July 10, 2007
Muffy Bears
Here are a few of my Muffy bears that I might be selling on ebay. The first several pictures are of the Red Flannel Muffy 1985.
These next three are of Muffy Tree Trimming 1989
This next one is of Muffy Furrier and Ives 1988
And this last one is of Muffy Fir Tree 1990....oh and I do have the box...it was put away for safe keeping.
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April 07, 2007
Almost there
According to my mother it was around this fun hour that I began the journey from her belly to the great wide world; not making my entrance until the afternoon.
There's something about snow in April that just rubs me the wrong way, especially when it starts to stick to the ground and freeze the beautiful blossoms on the trees. I had a dream wednesday night that it snowed on my birthday...I just didn't think it would actually happen. Anyone one up for an Easter Egg hunt in the snow? It's probably good that we color the eggs, otherwise you'd never find them.
One more year until I have to change my blog title....I'm thinking about Forever Young.
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January 15, 2007
Color Change
It was time for a change of colors, those bright springy colors were starting to make me sick.
Well, so much for promises to post images of my previous projects over break. Tomorrow is the first day of back to class. Now that I am a fiber girl for real, I will be spending most of my days on the top floor of the art building....I'm thinking about getting an air mattress or a cot. It does get a little creepy late at night and early in the morning knowing that almost no one ever ventures up to the 4th floor. During finals week while a couple of us were sewing into the night I kept feeling a presence behind me it was spooky. I think we decided just to turn the music up louder. It is so much nicer to have a buddy when working late in the studio.....then I don't have to talk to myself.
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November 05, 2006
Happy Birthday JJRM
Today is my sister's 25th birthday! She's now a quarter of a century.....and thinking about that makes me feel old...hehe. SO Happy Birthday J! Maggie sends lots of birthday kisses....wet and slimy ones. She was so excited that she ate my underwear this morning.
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Work in Progress
Here is what I'm working on at the moment in my surface design class. Unfortunately it's time to get the seam ripper out and start moving the pieces around. Then I've got to sandwich it together with wonder-under batting and backing and start stitching like a mad woman. After that it's timet to square things off and put on the binding. Soon, I'll be asking myself what possessed me to make it so big....(roughly 3 by 5 ft). I've had to start a new flickr account, because I can't remember my old login information including email, password, and everything. I've got some new photography still lifes and unfinished work of my classmates from the last critique.
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October 25, 2006
Clarity Finally
I finally came to the realization that fibers, not photography, is my passion. Needless to say I have switched my concentration. It's interesting to note that I made a late in the game switch from psych to inter-dis while at Covenant. It's also interesting to note that I lack almost the same amount of hours for completion of my photo degree as I did/do for my psych degree. I have consulted with all the parties involved and I feel a great sense of relief because I don't have to spread myself so thin trying to put out 100% to photo and 100% to fibers. I won't be graduating this year, but the prospects of next December are promising. So if you've wondered where I've been, now you know I've been trying to take on more than I can handle. Now with the intense pressure of "why can't I figure out what I'm doing in photography" and "where's the cohesion" and "why can't I articulate my ideas" gone, life is already feeling better. I've had 3 fibers classes and I'm in my 4th and 5th right now. My work is already cohesive. I have so many ideas jumping around in my brain that I can't write them down fast enough. I dream about fibers. I weave in my sleep. I wake up wanting to go do fibers. Apparently it's in my blood. It just makes sense to me and I feel that I can really express myself in a way that I never could in photography. I'm a tactile person and I love tactile things. I like crafting things with my hands, taking raw materials and turning them into something beautiful, expressive, intuitive, and thought provoking. My background in photography is a bonus. It will always be useful.
So that's what's new with me. I have a bunch of pictures that I need to upload and post, perhaps during the next lull or breakthrough.
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