Archive for January, 2009

These little hair clips keep me together, without them I fall apart into tiny pieces and then blow away in the wind. I need to teak the color in LAB mode in Photoshop and then I wills end this off to SpoonFlower. I’ll do a few variations and just try out some swatches. Stay tuned [...]

I take it back

I think I will make this dress again. On further reflection the thing that made making this so annoying was that the fusible interfacing I used was too thick. Maybe I’ll make it again with some of that apple fabric I saw the other day.

I finished my dress except for a few odd threads that need to be trimmed oh and I really should stitch down the back of the collar. I finished it last night and suddenly had a very let down feeling, like, THIS IS IT?! BAH HUMBUG. hand making shit is for CHUMPS. But then I [...]

Finding an old list

I found an old list today while opening up a notebook for Jack to draw in. It’s titled “some new goals for 2002″ and includes such items as, get a job, rollerblade more (thusly implying that i had been rollerblading AT ALL?!?), do other projects I have listed elsewhere, do a flash animation, acquire a [...]

I’m doing a hula hoop DVD giveaway over on indiecrafts.craftgossip.com. I took the hoop girl class in SF a while back. It was fun and I learned some good tricks but I am NOR PERFORMANCE ORIENTED. No way no how. Also, I’m totally uncoordinated and shit. But it was still fun and I still mess [...]

BEFORE: So Badger came over on Friday and was all brutal and making fun of me and all my crap. But she whirled through my stuff while I dithered and tried to pause to go through and old pbin of post cards or photos or started to sort my 57 billion pairs of tights. She [...]

well, my dress is almost finished. Yesterday I worked on sewing on the second to last piece. I had nightmares about it after I went to bed. The dress was 4 inches too short somehow and made me look fat. The piece I have left to sew is the next collar point piece. I think [...]

Happy New Year!

I like new years. I like thinking about what I did over the last year and dreaming up new shit to do. It’s hard ot remember all the things I did this year! In 2008 I: went to Hawaii camped out at the ranch quit my day job got better at and had more fun [...]