New listing on etsy for a bow headband! I hope to start cranking a lot of these out - I just need a ride to target to get more supplies...

I hope to have a car soon!


Also working on some valentines day necklaces. I have no idea how to promote this stuff, I guess just word of mouth.

cacti

these will be posted in my shop soon - a series of 5 fabric cactus necklaces. I might want to find a model for them to show how they complete an outfit.

why i love breaks from school

I have time to spend making things that are sell-able,

time to embroider and hang out with my favorite dog

time to cook - homemade turkey burgers with gruyère

cactus necklace

something i'm working on for

my machine hates when i topstitch - the feed halts and then lurches.

this is a brand new hand embroidery magazine.

it's viewable free online. It has some nice articles on contemporary embroiders.

i need a new sofa.

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

hank is also an added bonus

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!!!

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.

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.