Chase and I don’t do Christmas, except that we do. For the past couple of years we’ve gone to Anne and Foley’s for Christmas morning and it’s been a joy. Anne is my favourite present monster and it’s always the most pleasurable challenge to make or find her something. Last year I did a 25-day advent calender for her, so I wasn’t sure how to top that. And I gave Foley something way too goofy for her birthday, so I needed to figure out how to balance that. Chase suggested…
Tag: embroidery
Embroidery focus . . . um . . . fin
Right! Focus month of embroidery, which I was—am—very happy about. But I hadn’t fully realised something after ‘finishing’ last month’s focus. Chase’s show is still in production and though it’s not 100% of my focus right now, it’s definitely at least 50%. So what I’d wanted to get done this month—four pieces using techniques I’d not tried before—has ended up being halved. But I also produced things (that I still can’t share, as much as it pains me) for Chase’s show too. But here are the official focus month of…
May focus, embroidery
This month I got: 20, 13, 3 Animatic for The Audacity Gambit Sewing: clothes Embroidery Ink comic from last February (Richard III) Nails Photography: make sets, pick direction Next book Library Garden Cooking Painting Fashion blogging The unfinished/begun monographs Final Space Goth chapter Chase and Brenna collabs Miniatures Get rid of old art Printmaking Papier mâché Old photos Finished: Ma-me’ branding Airbrush Sewing: mending & Old work archive/organise Secret show production I’d been hoping embroidery would come up. I miss it, that four-hour commute window I had every day is…
Focus on branding Ma-mé, the logo
Ooh branding! Trina needed a logo to use for her blog/site, for Etsy and to turn into a rubber stamp to use in packaging. She sent me a bunch of type she liked and I made a moodboard because those are fun to do while your brain thinks. This image she liked the lettering in a bit, and it already had the right letters. So I played with that a bit and sent it to her. It wasn’t quite working, so I pulled out some markers and played some more.…
So much
After the total concert cockblock, we ended up going to Scissor Sisters the next week. It was an amazing show (I did a nail for it) and it answered the question that’s been in the back of my mind for ages, “Would I like clubbing?” Answer: YES. They made us work for the encore, came out with a costume change and right at the climax of the last song the ceiling exploded confetti and it was essentially magic. Drifting down, among the little tissue paper and mylar bits, were three…