Accomplishment!

My husband's birthday and my best-friend's-husband's birthday fall on the very same day.

This year there was a challenge: keeping two secrets!

My friend commissioned a handmade jacket for her man and my children planned a surprise party for their father.

It was a wild week.

I was very quiet!

And working hard.

See here: my beloved, wearing Francisco's jacket.

+ + +

The jacket is made of wool.

(I so badly wanted to wash and dry the wool hot to shrink and felt it up...will certainly do that for the next project!)

Oh, yes! That lining is made from hand dyed, screen printed cotton.

Coloring

I found myself yesterday with much more to do than could ever be accomplished.

SO I pitched everything and stood amongst the mountains of laundry dyeing fabric.

Schoolish

I've just created a handful of 13 different fabrics that I'm calling "Schoolish" and I am completely, overwhelmingly preoccupied with it.

Dreaming of things I'd make with them.

And scheming ways to make a little dough so that I can buy them up and make these dreamt-of things.

Obsessed! Right, that was the word I was looking for.

Ha!

Take a little peek:

http://www.spoonflower.com/collections/2646

summer skin

Fresh, delicious, maddening summer breezes have finally permeated my very soul!

I've been feeling awake and alive and productive and strong and...good.

Oblique Strategies

Things have been a little slow going for me of late.
Yesterday I heard about Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies -which he first utilised whilst creating the album Another Green World.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention

Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate

Short circuit (If eating peas improves virility, shovel them into your pants)

What are you really thinking about just now?

I think I would like to make my own set.
In a very perfect world.

Anyhow, all of this has ignited the smallest ember.

evolution of the palette (or the girls make art)

grace 03/10

eliz 03/10

collaboration 12/09

Everybody around here is working in oil pastel and watercolor.

bread, eggs, milk, meat

all i want to do is paint today