A baby magnet, a baby nativity and some cute little felt flower hair thingies have landed in the shop! Leftovers from the Boutique, which was quite fun I must say. I got many fun things, ate many things, and had a very gay time indeed. I hope everyone is having a nice Holiday! It’s nice to take some time to be with family, food, and the best part: to relax. I’ve been in a version of pj’s all day, didn’t shop at all, and actually have just been adding recipes and these here items. But the recipes, I don’t know what it is, but I have been bitten by the baking bug, so expect many more baked items from me.

Here’s one, that bit me and in turn I had to bite back. I do that sometimes.

I also put a little piece into a show at Sea and Space, which is kinda like a solo show. But in a very group way. I called the show “Forecasts and Parades”. I’m also working on a ton of things in my studio so the other part of my 4 day weekend will be at school in the studio or in the sculpture lab, making things like there’s no tomorrow.

Ramona and I have finally made it official: we’re going for the Boutique.  Every year at her Thanksgiving shindig it has been getting bigger and bigger with headdress making contests, people selling wares, and this year making it an official boutique and even cooking competition.  She is way too good a hostess for anyone to miss this event!  I’m excited… I have made a bunch of special items for this event, including the nativity scene that is pictured.  RSVP for the address.

Ms. Ramona is throwing her annual Thanksgiving bash and this year it is official: we have added a boutique.  So I will be there with all sorts of creations and there will be a lot of other vendors, makers, crafters, jewelers etc.  If you’d like to be there, just email me on the contact page.

3rd Annual Pilgrim and Indian Thanksgiving Gala and Boutique
Ramona’s House in Long Beach. RSVP for address.
Saturday, November 22, 2 p.m.

Yay, always excited about being in someone’s treasury.  Nikasha Designs included me in their latest treasury:

That print is something I made back in printmaking.  It’s a waterless litho that I scanned in the computer to make prints from.  I always liked this one because it has the earliest signs of me being interested in what was later to become known as the toner transfer phenomenon, which looks spittingly like this, but it isn’t. That combination of black and white illustration or image with something else just gets my heart pumpin.  And speaking of heart pumping . . . coffee time!

The top of last week I lost some things–three things to be exact–that have been with me for a long, long time.  My teeth!  The recovery process is slow and soups are still the meal of choice, but I have gained some things as well. Like, for example, my air conditioner cover/plant stand!  Let me introduce you two:

I am very excited about this foray into furniture design and wood craftyness. I just keep scheming up more things to make. Notice the detail below:

I’ve also been painting and stuff, and we’ll get some photos of that this weekend. But finally I was able to plant some of my latest acquisitions and the patio is shaping up.

This next document is proof of how my cat has bad manners and how her mom enables her and even thinks she’s cute and captures it in a photo all the while she really has distaste for sleeping in, on, or near cat hair: