fingers in the raw

i've been sewing like a little busy bee as of late! and on an ebay buying craze. that site is deadly dangerous, i say. deadly. dangerous.

ipod case and thick thick interfacing? check!
4" zippers?
::struggles:: no... not.. just... yet......... must... resist... allure of ebay...

urgh.

new little pouches - i am totally in love w/ that fruit/vegetable print. it's even better in person, because the colors are little whack here. it's such a deep deep green blue. delicious and growing. and i colored in those little flowers myself! red & teal are apparently "in."


the gift i'm bringing to erika tomorrow - one of the robot bags i started AGES ago!




i love that i can actually post this here w/o fear of her seeing it. she's predictable like that. though i do owe her a hugely loving erika-post since i crapped out on visiting her last weekend... eep! hope she hasn't been sneaking about on the internets...

here are some old pics from the.... july crafting out loud show:


me w/ my buddha latte. sweetened condensed milk is fucking amazing in coffee. you can see my pouches in the middle, star's old skool toaster covers to the right and some of rachel's little wooden paintings on the left.


there's jen on the left, talking to yen, who makes beautiful, beautiful jewelry. and those are jen's books and journals!


star, with her plethora of shiny record bowls - i think one of those is elton john.

wtf - no pics of rachel?? note to self: bring camera next time.


i have also been completely obsessed with tracking what i am listening to. thanks madge! she recently commented that i should "do this everyday." so that's what i do. every day. at work. i figure this could get *really* boring, *REALLY* fast, so i had to curb my list today. also because it was huge.

wait a minute.

wait a minute..........

HAHAHA! you thought you were getting away? i don't think so.

listening to:

• terry gross interview w/ gene simmons (via unauthorized audio on wikipedia)
• the rollercoaster ride - belle & sebastian, the boy w/ the arab strap
• gasoline - the new year, newness ends
• don't talk (put your head on my shoulder) - the beach boys, pet sounds (skipped halfway thru)
• ugly - pond, rock collection
• matinee idol - rufus wainwright, rufus wainwright
• i hope for tumbleweeds - chin up chin up, we should have never lived like we were skyscrapers
• the silence of underwater traffic - the cancer conspiracy, the audio medium
• aurora - bjork, vespertine
• ambulance for the ambiance - broken social scene, beehive
• rookie - boy sets fire, after the eulogy
• you too song - errortype:11, amplified to rock
• my mother was a chinese trapeze artist - the decemberists, five songs
• broken - audio learning center, friendships often fade away
• new clear saturday - jejune, this afternoon's malady
• bb mineral-love my way - mineral, &Serenading 7"
• water your hands - aloha, here comes everyone
• junk bond trader - elliott smith, figure 8
• the other side - the dismemberment plan, change
• lebanese blonde - thievery corporation, garden state
• this hits home - the mercury program, the mercury program
• track 05 (?) - the casket lottery
• convict - the appleseed cast, low level owl: volume 1
• break in the new year - cursive, the storms of early summer

i logged into my computer thru citrix.


i am a nerd.

craft + coffee = fun

much fun was had by gfss girls at the first crafting out loud fair. : ) coffee at the sacred grounds was delicious, the only negative was that it was outside. they have coffee ice cubes!

i think many of us believed that it would be inside the shop. we got there at 6.30 and it was hot-hot-hot and sticky. it cooled off once the sun went down, but then the mosquitos came out. !! i hate when sweat drips down between your ya yas.




jen , star, rachel & me.
products (from left to right):
star - record bowls, toothbrush bracelets (inside the bowls) and toaster covers
me - little pouches for makeup, contact stuff, sundry feminine products
rachel - wood & watercolor paintings, embroidered tank tops
jen - handbound sketchbooks & photo albums


once night fell, we moved to a spot on the sidewalk and hung out w/ yen and (soon to be updated - i can't find her site!).

i want to write more, but it's 1 am. even though i napped like crazy today, i need my sleep.

zzzzz....zz

crafting out loud

sacred grounds

busy bee

so this is what i've been feverishly working on this past week:



little bags! they're about 7 inches by 4 inches. looking at them now, i realize there really aren't that many of them... oh well! i have until saturday, 7 pm.

.... i think that this is all that i'll have to sell at the show. um, and i still haven't finished the 2 big messenger robot bags.

also, i am missing skin from my thumb where the needle tightener knob bashed my sensitive digit. my fault, i'm really bad about where i put my fingers. and i've only stabbed my finger once!

these little babies are for the very first craft show Girlfriend Sweatshop will be participating in on june 3rd!

ok, i have to stop here, because my mind is all over the place and i can't write any sort of coherent paragraph or sentence. i keep rewriting them and rereading them and it's just not meshing in my mind.

night!