you were twenty thousand leagues

Can't sleep. Never gonna sleep.

Started a new new piece today (the octopus) on handmade cotton paper and spending the night working on that as well as the salton sea piece (also on handmade cotton paper). It's 1:35am and I am exhausted but no hopes for sleep anytime soon. I think I may do a papermaking workshop in Tallahassee - especially using kudzu...it's invading our town!

First Friday, Halloween movies, &sleeping creatures

Set up in The Autonomous Workshop for First Friday

Sleeping Children - coffee dyed handmade paper, ink, hand stitching

by keeping - coffee dyed handmade paper, ink, hand stitching

Here is a picture from First Friday! And two (finally) finished pieces! I am working on my Etsy shop today so there will be updates soon! And I am a little sleep deprived and sick so I will be wrapped up in blankets on the couch, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and probably watching Hocus Pocus, Teen Witch, Monster Squad...etc etc. ...while working.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! And thank you to all my friends and to all the wonderful new people I met who came out last night!

insomnia

been sewing all day! now for a giant pot of coffee to pull an all nighter for First Friday!

I am going to miss being in the desert. I am going to miss being in the mountains and near the Pacific Ocean. In less than a week’s time I will be back three hours into the future and reflecting on my summer of 2011. These past few months have been some of the hardest, loneliest, best, and exciting of my life.

So, here’s to Florida and California and New York. Today I am writing out my six month plan because, yes, I am moving back to New York next year.

I can’t wait to look back on this time in my life and feel so amazingly smart and strong for it.

new inspirations

New work.

-handmade paper, thread, ink

summer inspirations