organize my life for me, pleeeease? I can’t pay you but I give mean high fives and cook really really delicious food.
someday I will stop substituting coffee for sleep.
Things that we did this weekend at the Hexagon
- cleaned the heck out of the whole place, including the main room, bathrooms, bar, gallery, storage room, and basement
- took a major truck haul to the dump
- primed and repainted the ENTIRE gallery and front desk (the paint we had been using was cheapish and gray and kind of ugly). this took sooooo long.
- patched up a big hunk of broken drywall
- etched, degreased, and repaired the gallery’s concrete floor (final coating today! it’s looking sooooooo good so far!)
- took a couple breaks for karaoke and junk food
- repainted the whole back hallway
so much so much so much! my body is KILLIN me. I’m sure we are all very exhausted and this Monday has been uniquely painful already. but the space is looking wonderful and we are all really excited. I have pretty much booked the space (and soon to be auxiliary project space) until October and I’m looking forward to all of the shows. WOO TEAMWORK!
in which I post a bunch of dumb girly sparkly crap that I want
what else is new?
took up cross-stitch during the blizzards
lots of yoga
another print show in March
small print exchange in April
installation early summer-ish
cabin weekend equipped with magical karaoke
been feeling really Frenchy and twee and whimsical and not ashamed about any of it, probably because I’m excited to move and have been cruising the vintagey design blogs
so speaking of which, reading The Mandarins, want to go to there, want to drink some of that
food awakenings
more more more more more
hello, oft-neglected website/blogthing. my life has been consumed with non-profiting, more non-profiting, catching up with old friends, barely putting my apartment and studio together to move upstairs at the end of the month, some more non-profiting, and a whole lot of Me Time.
hey look, here is a list of all the yummy things I have made or am making in the near future, with many thanks to the awesomeness of H-Mart (recipes don’t exist in my life but I’ll try to wing something written for anyone interested):
-hearty beef & veggie stew (with homemade stock that I had in the freezer!! mmm)
-empanadas
-braised short ribs with ginger glaze, steamed carrots, kale, and jasmine rice
-roasted chicken (this is my usual, as snowmageddon descends)
-from that chicken, fresh-made stock
-with that stock, pea risotto
-roasted brussel sprouts (another specialty, I like to think)
annndddddd
I am super excited to experiment with these thai eggplants I just got. they are usually pretty hard to find or are only in season for really short time, so I jumped on them as soon as I saw them. I also got some of the flavor notes to play around with something curry-ish–lemongrass, tamarind, fish sauce, coconut milk, and the spices I always have around–we’ll see how it goes!
It’s no news that word travels fast here in Smalltimore… After pushing our press release yesterday, we’ve already had some responses and recaps. I’m so thankful to be a part of not only this collective, but also this greater community that understands and supports our mission and goals. <3 u, Baltimore.
link to the CityPaper and more to come.
so this is like, really huge, and if I haven’t seen you in a long time, it’s because I’ve been buried under Board of Directors activities and getting things to sound Just Right and we’ve finally sent out press releases so it’s like Official and Stuff and I’m pretty excited and this has been consuming us for the last few months and hey, this is one sentence because I say it is.
I’ve been sort of mentally hibernating after a particularly crappy week last week and need to gather some thoughts before putting up some new blog posts.
In the meantime, hop over to my Tumblr for some visual laffs. Yes, it’s lime green. Yes, it was intentional. No, I don’t care to change it any time soon.