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Have you heard of Meatpaper Magazine?

I sometimes shelve it at my job, and I noticed it in the window of Belmont Butchery. It is a really neat magazine about, well, meat. And not recipes or barbeque tips, but the beauty of it, really. I guess I never thought meat was beautiful - and I still don't really - but this magazine casts it in a whole new light.

I was talking to my brother yesterday and he mentioned that the older he gets, the more he cares about eating deliciously. When he came to visit, we went on a little foodie tour of Richmond, and I had the opportunity to try some things I've never had before. I'd never had a bbq pulled chicken sandwich before I had one at Buz and Ned's. And I tried my first fried catfish, brussel sprouts, and NY sirloin at Comfort.

While enjoying a gyro "battleship" at the Black Sheep, I said aloud - I feel sorry for vegetarians. I definitely understand where they are coming from, but it's not for me.

I love meat!

If you have time, watch this quick animation I found on their website

i need a new sofa.

these are the pillows im working on for my textiles final.

hank is also an added bonus

i've been keeping a sketchbook! i'm very proud of this feat.


here is a page from it. easter egg collages! i miss easter already!

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!!!

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!

ben

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

im loving paper cutouts!

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

made this for gideon for his birthday. he liked it. i was satisfied. i didnt think c3po looked c3po enough, but yeah.






here is a rhino embroidered pencil bag that will be for my etsy shop once i set it up. until then, im selling it for 23$ if anyone is interested. it's hand embroidered and hand-sewn. the embroidery is from an original drawing by yours truly.





this is another embroidered bag with another originial drawing - dead batteries - from a series called 10 things that are annoying. this one is smaller and is 20$. if you're interested let me know!

i know i havent posted in so long, but i have kept crafting. will and i will be going to california on thursday for 10 days. we are going to another diy craft fair in la called felt club and we're excited. it should be bigger than pile of craft.


i picked up this book, the guerilla art kit by one of my favorite bloggers, kerri smith. i made these king tomato stickers using a recipe she had for lick and stick stickers. the picture on the left is the drawing process. the stickers are all cut up now complete withthe mixture on the back of them. you need to get this book and try it out, so much fun.

hope everyone had a great 4th! i have more to post but ill try to break it up.

my computer is fixed! yay!

so lately my crafting has been limited, but here's what i have.


i worked on a scrapbook for a friend, and i really liked this page so i thought i'd share. it's just a sorta messy page with artifacts from our relationship - a ticket stub, a sticker, pieces of letters, etc. lately ive been liking this exercise - mapped out compilations of things - or junk to some people - with hand-written explanations.

ive also been working on an "art journal." it is essentially a written and visual medium to journal or list, and it's fun to write whatever is on my mind or give myself an activity. here is a picture of a page, i tried to make it blurry but if you work really hard you can read what it says.



tons of buttons! im thinking of putting them in sets of three and selling them. anyone interested?


and finally, the screened shirt (please excuse my polka dotted bra):

would people be interested in purchasing one? id probably sell them for 15$. but i dont know. i might need to retire the screen. let me know please!

i think im going to get some stickers screened to promote this site.

embroidery

lately ive been really into embroidery. i had a hard time at first because i had no idea what i was doing but i bought a book with instructions and it really helped. im trying to do an embroidered portrait of steve nash (my favorite basketball player), and im learning as i go so it's not that impressive but it's fun!'


this is what i have so far.


i also did a little ghost. i dont know what to do with him, but i kinda want to put one on everything now. he's so cute but sad.


mmm new threaddddd

gocco a gogo

last night my print gocco came from japan! it's a beautiful pg5 kit for fabric and paper. for those who are unfamiliar with gocco - it's a screenprinting machine from japanese brand riso. you draw an original with a carbon pen or pencil, then slide in a master screen and expose the screen with camera bulbs. you use the screen as a stencil to push ink through the mesh.

it's just like silk screening but it's less messy and much easier. i was so excited when it came i quickly drew up a messy squirrel to test it out. it might have been a waste of screen but i got some good cards out of it.

and i made a chromosome card. oh how i love science.