Another custom piece.
This particular one is a representation of a married couple who are expecting their first child. The two hands each represent where the couple is from, while the bird represents the baby to be.
I am in the midst of finishing some new commissions. This one was created as an anniversary gift to a husband.
I created my first stop motion animation for Etsy. I am submitting it to the "A Handmade Moment" video competition. If you want to, you can vote here.
If you are interested in purchasing "A Small Surprise" by July 31st, I will enter your name into a drawing for a chance to win 1 of 3 lovely prizes!!!
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In the shop right now.
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I just finished creating a series of original mini embroidered map collages for the shop. They're kind of adorable (in my humble opinion).
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Art Cards - Hand (Heal), Head (See), Heart (Love), and Bird (Seek)
2 1/2" x 3 1/2"
Sometimes it's nice to just play. So, I made these tiny embroidered originals. And today, I have another giveaway because I love you!
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Hello.
I have another giveaway at my Facebook fan page in case you are interested!
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In addition to creating another Germinate piece for someone, I have also been making some small pieces for the Black Frame Art Sale coming up. I consider these pieces explorations for larger works.
More soon.
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Have a chance to win this little lovely original.
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Rules.
1. Become a Facebook fan of selflesh
2. Leave a comment there before Monday the 8th, midnight E.S.T.
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I will enter your name into the random list generator.
Whoever gets number 1 on the list, wins!!!
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The winner will be notified on the following Tuesday.
Any questions, just ask.
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I finally created a Facebook fan page for my selflesh shop. If you are interested in becoming a fan, my page is here. I'll be posting new pieces along with updates on sales and giveaways!
After a series of many days spent amid the dirt, I have finally returned to the studio. It feels really good to be back to work again after a long hiatus, though the sunny days still tempt me. I'll be sure to be better about splitting my time up more and do both! Fortunately our more major outdoor projects are beginning to wrap up, though there will still be plenty to do out there, tending, etc. It should be lovely. We even decided to start a little blog about the "farming" aspect of our lives. It's still in the earliest of progress and we have a lot to catch up on.
Currently I am in the midst of creating some small pieces for the annual Black Frame Show as well as work towards making some larger pieces for the MECA Alumni Show. At the moment my table is covered with lots and lots of tiny map bits. I'll likely need to tidy up before I get back to work tonight. I find after just a few hours of working i am surrounded, and I end up working within the smallest amount of space on my table. I should time lapse the evolution someday.
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My "chosen at random" excerpt for today is from The Book by Alan Watts
Pg. 97
"We can never, never describe all features of the total situation, not only because every situation is infinitely complex, but also because the total situation is the universe. Fortunately, we do not have to descibe any situation exhaustively, because some of its features appear to be much more important than others for understanding the behaviour of the various organisms within it. We never get more than a sketch of the situation, yet this is enough to show that actions (or processes) must be understood, or explained, in terms of situations just as words must be understood in the context of sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books, libraries, and... life itself.
To sum up: just as no thing or organism exists on its own, it does not act on its own. Furthermore, every organism is a process: thus the organism is not other than its actions. To put it clumsily: it is what it does. More precisely, the organism, including its behavior, is a process which is to be understood only in relation to the larger and longer process of its environment. For what we mean by "understanding" or "comprehension" is seeing how parts fit into a whole, and the realizing that they don't compose the whole, as one assembles a jigsaw puzzle, but that the whole is a pattern of complex wiggliness, which has no separate parts. Parts are fictions of language, of the calculus of looking at the world through a net which seems to chop it up into bits. Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time."
