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headed home today.

I need to prepare myself for the "snowpacolypse", but thought I would share these last few sunshine photos.

beach findings. bare feet.

goodness gracious

well, in honor of those that refuse to go to the horrifying mall and decide to begin the holiday shopping extravaganza online, I am offering 25% off any order from my tangible shop.

(Just enter: goodnessgracious into the coupon code section.)

I cannot believe I am talking about shopping. It must be some sort of pumpkin pie induced delusional moment. Take advantage of this.

Our good friend Scott runs a brewery nearby (Paradise Creek Brewery)...here are some photos I have stitched together and mounted that will be on display for the next month or so.

I love this brewery building... it happens to be the old post office. we all know I am obsessed with all things postal and mail related...plus amazing beer, so once everything is installed I will certainly share some more photos here. (and there will be a lovely opening reception bash too sometime in mid-december...yay! stop by if you are in the northwest!) Anything for scott.

xo palouse.

In other news, I may disappear from the blogosphere for a bit because I just moved into a new house!!!...beautiful, magical, overlooking the palouse river (much more about this to come though) and then had to jump on a plane...I am in SUNNY florida for a long overdue visit to my amazing mother perfectly coinciding with thanksgiving. Highs in the 80's today...beach bums and seashell collectors we are.

I will get back next week in a sort of frenzy to nest and get my new place (AND studio...oh my goodness, I have a whole room for a studio....goodbye kitchen studio!) in order. So, I may be quieter here, but will come back with an explosion of images and hopefully new work. I couldn't be happier. LOTS TO DO. happy thanksgiving to all.

tweed portfolio.

i save almost everything.

when placed on a shelf, this looks just like a book. a classy tweed book. secret safe.

the orange kitty looked extra handsome this a.m. with the tweed. just his style. he needs a little interweb shout out love since he has been putting up with the enormous black fluffy pup so gracefully.

happy wednesday.

mary and i have completed our first issue of "someone else's orange"...a little zine collection of excerpts...those juicy bits of books you love. I will be stitching them up this weekend. love.

winter has been holding back so nicely...anticipating a lovely weekend of wandering through the remaining yellow leaves with my good friend carrie who is on her way from olympia as we speak!

warm weekend wishes to you all.

circles

circles on my mind.

woe is me.

I somehow managed to catch a bug last week that has left me with a cough that won't seem to depart. On top of that, I woke up yesterday with hives that have now turned into swollen fingers and toes and a really puffy face. so gross. I'm not sure what is going on here, so I just popped a few benadryl and am pushing my sluggish self through the work day. I feel whooped...like it should be friday. But alas, just wednesday.

Good news though: I finally got some images of my new holiday cards! Check them out here.

Based on recent forest creature doodles, I am hoping these little notes will spread some cold weather cheer.

I should have taken a picture of my swollen fingers to share with you. The little sausages are having quite the time typing. he he

Introducing: Frances Clover!

Frances Clover: my new pup (labradoodle and australian shepherd mix)
frannie and her sister zinnia who lives nearby...

my fabric obsessions for this fall.

more tweed.
I just returned from Seattle where I was working on a collaboration with meadow starts with p...part of an artist in residence program that andrew peterson runs called: fifty-five-oh-six. A wonderful chaotic exploration of play that will result in my own book project based on my time there as well as a short video. I'm sure I will be blabbering on about this as it progresses...so, for now I thought I would share a few images of some tweed portfolios and cases for i-pods that I have been working on just for fun.

way back when I lived in ann arbor, I worked in a book conservation lab at a university of michigan library/museum. It was so wonderful roaming through the archives everyday as I learned to repair old books and documents...I have been a bit nostalgic for this era lately. The majority of my time was really spent building "folders" and boxes to protect items from damage...and now a few years later this has evolved into a subconscious obsession to create little boxes and containers for precious papers and well worn books. I have some old prints and drawings around that I am making this tweed portfolio for...and may list some cases similar to this in the tangible shop.

2011 calendar!!!

opal
sapphire
peridot
ruby
moonstone/pearl
emerald
diamond
aquamarine
amethyst
garnet

Ok, lots of images. The calendars are ready!!! I just put them in the online store, but only a few images can be shown on etsy, so I wanted to have all of the monthly images available for reference here.

Each month has the corresponding gemstone...It was so fun to pull together odds and ends from my sketchbooks with these big raw gemstones. I have been staring at the big rocky bluffs near where I live and went to an excellent lecture on meteorites last night, so the jagged look of these colored birthstones has been really present in my visual mind lately.

The whole process also made me create collages that somehow remind me of each month, and hopefully set up a good starting off point for each month as it comes throughout 2011. April, for example includes a sketch of my mom when she was younger. Her birthday is in April. April and diamonds always bring mom to mind. :)

Enjoy! and please feel free to ask me any questions if you are curious.

calendar sneak peek

a sample from my (in the works) calendar for 2011. mix of small sketches with images of gemstones that correspond to each month/birthstone. i am a ruby, so july will be pretty special.

i should have these all set for printing by late next week.

i think i'll go sit by the river

I sort of locked myself in this past weekend and finally got down to some making. lots of tweed portfolios, journals, etc. on the way...I will be pulling together the images and posting them in the store over the next few days....Struggling with so many ideas, but not enough hours in the day.

I saw a moose climbing a huge hill on my way to work yesterday. long walks through the changing scenery, trips to the river. This fall is so lovely and has only just begun.

Oh, here's a song about a river I love:

sunday

My first loaf...Whole wheat with flax.
a new journal...spine covered in SUPER soft suede from an old jacket.
An ad I found on the posting board at the market. If only I had a full yard that needed mowing...
Oh, I am really wishing this weekend wasn't coming to a close. Wonderful adventures in bread making, dancing with mr. tim, estate sales and sunshine. It's a bit cloudy this morning, but I am finally making progress with some computer work...website on its way and I also have a 2011 calendar in the works. More on all of this later in the week.

my my my

good night harvest moon.

these new list books have very light blue graph paper pages, the smallest grid i have ever found, but printed lightly enough to prevent any interference with my not so careful scribbles.