So excited to be going to Portland in just a few days for the Handmade Nation Portland premiere! Yay!
Also excited to be on the CraftPerspectives panel* moderated by Museum of Contemporary Craft curator Namita WIggers.at 2pm on Saturday with old friends and new: Susan Beal (West Coast Crafty, Susanstars), Jill Bliss (Blissen), Kate Bingaman-Burt [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Being in a hospital is kind of like being in a really really depressing casino. You’re left in this timeless space where night and day mean little. Somewhere in my wake-up at 3.30am sleepiness the other morning, I decided to take photos of two of the three waiting rooms we spent time in.
I keep [...]
In 1985, I got 3rd place in a school art contest with the theme “Safety.” It was a painting of a policeman stopping traffic, and to this day, I think it only won 3rd place because it marginally had something to do with safety and wasn’t off-topic. Last Sunday, twenty-four years later, I picked up [...]
So this post isn’t so craft-related. It’s people related. Since I see craft as one of the ways to connect with people and like exploring the ways people connect, it fit together in my head. (If you disagree, there are some lovely older posts about craft here. Go forth and explore!) Lately I’ve had some [...]
When you get right down to it, I love lots of things. For starters, I love the seaside, coffee, exploring new cities, 80s nostalgia, people who challenge me and Lionel Richie.
I also love animals. While my love for marsupials has been well documented here, there is one other group of animals I overlooked when [...]
