February 2012
19 posts
Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who:
get’s incredibly frustrated when social stuff comes up last minute, or when plans change midway
gags when opening canned soup
gets overwhelmed even thinking or talking about certain textures of food and fabric, or certain sounds
can’t multitask at all, ever
doesn’t pick up on sarcasm/subtle jokes
stares at people when...
Anonymous asked: I was wondering what day to day sights/activities help you feel inspired? Do you find your surroundings affect your artwork? & Is there a craft you're currently inexperienced with that you'd love to give a try?
Anonymous asked: i've been in a bit of a reading rut--could you recommend some works (fiction or otherwise) that you enjoy?
I’m sort of spending a weird solitary night in, so um if anyone needs advice, or wants to ask a question, or has a funny story to share with me in the ol’ ask box. Now would be the time.
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I don’t think I’ll ever understand how some people can be so vicious and dishonest, so instead of trying to wrap my head around it, I’m going to hate-clean my apartment and break several micron tips when I try to work on a commissioned project later.
Positive Affirmation/Things I have accomplished since I said goodbye to Michigan/Thinking about shitty people from the past doesn’t fix the present:
I’m in a long term healthy relationship with someone I love.
I’ve overcome some serious self confidence issues concerning my creative side.
I have two jobs. Selling art and nannying three beautiful kids. Both are awesome.
I went...
the things I do on a day off when i’m sick…
sweep one room, get dizzy and lay on the floor for ten minutes
crawl to couch
read about wave function collapse on wikipedia
daydream about the places in the multiverse where i’m healthy
listen to this american life and cry about it
stare at the dirt pile from sweeping while the cats euphorically wrestle in it
crawl to bathroom...
Anonymous asked: I seem to recall a while back you talked about trying to go on a weight gain diet? Did it work? No offense, but you still look really thin.
Books I’ve read so far this year:
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake by Northrop Fry
A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds by Gary Snyder
Traffic, With Ghosts by Rosanne Coggeshall
7 Types of Ambiguity by William Empson
The Challenge of D.H. Lawrence (Anthology)
Fictive Certainties by Robert Duncan
Plainwater by Anne Carson
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
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January 2012
16 posts
I think from now on all of my etsy funds are going into the buying a farm with my friends never coming back to the city fund…seriously.
Apparently, I’m never going to have friends again because I wake up before five in the morning for work and it seems that West Philly folks are incapable of doing anything exciting pre-10 pm. Grumble Grumble Grumble.
Because I am primarily focused on trying to add to my new and yet to be unleashed upon the internet blog, I feel like I only have small snippets of things to share with you guys, but small things can be good yeah?
I’ve been researching how to wax my own canvas and cotton duck, so I can stitch up some heavy duty and waterproof aprons, bedrolls, and backpacks that don’t cost 300 plus...
providedrailroad asked: ...what chronic illness do you have?
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I’ve grown accustomed to the physical symptoms over the last fifteen years. Lately I imagine that every sharp burst of pain is a flat piece of paper that I isolate and crumple, smaller and smaller until it is a ball the size of a head of a pin and then I bury it, as deep as I can as if my mind were a well with no bottom. I do this over and over each time I remember how much it hurts. If you...
I’ve started writing on a new blog, which I will be sharing with ya’ll sometime this week, once I feel like there are a few posts up there worth sharing. I will continue to post on tumblr, particularly personal content but this new blog will have tutorials, DIY articles, and a strong focus on providing more cohesive and purposeful content. I feel that lately this tumblr, which...
Sitting at work right now but the babies are somehow miraculously sleeping at the same time. So far I really enjoy being a nanny but hell it’s exhausting. Working twelve hour days and then trying to run my etsy and make things and spend time with Justin and friends…ugh. In order to save time I’m cutting back to shipping once a week, twice if I have a lot of orders. I try to draw...
Anonymous asked: I'm pretty bummed out that you've decided to stop making art full time, and now just have a regular job. I really looked up to the sort of freedom/and lifestyle you had and can't help but feel sort of let down. Quit your day job and get back to making shit and posting about it ok?
For interested parties my etsy is back up and running after a several week vacation :)
the smaller things that stewed in my mind
Being at my parents house provided me with a lot of time to think, and not much to do … so here’s what been on my mind the past few weeks:
I want to complete the switch to non-toxic cleaners in our house by the end of January (well actually I already got rid of the toxic stuff a while ago but I do feel like there are some gaps in my home concocted supply cabinet (particularly I need...
I’m back! And exhausted but I’ve missed posting here and my etsy (which I will have up and running with new items at some point tomorrow). My vacation was pretty good, too much food … too much family … too much sleeping in. Now I’m back at work and attempting to squeeze into a narrow schedule once again. I’ve pretty much been coming home just to eat dinner and...
December 2011
17 posts
MY LAST CRAFT FAIR OF THE SEASON WAS TODAY
I’m putting my Etsy on vacation for a week starting tomorrow. In the new year there will be a bunch of new items, and new things to share :) Also I’ll start posting on here regularly now that things are calming down a bit. Hope that everyone is having a good end of the year/holiday time.
Dear Friends, Tumblr Followers, and Customers and Supporters of my Etsy,
I beg your patience and forgiveness over the next couple of weeks. The current Holiday season is the absolute most stressful time of the year for me. I often have multiple craft fairs every week, hundreds of orders to send (seriously!), and on top of that a full time job which I am just starting this month. It’s a lot...
A whole world of projects:
Justin and I are going to make another Valentine’s Day CD this year, last year it was a series of Magnetic Fields covers with our friends Pat and Josh. This year one idea we’re thinking about doing is a selection of Appalachian murder ballads, although there are several other contenders this is my clear favorite at the moment.
I spent all day yesterday...
Because there was a fair bit of insistence from my family that I provide a holiday and birthday shopping list, this is what I managed to come up with:
packs of prismacolor black pens
smart wool socks (kids size cuz I have bitsy feet)
winter boots (something waterproof!)
lavender Dr. Bronner’s soap
a new set of watercolors
a jar of nice india ink
pack of the skinny brown kraft paper...
It’s uncanny how the gray mist that’s settled over West Philadelphia seems to suite my thinking this week. When the occasional murkiness of mind seeps in, during the colder months pervading even the sacred treatment of time I have often used to cope … I find little to focus upon, little tangible evidence of celebration (shoots of green amongst the dead barbs of vine). I bury the...
Anonymous asked: You have a new job?What is it? Are you going to stop making art? What about your etsy? WAHHHHH?
bits and pieces:
*craft fair yesterday went well, I’ll be able to get some groceries and much needed supplies before my first paycheck! maybe even a few holiday presents for friends and family.
*the US postal service has lost approximately 10 of my packages this month, it’s really frustrating but I’m not sure what to do about it, the ladies behind the counter are really...
I feel so tired and sick, and like I’m letting everyone down. Which is silly because I’m sick and there’s nothing I can do about it but….ugh.
