I've been meaning to share this with you

Right before I moved I got this letter from Ed Emberley. I was overjoyed to get the letter, but I was in the process of moving and I stashed it away for safe keeping. Well, I just found it. If you read my zine or my about page you know I mentioned this fellow. His book sits on my desk to remind me I can draw even on the days I don't think I can. I sent him one of my zines and thanked him for his cool drawing books that I looked at over and over as a kid. He was kind enough to return a note. Thank you Ed Emberley. You are cool.

My Halloween handy work

For those of you who wanted to see the Kermit the Frog suit I made for my little guy...

Tree huggin' and cool envelopes what more could you ask for?

All these fancy catalogs come to my house... I can't afford to buy anything out of them, but I turned them into some cool envelopes. I even recycled the cardboard template from a UPS envelope. nice! Thanks to Paperseed for the great idea. I'm making the paint chip card holder and messenger bag next!

IF-Grow

Remember that bean plant you watched grow in kindergarten?

IF-extremes

 

IF-extremes

My goal with IF is to stay away from what I think are the obvious ideas that would pop into your head. This week for "extremes" I didn't want to do anything about bad/good, hot/cold, light/dark...that sort of thing. So, welcome to my world... I love sushi and spaghetti O's (just not at the same time).

See ya later kitties!

Happy to report that three more Travel Kitties have joined the world of travel.  I started out my little etsy shop with seven official Travel Kitties and after one week I only have two left.  That's pretty cool.  Hopefully I get some pictures rolling in soon.

Today I decided to join Monday Artday

Yup, Monday Artday. It's another reason to do something creative on a topic that I wouldn't normally have thought about. We'll see how it goes. This weeks topic is "retro." On a side note, I got some supplies for my Travel Kitty Correspondence Kit today. I already got started on it. I should however be making a Kermit the Frog costume...that project actually has a due date!

Art on Paper

I am very fortunate now to live in a town with a great library that has a huge selection of art books as well as periodicals. I've been reading issue after issues of Art on Paper and I thought I'd share some of the interesting bits here with you. In the May/June issues, 2006 was the article Floored. A Swiss artist named Joseph Felix Muller carved all the wood floors in his rental house to make four gigantic woodcut prints--how terrific! Huge, huge prints! Here's one picture: I found a few more pictures here. Getting the word out about the TRAVEL KITTY PROJECT continues,as does the work on a Travel Kitty Correspondence Kit I've been thinking about.

Finally, a blogroll.

I've been procrastinating about the blogroll for sometime now. Mostly, because I wanted to have it categorized and this theme wouldn't let me do it that way. Bummer. I realized I could add those little scroll-overs to tell a little about each one so you know what kind of site you're going to click. Anyway, check 'em out...I'll probably be adding a few more, but this was a good start.

Makin' friends at Etsy

Surprisingly after day one at Esty, I made 10 friends. I also had two of my little Travel Kitties leave the litter. Sad, but exciting. I look forward to the pictures from the owners. Cheers to old friends and new today, as I also received an email from a friend I've been missing. *Photo courtesy of the cool mac my husband got from work.