fever to tell

Olivia Jeffries 


I'm always interested in this aesthetic. I like beautiful things. I like thinking about why things like this are beautiful. I like time. I like delicate things. I like pieces of her artist statement about things that move her: "the complex and unknowable nature of reality, an intimate moment which exists for just a second and is then forgotten or the impossibility of feeling how someone else feels..."

and you still refuse to speak

empty vessels

my secret self: you can't always be friendly, there just isn't time

In short: I don't like all of her pieces but I like thinking about them.

I heard a rumor

I feel obligated to let you all in on a secret...

I've got a few things in the works, and can't wait to share them as soon as they're finished.

In the mean time, blogging may decrease in frequency, but stay tuned!

little bunny foo foo (so say we all)

Alexa Meade paints people on people.

I went home for Easter and just got back yesterday. I have a week to throw together a poster (and data) for a conference next Wednesday out west and I'm behind in my printing from all of the traveling. Basically, I'm spending 24 hours a day in the studio and in the lab from now till forever. and I'm really, really excited. 

This was my Easter:

I'm also thinking very seriously about opening an Etsy shop. This way, I can have a year to get going, to get some of the kinks worked out, and then an entire summer (or year) to do it full-time before I start my PhD work. I'm not sure if the whole full-time Phd and full-time Etsy baby is a good idea, but this week has reinforced my conviction that I can do both and I can "have it all" (as Liz Lemon would say). If I want to. I'll probably have to start eating ham though.

this tornado loves you

this is the busiest week.

found this via Etsy Finds:

 

http://www.racheltrobertson.com/

this is related to the things I'm doing, saying, feeling, thinking.

sew what?

All week I've been sewing, crocheting, and applique-ing.. So, here are some amazing artists, sites, and things that inspired me to break out that rusty sewing machine and get to it.

-First, one of my all time favorite blogs: Masquerade. It's a knit graffiti group from Sweden: how glorious. One of these days I'm going to find these people knitting in the

 Swedish bars and infiltrate their ranks. Oh, and I'll be spending an evening at Hotel Fox in Denmark while I'm at it.

- In the spirit of my Swedish obsessions, here's an adorable "I wish we had IKEA" pillow from etsy's skinnylaminx. After all, who doesn't love voracious efficiency and low prices?

- What's not to love? These pillows from etsy's pillowhappy are fabulous.

 If only I had these when we play scrabble and eat cookies! (with letters written on them with icing, of course)

 -I want this. Enough said. (from etsy's LittleHouses) 

- And yes, I know this is an illustration.. but on closer inspection, it's been sewn as well!

 In general, I adore all of michele maule's illustrations... especially her spools and typewriters. (plus, she's from Detroit... huzzah for local talent!)

---Okay okay, I promise, no more etsy finds!---

-These cups are amazing... I don't know how she does it, but it has me hooked. Check out the ceramic embroidery (and more!) by Claire Coles.

- And finally... Embroidery As Art blog by talented embroidery artist Jenny Hart. (I especially like her embroidered comic pieces from her flickr account!)

Alright, that's all for this week. I hope it inspires you to break out your sewing machine and tailor something, change something, or make something. (or at least buy one of these amazing pieces!) 

Leave a comment if you have any other fabulous sewing/knitting/etc. finds that you'd like to share! 

Until next week...