How excited am I to have a painting featured on the cover of this week’s issue of Long Beach’s The District Weekly!  I can’t wait to get some copies!

Well here it is….the wood thing I’ve been hinting at.  This was a ton of fun to make and I think I have begun a little love affair with the sculpture lab.  Although I did incur one bandaid in the process of making this thing, it was a nice change.  I sort of look at it as a painting since I approached the making of it very similar to the way I paint, that is, by way of chance, acting and reacting, challenges, discovery, and ultimately, obsession.  I think I just named a bunch of cars and perfumes, but really, that’s what happened.  Anyhoo, I hope everyone is having a good post-holiday work week.

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.

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!