Mug, Mug and a Mug...

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Hello! So I busted out and made three more mugs to add to my little shop...it is really fun to see them in *real life* after staring at them on the computer for so long trying to get them right...! I have about three more or so that I am am tinkering away with - hopefully it will not be too long before I can stock them on my virtual shelves...and then - perhaps on to some tote bags and shirts! Maybe...as long as the bags are the real canvas kind and if the shirts fit right...I will have to do a trial run and see for myself...

Hope you had/are having a good week. I stayed home every night so far and I finally feel like I am crossing some things off my list - so that feels good!

I will try to be back tomorrow or Saturday with some links or something fun...

See you then!

Oh ya - I almost forgot - get this - Urban Outfitters is also making artist edition mugs! I can't believe it. Just when I think I am on to something...jeez. They are dollar more but are definately a bit cheerier than mine! Oh well. The Collective Unconcious gets you every time I guess...

Andy Warhol and the Fabulous Fifties...

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The other weekend the gang and I stumbled across this show of Andy Warhol's commercial work from the Fifties. The drawings and prints are so beautiful! I quickly ran around and took a photo of ALMOST EVERY SINGLE PIECE!!! The picture above was one of my favorites - I like all the different hand-stamped little images together like that - gives me lots of ideas for drawing or maybe making some special wrapping paper...

Here are the photos I snapped - sorry the color is a little wacked - and here are some jpgs from the show that I found on artnet (click on exhibitions)...

Happy Tuesday!

I Am Learning How To Crochet and I Really Like These Pieces By Emily Barletta...

Hello! I hope you had a nice day yesterday - if you had a Thanksgiving holiday - or even if you didn't...I am still feeling stuffed. I had such a great time yesterday and now I am trying to do the "getting stuff done" part of my Thanksgiving holiday...

So - like my title says - my good ladyfriend G has given me my one free crochet lesson (her birthday gift to me this year, plus yarn and hook!). I also found these great crochet pieces by Emily Barletta that I think are so great and are really inspiring - thanks once again to love forever (sorry to keep snatching your links!). Emily also has a blog here.

I really like the kind of free-form nature of these sculptures. I am excited to get a book with some good scarf, hat and mitten patterns, but once I have those figured out I would really like to try some more of this experimental type of crochet. Maybe it could be like another art-making medium, like watercolour or photography...another way to make something come alive I guess...

In any case - I think winter and the Holiday season has finally arrived here. For one thing - it is really cold today - and they have turned on the Christmas lights on our street! Tomorrow I am going to try to snap some last fall colour pictures in the park and then I guess it is time to start thinking about gifts and maybe a few decorations for our little apartment...

Have a nice weekend!

Gobble...

Hi! I am off today - relaxing and getting ready to eat a whole lot of bird! I will try to be back tomorrow for a quick post before the weekend hits...

If you are having Thanksgiving today - have a great one!

I Think I Might Have a Problem...

I am turning into such a shutterbug! I really have no control. It took me THREE hours this weekend just to upload 1 cd of photos to flickr. And I have 3 more to go! Good god. I don't know why I make so much work for myself...!

Anyway - here are some Monday links...

...Abby Walton's self-portraits...
...Harsh Patel...
...interviews with Avedon, Tibor, Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid and Philip Johnson via Design Observer...
...books you can download for FREE! (I haven't done it yet - but they look pretty good...) via Print Fetish...
...last days at the New York Times - so kind of sad - thanks to Mr. Love Forever...

Two days closer to Turkey time!!

Hans Christian Andersen Sketchbooks!

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Holy Man. I can't believe how great these sketchbooks from H. C. Andersen are! Thanks so much to Camilla Engman for posting the link! She always has such great finds. I hope it is okay to piggyback her a little on this one...Wow.

There are more sketchbooks here (this one is really beautiful too) and more papercuts here and this is where I got all the images above...

It is a gloomy and cold Saturday day here. I prefer my Saturdays sunny and bright but I guess I will have to try to work with this one - maybe multiple cups of tea and an afternoon spent catching up on email and flickr...

Have a nice weekend!

I Love Animated Gifs...

Here is a new one I am working on (click on the image to see it animate) and here is a nice one that Okada sent to me...

I also found some fun ones on the internets - here they are: (click on them to animate too!)











Have a great weekend! I am so glad it is Friday!

My Friend's Beautiful Pictures of the Gardens at Versailles and Corbusier's Chapel in Ronchamp That She Said I could Steal For This Post...

My lovely friend Brooke went to France this fall and took these beautiful photos. I had to put them up here because I think they are so inspiring and I haven't really taken any great fall shots myself yet. The top photos are from the gardens at Versailles and the middle two are of Corbusier's chapel Notre Dame du Haut that he built in Ronchamp in 1954 (here is a great photo of him...). The last few photos are of the area surrounding the town of Ronchamp - look at that electric pole! Only in France...

Thank you Wikipedia - and Thank you Brooke!