june at noon

It’s not that I’m not making things here. Oh, no. I’m still working on The Project. It’s just that I’m so mentally consumed with those things that stopping to write blog posts feels like an obstacle. So I don’t do it. But I will continue the making and the photographing and have something more interesting [...]

On Saturday I got it in my head to start a Project. Given my very typical introvert’s qualities and the fact that I’m a Finisher, I’ve done what I often do with a Project, which is to get totally lost in it and forget the rest of the world exists. So I’ve been a bit [...]

It was at the end of April that I shared I would be participating in the Sketchbook Project 2012. Right after that post I did a quick drawing that I hated before it was even finished (but I finished it anyway, because I am a finisher). I did another tentative sketch that didn’t feel right [...]

Today I sat down to do some “real” work. It’s about time I cranked out a new drawing, don’t you think? But somehow I found myself making spur-of-the-moment, wildly wonky superhero costumes instead. I just grabbed piles of felt and some leftover fleece and an old T-shirt, and I started cutting and sewing with abandon. [...]

I just use ordinary old pencils for my sketching, and lately I’ve started liking the ease of using mechanical pencils, especially when on the go (no sharpening needed). The other day I spontaneously picked up a couple of new ones in pretty colors, and my fingers are itching to start something new. The blank page [...]

Digital art is so much easier (less frustrating) to practice, and as a result, I’m more comfortable with it than traditional methods. But, for me, the traditional techniques inform the digital work, and I do still enjoy the “real” art, so I want to get better at that, too. It’s not about changing what I [...]

Monday and Tuesday were perfectly normal days around here, but somehow they just took off without me. I think it’s because I’m in pre-vacation, getting-ready mode. I keep thinking of things I need to pick up or plan ahead, and the list keeps growing—yet, in my usual fashion, I find other, completely unnecessary and unrelated [...]

Once again we’re getting ready for a family vacation at the beach, and once again I’ve waited until weeks before to decide I needed to sew things. This time it isn’t clothing for myself, but rather things to keep the kids entertained on the trip. I’m hoping the novelty of some new, just-for-vacation activities will [...]

For Christmas my mother-in-law made me a market bag in red, and I just recently put it to use for my granny square project. The more skeins of leftover yarn I found, the more I stuffed into this bag, and I have been amazed at how remarkably expandable it is, especially considering how very tiny [...]

Today was spent preparing note cards for a wholesale order to a local yarn shop. They ordered sets of six, with two of each of my knitting/yarn-themed cards. First there was the printing and cutting: During the printing process I also started preparing tags and string: Then the scoring, folding, and stacking into piles with [...]