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17 June, 2008

Vacation!

2008-06-17T01:31:00-05:00Classes & Teaching, Sewing & Design|3 Comments

I have been away from blogging, not because I was really on vacation, but because of…

…aka the Shibori Symposium. Many fantastic artists from all over the country descended upon my art center in a frenzy of shibori goodness. As Overseer-of-all-Things-Shibori, my presence was greatly in demand.

Just before that happened, I found a fabulous sheet at a thrift store and whipped up this dress, while Andy was kayaking with a friend…

…I wore it to the opening reception for the shibori show. The bonus of making a dress from a sheet is that it cost me all of $1 and it is a nice poly/cotton wrinkle free blend, so no ironing. But just before I made that dress, I worked on this shirt…

… with the help of Dolores the Dummy. She is new to me but has “seen a few seams” if you know what I mean. She isn’t pretty but she is amazingly helpful. (Dolores was named by my friend Nancy, who had her over for a visit before she came to me.) It took me about 5 weeks to make the shirt – not because it was hard, but because I only had the opportunity to work on it for 45 minutes at a time for that long.
And finally, somewhere in there, Andy and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. I took him to see “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Guthrie (totally fantastic) and he bought me these charmingly silly shoes as a present.


I can just see them with black tights and cute skirts this fall. Love it! (apologies for crummy pictures. I just didn’t feel like photo styling today.)

4 June, 2008

My latest etsy purchase

2008-06-04T03:30:00-05:00Everything Else|3 Comments


Back when I worked at a summer childrens’ theater, we did a production of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Because I had a friend (through my dad) who was from Romania, we had her translate the goats’ dialogue in to Romanian. The troll spoke English. It has always been one of my favorite shows. It was silly, but so fun. The story has a happy ending where they all order vegetarian pizza. We built a huge bridge set piece that we could walk over. We spent a few minutes at the beginning of the show teaching the audience a bunch of the Romanian words (iarba is grass!) and they helped the troll figure out what was happening. I got to be the “Great Big Billy Goat”, which if you know me is pretty comical all by itself.

So when I saw this “O Capra Mititika” (Little Billy Goat), I HAD to have him. He is crafted by Mark at MNSCeramics.etsy.com. ( I also have a verdegris colored rhinocerous by Mark and my sister has a pair of bears)

27 May, 2008

New!

2008-05-27T01:40:00-05:00Everything Else|4 Comments

Spent a little while in the “cupboard under the stairs” (aka enamel studio) working on some new designs. Sewing machine, mad scientist, trout and groovy vinyl.

21 May, 2008

choices…

2008-05-21T13:34:00-05:00Everything Else|5 Comments

I have narrowed it down… Which ones do you like best? I already have a pair of brown and a pair of black, so I am looking for some color.

19 May, 2008

Ho Hum

2008-05-19T23:05:00-05:00Everything Else|Comments Off on Ho Hum


I started Sunday with a list of things to be accomplished.
– buy new sandals
– get new capri pants
– find electric tea kettle
– get fabric for special project
– prototype new finger puppet design

I accomplished exactly zero of those things, but not for a lack of trying!

Sandals – not only didn’t find any, but didn’t even find any I wanted to try on. Pathetic. I don’t like thong style with things between my toes or super high heels, but otherwise I am pretty easy to please. Time to check out zappos.com

Capris – This season the colors seems to be white, pale pink, khaki, taupe, black and screaming raspberry. I don’t wear any of those colors. Hello sewing machine.

Tea Kettle – Chintzy plastic or badly designed stainless. Still looking.

Fabric – Favorite store which used to carry cute retro prints no longer carries them. Project demands 30’s reproduction fabric. Reprodepot, here I come.

Prototype – Great idea to save myself lots of time. Prototyping involved bonding paper to silk screen in a manner which was not as designed. Operator error. Sigh.

On the other hand, Andy had a fantastic kayak adventure with a friend and then this morning went and took pretty artsy shots of my flowers which are finally blooming!

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