hi. here is another painting. i did this for andrew.

i call him "adventure man", the painting, not andrew, although the title applies to him as well.

there's not so much to say, the symbols are quaintly obvious. i chose green for the balloons because it's the color of the heart chakra, where he acquires the extra lift to propel his contraption.

i have been doing more painting...

Hello friends, this is a painting i finished recently it's on canvas board
which makes it seem like a grade school students work but materials are materials. over the summer i was into imagining time/space travel vehicles. this is not a vehicle per se but more of a portal into space. perhaps there is an elevator in the shaft and lodging, entertainment facilities, offices, whatever on the side. the power is in the base. what do you do in space once you get there...? that's the real question. Andrew and i wanted to take a road trip out to albuquerque just for something to do but what would we do when we got there? the planning is really more the pleasure, the imagining is it. the realization is the a dark cloud of truth. everything is everything and nothing by itself or together, really.

well i spiffy-ed up the blog i hope you like it. i wish it meant that we would be creating and posting at a faster rate but alas, i fear not.

shirt & purse

i made this purse from a pattern in this book and i absolutely love it. i decided to not do the applique and leave it plain and it is so perfect. it's by far one of my favorite projects to date and it was super easy. i'll have to take a better picture of it one of these days though.



i made this shirt over the summer. i kind of hate the collar, it feels huge when i wear it, but i've found it works well with layering. i don't know how easy it is to see but its a really small black and white gingham.

summer dress

this is a dress i made over the summer and am just getting around to picturing and posting it.
during summer '10 i was really into the sailor theme like many other fashion fans, everything
red white blue and the in between blue and white i.e. navy sky blue royal blue ect.
i made the pattern for this dress by measurements paper and mixed up memories of pattern making.
i like the buttons and the zipper, the bodice is lined with a thin cotton, also the waistband but not the bottom.
i really like how stiff the fabric is it makes it look like doll clothes or something.
p.s. sorry it's been so long, so i will have a work space again but since we left japan no sewing machine. :(

wedding wear

we watched the music video of katy perry's hot n cold song, that's the dress/outfit A.S. wanted to wear at her wedding. so we went shopping for fabric. i made some adjustments to the design in the end making the skirt knee length and filling it with tulle, making it more bubbly instead of long and flowie. i'm not sure if A. ever got the pink fishnets to go with it but in the end i think we both felt really good about the outfit it wasn't a costume like we may have both thought it would be in the beginning. these pictures are from the night before we moved all of our stuff out of our house to leave japan, sorry i'm not a photographer.

dress

i made this dress for a beautiful lady i know and yes i agreed to do it the night before a big move, maybe i'm crazy but she was such a big help to us in takamatsu, plus about one of the most charming people i've ever met. i wanted to do something. she had been telling me i have this fabric...i have this fabric can you do something with it. so eventually i took the fabric and it was actually sewn into a large tube not woven but sewn together so i worked with that. we discovered at the fitting it could be worn two ways! great!
on another note she looks royal in it. we are about the same size except T is taller, anyway, when i tryed it on blagh it looked awful with my blonde hair and light skin. but it looks chic on her. i really feel like her father in law picked the prefect fabric for her, she could where it with earthy sandals for a trip to the grocery store and throw a little black cardigan with some cute flats for dinner. not to be OTT about this but i was thankful T gave me the opportunity to make something i am proud of and she looks great in! she's so radiant anyway it's hard to make T look bad ;)

clothes

a shirt.