The Tale of How

An amazing animation by some guys called The Blackheart Gang. Found this on one of my favorite blogs, Ectoplasmosis! It was circulating the web last week I think, but I still think its fabulous enough to share again.

The Tale of How from Shy the Sun on Vimeo.

That's not a beading board... THIS is a beading board

Yea, I'm still workin on it. YAY!

Blue spiral with green pebbles

Voila! C'est magnifique! And from a little bit ago, but I know you forgive me. I'm working dammit, no time for pictures. Soon... soon....

Hathaway Brown Craft Fair

Most of my days are being spent preparing for this! Check out the link if you're interested, or if you live near Cleveland and want something awesome to do two weeks from now. There's a coupon for admission on the site, as well as a list of participating artists, including my fabulous self.

I have been working on more than these...

... but I've been more focused on the makin' and less on the photos. I'll remedy that, one day, dear friends.

I made these frames for my booth display yesterday. They were a great buy at an antique store up in Clintonville. The plan is to dangle them on either side of my tent, inside the new walls I've purchased, so it'll look like I've got jewelry instead of paintings on the walls. I'm excited to see it in action! And slightly anxious to see that it works. But how could hanging an antique picture frame from a velcroed tent wall with lots of earrings on it go wrong?

After putting these babies together I went to see David Sedaris speak at the Book Loft. Well, more like listened, we were all packed in and back where my friend C and I were we couldn't really see him. But it was still hillarious. One of my favorite stories involved a woman who taught the special ed classes at high school, and Sedaris asked her "Aren't they mostly just assholes, like, isn't that why they're in special ed?" "Exactly," she agreed, then went on to describe how on the last day of school one of the kids had written that she was a "Cockmaster" on the board, and she was just happy he spelled it right.

Hehehe.

A million studio pictures

So, I took a bunch of pictures tonight for no particular reason. I was workin on various things, and got some pictures of those in progress, in addition to the magical wonderful place I call my studio.

In order of post: 1. All the pieces I'm working on right now 2. My new root branch series 3. Various test pieces I keep by the kiln to try out color combinations 4.The kiln, bakin at 1339F 5. Some pieces that have just had purple enamel dusted on them

Goin back in time with my playlist tonight: Rasputina (thanks for the ether) and VNV Nation (i'm not sure which album, actually)

Sketches

Ok, so I lied about posting in progress work. I'm feelin kinda crappy tonight, so I decided to chill, watch some Bones and do some sketches instead of get into hardcore jewelrymakin. So, here's the result. Brainstorming some new designs.
Also, the lightning outside today is freakin awesome! Really large and beautiful. Go outside and look!