Baking cookies in your car! Why didn’t someone tell me about this earlier this summer?
Archive for October, 2007 Page 2 of 2
Not too much going on here:
-Got new running shoes, another pair of Nike, my attempt at switching over to New Balance was a flop, each pair felt horrible.
-Cut my hand pretty badly while washing dishes. Ya know, one of those times when you reach into a glass to clean it out and it shatters. I was bleeding pretty badly and I frantically drove to my parents’ house to see if they thought I would need stitches. They didn’t seem to think so, and so far so good, it looks pretty clean still and doesn’t hurt too bad.
-Getting stuck working too many 2 am shifts, boo.
-Went to the Orchard Saturday
-Saw Into the Wild on Sunday. Very good. I highly recommend it. Need to read it again, as it has been 7 years or so and there were things in the movie that I don’t recall being in the book, and vice versa.
-Trying to stay busy, busy, busy making things and getting sidetracked by housecleaning. You know, the only time I can get any of that done is when I am avoiding something very important.
I’m so excited to announce that another fellow Makers Art Group member and friend, Al Stark, has just opened up an etsy shop. He is featuring traditional Japanese style block prints and kites made from those prints. His kites are all functional as well.
He has shown and sold his work several times in the Midwest area. You really have to check out his work, I honestly believe his work is absolutely amazing.
And then while we are on a roll, lets shout out to one of my bestest friends Erin (and fellow Makers member as well) who also has an etsy shop, pejnolan, I mentioned this summer. She is an amazing artist who, illustrates (by hand and digitally) as well as makes jewelry, pictured above.
Yeah, I have awesome friends, I know it.
I think it was my friend Nicole, that lives in seattle now, who taught me how to take silly pictures. Lots of fun. One time I stuck an izone picture of the two of us on a tollbooth. What happened to tollbooths? I miss them. The ones in DeKalb were always covered in graffitti.
Mr. Cottontail, originally uploaded by Lizette Greco.
How awesome is this? I just found this picture by Lizette Greco. Her name sounded really familiar, but I am not sure why, maybe through etsy message boards because she has a shop there too. Anyway, her whole family collaborates in making soft toys from childrens’ drawings. The picture above was the first one that really caught my eye. It was based on this drawing their son made, which was based on this photograph. If you check out her flickr you will see so many more examples, like this fairy or this or this bird.
Hmmm, not sure if I’ve posted this one before. One time when a group of my friends and I were driving down to St. Louis I came up with a game. It evolved from the game Celebrity Head and 20 Questions. Basically each round there is one person who gets to chose something, or actually ANYTHING in the world, or out of the world. Anything you can think of. Then the rest of the players take turns trying to guess what you are thinking of with only yes or no questions. As long as they get yes answers, then they continue asking. When they get a no answer the next person goes. The person who finally guesses the answer gets to run the next round. Okay, now back to the thing the person picks, it is more fun and the game will last longer if you can think of complex things. Of course you could pick a loaf of bread, but we’ve had things like such as a blade of grass we drove by 32 minutes and 45 seconds ago, or a thought Abraham Lincoln had shortly before being shot.
distracting, originally uploaded by robayre.
Dear Chris, please do not kill me for the following.
Remember in just the last post how I said I was excited that I could now focus all my energies to cranking out stuff for the craft show? Well, this is what happened instead. I transformed a ring that looked like the one on the left into the ring on the right. Yeah, that means I used all the different sandpapers IN ORDER! Something I couldn’t make myself do while taking my fourth and fifth jewelry classes.
My broken promise of no new projects, also noted.
