luxe

jeebus! sorry i dropped out of sight there. i had a baaad night yesterday and spent today doing nothing at all. no internets. no reading. no crocheting. no nuttin! i am feeling a bit better now. how bad did i feel today? i got stuff in the mail and didn’t even open it. i think that i overdid things the last couple of days and then that time of the month was not a good combo with that. so. i puked. i sweated. i cried. i showered. and showered again. and then again. and once more. with some more puking, sweating and crying in between. i asked jake how long it would take me to get a handle on my body and what is what.

so, what have i been working on? well…

some of these will be going off as gifts, and a couple not shown will go hopefully go to the artstream valentine show. i need to take some more photos that show the whole thing to send. what else?

they will be listed sunday on my etsy store, www.luxe.etsy.com

barbe let me know that i got a shoutout on the yarnmarket news top 10 spinning fibers list via my buddy shannon okey, which is nice. i need to stock up the shop a bit. so check back, okay? i will also be putting some of the circle collages up for sale there. i love the bright ones, but i love the white on white, ala malevich. you would not believe how much time i manage to spend on one small piece. i have been punching out tons of paper circles in the various sizes and colors ahead of time and attempting to keep them semi-organized by color so i don’t spend even more time looking for something. i still do, but ya know. for the white on white, i have all kinds of printed things, vintage books, dictionary, sheet music, the inserts for my medications (seriously), maps, magazine pages, old notes and letters, bills, all kinds of things. i never throw anything away, so. i glue them down mainly using my finger. i originally used a glue stick, but it seems so wasteful to use a whole glue stick and have the plastic holder leftover, you know? why don’t they have refulls? so i use tacky glue, which i like better than mod podge because it doesn’t stay all sticky and you can use any kind of paint over it. i then use diluted acrylic as well as white guache, but i go over and over and over and over with my number 0/3 and 0 round brush. it takes me forever. i don’t know that it should, but i like process. i look at other people’s work that is supposed to be layered and look old or processed, but they really didn’t take the time to do the processes and you can see it. i do plan to make some postcards and bookmarks from copies of these pieces, and do some embellishment. i think they will be nice extras for orders. i personally love bookmarks. i actually first started making the circle things at this time last year when i was doing the valentine’s postcard swap on flickr, which i am doing again this year. i got invited! woot woot! i learned a hard lesson about making things the right size so you pay for a postcard and not a letter. also, i learned that if it is the right size, it can be as heavy or thick as you want, and still be the price of a postcard!

today, i got an order returned to me that was never picked up from the beginning of december. no one ever contacted me about not getting their order, and it said that they had gotten reminders and never picked it up. i wonder if it was a gift or something. i will email them and see what is up. i assume postage will need to be paid again even if it is the same address, right?

so, today was a wash, which sucks. i always feel so guilty and don’t let myself do anything at all, if i had the energy to. izzy came up to suck my hand and farted the most stinky fart about 2 inches from my face. it reminded me of her insanely gross kitten farts when she was a baby. she also has gross fish breath which is odd to me, pavel never had bad breath when he was so young. he still doesn’t really and he is 3 i think. the sisters have hideous breath, but they are older, so that is how it goes. if kahlo is anywhere in the bedroom licking herself, i can smell it. g-ross! pavel is next to me here snuggled up to his papa. we have been putting this kitty stuff called “calm down!” in their water, and pavel has been a lot less agitated. he still fights with the girls, but it is not nearly as bad and he has been coming out and sleeping with us much more, instead of sleeping in the closet or on top of the fridge. i think it has helped to calm izzy down a bit, too. she still bites me all the time. i am the lowest rung on the totem pole in this house. i really am.

so, i have been wanting to make another non-holiday wreath. it is one of the only forms of decoration in this joint. i found some things that would be very versatile as to what you made with them. remember i made this pom pom wreath last year?here are some i had bookmarked…
a yarn wreath
another here
and here
and the rockin adrian purdeeeeee!
paper “>wreath from martha stewart gave me lots of ideas. fabric flowers? tulle? gorgeous papers rather than plain white? ooooh. it could be amazing.
like this gorgeous one made from fabric scraps really cool.

off i go.
xo
n.