.

4. Quickly, take a scoop (an ice cream one will do) and shape the balls. Place them on a safe place.

5. Refrigerate for thirty minutes util firm…and you’re done!

John Joseph Hunn is so cool. We knew about him through a Facebook recommendation and we were impressed since the first second. He’s a contemporary artist and his works has provided him with several awards.

From Saint Louis, Missouri, he’s been a professor and have been featured in exhibitions since 1986. Her work goes from altar pieces (very interesting ones!), to saint paintings, pastels or beautiful drawings. He often choose women as models and every painting is a journey through different art periods. We recommend you to visit John Hunn’s website where you can enjoy part of his work.

Here’s an example of an altar piece.

‘Saint Stephanie’ a pastel on Panel 15″x12″

‘Fawn’ a Pastel on panel 15”x15”

‘Saint Robert’ Pastel on Panel 12”x9”

‘Leaving’

Graphite On Panel 64” x 30”

‘J.R.’ On panel J.R. 31”x22”

That’s impressive, huh?

We love to discover new blogs, specially if they’re hosted by creative people like the one we’re presenting today: Shanty 2 Chic. We ran into them because of a DIY project we liked, a beautiful Memo Frame to hang your favourite pictures.

Shanty 2 Chic was born in 2009, two sisters Withney and Ashley, who decided to make their passion come true by crafting beautiful projects, just after they moved to new homes that needed to be decorated. Shanty 2 Chic’s project gallery goes from furniture, gifts, wall decor, and of course, DIY crafts. As usual, we recommend you to take a look at their work, It’s worth it!

The Memo Frame is sooo easy to craft but looks beautiful and yours will be unique!

What do you need to make it come true? 

- An Empty Frame

- Rust-Oleum Painter’s Touch of the color you like

- Twine

- An Staple Gun

Now let’s get to work!

 1. Take the empty frame and clean it, take off all the dust moths. 

2. Secure the area with newspapers.

2. Give it a coat of the Rust-Oleum Painter’s Touch of the color you’ve chosen.

4. Wait for it to dry.

5. Add the twine as you want, securing in the back of the frame with the staple gun.

6. Add the pictures you like. You can use clothespins!

Hope you enjoy crafting it! We sure did!

Who can resist to a good black and white mix of images? If you follow VisualizeUs in Twitter and Facebook, you’ve probably realized that we love this kind of pictures. They’re so elegant and classy. Today we’ve made a special selection, with comments…

This lady seems to be very comfortable in this strange chair. Black and white suits her, there’s no doubt. It’s beautiful!

Almost a kiss. Happiness in the sea. Awesome pic!

Beware of the scissors, little lady.

What about this curious image? Grass has grown so much! Time to cut it in underwear.

The white veil doesn’t let you see anything, girl! Turn the color on.

Grey in the foggy city. 

Riding up the walls. Love this pic!

Audrey Hepburn never disappoint us… Beautiful as usual.

…and this is the best End ever! Lovely and sweet.

Yummy day! If you are tired to say ‘I don’t know what to cook today’ every single day, we’re making it easy to you. Let’s have some fun and make this banana split cake that tastes as good as it looks.

The ingredients you’ll need:

Thirty Oreo cookies

Eight ounces of cream cheese

1/4 cup of sugar

Six tablespoon of butter, melted

Two tablespoon milk

Four bananas, sliced

Whipped topping

Two packages of chocolate instant pudding

3 1/4 cups of milk

1/3 cup of red maraschino cherry

2 tablespoons of  chocolate syrup

1/4 walnuts, chopped

Now, get on with it! The preparation:

Mix the cookie crumbs and butter and press them to the bottom of a dish. Put in the fridge until is ready to use.

Then, Beat cream cheese with sugar and 2 T of milk in a medium bowl, with whisk blended inside. Stir in one cup of whipped topping and finally spread over crust.

Top with the sliced bananas.

Now beat the pudding with the 3 1/4 cup of milk with whisk two minutes and then spread over the bananas. Let it be for five minutes until it gets thickened; cover it with the topping that remains.

Refrigerate for four hours. And finally, top your super-cake with nuts, cherries and syrup.

The last step is the best one: Enjoy your work of art!

Send us your pictures!

Hello, everyone!

Today we’re introducing an interesting (and cool) artist: Emmanuel Rosario. He’s a young photographer who takes pictures in New York City. He documents the daily life in the city, seeking expressions and daily life beauty. We couldn’t resist to feature his work this month!

His pictures transmit something special, they’re evocative, inspiring, dark, dirty, funny and above all, addictive. Once you’ve started, you can’t stop, and that’s a gift in a photographer!

Emmanuel is very spontaneous, seeks the freedom and takes his photography as a journey. We recommend you to visit his blog and Flickr profile or even his Tumblr, where you find all the pictures included in this post and many more!

For further information, Emmanuel was interviewed in The Creative Book, and was asked about what his work means to him and interesting stuff. It’s a must!

What do you think? Do you like his pictures as much as we do? :)

Seen in http://emmanuel-rosario.tumblr.com/

Browsing by the DIY tag, we’ve come to know an artist that we’ve inmediately liked. She’s Kate Pruitt, a girl from Newhampshire who works making furniture, sculpting, making textiles, ceramics and painting, among other (many) things. According her “About” in www.katepruitt.com, she’s fascinated with the scale of things, from the tiniest to the biggest object, and likes to play with it in her projects.

She’s senior editor at Design Sponge, a website you can find a lot of cool diy projects. Beware! It’s highly addictive and perfect to get inspired ;) She’s been featured in NY Magazine, Country living Mag and many others publication on and offline. Simultaneously she create retail displays for small and not so small independent stores.

Now you know a little about Kate, we want to show you one of her works for Design Sponge that it’s also in her web: A cooland easy-to-make lightbulb. Although this projects was created for Valentine’s, the sculpture inside can be shaped as you like :)

Seen in www.designsponge.com and www.katepruitt.com

What do you need to make it come true? (Just a few and cheap things)

1. Red (or your prerred color) thin gauge wire

2. A Light Bulb

3. Tools: Screwdriver, pliers, wire cutters, hammer, nail

4. A little piece of wood.

5. Two pins (use the color to combine with the wire)

6. Pen and paper

7. Hot Glue gun

Now let’s get to work!

Seein in www.designsponge.com

1. You have to secure the surface, better in a work table. Then crack the bulb from the base and hollow it carefully (mind the glasses!).

(*In the original post Kate leads us to www.teamdroid.com to know more about hollowing a bulb and other tips)

2. Put aside the already cleaned bulb to protect it from breaking.

Seen in www.designsponge.com

3. Now It’s the wire turn, cutting a ten inch piece to make the heart shape (or another you choose). The heart is easy: folding the wire in half to create the sape, then unfolding. About an inch from the crease, you have to take both wire ends and loop, now you have the heart halves! Then, the both wires back down, overlapping the center and extending beyond the heart.

* You can make as many heart as you want, as long they fit in  the light bulb.

4. Take your hearts to the light bulb and hold them inside, just to know how long the stems need to be to hold roughly. Cut the extra wire with the pliers.

5. Create a small guide hole with the hammer and nail. Then, remove the nail and push the wire in the whole. Secure it with glue.

6. Fit your glass bulb over the filaments. Now you have to glue the bulb with the wood and the base.

7. Write a cool note and attach it to the wood with the pins.

Seen in www.designsponge.com

Funny and easy! Hope you enjoy crafting it! :)

A mix of pictures is always addictive. Today we’re visiting awesome places through the pics some of our most active users have uploaded. They’ve collected a lot of images and tagged in “cities”, so we strongly recommend you give them a follow! (we already have!).

Want to visit Paris? :) This is from Glazemoo‘s profile.

What about Florence? The best spots are the hidden ones. Thanks to Joe Galanti (he has  963 images uploaded in “cities”, wow!)

Patricia Coelho uploaded this amazing view of ______ (we don’t know where is it from, do you?) :)

This one neither! Help us identify places :) It’s funny! Maybe muffin, the girl who shared it on the site, knows!

This is Piazza della signoria at Firenze. Again uploaded by Joe Galanti

An breahtaking air view of Sao Paulo, Cathedral included! By Joe Galanti again ;)

Visiting Barcelona is always a great idea. This is Carrer del Bisbe, uploaded by muffin.

Did you like the tour? Don’t hesitate to share your favourite places or the ones you’d like to go sometime!

The third Wednesday of the month is going to be our favourite day of the whole month and you must be wondering why.

Because is the food day on VisualizeUs! From today to the infinite we’re posting a special recipe, alongside one of the pictures uploaded by the users.

So, when we started thinking about this post we said… which is the most legendary, special and unforgettable dish we ALL truly love?

The answer came quickly: HAMBURGER!

It may seem easy but  making the perfect hamburger is an art. The best ones always come with a secret kept by their cookers, transmitted through generations.Today, we’re rushing a little light above the subject…

The best piece of advice we can give or take when it comes to make a burger  is to cook it with love and devotion.

But, you also need ingredients which (luckily) can be modified as you like, to make your favourite version of the recipe.

We’ve chosen a basic but delicious kind of hamburger: the one with bacon, cheese, onion and lettuce with bbq sauce.

The ingredients:

- 1 1/2 ground beef

- 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese

- 1 small minced onion

- 1/2 cup cooked bacon

- bbq sauce

The preparation:

You can start treating each ingredient before attacking the beef.  Bake the bacon and put it aside. Then, bake the onion. And finally put the beef in the grill until it’s a little baked. Then turn it around and put the bacon, the cheese and the onion on the top. Wait until is completely baked. Finally mix with the lettuce and add the bbq sauce. You can also make some fries, they’re perfect for the hamburger!

Note to experts: Antonio recommends to choose the bread carefully. He loves the “Spelt Bread” because it is moist but slightly hard in consistency.

Hope you like this post and don’t forget to share your own hamburger recipe! :)

New week, new artist!

We want to introduce you to Ryan McCullah! He’s a guy from Washington D.C who has worked as graphic designers for many companies, from start ups to worlwide known brands. He has around fifteen years of experience in the fields and his projects go from packaging, web, logos to other non-conventional formats like outdoor, motion or illustrations.

Right now he’s in K12 as Senior Director but AOL, Discovery Communications or Graphica had him back in the day working with them.

We’ve selected different pieces of his work in different fields  just to show you that’s he is a truly artist! Althought the best way to get to know what he does better is to visit his web or follow him on VisualizeUs, he’s an active user!

Starting the tour with….

Packaging

This one is for Brew Nerds (Intellectual Property of Mitre Agency) Seen in: http://ryanmccullah.com

Web

This one is for K12 International Academy .Seen in: http://ryanmccullah.com

Printed 

This one is for Backstreets Restaurants ID .Seen in: http://ryanmccullah.com

Outdoor

This one is for Backstreets Restaurants ID .Seen in: http://ryanmccullah.com

Poster

This one is for Christians@AOL .Seen in: http://ryanmccullah.com

Hope you enjoy Rayn McCullah’s amazing work. We’ve looking for different artistics proposals so if you think you’re work is suitable to for this kind of post, email us to maryred [@] visualizeus.com