march is the anniversary month & today is the last day to get your free shipping on @ my sprout studio etsy shop &, the last day to get 25% (hello! yes, 25%) off at my regular sprout studio site with the code "six" in the checkout discount box!
hurry, speed away, do some spring shopping!
xxx.
quick teaser; more details coming -- april 24th, my next collaborative show in our project sprout gallery with kerstin svendsen. 6-9 pm, 900 tennessee st. come on out!
you, smiling person that you are, should go add your beaming, grinning, beautiful face to this project that yoko ono is doing. you probably know by now that i love yoko & once again, she has embarked on a beautiful gesture piece. share in the good feeling smile vibes & add to her flickr pool & film.
if you are still feeling the smile pull, you can go do this smile piece as well by y.o. --
SMILE PIECE by Yoko Ono
Send a smile to your friend so he/she can smile, too.
Think of a way to do it.
You could send a photo that says 'smile',
or a picture, a story, or a piece of pie,
but specify that it's a smile you're passing on.
Ask him/her to do the same:
to pass on the 'smile' in his/her own way.
i love renegade. i really do. my friend christine & i decided this year that we would try to do almost all of the renegade craft fairs. they are consistently our best shows; our customers rock the fair for us & we really do have a good time! we decided to splitsy on our booths because we share really well :) we love each other, we can save money, and our mister's like each other too!
so far we are definitely in the austin renegade & the brooklyn renegade! we will be flying to both of these places & setting up shop (more like camp!) & hopefully having fantastically fabulous shows!
we are hoping to get into l.a. (she lives there) & sf (i obviously live here) & then, i'm hoping to do the holiday sf one with a local artist gal.
mark your calendars fine folks - i'm excited to do austin as it will be brand new people to see, and brooklyn, my ole fave (& my inaugural splash into the craft scene 5 years ago) i look forward to seeing all you peeps too!
cross your fingers for us for l.a. & for sf!
yay renegade!!
oh ps - i put the renegade handmade logo down there too because my sprout studio goodies are in their chicago shop - & if i could swing the chicago show i would. i love chicago people!
Yours Truly Presents: The Morning Benders "Excuses" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.
...seems to be all about dashed hopes & broken hearts :( i don't know if you, dear reader, have had the opportunity to go home searching. i think it's another world all together when looking with a miniscule budget in the bay area, and specifically, in san francisco proper. we've been looking for just under a year & fit ourselves into about 4 homes at this point, just to have something go not according to plan! & by "fit ourselves into" i mean, these would not be homes that we would necessarily choose in the least (read - crappy little homes), but being budget challenged as we are, we figure out how it would work -- as dreamers, schemers & idealists, we try to make that home fit us because we have what we think it takes to transform something into a little jewel of what we want.
so far, the bay area does not agree with us. it's positively disheartening to dream oneself into a home & then have it taken away because, a - they aren't taking bids anymore on that home, or, b - that home actually is off the market (even though it's listed as active), or, c - the home is not worth all the work you want to put into it, or, d - that home with TWO clawfoot tubs, (yes, two, sigh!!) would actually have to have a hazmat team come in to determine what's been going on in the basement while it's been vacant lo all these years.
this is to say, yesterday, we leapt our little hearts & minds into this home in bayview, with views of bernal heights & twin peaks from the front & a little smidgie view of the golden gate bridge (!!!) from the back. we let it wiggle it's way in & then, just when it had a hold on us, and i could see my future in it's doorway, we get the email telling us it's not a go at all, no more bids are being taken on this home. yes, i cried. yes, i have a head cold to beat all head colds right now which makes negative news worse & i can barely breathe with this cold as it is. yes, i should not have cried because then i *really* couldn't breathe.
so i post these photos of pretty sunsets and double rainbows to help remind myself that maybe there is still a little pot of gold in the bay area for us. maybe, even though i can't see it or feel it, there is still some teeny little home that would like us to move in & shine it up. for a teeny little bit of money for that matter. we will work hard for it. we will. we promise.
well, here's to hoping that we might just find one. maybe.
& if you happen to have a far distant rich uncle that likes to help out poor artists, or a fancy biddie auntie that has a home she'd like to give away in the bay area, you let me know okay?
