i finally got some satellite magnets made! for some reason it took a really long time to get the sheet the right size that they are packaged on. the file sizes were getting all screwed up! oh jpgs and gifs and png's. you're so crazy!

so yeah, these super fantastic magnet sets are for sale in my etsy shop!

if you like maps and are crazy about satellite images like i am, then you will like these magnets.

i spent all day in portland with my friend bobbi today, it was a good time with the exception of some crappy news we heard. it was nice to get out of the house for the day at least.

oooohhhhh. i haven't been able to make much stuff lately and it's killing me! all i've been doing is stressing about moving and not spending nearly enough time packing!

adam and i got the apartment that we wanted. it's actually a duplex so we have a house! sort of! but the good news is that we can paint! i'm so excited! i've picked out a nice pallette of colors.
they look like this! they are much, MUCH nicer looking on the paint chips. they just look....i don't know...rectangles...here. they're all martha stewart colors because i'm a sucker for her paint colors. the people who work for her know how to put together some mean color combos, that's for damn sure! and nothing makes my little color theory loving heart happier! i told my mom i should find a job where i just get to make color swatches or something. what bliss!

so usually the senior thesis show that my school put up was two shows that were put up at once. there is the BFA 3 floor show and the Index show. the index show was in the ICA and then you also had work in the 3 floor show. but this year they broke it up so the shows were are two different times. The ICA show started in march, which kind of sucked because you had to have stuff done super early!

but anyway, this is the work that i put in the Index show in the ICA. The piece was called The Friends & Family of Germaine Foster. it was a series of 9 crocheted finger puppets all based on the friends and family of my late grandmother, Germaine. They were so much fun to make and have more or less led me to all the felt stuff i'm doing now.

I haven't made puppets of my grandparents yet. i want a lot of planning to go into when i make those. the only thing i know for sure about them is that they will be stitched together so that they look like they are holding hands.

I haven't crocheted AT ALL since i made these. literally not even once. i think i'm ready to get back into it. it's been long enough since i spent 2 1/2 days straight in front of a pile of yarn, felt and trim trying not to throw up due to the strong smell of fabri-tac.

This little girl to the left is one of my favorites - Alexandrine. (she was one of my grandmother's sisters, she had like...a million of them!)
yayayayayay.


i'm watching passions right now. this show is soooo bad and yet so good all at the same time. i'm sad that it is going to be leaving NBC. how am i supposed to get my daily input of trashy tv now that i don't have cable?!!

guess i'll just get it from when i watch vh1 celebreality while at work!

so yesterday was my birthday. i didn't do much of anything but go out to eat with my mom and spend my target gift card.


my mom bought me a really pretty iron candle holder that i've wanted forver. it has birds and branches on it. and she also got me two magazines that i've been drolling over at bookland.

this is one of them. it came with a really beautiful poster of trees from around the world that are all illustrated by different artists. plus, the cover glows in the dark! it's pretty much all around a really great magazine. but $20, ouch! thanks, birthday.

the other magazine is called hi-fructose and even though the paintings on the front really scare me, it's the inside that i'm all about. haha. (that was lame!) there's a really big article on dunny's and then the REAL reason i wanted it is because there is a big article on fawn gehweiler!i got some cute shirts and two dozen roses from my dad/brother/shannon too. so birthday was ok. mom and i got home too late last night to have cake. so we are going to do it today.

today i had a little freak out on the phone with adam beacuse i'm poor and can't be making some of the stuff i want to promote my shop. and how i'm convinced (not really) that nobody really is insterested in it anyway, so why should i bother.

you know, one of those freak outs.