You're Invited!

Come visit me at Renegade Brooklyn this weekend, June 23rd & 24th!

It's in a new location at East River State Park (aka the Williamsburg Waterfront) with an amazing view of the Manhattan skyline! (More info on the location here.) I'll be sharing a booth with Virginia, and can't wait to see what she brings. I've been working like a mad woman to get everything prepped and working on a bunch of new things too. I've had some help in the studio lately, which was amazing.

Cross your fingers I have time to get everything done & please come by and see me this weekend!

Laila busted out a bunch of kits. I always love her outfits- double polka dots! 

Craft factory in action.

I hope to see you at Renegade!!

craft vanitas....

Lest you think the crafting life is all beautiful workspaces in honey filled light, may I present you with my worktable - a chaos of bits here and there, much like the workings of my own brain. Lately I've been making lots of Messages in a Bottle and today I'll be packaging them all up for Valentine's Day deliveries.

Banjo, our new rescue cat that we are fostering has found a new favorite spot to my great annoyance. He is constantly pausing my music with his butt, and making the computer make that loud alarm like sound when he lays on the keyboard. But, how can you be mad at that face?

p.s. today is the last day to make your last minute Valentine's Day Gift Box purchases!
Sweet Baklava & Romantic Little Letter!!

30 years is a long time...

This piece is one of the biggest I've done and while I toiled away hand embroidering 30 tree rings I thought a lot about time and commitment.

I'm feeling sick lately and super stressed- lots to do and not enough time. My boo helps me so much so that i can keep working ridiculous hours stitching and making. Thanks mang for the help and patience!

I'm so thankful for my custom requests that keep me making new things and flexing my crafty brain. Thank you Danielle for this request! I hope they love it as much as I do!

And I'm curious whats the biggest or most time consuming project you've done?

counting days in circles and stiches...

last weeks work. in the mail and on their way to homes in new york, california, australia, and singapore. i wish i had a map with little flags everywhere i've sent something....

wink...

...at you...

does't this color test..., originally uploaded by miniature.rhino.

testing, testing....

....colors for a custom request.

mess making skills...

this mess, will soon be something i want to brag about. a friends dad built me something and now i'm sanding and staining the wood. as soon as it's finished i can't wait to share the end result, but for now marvel at my mess making skills, if you will....

some times i wonder...

...where the day goes. why my hand is constantly swollen?  why am i still up?  i have how many days till x deadline?  ekk.  where did the day go?!

oh yeah, right:

it worked, or the idea that happend....

some scenes from the studio yesterday. i'm working on some new paper goods that i'll introduce next week. i've been feeling stuck for awhile, so to have an idea become physical inspires me to keep going. i love it when things work out well, as they so often fall short of our expectations. so i'm happy stitching paper, lots and lots of paper. the best part is that these are scraps that i've been saving and hoping to find some use for other than recycling them....

unfinished....

via whydjabuythat

i found this vignette of a vintage in-progress piece so visually interesting.  its the hoop as frame, the colors and the fact that it is unfinished, like it is just as it should be (those little blue x's are nice). also if you started working on it you and some other past person would be working collaboratively together. i feel like that all the time when i'm stitching, a little bit like a time traveler. for me, it's a connection to the past when stitching was part of a woman's life...