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Drawing and Painting: Bird Collaborations with Brent Wear
Not too long ago my friend, painter Brent Wear approached me about doing some collaborations with my bird drawings. He has been encouraging me forever to do more visual artwork, and has been my go to art mentor whenever I am in some sort of existential art crisis. I have resisted making purely visual art for a long time in order to keep myself on a steady track of sewing, but it has always been difficult for me to focus on one thing single-mindedly. Usually, I am satisfied to make a stray thing here and there to feed my curious soul’s need to try new things. Brent is well known…
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Putting Yourself in the Right Place At the Right Time
photo: etsy labs I am such an occasional writer these days, but I have had many ideas to share with little time to share them aside from twitter. These end in long form rants that are in fragments that get my point across, but may sound a bit insane. As you may or may not know I have been a part of a group called I Heart Art PDX that has been putting on low or no cost programming around building your small creative business, professionalism and valuing your time. Okay, maybe that isn’t the official tag-line, but that has been what it has turned out to be. We are…
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Tell Me Your Favourite Colour Garter Giveaway
Garter #1630 is the number that I am on today as I write this post. Don’t ask me how many flowers or dresses I’ve made; I couldn’t tell you. For some reason I started writing down each garter I made, and being a bit obsessive compulsive, I couldn’t stop. If you have followed my progress, you will know these garters; I made my first one in February 1999 for a Valentine’s Day show, and they have never stopped selling. I recently opened my ribbon box to create a custom set for one of my long-term shops in San Francisco, and noticed that a ribbon order is long overdue. As I…
