tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50003786397122631702011-10-10T20:07:51.739-04:00A Blog about me, books and art. Crafts too sometimes.Rosemoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09290890315903011868noreply@blogger.comBlogger1271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000378639712263170.post-21060930547416549422011-03-09T07:28:00.003-05:002011-03-09T07:31:40.667-05:00

So I'd like to share where I've been the last month or so.I'm in my cocoon still I guess, as I mentioned last post. However now I'm trying to do something constructive from within.I've started a collaborative writing project. It's based around an online roleplaying game, so a lot of the dialogue (and some of the descriptions) are not mine. However I'm crafting a story around my character and

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I've been doing a lot of pondering and procrastinating lately. Skipping from book to book. Playing video games. Distracting myself from the important topics I know I have to deal with soon. Ideas about life goals, career goals, moving forward, moving backward.I feel like I'm doing a delicate dance to avoid learning a new dance. A backwards, swaying, side to side....anything to keep from moving

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So I'm making all sorts of things, as evidenced by my last post. Here are some photos to please you.The three current masks all together on the wall. Hung by Adam-monkey.My newest mask in progress. Lion!And Rayna, looking bored on the threshold. She weighs almost 80 pounds!More thoughts soon. But for now I will leave you with this link to a great book. Go buy it local!-MOo

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Last night I caught a glimpse of the lunar eclipse. Lovely. Things that make you remember we're all living on a big flying rock in space are always a bit heady for me. *smirk*I've been pretty busy art-wise the last month or so, although I haven't been sharing.I finished the Polar Bear Mask, I still need cleaner pictures but here's a few for youI wanted her to be genderless and then she just told

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I'm feeling the path smoothing out. It's still a little rough but things are making more sense.Fall here in the outskirts of NYC is a bit brown this year. Hubby and I blame the dry summer. Usually we get much stronger colors in our fall leaves. Puppy just had her spay, and is wearing an e-collar. It's a soft type collar, not one of those hard white plastic ones. And somehow when I saw 'e-collar'

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Just posting so everyone knows I'm having a sale in my etsy shop. I've really marked down those scrap bundles cause I just want some space back in my studio. And there are a few things I've marked down that have been kicking around for awhile.Check it out!http://www.etsy.com/shop/RosemooI promise to do a real post soon.:D

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This will be a short post. I have to work soon.I have lots of stray thoughts with no time to gather them, sort them, arrange them in an artful manner.So here are my thoughts, with no curation (or very little anyway):The sky was pink and overcast this morning when I awoke. It looked like there might be a hurricane of candy looming over us.If you try and feed a four year old fettuccine you may find

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I'm cleaning out my fabric stash.I decided it's time to turn over a bunch of my fabric stash. I love it to pieces (hah!) but I'm finding I'm working solely from my scraps and I am getting bored with my color palette. (I have lots of fabric in big piles just waiting to be cut into, but I feel this urge, nay NEED, to use all the scraps).I thought of a way to make cleaning house benefit people

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So I feel as though I've been wearing wading shoes, mucking about in my creative space lately. There has been a lot of muck mucked. And a lot of work cast out into the world. A veritable glut of work really. Which on a side note, Esther Friesner totally cheebled me about last night.Of course, most of my work does not feel 'up to snuff' as these things go. So you don't get to see it.I will however

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So I tantalized you all with this picture over on flickr.But now I finally have finished her. The second mask, the Bird Goddess Mask.I'm really loving the organic flow of making these masks. I'm tapping into a spiritual part of myself to make these, and pulling from cultural and religious memes as I do it. For this project I was particularly inspired by a mask I had seen in the Tate Modern in

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I almost didn't write a blog post about this, but half of the reason I read blogs is because people are honest about their experiments with living an artistic life, so here goes. It at least explains what I've been up to.I have recently been on a path to retake my life.I did buy the book I mentioned last blog post, the Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula K. Le Guin. Definitely worth it. Highly

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Two pairs of little feet in Philadelphia last weekend.I love little plastic flamingoes.I've been pretty down lately, for as far as I can tell silly reasons, but I could use some good energy right now. I've been gravitating towards buying this book and I might just order it for myself at work on Monday because I've been thinking about it for at least three years.I have a lot of feelings and ideas

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"Come with us on a journey through time and space..."Here is my contribution to this years Buried Treasure. As organized by Seth Apter over at The Altered Page. And here is the link to the TREASURE CHEST if you want to see all the other posts. I picked this piece from February last year. It starts off a bit etsy focused so I chopped the first half off. Anyway, hope you all enjoy. I'll make the

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I love mail art projects. Always have. In fact I'm in the middle of one with my friend Karin.So of course the Envelope Project down in Wintery Australia caught my fancy. (I've been crushing on them since they published a book that I can't afford that M* contributed to). Here's some info from their site:"Okay. It's time for a bit of an interactive window project. Here is what we are going to do.

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1. far far away II patchwork quilt, 2. Bag for Miss C, 3. Tea Time & Space (Detail), 4. embroidery of Tudlik stone cut, 5. Three little fimo birds, 6. untitled (5 to Initiate), 7. Barney P. Dustshelves, 8. guardian of the forest, 9. Poisson d'avril !, 10. Dollhouse furniture, 11. sometimes my mind wanders, 12. Summer Flowers pattern, 13. finished custom order, 14. Orange Stuffed Cat, 15. Max #2

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It's almost the end of my much-needed-vacation and while I'm sad it will be over soon, all good things must come to an end I suppose. We went camping up in the Adirondacks again. We stayed on a lovely little island on middle lake. Rayna just turned 10 months old so she had never been in a boat before! She took to it pretty well, but doesn't like the scrambling in and out. So far we've had mixed

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I've been making a few coloring pages lately. Here's the link to my website where you can download the pdf's to print and color.:D-Rose

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OMG you guys. I just realized I have a BUNCH of loose ends from the life of this blog.Here is my spring cleaning checklist to get us all up to speed. Newest at the top, oldest at the bottom.Logo projects: Dendo, still under way, Stitching N Junk, finished.New Music Video is once again on hold. I got too ambitious and need to rein it in again. I promise myself I will make another Eelwax Video soon

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Feeling meditative and peaceful this evening.I drew this shortly after getting home. I saw some windows in the background of a movie I was watching and it inspired me. I love making these coloring pages. I put a link to the pdf on my website. Click here to get it.Inspired by a new blog 'Spirit Cloth' I'm following, thanks to my friend Karin, I did some weaving this evening.I don't really have any

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This weekend we repotted all the plants.This is Planty. Planty was our first plant. When we got him I think he was around 10" tall. If he lived, we decided we could handle a puppy. Now we have one! :DWe're trying out a Cycad.I took a bit of moss from the back and I'm seeing if I can keep it alive. I doubt it.I'm on the purple square now. Three more to go after this one.RUR loves you.

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This weekend we got SO MUCH done. I can barely believe it.Highlights included:Making a questionable but very interesting looking mint brownie (Questionable because it was too minty).Going hiking with the puppy at a new place and seeing pretty birds and little bits of marble rocks.Working on my crazy quilt some more. The orange patch is done. Now the green patch needs more embroidery. Making a fun

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I don't usually do adventure stories, but on Thursday night I got to see my lovely friend Kendra for the first time in months and we did a fun art thing together.We went to see the opening of a lovely art show curated by Kristen Rask(of Schmancy and Plush You fame) called Lost at Sea, over at Gallery Hanahou.From their site:' "Lost at Sea" gathers 33 exciting artists who share underwater visions

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I've been lax in my mission to 'make things'. Problem is that I have been reading a lot more lately. Which is great, don't get me wrong, but it means I have even less free time to make things.Yesterday I made a skirt. I will post pictures when I convince the man to take some. I based it off of another skirt I have, and it was pretty easy. Definitely a 'first'. You can tell is has some wonky edges

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This isn't about art or anything fun. This is my Wisdom Teeth Extraction story. If you don't like Teeth stories, move on. I'm only publishing this because my friend Heather published her story on her blog, and it really helped me when it was my time to get mine out. So here you are. Gore and all. Important notes in all caps.This is my face as of yesterday morning.I got all four wisdom teeth

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My thoughts, jumbled, so my post, jumbled. I think almost every paragraph is a new line of thought. Bear with me:We took Rayna hiking last weekend (at 7.5 months, Spring) to the same place we took her at 10 weeks (Fall). Here is a before and after shot. Notice the bag, it's the same bag. Whew!Rayna is shedding constantly, and apparently there is no end to the fur. At least it means she should be

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So lately all my free time is going to the new music video I'm working on, catching up on all The Mighty Boosh episodes I never saw, and watching an insane amount of Battlestar Galactica.I'm pretty into Battlestar (having just started this new version recently) but I still have mixed feelings about it. One of the supposed main characters is really whiny and irritating.The music video project is

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The year has started off strange. Puppy is getting bigger.Jobs are doing normal job things. Swinging normal highs and lows.Snow is coming and going.I have a new obsession with The Mighty Boosh. Here is a snippet of one of their surreal episodes. Eels. Right now I'm up too late and it's doing snowmageddeon things outside again. Of course puppy is thrilled. She adores the snow.I was chatting with

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I can't help but give puppy updates every time I post lately. She's so much a part of our lives I would be remiss if I didn't mention her. Rayna is still growing beautifully, with the limp fully gone as far as we can tell (fingers crossed!) That silly picture is from an hour ago outside.Last week was called something like Snowmaggedon or something down here. It just put us out of work a day or

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I made a new softie, and he's in the shop! His name is Weird Owen. I think he wants to sell you a car, or maybe get you chatting. He's quite the odd one. Inspired by strange 80's cartoons and webcomics, his ancestry is muddy at best.He doesn't stand very well, so mostly he lies around, legs sprawled to the sides. With careful positioning however, he'll stand for you.Buy him! Buy him! Link. ;

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I see this shot at night when walking home along Palmer Avenue in Larchmont, NY. Last Friday night the sky was amazing. Just amazing. Click to make bigger.-moo

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Quick side note: Puppy is 23 weeks old! Crazy! Just a bit over 5 months.Ok, Art Swap:I'm excited to say that I have joined in an art swap on the interwebs. The trick is that you make art for someone, and then other people make you art. Theoretically I will send out one piece of art, and in return receive 36! I know this is based on the traditional pyramid scheme chain letter, but it doesn't seem

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We liberated ourselves from Puppy yesterday, set her down for a nap, and went for a quick hike without her. Amazing!Here are some photos from our journey.I have a lot of new projects going, I will share soon.Sometimes things don't really need captions. Click to embiggen.Trying to post, but words are escaping me lately. Luckily they are released in my creations, and my weird dreams. Might try my

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(Petri Dish project, still going!)I haven't been posting as much as I want to, so even though I'm fairly against New Years Resolutions, I guess that will be mine.More posts! Separate the wheat from the chaff!I started this blog hoping that it would provide an outlet for my words. I've always loved words, and I've always been a reader. Arguably a Voracious Reader. I remember walking down the halls

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The Year has turned over. Over and gone. I was planning on doing some family visiting, but the evil sickness (that is just now finally going away, I mean really! I never get sick for that long!) made me opt for rest and snuggles instead.So we did all sorts of things, snuggled into our little apartment home, most of which were boring but good, like cleaning the house, making veggie stock from

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Sorry for the lack of posty.I've been sick basically since December 5th. It's gotten worse, gotten better, changed, etc etc. I'm doing ok mostly, but I'm always a low level sick.Sigh.Today, things, family, loves.Rayna gets bigger and bigger. She's huge! I love having a puppy.I made cheesy scallion scones this morning. See that teacup? I found it by the side of the road a few days ago. I love it.I

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So it figures that working at a wonderful Children's Bookstore would mean I would learn about really great books. And it has!Since some of you may be buying picture books for little ones for the holiday season as opposed to lame wind up hamsters, I figured I'd make a list of my personal faves for adults and kids alike. Of course, I will not be linking to amazon, since you should be buying these

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We're not eating a turkey today. But we are happy! And Full of Thanks!Here are some happy dancing animals that I cut out of felt the other day. Click them to make them bigger.Happy day!-moo

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The title above refers mostly to the 'attempting' part. As I have yet to achieve a state of Zen.I've been in full on 'puppy-mother, wife, worker, crafter' mode. All four hats at once. And I'm finding little time for 'rosemoo' mode. Which of course serves to make me cranky at all the other tasks. It is, of course, much harder being a puppy-mother and wife (simultaneously) than I thought it would

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Sorry this has nothing to do with art or books. But I had to share. If you've been wondering what I've been up to, this is it.PUPPY!First of all. We gots a puppy! She came home with us Saturday night, and today is our Third day with her. Her name is Rayna (RAY-NAH). She is a Bernese Mountain Dog Puppy. About 10 weeks old give or take.(For those of you who are like, "Wait a minute, you've never

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I was given some lovely fabric by the wonderful Nicole of Astulabee fame. And I didn't know what to do with it. And then, inspiration hit and I decided to make myself a Wild Thing Hat from it.The movie comes out this week, and of course, since I work in a Children's Bookstore, we are talking about it, and will probably sell some of the books this week.I have always loved Maurice Sendak. So I went

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The Taller Half and I went for a fall colors walk/hike in Mount Holly on Sunday. It was really nice out, not a bit cold, and super sunny. Which was weird because that morning it was rainy and overcast.We saw spiders and fuzzy caterpillars and Wood Frogs. There was pretty light coming through the stained glass ceiling of leaves. And every few minutes a breeze would hit high above and send yellow

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My wonderful Mother bought me an easel for my birthday.I've been super busy so I hadn't played with it yet (I'm a Virgo, so it wasn't that long ago, but still).And since I've been working on a secret project for a local, while letting layers dry I worked on two new paintings. I think the last time I painted was over two years ago. Not sure though. These are both around 11"x14" I think.Here's the

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I'm feeling sad right now. Which is a bit of an understatement. I guess I'm "all-out-of-sorts". That's a better way to put it.I'm feeling connected to small, quiet, slow things. I want to be a snail, slowly meandering down a leaf. I think the desire to take it slow is my bodys' way of telling me that I am about to over-do it.I'm focusing in on little things. Which I've been taking pictures of

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I've been wandering the wastes of the interwebs lately. I'm feeling like I'm doing too much and not doing anything at all at the same time. I'm really feeling discombobulated and I'm not sure why. Maybe the change in season?Reading The Master and Margarita. About 3/4 of the way through now. I'm gonna move to 1900's Russia STAT. Highly recommended book.Working on a new goal of an eventual crazy

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Sorry I haven't been posting lately. I have found facebook to be more of a time suck than I planned for. Also I've been doing a LOT of reading preview copies for the bookstore I work at.I'm particularly excited about the book LIAR by Justine Larbalestier.Oh wow.Read it! Well, when it comes out. Which is soon! I will remind you. I promise.I wish I could talk about it but I really really don't want

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One of my absolute favorite things in props land is a product called Design Masters Glossy Wood Tone. I was lauding it to the Tall One and marvelling at how awesome it is, and he said, "You might as well call it Patina of Age".And it's true. This product is the magic 'Patina of Age' when it comes to props.I've used it to age things in seconds.Witness the back of a brand new red journal.Magically

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The other day, I left my home to see this on the porch.Hang on. Look a little closer. Here.If you want to see it even closer, click it, and there's a larger version.My first reaction:"Ahhhh!"My second reaction:"Awww, a froggy!"My third reaction:"Um, it's sort of creepy staring at me."My fourth reaction:"Run away!"We live in a house split between us and our landlords. So they must have planted

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I've succumbed to the facebook. (Feel free to friend me, mention the blog). And of course it is taking a little bit of time to get it out of my system.Right now I'm very excited to 'see' where some of my friends are. Ever since discarding Friendster a few years ago I haven't really had a social networking site. So it's sort of a reawakening of all that fun stuff from ages ago.Where are you? Where

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And the winner of the Giveaway is: Chveya!Her description of what she would do with my little guy and her caption for the weird ad were just perfect for my rose-like sensibilities.:DPop me an email with your snail mail address Chevya and I'll send him your way!As promised, here is the full ad.Don't get me wrong. I'm the first person to offer my seat to someone who needs or wants it. But this ad

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So a little friend over at NotMassProduced has a little challenge to 'do' something with an old piece of hers. Her first blog entry about it here.And she has started a link on her blog on the right hand side of all the finished ones. Here's her follow up blog here. Look to the right for the links.I think it's sort of open for awhile so if you feel like getting arty with her art, go for it!Here's

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Soon.For those of you who are at work, here's the non talky version. [Dark Helmet and Sandurz come across an image of themselves viewing the screen. As they react, the screen mimics what they are doing] Dark Helmet: When does this happen in the movie?! Colonel Sandurz: "Now", sir. You're looking at "now". Everything happening now [indicates himself and Helmet] is happening "now". [

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Don't forget, you have until the end of July to win this cute little guy! Go to this blog post to comment and enter to win him! I'll send him to the far reaches of the globe for you! For free! (EDITORS NOTE: THIS GIVEAWAY IS OVER AS OF 2009. THE WINNER WAS CHVEYA. Sorry!)*******************Here's my entry to the second go-round of Buried Treasure. Treasure Map here.Since I haven't been blogging

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In the spirit of Seth over at The Altered Page blog, I am reposting one of my favorite entries from the darkness and depth of my blog. It's a good excuse to see what other bloggers love about their blogging, as well as maybe catch a entry you wouldn't have time to dig for on your own.Here you go!***********ManhattanFriday December 5th, 2008***********Feeling funny again while travelling on the

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The Show on Friday was great fun!EELWAX JESUS has lived up to expectations as usual. And on top of that were funny, sweet, and all around the best band you could ever hope to love.Our friends.This is The Bavarian Weatherman/Mr.Shine/London Punk/Ian Jones/Mr.Rumple (Max Baker):Here's Ignatz McGillicuddy (Lee Sellars):Max and Lee started the whole shebang, do the majority of the vocals and all of

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Friends, countrymen, random people;So I have a cute little guy that I made when I was pining for some Woodlanders like this one by Astulabee.And I honestly don't feel like he's finished. And I don't think I can finish him. He wants to live with someone else. He didn't quite turn out the way I wanted. And he's adorable, but needs someone to love him and make him some clothes or hair or something.

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I've been gone. Now I'm back!So the taller half and I just went on a series of adventures, starting with a honeymoon and ending with watching 'Hancock' on Netflix Instant Play (And since I published this later than intended, there are a few extras too).Highlights include:Having the best ever Camping trip. Rain when we felt like snuggling in the tent, sun when we wanted to go swimming, never too

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Eelwax Jesus is playing at HERE ARTS CENTER from the 8th through the 11th of July, at 8:30PM.You heard me. FOUR NIGHTS!!!!If I could afford it, I would go EVERY NIGHT! Each one! But sadly, super-fan that I may be, I cannot.Friday though, I will totally be there. With bells on!This is a band that comes the closest to perfection on the Rose-Scale that I've ever heard.The songs are witty, catchy,

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You know (or maybe you don't), I started blogging again to help me do away with a constant nagging writing itch. An itch that started when I stopped writing short stories and attempting the next 'Great American Fantasy Novel' (hey, I was a teenager) and continued for many years.And of course, lately, maybe half of this year so far, I haven't really been writing. Just logging my fun art/craft

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Lo,the final chapter of the last month of crazy crafting closed last night with a splash of softie rubber duckies!See them in their resplendent glory.As you can see, many small hands make light work of duckies.I custom designed a pattern for these little yellow darlings for a birthday party that I did a workshop for. Fun fun fun for a rainy afternoon/evening.I think everyone had a good time. And

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Whew! Wow! What a weekend!If you've been following, this is what all that build up with the Chuppa/Mandap was all for!For budgeting reasons tall one and I decided that I would be going down for the wedding of my highschool friend/pseudo-sister alone. So alone I went, packing an ipod and a ton of unfinished softies to work my magic on.Anywho, the wedding was FAB-U-LOUS!(Disclaimer: I loved going

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So the first Sock Monkey Workshop was last night!We had so much fun! Boys and girls even! Who says boys don't sew? Not me!It was at The Voracious Reader, in Larchmont, NY. Bookstore Extraordinaire!Here are some photos of the monkeys we made:Aren't they just adorable?There was so much response to even just the IDEA of the first one that we have already scheduled a second one next Tuesday. Whee!

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What a lovely project!But I'm not going to lie, I'm glad it's over!Whew!I had no idea how stressed out I was getting about it. I put it in the mail around noon today for Saturday Air Mail Delivery. They have a week until the wedding but this guarantees if there are any problems mounting it to the poles it will be discovered FAR before the ceremony.I made the ties from strips of the silk

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The binding fabric!So I decided that the backing is just not in the works this time around. It will be lighter, easier to mount for the wedding, and honestly I don't think I have time to put one on. I figure if my friends really want a bedspread I'll do it after the wedding. That way I won't be on a deadline and won't mess it up! (The back is actually decently nice without backing fabric as well.

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I'm flying through this project. And yet I know it's taking me hours. I'm so worried I won't get it done in time that I'm just throwing hours at it.I need to find someone to commission me to make more of these! :D They're a lot of fun!Anywho, there's a lot going on to make the tree. I decided to do it right I would need to make a pattern and lay that on top of the finished piece as is. Then I

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It continues.I got a lot more done on Chuppa/Mandap on Friday. There's more but these are the photos I have of the Star of David part.Hard fabric to work with but lovely!It's a great pale gold color.To do the Star I referenced my scale drawing for the width of the strips, then cut them out. Then I hemmed them all along the lengths.Then I pinned them down after doing some fancy a squared, b

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I am feeling really overwhelmed by all the cool stuff I have in my studio.So I'm getting rid of the redundant stuff for cheap!I would love to just straight up give it away but I just can't afford the shipping.So I have five selections of fun stuff in my etsy shop, super cheap, each set far cheaper than you'd find anywhere else. Plus it's from me!Here's some photos of what I've got up there.Some

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So the Chuppa Committee have ruled that I can begin. I bought fabric on Friday and am now all the way...well you'll see.Basically the story is that my friend is finally getting married and I'm making her and her man a Chuppa/Mandap! If you don't know what those are, they're basically this great tent thing that you have your wedding ceremony under. That is really really really simplifying it

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So many little and big projects going.I have quite a few in process projects which is why I haven't shared much lately. I usually wait until they're done to share.I made a baby Simon giraffe which of course got claimed immediately by the tall one.I'm calling her Pinky. You can see her riding Simon.I took the button I bought from Rivulette and made it into a nifty pin. It's sort of a squid thing.

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I usually hate meme-y things. They remind me of chain letters. Which remind of a terrible thriller series I read as a teenager.Anyway, this one actually seems fun. I was tagged by ninon (I'm pretty sure her name is Tania but you know how the internets go).Frankly, I'm just excited that ninon (aka Tania maybe) knows who I am! She makes the most splendiferous creatures! Oh man they're great. I want

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I can finally tell the world.We got married!It was tax day (April 15th), and we did it!It wasn't really a secret as much as we wanted to make sure we told all of our family members (or at least sent them an email or a postcard) before telling the 'net.I guess that makes sense. But really I wanted to just jump to a rooftop and scream to the world asap!:DI still feel that way! I'm so in love with

Rosemoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09290890315903011868noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000378639712263170.post-4361593963398866682009-04-24T08:51:00.009-04:002009-04-24T09:24:35.494-04:00

So I know I haven't said enough about Rivulette aka Stephanie McKay. She is one of my main etsy crushes lately.Rivulette has a website, an etsy shop and a blog and a flickr stream.She has her own lovely studio that she painted herself (a great shade of orange!) and she dyes and spins her own wool blend yarns.She also does lovely lampworking and makes glass beads and buttons and teaches

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Sorry for the long absence.A lot has happened in the last week.I'm sitting on a pseudo secret that I'm dying to share with the world. Soon I will share with you all.On Wednesday I managed to fail my first drivers license test. I didn't hurt anyone or do anything dangerous, but I did fail.Sad.I will try again soon. Hopefully the next time I won't have such a crazy case of the nerves. I'm a good

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So I have gotten very close to OD'ing on Emergency Pants. But I'm safe. Three or four episodes a day hasn't killed me yet.Soon I will be finished. Sad!I've been working non-stop the last week without my normal (these days anyway) periodic long breaks. The joys of part time have ended, at least for now, and I'm snapping up the random work that comes my way. Which right now is props overhire for

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Friends,I am currently addicted to a podcast. It can be a bit dirty sometimes, so I wouldn't recommend it to children, but everyone else needs to listen to this. Cynjon and Heather, I'm calling you out. I think you'd love this. It's awesome.There are two friends (and sometimes guests) talking. It sounds boring but no.This is the funniest stuff I have listened to in a long time. I have guffawed on

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I spent almost all day getting my website into ship shape.It's not totally done but I like it a LOT better than the old one. I was getting frustrated that A, my blog, etsy site and flickr all have white background, and my website had a black background. And B, it was incredibly difficult to navigate.Hopefully I've fixed both of those problems. It's definitely got a white background. Not sure if

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I have been thinking and working and doing the same things I normally do lately. There are a lot of things in my near future. Marriage. Drivers License test. Lots more....But there's always time to relax and make art. Or, well, there should be, so there is. Just not always time to write regular blog posts.I just passed my 55th blog entry. And I have 50 items in my etsy shop (and five sold, so

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Ahhhh...I feel so good!I just took a walk around New Rochelle. I had to post something for the tall one, and I had an overdue library book to return.Sometime after I was putting on my shoes and before I left the apartment/house, I decided to give myself an assignment. I brought my little digital camera and took photos of textures, patterns, and general New Rochelle.I don't know why those were the

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The stuff you notice when you're watching a classic sci-fi thriller alone after doing taxes all day and having a beer to cheer yourself up (and you happen to have a degree in all sort of costume/set/design things) include:(CAUTION. Spoilers for the 1951 movie 'Thing from another world' follow. Not that it would probably change the movie for you much. I'm just saying)* Costume notes on the main

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For people not following, I have started a list of all the words that Blogger makes me type in so I can comment on other people's blogs.They struck me as hilariously funny one day. And since I've always loved Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear they feel 'right' to me. Like something I've discovered and loved because there is some sort of meaning to them. Meaning I have to cut and pull out of them, but

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Ok. So you've made the bottom part of the house. If you haven't made that, then look at my last post.So we're on step deux, the top part and decorating.You'll need the supplies from yesterday. Plus I forgot to mention an empty toilet paper tube will be helpful.Step 1:While your bottom dries, you can work on the roof. I decided to leave the little pull tab bit on the top of my roof so that it was

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I now give you, a tutorial on how to make a nifty mini house out of a creamer container!Perfect for your jacabob, ursabob, matroshka dolls or other small softies or friends you have wishing they had a place to sleep at night!You will need:1 creamer container or mini milk container (preferably one you wouldn't be able to recycle on your own, so you can be saving the environment by keeping it out

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I love cardboard.It's recyclable, and can be made into almost anything.And it's free!So great.I always feel a bit silly working with cardboard, but it's sort of 'the craft manna of the gods'.We had an overstock of cardboard from a recent purchase by the taller one. So I decided to make it into something.Behold, the wall I can draw on! I'm calling it the Graffiti wall, inspired by all the

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I'm feeling Spring, around the corner. Lurking.I want it to be warm outside.I hate the heat, but I crave sixty degree farenheit days.Days when I can wear a light jacket, and cropped pants and fun socks.Days where light layers are snuggly and warm without being hot or confining.Days when we can finally open all the windows and let all this winter house smaug out into the world.(Yes, Smaug, like

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So I have been 'alerted' to Toronto Craft Alert by reading SweetiePiePress's blog posts (which are fabulous and inspiring).I don't live in Toronto, or all that close, but their arts and crafts scene appear to be something to envy. So there is envy here. Much, much envy.They seem to be a wonderful, wacky bunch of people.And I know we have those here in New York too, but somehow their blog scene is

Rosemoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09290890315903011868noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000378639712263170.post-82272704245432018322009-02-26T09:11:00.006-05:002009-02-26T09:26:44.434-05:00

So I had one of those 'I have an idea and now must put it into action within 24 hours or I might explode' sort of days yesterday.This happens to me more than I'd like to admit. I had trouble sleeping on Tuesday night I was so excited about my idea.And now, Thursday morning, the idea is a reality.I made a fast, silly, wild little coloring book. Actually I made two but the second one isn't totally

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(horrifying picture of me from high school with long hair, still wearing flannels)I realized last night that I no longer have anyone to 'geek out' with.Which was a new term to me actually. I didn't know that 'geeking out' was a type of verb.I learn new things every day.But I miss having someone to talk to about dorky things. I don't really have roleplaying / video game playing / dungeon and

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I'm on a creating spree!Here are some friends I just made last night.Meet MizrahiSashaAnd Sylvie!If you click their name it will take you to their page.I'm in love. They're so small and cute.:D-Rose

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So I realize that I've been mostly posting boring accounts of things I'm making. I will share some more things I've been making, and then chat a bit about other, more interesting things.This is Perkins. He is a stone gnome. He is available on my etsy site. He is one of a new litter of creatures. The rest can be seen on my flickr set.That TV is a mini one I made for a new video that so far I

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Thanks so much to Carina over at Carina's Craft blog for having me over for a Valentines day interview!Interview is here.Carina is pretty cool. Lately she's been posting a lot of nifty animal themed faves. And she posts little tutorials on how to make fun things. I highly recommend adding her blog to your 'followed' list.Happy Valentines day everyone! The Bunny Yeti say hi! They are full of love!

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The Bunny Yeti have attacked!I did a doodle, and had so much fun altering it in photoshop that I decided to give birth to a new line of softie sock creatures.The Bunny Yeti!Here's the first doodle that inspired them.And here is a shot of one of the Bunny Yeti. This one is my favorite so far.Available at my etsy shop. One through four so far.Some of them have horns, some don't. They are going to

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I spent the morning playing with images. I came up with this to reflect part of my dream.And this just made me happy.When Petes and I were in France, we saw a bunch of 'Double level' Carousels. I have never seen one in the states. And I have yet to ride on one. This is an altered negative. The negative looked crummy so I played with it. Photoshop is my friend!-Rose

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So I made this wacky photoshop gallery for myself. I had a crazy dream about a world I want to at least do a few images of, but I decided I really really wanted to use photoshop to do it in. I've been dying to do a piece that lets me do some homage to Nick Bantock and Dave McKean and I think this is finally it.Thing is, I knew already I wanted to use a lot of filters. And people usually use

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Shell house madness continues!Yesterday I got a lot done in the house. Puttering. Things I had to do on the computer. And a lot of shell house fun! Wow, you can really see the shine I added to the inside walls in this photo.I totally floored the other half of the house, adding pencils and playing cards as floor boards. Then I added the doorway sans door, a stoop, and a few windows on the new side

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So I've been working on the shell house, reading a lot of children's books, and drinking a lot of tea these days.My new interest is those words on bloggers comment word verification. I've started collecting the ones I see when I post to someone else's blog. Here's what I have so far.motesicgavicinibessesolchortimpsparyberacI think that maybe they deserve some art. Is each one a creature? Or a

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I have begun the interior of the shell house. I spent 8 full hours on secret project yesterday and still had a moment or two to help Pippi get a home.I painted the outside and the inside. Here's a closeup of the outside.On the inside all I did was add a layer of shiny silvery to make it more shell like inside. No picture of that.So then I added floors! Only on one side so far. Playing cards are

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Are you all sick of the shell house yet? I know Adam must be. I talk about it all the time.Here is another picture of the house, new paint job. The inside has all new paint, and the outside has some shading added.I've done more research on how shells this shape actually form, and have some ideas on how to do a few more paint treatments to get it to look right. Soon I will have time for that but

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I have been given the power of the first five by Cynjon of Varietist Muse.So here you are! I blantantly copied Cynjon's post, since he has had me pass this on to you, loyal readers. And I want it to mostly be the same anyway.The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. Doesn't matter if I know you or not. First five. Read on however!This offer

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More shell house adventures!I put on, maybe a zillion layers of paper mache and finally the shell came off the undershell! The top picture is half of it still on the base, and the base itself.I painted it a base color just to give it some body. It will get better paint soon.Here's what the removed section looks like on the inside.Here's the outside of it with the base coat on it.So it's drying. I

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More sketches of Pippi's house.I'm not sure if I will actually furnish it like this but I might.First floor: Kitchen area, cooking area, food storage, beds.Second floor: Reading and general meditation area. Tables for balancing coffee, tea or snacks.Third foor: Artist studio. A good room to go for star watching or being alone.I decided against putting stairs in. We all know there should be stairs

Rosemoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09290890315903011868noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000378639712263170.post-91503653962578938862009-01-22T23:11:00.006-05:002009-01-22T23:14:18.931-05:00

Here's a better representation of what I'm going for with Pippi's house.:DPhotoshop madness go! Click for more detail.I'm having a lot of fun experimenting with doing renderings with photoshop. It's easier for me to use pen and paper when it's just for me. But when I'm trying to convey something photoshop has a lot more variety than me scribbling with a pen.

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