I've been busy, but here's a taste.

I designed my sister's 4th tattoo. Pheonix! I don't really like this style of tattoo, but she likes it, I think it's beautiful none the less. The idea crossed my mind to be a tattoo artist more than once, it would be very fun.

Finally a Post!

This is a box I made for my friend Zara for her 19th birthday two years ago. It remains one of my favorite creations. It's made out of wood, the technique is done on a band saw and involves lots of gluing and sanding. Very fun to do. Anyway, I really like the colors. The owl is unfortunately not my design, this was during my love affair with boygirlparty (www.boygirlparty.com) who I still adore. Also, I had some pins from boygirlparty that I got from craftland along with some other goodies tucked in the drawers when I gave it to Zara. A gift for a true friend. I want to make more, they just take a while to make.

halloweenies

ooh la la! These are some of my costumes I made for the past few years. I get a lot of inspiration from my connection with Big Nazo Puppets www.bignazo.com and I learn a lot from them. I won a couple high school contests with them, got some free ice cream.

This is Grandfather Wolf. I made him in my junior year of high school. He is a goofy old thing, graying on the edges. He is made of foam, nylon, latex, acrylic, fur and ping pong balls. I love him, he is the grandfather we all wished we had.



In my senior year I made a play off my zodiac (leo) with Leonine. I think of the headdress itself as something for a lion tamer to wear. It's made out of foam, acrylic, nylon, latex, fur and wood shavings. I paired it with face paint for an abstract lion, rather inspired by circus entertainers. The rest of the outfit was black pants and shirt with fur and detail-stitched pleather details on the forearms, calves and of course a tail. I liked the abstract minimalism of animals. I want to make more animals like this, a troupe.



This year (college freshman) I didn't have much time (this is art school) but I threw together what I lovingly call my underwater glove love monster. He's made of foam and latex and acrylic with puff paint details and lots and lots of rubber gloves I had left over from another project. He doesn't speak, just floats listfully and looks for tentacally hugs. I made the tentacles the same way as the head, then glues them to a cut off blue sweatshirt. I wore a black bodysuit under that with more gloves pinned to the bottoms so they swished around a lot when I walked. It was ridiculously hot in this costume, but a small boy fell in love with me and wanted to hold my tentacle all night.

The Very First Yellow Stitches

These were the first critters that started the yellow stitches line. I made them over spring break 2007. The bird at the top was given to a friend for her birthday and the dog on the bottom (with no yellow stitches!) was given to my sister for her birthday. The small dino is still with me, I am very fond of him. I made several more over this break, I'll put those pictures up soon and I'm still making animals with felt and yellow embroidery thread. Each one is special and new, small and tender.