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Go Team!

Published on February 22, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

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!

snowtorious

Published on February 7, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

B.I.G.
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thank you, 2010

Published on January 8, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

barely a week in and I am having the best year ever!!!!

Career things looking GOOD

ARTWORK ON DA MOVE

Getting good press!!!

I love my friends and my family!

Oh hey, it’s a mustache

I’ve got a plan, got some things in my calendar that could potentially lead to some other cool things, I feel like all of my really super duper way hard work is making a concrete, happenin’ impact.

Community! I’m part of one, I love everyone!

Making work! Color correcting slides! Rewriting and updating CVs!

exclamation points!

(admittedly, schadenfreude)

AWESOME upcoming plans with my bff Mike (count chocula, meditation workshops, AS220, metaling our faces off)

LIFE

IS

SO

GOOD

waaaambulance

Published on December 29, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

waaaah I am so busy
waaaah I am so stressed out
waaaah I have so many feelings
waaaah I miss my family
waaaah I never get enough sleep
waaaah waaaah waaaah

ugh ugh ugh Neurotic Phu made a guest appearance in my life this morning as I irrationally started getting irritated with myself for not having an exhibition plan of my own work for 2010 (I try to have my work in 3-5 shows a year), which is dumb because HELLO, it is NOT EVEN 2010 yet. what is my problem??? I obviously need more booze and fewer emails in my life. someday…

This is coming up next week, details very soon:

A Heapload of Thanks

Published on December 7, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

to everyone who came out to Saturday’s Holiday Heap!!


(image courtesy of Tigerlilly.)

Lookit all those people who came out, even in the snow! There were times where you couldn’t even walk through the aisles! (My table and fancy new banner were tucked behind that second pillar on the left.)

We Mafiosos have been gushing to each other about how awesome everyone was–vendors and shoppers, and not sleeping Friday night followed by a loooong 14 hour day was totally worth it. A perfect winter weekend, really. Gigantic snowflakes all day, my favorite crafters, Manfriends earning their keep by helping us break down the space after we were probably too delirious to be on ladders, greeting lots and lots of buddies old and new, a new headband from the Candy Thief, and sooooo. much. coffee.

Newest discovery while work-work-working: Egg Nog instead of cream in my coffee. Amazing.

After a well-earned treat of samosas and jehangiri kofta from my favorite Indian place up the block, I totally crash-snuggled as soon as we left on Saturday. I was looking forward to a day of re-inventorying and looking for the motivation to wear pants on Sunday, until I remembered that I had organized an install day at the gallery! OOPS! all was well though: finally rested, show goes up without a hitch, and a refreshing session of hot hot hot yoga wrapped up the whirlwind weekend.

Re-inventory/re-stock of my Etsy shop this week. Stay tuned!

to do, to do, to do, to do, tomorrow

Published on December 3, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Just got home from a lovely evening with my neighborhood buddies, watching the annual Monument lighting ceremony. I don’t know what it is about this time that gets me all shmoopy, but the lights blinking in every window, hiding behind poofy sweaters and scarves, shoving my little hand into the pocket of your coat, all of that gets me so corny and smiley and happy to be nostalgic and alive. Fireworks, too.

My To Do list has grown a To Do list; pretty soon it will just grow some legs and run around my apartment, taunting me.

All for good reason though, which is of course this year’s Annual Holiday Heap!!!!

we’re gearing up and pretty darn excited. With each show we do, I love that we get better and better, and I’m honored to be showing with my little crafty family here. I have piles of new day planners, all collated and wanting glue. some new upcycled materials using some cool oooooold book covers with the original marbled paper. bookmarks. tyvek.

I had ambitious intentions tonight of finishing a few bindings, but this work week so took it out of me that I will dare go to bed NOW and wake up way way way early (did I mention? I don’t think any of us Mafia members will be sleeping at all on Friday) to get done portion 1 of 54269786327856349287326479 of this monstrous to do list. And then we’ll have the show, and then there will be lots of thumbs up. (and hopefully mama treatin us to dinner, wokka wokka).

See you at 2640!!! If I don’t sell out of everything (and there are always some things left), I think try my hand at a blog giveaway. That’s enough though! ambitious to bed!

Studio: Clean Thyself!

Published on November 29, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

There just aren’t enough hours in the day, days in the week. My holiday long weekend was full of intensity, mostly good, some not so good, and now it’s time to hit the ground running in preparation for this weekend’s Holiday Heap! I’m so excited though: new books on the way, planners in small and large sizes, binding binding binding binding! As it gets dark much earlier, I find myself only interested in binding books and going to yoga. Tempting me out of hibernation usually requires the promise of all things beer, specific company, and karaoke. I could perhaps be persuaded with the regular sushi, but this week it’s time for drawing, cutting, collating, sewing, gluing, and an occasional break to take a Vinyasa. Power through it! Hope to see you out at 2640 on Saturday!

Vay-Kay

Published on November 12, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Hello! I’m having an amazing time in Austin. If I lived down here permanently, I would already be 20 lbs. heavier. today I consumed:
iced coffee
pulled bbq pork sandwich
strawberry milkshake
three modelos with lime
one oyster shooter
2 chile rellenos on a platter with rice, beans, and salad
1 sangria
gummi centipedes
1 blonde ale
1 spaten dunkel
2 bullets of deliciousness
1 PBR
one jr. whataburger and fries and picante sauce

I’m snuggling in C’s cloudy poof of a bed, shaking off my ringing ears of tonight’s mayhem, and loving up this permanent-vacation, no-schedule town. Tomorrow: botanical gardens, swimming, bats, and more taking care of my food baby. I bought some great vintage cowboy boots too; apparently I have such tiny feet that I can shop in the kids section of the little stores down here. cute! Vacations are the shit!

gush

Published on September 27, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

I can’t stop beaming about how amazing our opening was last night. All of my favorite pals came out in the rain to see us, I met and chatted with some awesome people, the bands were so nice and had a blast playing, and everyone was so supportive and just… really really great. Easily one of the best nights I’ve had since moving here in 2008. I don’t think I’ve felt this much after an opening since my MFA thesis. Thank you, Baltimore.

and now, I’m looking forward to the post-show-partum-crasssssh and not coming home from work and drawing every single hour of every single night. *phew*

Shorties

Published on August 31, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

So much right now. I had these lovely intentions of blogging about metaphors behind jade circles (bracelets, in particular), saving up for a house and a fancy new computer, and shout-outs to my new intern, but oops–life gobbled all of that up.

Instead, here are some shorties.

From one of my favorite Crafter Blogs, I discovered this idea of the Sacred Six, or as I like to call it, Staying On Top of Your Shit. Our days, no doubt, are teeming with distraction, and I, that always super-focused person (right), am always happy to find ways to streamline the chaos. The Sacred Six. Work. Art. Home. Life. Certainly sounds more appealing than my pile of sticky notes fluttering out from my planner.


Here’s our postcard image so far! As I’ve mentioned, I am nervous and excited about our upcoming show. The guys and I decided on this title because we’re all working with different metaphors of surface and location/displacement, and “terrain” is vague enough to be conceptual as well as physical. Marty made an interesting observation that he and Andrew make very Boyish art–shapes, bright colors, hard lines, so it’ll be interesting to see all three of us in the same space. Postcards go to print this week!


Also, hey: remember this little guy? Charlie-cat, the little peanut I rescued off the street last November?

NOW LOOK AT HIM

Turns out, I rescued a cat-shaped dog.

Later this week, I am off to SF and Northern California to enjoy the pleasures of cheese, friends, art, ocean, and well, a much needed change of scenery. Off to make that Six List for the day…

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