"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Home Improvements, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Jan 2nd, 2012
What you see before you is my “new” stove, a 1950s-era Magic Chef gas range and oven which pretty much outclasses everything else currently residing in my kitchen. Never mind you that the new stove is currently residing on the back porch. It’s in good company. It’s got a disconnected Swedish woodstove and a mysteriously [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Delight, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Food & Snacks, NaBloPoMo 2011, Notions and Rants, Utter Silliness, Words I Like on Nov 17th, 2011
Oh man, I have brainmeats problems. A month or so ago I read an article online where this guy decided to try recipes or foodstuffs mentioned in The Simpsons. I laughed myself silly, as you do. Especially over the notion of Corn Nog, which sounds really fucking disgusting. I mean! Almost as bad as fuzzy [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Distractions, Other Bike Stuff, Ruby the Dog, Sewing, Super-Short Entries, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 5th, 2011
Juniper Berry sachet, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. While running the dog, I found a bunch of windfall juniper berries today, so I completely filled my jacket pockets and made several juniper-berry sachets. I put this one in my lingerie drawer, ’cause delicates that smell of G&T are never the wrong answer.
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Lists, meta, Notions and Rants, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 3rd, 2011
Facebook. Freakin’ Facebook. It’s a love/hate website, that’s for sure. It’s fun to keep up with your friends, see your old schoolmates’ babies, check out your co-workers Spotify picks, hand out party invites, RSVP to same…it’s a daily ritual that many of us enjoy. Mostly. But Facebook has a habit of inventing new ways to [...]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Distractions, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Aug 2nd, 2011
On Saturday, I found myself among friends, hanging around behind an abandoned industrial building. Some folks were drinking beers; all of us were talking shit. Because that’s what we do. Shoot the bull, drink beer, and hang around debris-strewn alleyways behind abandoned buildings. We’re classy n’ shit. Any old how, I wasn’t drinking beer because [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Utter Silliness on Aug 1st, 2011
IMG_7462, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. Mixed media: chewing gum, broken glass, mounted to an asphalt base. A three dimensional expression in found materials. (or a load of horseshit cloaked in big words, constructed from debris found in a parking lot Further elucidation forthcoming at my upcoming gallery show. I’ve got a spot at [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Dumpster Diving, Sewing, Utter Silliness on Jul 21st, 2011
Today, boys and girls (probably mostly girls) I’m going to show you how to turn this: Raggedy, damaged men’s suit jacket into these: cute and cheeky women’s shorts. Before we get into the slicin’ and dicin’ of this crafts hack, I have a word of disclaimer or two. This is not any sort of a [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Photo entries on Sep 4th, 2010
I’ve been gluing stuff to other stuff lately. For example: Sequins + button + hairpin More sequins, a button, a bead, and a hairpin. La, la, laaaaa…more of the same, but in a more subtle and refined color scheme. Kind of elegant for being a bunch of crap glued together. This is meant to be [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Family on Aug 26th, 2010
5 drops of Rose Otto (in jojoba) 1 drop of Patchouli scant .35 oz vodka infused with whole cloves (12 in a 1 oz bottle) I use these tiny perfume bottles that are .35 oz, so whatever liquid I put in besides the oils (usually vodka, either plain or infused) is just under .35 oz, [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Utter Silliness on Aug 25th, 2010
Realistically, I am pretty sure I can make my own custom toilet-flush frame for my MA certificate. There are unnecessarily complicated birthday cards which have a little battery-powered recorder gizzy so you can record your own greeting. When I could do is disembowel one of those cards, record a toilet flush sound effect on the [...]
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