Caitlin & Zachary Keenan

Congratulations!

Get a

JOB

slip-ons as gift

I've been having really great dreams this week. In Wednesday nights dream I had decorated a pair of white canvas shoes and gave them to a friend. He adored them. I remember explaining them to other people in my dream, so when I woke up there was no way I was going to forget.
After creating them in photoshop, I realized that they look so similar to my friend Annie's knit patterns. They didn't at all in my dream, but one I started with the paint tool, they transformed into something else. The orange circles were big metallic copper beads and the black was all embroidered. I'm thinking the next step will have to be three-dimensional. I'll get right on that in October..

moderately schooled

I have been sewing like a mad person and having a good time! I've decided to spend the summer indoors and it's not because I have AC (cause I don't) but because I have been constructing shoes, making wedding dresses and have been taken on funny day projects. I've been pulling out the pencils and my envelopes stuffed with paper as to not loose that touch. I'm also writing for grants and have been showing art around town (this gets me outta the house).
Classes will start soon, and then I'll get a new car or new boots to beat the snow. For the first time ever I have found myself sticking my head in the freezer as if it was normal. This sticky heat is brutal. Bring me cold minus the holidays.

things that keep me going..

life, indoors

So this is the new spot. Next project: outdoor sewing station, although the place is kinda already like a 4 season porch.

shoes

Had to one-up my baby booties and have now been making shoes. They will be available online as soon as I send them out West.

More to come.

Happy fathers day

Please don't keep your kid on a leash.

lazy day travels - camera phone photos

Sailing in the Bay (thanks Joey)..




Drove home without a fuss.

Flocked

Casket Arts Carriage House, 1720 Madison St NE #203, Minneapolis

Opening Party 8-11pm Friday May 14th

new book

Not referring to the stoner metal band, but rather androgynous people we all know and love.

Nat King Cat Power

DOUBLE NATURE

claire danes

Aarg, strait to yes.
We'll breathe.
While moving empty boxes and tying ropes into knots, we'll find what we are looking for.
She's great and we've seemed to have traveled this circle, like this has happened once before and so we know just what to do.
This isn't really about Claire, just a way to say that it could be.
There's no such thing as never.

moon sliver

Collaborative Quilt
w/ Monica Canilao
@ AOT 2009

Anticipation

Felting, cont'd.

Peter O'Toole

Booties in a day

I started felting yesterday morning and this is where it lead me. The yellow was created by using my own take on the wet felting process and the grey is commercial. I think they look like ducks.

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no joke, it's true

Haven't driven through the Pacific Northwest in years. May is going to be an excellent month.
Photographs from a 2001 trip.