mmm.... coffee.....

i'm not a witch, i'm your wife!

i couldn't wake up yesterday morning, my bed was far too comfy-cosy.  i kept rolling over & closing my eyes.  but then, of course, i had weird & terrible dreams.  i remember something about playing with a hair straightener (i had just noticed one in ana's bathroom) and i vividly remembered that i dreamt about my little bone spiral earrings: they were dissolving in my ear!  i took them out & they were about to break because they were so fragile & thin where they rest in my ears.  when i woke up i was surprised to find them intact.  it made me feel icky, i already distrust the organic bone in my ear so i switched back to my glass spirals...  can someone please make pyrex glass spirals in opaque white?  that would make me so happy. 

(those thumbnails are deceptively tiny, they open to relatively giant photos) that's a gorgeous old typewriter i found in the mailroom at work & brought into my office to type on.  my typewriters at home are gathering dust.  i need to write more, when cleaning out the closet in my studio i found boxes of letters & stationery.  i also feel like i haven't been writing enough on here, i post & it's all about the photos & not the content...  maybe all you want is the photos, i don't know, but i feel like something is different here, something is stale...

oh little chewy, don't know what you're doing to me

a few deceptively cheerful photos from last wednesday night - jon & ana lost their sweet orange kitty, Sputnik, to Hope street.  poor little sputty, he will be missed by many...  it was terribly sad, but we had a little bbq wake for him.  my dad had just left for NYC earlier that day and i got to meet ana's parents that evening.  there was plenty of drunken-ness to go around, along with some salad & bbq'd salmon...

some promised photos of coffee & pie from Pastiche on federal hill where teresa, jodie & i took my dad after he bought us wood-grilled pizza at Bob & Timmy's.

i haven't been doing much crafting lately.  i'm slowly hand-quilting a quilt for someone else and, after several trips to ikea, i finally bought some nice shelving for my studio.  i'm completely tearing the room apart & reorganizing it.  i've thrown out tons of stuff & emptied the closet, i got one of the shelves into the room & i started to put everything in it.  it's exausting, but i know it will be worth it in the end...  right?  and i have only 4 days till my mom gets here, oops!  sorry about the mess, mom, i promise to at least clean my room!  here is an embarassing look at the current state of my studio, note the empty corner by the empty closet, though:

i actually cleared myself a little space friday night & stayed up until 3am sewing a mod dress from a pattern i found in a box of patterns that i found in the closet.  but i ran out of brown fabric so, until i get a ride to the fabric store, it just adds to the piles of crap.

i am very very sneaky, sir.

artbeat on saturday was fun, there was no need to leave my booth since i was surrounded by the lovely crafty ladies of new england.  i didn't really take any photos, teresa has some over here, including one strange one of me, i think i was trying to look coy?  i have no idea.  it was hot.  and i was wearing a dress!  gasp!  this whole skirt thing seems to have infected my brain, i actually wore a cute little dress.  crazy. 

when we returned from somerville my dad was here!  we escaped the unhealthy hazy/hot/humid city via his air-conditioned car & spent a day down in Bristol, Newport, Narragansett, Pt. Judith, the whole gorgeous loop.  the weather down by the water was completely different & completely perfect. 

we ate too many delicious clamcakes at Aunt Carrie's in Pt. Judith, picked up rocks, got a little sun-burnt & drove around Newport in leisurely circles.  coming up next: photos of coffee & pie from last night's dessert!

where do you move when what you're moving from is yourself?

look out! they're multiplying & they've been
spotted running around town!  those three
little legs can really move fast... i've been
busy herding them together so hopefully
you can catch one for yourself at ArtBeat!

i will have some vinyl cuffs & purses with me tomorrow, but i have been having way too much fun sewing & embroidering these little guys.  i think they need names, even stories, eventually i'd like to make each one their own box, too...

i missed the ark, but i could've sworn you'd wait for me

i spent this past weekend in NYC with lee & jo.  there was much playing of Dr. Mario & eating of delicious food!  we went out to Marseille friday night & i ordered the bellini martini & the salmon with eggplant, saturday lee & i had brunch in the park - bagels & lox from Cafe Lalo, jo cooked some tasty tasty steaks for dinner, lee bought me some ridiculously cute shoes, more nintendo playing, we watched the world cup finals & ate delicious NYC thin crust pizza.

my new roommate, emily, arrived on the 1st & my old one had finally moved out the day before.  there wasn't much time in between, but i squeezed in a little party that friday night.  i drank lots of champange, played my parents' records real loud & danced around in the empty room.  quite a few people came by, some crafty ladies, teresa's brother was visiting with his girlfriend, ana cooked some tasty fried tofu & bok choy with ben who was back from Transylvania & armed with a mysterious bottle of "romanian home brew" that made your tongue revolt from your mouth.  a fabulous time was had by all, or at least me!

i'm dropping hints, candy for candy-coated tongue

i don't know what i'm going to do with these little guys, but i can't stop cutting them out!  i keep carrying them around with me to show people (they're best when they are all together, like some kind of weird family) i think i'm going to make them like the drawings - there will be species, similar ones, but they'll all be a bit different...  these two little guys came to work with me the other day & cavorted among the boxes:


i didn't get around to posting this on friday & i feel like there are several posts all waiting to be, um, posted.  i'll try to get them all up this week.  hey, this weekend is Art Beat in Somerville, you wouldn't know since i'm completely unprepared!  if you live around Boston you should stop by & see what i bring with me...

time for flying rockets, for silver jets

hey there, some of my vinyl is in stock at MYMY whom just turned 2!  if yer hankering for an ipod sleeve or a cute little tree clutch & missed them at Renegade, pop on over & snap em up:
       
(photos taken by taryn of mymy, thanks taryn!)