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?
Lykke Li & Bon Iver doing 'Dance Dance Dance' in L.A from Lykke Li on Vimeo.
hey everyone,
please come on by this sunday if you'd like to take another look at our work, didn't get to come to the opening or if you'd like to make a purchase! we would love to see you. this sunday, feb 21st, 2-5, tea & treats on hand :) the project sprout gallery is located in dogpatch, 900 tennessee st.
pass this along to friends if you'd like too!
so katrina & myself opened our domestiCity show a fortnight ago (seems longer than that, i do believe i have moved on from the work & am ready to begin something new) the inaugural evening of the gallery was such fun & lovely works by the two of us came together so well. (if i do say so) it was exciting to see all the work framed, all our hard work paying off. always a learning process involved as well, but it is thrilling to have a gallery space in our home, & i get to greet the work each morning :)
the mister photographed our works so please go see all the documented work here
& don't forget to come on out still if you missed it or are wanting to see the works again or if you are feeling like you really need to make a purchase!! we are open until feb 20 by appointment & we have a closing on the 21st of februay from 2-5 that you are invited to as well! please come see us, we'll have yummy tea & treats for you :)
my i-pola's that took almost 3 hours to hang straight and in that formation - yowza!
the domestiCity show photos are up on deck next, but in the mean-i'm-really-exhausted-time, this is what i'm thinking:
i have a pimple & my show is open & i'm tired, tired, tired. i've been scouring for new recipes to try, thinking about organization, new art lesson plans for the kiddos, and dreaming about a spa weekend. oh february.
...reminding you to come on out tomorrow night from 6-9 for our domestiCity show at the project sprout gallery; 900 tennessee st, dogpatch hood yo!
if you can't make the opening, mark your calendar for the closing tea on the 21st of february from 2-5 :)
hope to see you!
xxx.
just peeking out & saying hey, & remember that my inaugural project gallery show is THIS saturday people....bay area folks please come say hi to me. (& out of the area folks too, oh my, any east coast, mid west friends flying in? hee hee...)
and i'm here to tell you - dranking too much whiskey & eating too much vegan haggis last night is not a way to wake up early with kiddos at the waiting. we celebrated robert burns, scottish poet & populist hero, with my englishman neighbor-friend. we also read lovely sweet poems & some naughty ones to boot!
off to listen to some bluegrass tonight & finish up some framing of some i-pola's for my domestiCity show! eep!
so a little while ago i was scheming on how to collaborate with some awesome lady artists, and this is how it has unfolded - lightbulb - make rad glass necklaces with them! first up for the sprout editions is mati mcdonough , she is our ms january & we made two necklaces -- they are super fantastic and of course i'm sure i'll need one of each :) & i think you might need them too. check them out on my sprout studio site & scoop one or both up!
each month i'll be collaborating with a different lady artist & for 2010 we have a baker's dozen of exciting sprout necklace editions lined up. stay tuned, because february is coming up fast!
xxx.
we have a sidewalk chalk word artist in our dogpatch neighborhood. this is one of my faves i've seen. they always make this odd, patched together - sort of sense. sometimes they are political, sometimes i'm not sure what the little poetry writings are referring too. but this one, this one i just love. i'll be printing about 10-12 of my i-pola's for my upcoming show & i'm fairly certain this will be one of them :)
hello art lovers!! here's the first of the big 2010 news -- we are so thrilled to unveil our first, kick off, inaugural show at the *project sprout gallery* at the 900 tennessee in dogpatch! katrina rodabaugh & myself will be exhibiting photos, prints, & works on paper & we couldn't be more excited!!
january 30th is our opening & we have a closing tea in february as well. we would LOVE to have you - please mark your calendars and come out & help us celebrate!
the mister & me are crazy stoked to begin our venture in the home gallery world. we were part of a co-op gallery back in virginia and it's been too long since we've been running around adjusting lights, putting out wine, & showing art! hooray!
we have a tentative second show at the project sprout gallery on the books for late april :)
we did not get to travel to colorado as planned :( the transmission in our "grey ghost" vw, well, gave up the ghost. so no trip for us over the holidays. instead, we totally redesigned our kitchen -- took down old cabinetry, got some new old metal ones from our local resource center (where, seriously, about 75% of our home is from -- it's our local place where contractors and builders drop off new & old vintagey "stuff" -- & we buy it up for cheap & spruce it all out!) & rearranged, cleaned, built, moved, mounted & took up & put down & removed & decided where what should be where! this took the entire 2 weeks; plus i had a cold.
so now our kitchen is awesome, but the rest of our place very well could have been the site of some sort of explosion. all that will need to be fixed very soon, because we have big plans coming down the january pipes. this weekend i'll give you all the heads up on our next fun venture happening in our place & dates to save!
soon after that unveiling, i have another project in the works that i'll unveil next week!
2010, i've got plans for you buster & we are gonna rock out this year!
celebrating new days and birth days with sweet lady friends. & chocolate pudding pie as the birthday cake. i love that too.
1. go to the movies with a good friend & watch sweet ole bitty of a 70 something lady hit on your mister & compliment his almost-to-be handlebar mustachio
2. sneak picnic lunch into movie with cloth napkins & chocolates & candied mango for dessert
3. head to tea/coffee at trouble coffee shop near the beach & sit on awesome old growth lumber benches outside
4. drink yummy earl grey tea & homemade choc chip cookie while meandering down the street.
5. wander to nearby totally cool general store where you might lust after a wool fishermen's sweater that you used to steal from your father and wear all the time. miss sweater. miss your dad on the east coast. make deal in head to come back and purchase said awesome sweater once all the wool eating moths decide to migrate to someone else's home.
6. shoot shake it photos of heart stickers & other cool things on the way because the shakeit app is the best thing since ever.
7. take photo of cutest dixie dog ever even though said doggie likes to whine & act like her world is coming to an end when you walk into cool stores & leave her behind.
8. drive camper bus ruby-nell to ocean beach and have a growler of brewed stout beer while watching ocean and scheming great ideas about summer months ahead.
9. decide to have these types of days all the time in twenty-ten.
hey everyone,
come on out bay area peeps -- sprout studio will be sharing a booth with the lovely mati rose, please come by & say hi & pick up any last minute treats you might need!
...we drank glogg, we drank cider spiked with whiskey, we had loads of dee-lish homemade cookies, artichoke dip, and cheeses. we did some shopping for sprout studio treats, we compared stripey socks, we had a great time! thanks for coming out :)
i'm crushing hard on my shakeit iphone app. the drive up to seattle was long, long, long. the show was great, it was freezing & i'm exhausted! i wish we could have stayed a lot longer in seattle-town.
