hippodrome

well a happy new year to everyone!

i kind love january. i love starting a new year and i’m all about new years resolutions. i won’t list them just yet, but wiping the slate clean and starting the year anew is an excitement for me.

our christmas to new years was a whirlwind but a good one. we saw family, saw friends, and just generally relaxed a bit. i think enough so that i’m ready to just jump back into the mix of things. the christmas season was pretty crazy but i think in a really good way, i definitely felt maxed out, but if i didn’t i probably would have been grumpy that i wasn’t crazy busy. thus is the holiday season.

one of my favorite gifts i made was for my mom in law. we’re both big doctor who fans and so i knitted her a little tardis! it’s a pretty sad pattern, but thought i would share it anyway…it was fun to knit even if it did turn out a bit chubby!

click on this exciting link, for the pattern! chubby tardis pattern

gobble. happy thanksgiving everyone!

i did this guy for the pre-thanksgiving party we were going to have…but sadly then didn’t. i know his coloring is still a little weird, but here he is anyway!

i’m in full-on prep mode right now – cutting, folding, printing, and repeat. it’s exhilarating and overwhelming at the same time. xmas season hasn’t hit yet, so it’s this weird shopping calm, but a big making/prep rush before the storm. so we’ll see how it all goes.

my new wacky idea for the season involves coal. i had this ridiculous idea to make some little lumps of coal. i think they’re heeelarious….we’ll see if anyone else does. but either way they crack me up. there’s five little personalities, and you can either stuff it in someone’s stocking (preferably!) or hang them on the tree…or both really. i love idea that not all lumps of coal are nasty and mean, and but that’s their station in life. some of them feel bad…though some of them don’t!

i carved them, which was so fun. i do not carve enough lately, which as we all know got me into this mess in the first place! after christmas i got to really make a plan to make it a priority.

then i printed them on fabric….5 diferent personalities. alot more to come!

ps. please excuse the somewhat bad pictures. my real camera just decided to stop working! i need to call canon.

is amazing.

anytime we would visit our grandparents i would marvel at this wonderful clock. acouple years ago, my grandma had to move out of her (pretty darn amazing treasure trove for a kid) house, and so sadly, they had to sell off many of the things since you can’t take it all with you. but not this clock! i told my mom that i absolutely wanted it, and every time i look at it i think of my grandma, who is still alive and well. It does still work too, i just need to stick a battery in it.

This weekend i’ll be at the squidfire art mart….in PHILLY! i love the squidfire shows, and the excellent excuse to go to baltimore and visit my sister. And now a new show in the philly area, which is close enough for a day drive from brooklyn. yay!

I’m excited for this show and know it’ll be great. Some of the vendors from the baltimore shows will be there, like biggs and featherbelle with their amazing soaps (which i desperately need to stock up on), Spaghetti Kiss – josh loves his comics, the nice folks from Brainstorm silkscreen, and amazing hats from rocks and salt! many more great vendors…see the full list here!

if you’re in philly or near by, come on down!

Fall is trying to push through, even though it’s been so weirdly warm, look the leaves are turning! Finally. It’s still too warm for hot apple cider.

Finally finally the fall season is here. Finally I start to ear people talking about shopping for Xmas! Yay. This Sunday was the Atlantic antic which I hadn’t done before but so happy I did. This year I’ve finally gotten over this weird idea in my head that I’m not good enough or that there’s no place for me to sell in NYC. Ridiculous! There are of course places and what’s exciting is for fall that I’m going to try to be out evey weekend selling (except for course teamforce weekend an probably thanksgiving wkend). The antic was a good start. I couldn’t believe how super duper packed it was and for a street fair both the crowd an vendors were pretty good all around. Yay for fall!

the amazing grapefruit bonzai from my vending neighbor

So. I have been disappointed with the fact I barely ever write on this even though I should and also that I am not using my silly iPhone to its full capacity. But I am pretty good at doing mobile blogging things. And of course there is a wordpress blog ap. So slow am I. Anyhoo, my new plan in my burst of new fall productivity is to try doing this on the go – specifically on the train while it is above ground in my ‘hood. We’ll see how long this lasts.

Experiment of attaching a pic as well. Progress being made on new journals for the Atlantic antic this weekend.

well my illustration portfolio class is finished. it was a great class, and feel it’s going to push me to work harder, do better and all that jazz.

I definitely got a few portfolio pieces out of it too, which makes me happy. The one thing that i worked on was this little dental care book, all about teethy and the chompers (as mentioned before). I think i’ll computer print out acouple of the books to have at the OA Makers Market this weekend. Here’s acouple of the finals below. Just a little 8 page book.

floss!

happy teeth!

These love bugs also came out of the class too. they crack me up.

As my teacher said, i have some people issues (as in drawing people), which i know i need to work on, and will be!