oh oh

i made this as a quasi-easter-basket-sorry-i-couldn't-go-to-the-beach present for my friend (and future roommate!), kate. i filled it with tea, mints, a dark chocolate bunny, and a necklace. 

i do believe she liked it. 

bunny label

I used to try to write my friend Richard a letter each week, because he gets sad on Wednesdays (long story). Of course, I slacked off, but I still love him and send him good vibes on Wednesdays. Anyway, I really liked this bunny. 

following amber's lead, i made magnets using some ugly free "i love gavin degraw" magnets that plan 9 gave out. 

sharpie art

raccoon bandit drawing. i want to burn a screen with him... or make a stamp. we shall see. 

amber

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this is my friend amber. she's a pretty awesome artist. check out her online uber portfolio.

she came over and made me a wonderful gift using my two mollymilkfish stamps (perhaps i will later post about the wonders of linoleum?)


she also made this awesome cow cutout. with more shameless mollymilkfish plugging.

for illustration friday

this week's topic is primitive. i chose to layer the cave drawings in order to make the whole piece even more primitive. i don't know if i like it all that much, though. just dicking around.

i am a bug geek.

this is my favorite thing i've ever embroidered. it's a cicada on a white tee shirt.

i really miss the cicadas. it's officially been 4 years since brood X visited northern virginia/dc. i remember my bio teacher took us out digging for little ones. today i saw a white webbish thing in a tree, and almost 100 tiny caterpillars were wriggling around it. bugs are always better in large numbers, dont you agree?

click here for a really awesome stop action molting cicada. if you dont like bugs, you might not want to watch.

speaking of bugs,



this is herbert. he was my dead bee. he was really cool while i had him. but i got drunk one night and got a little too rough. he split in two. now i can't listen to Tom Petty's "You Wreck Me" without a heavy heavy heart. ("you wreck me baby, you break me in two"). that album also has "Honey Bee." it's a guilty listen.

p.s. 5oth post!!!

need more spf 1000

this is what 45 minutes of sun yesterday did to me. note how appropriate the necklace is...


ok enough chest shots for one blog!

in progress:

gregor mendel in thread. on purple fabric i found for free outside the frame shop here in charlottesville! almost makes me regret saying anything bad about this place. also check out my totally cute wooden needle holder from the small object. photos taken on cassie's refrigerator. i dont really put too much in there (it's inefficient to eat), but the top of it makes a great glossy background.

in progress:

my grey (gray? which is better?) sweatshirt was looking a little boring. here is an iguana that i am putting on it. he'll have a frame around him when im done.

cluster

my wall has gotten busier.



this is my dream.

new blog!

i've moved from cuterthanmartha

for a few reasons.

#1.
ever heard of notmartha? well i hadnt, until after i created cuterthanmartha. and then it was just awkward.

#2.
no one is cuter than martha

#3.
the old blog didn't allow me to do a lot of things. there were some account glitches.

#4.
the plan is to legally change my name if i can't find a man named milkfish to marry.


so welcome to the new blog. photos courtesy of amber erickson. she's good for some stuff.

and i resolve to try to post every day!
whoa!

everyone's favorite wish-he-wasnt-gay guy

i've been obsessively listening to ten in the swear jar and xiu xiu lately.



click and print for a jamie stewart coloring page!

oh oh robespierre

i have a friend who really likes the french revolution.

like REALLY likes it.


for his birthday, i embroidered robespierre, leader of the jacobins. i dont know much about any of this, so you'd have to ask him for details. alls i know is this is what he looks like. I traced over it with a sulky heat transfer pen, then put it on some white fabric.

here he is embroidered. he sorta looks like george washington, oh well.

then i stuck him in a shadow box, and put a frame around him about 2 inches in front of the fabric. it creates a sorta peek in kinda look.

anyway, he says he liked it so im glad! im going to make one for me with gregor mendel. ive almost finished embroidering him.

ben

my brother (^) is moving to France. Maybe I'll go visit him.

baby animalssss

i made this envelope for a friend from a book called "Baby Animals" nabbed from the bargain section at Barnes and Noble. Giant glossy pages with picture of cute things are perfect for envelope making.

im loving paper cutouts!

here is a rooster in a shadowbox; he's on my wall with a bunny right now.