Button Factory Open Studios 2007

I got accepted into the Button Factory Open Studios! The Open Studios weekend is always the first weekend in December. This year the dates are December 1st and 2nd, 2007. For the most part I will sell these sweater dresses made from secondhand sweaters. I will also make hand puppets and [...]

Outside

It is unseasonably warm here. We are spending a lot of time playing outdoors.

Homemaker Art

It is a good thing that I see art everywhere – right? Alex was playing with his legos and I started to think of Felix Gonzalez-Torres and his candy sculptures. I pushed the legos in the corner and took a picture. I was like what’s-his-name in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. [...]

Stealing Ideas

I think one of the reasons I love reading blogs and magazines so much is that I need constant inspiration. I love creating. I love seeing a new idea and trying to recreate it myself. Remember those great sculptures I posted about a while back by Michelle Brand. She created these [...]

Flapper Style

I am in love with all the 20’s inspiration I’m seeing everywhere. First I saw the Proenza Schouler show via the ModTV podcast through ITunes. I fell in love with the hats in the show.
Then I saw the 2o’s inspired fashion spread in the latest Vogue. You can see the whole [...]

The Real Thing

It was hot and muggy here yesterday. My neighbor Brenda and I entertained our kids indoors in order to stay out of the hazy sun. Brenda pulled out a nice big square of packing bubble wrap and laid it on the kitchen floor. Alex and Lily popped the bubbles with their feet. [...]

360 of Hillary Rally in Portsmouth

Diane and I went to a Hillary Rally in Portsmouth last night. We waited for over an hour before we got a glimpse of Hillary and Bill. They both seemed a little tired. It was their third rally of the day. Just as the rally was feeling like it was [...]