this post is making me hungry.

It has been either one year exactly, or approximately one year since I've updated this. And in this time, my writing skills and lexicon have dropped down to the essentials: subject and verb, an the occasional adjective. It also doesn't help that I'm currently listening to Tim and Eric songs, which is such a HUGE distraction when you're doing anything. In fact, I just spent five minutes staring at my computer screen so I could focus on listening to "Beaver Boys".

Anyway, this morning I decided to play around with the shutter speed on my camera:

There aren't many things that move with much speed at early hours of the morning except our krispy kritters and the ceiling fans...and even the latter had to be turned on since it's been so cold lately.



I think it's about 1.5 seconds, I forgot the aperture.

And then to celebrate our ritualistic smoking of the pork butt, I took some meat photos. Meat is fascinating to me. You can add it to any photo and it instantly livens up the scene. It's quite the conversation starter.





This, of course, being the typical diet in the Mitchell household. Well, that and a 3 pound block of cheese.

And lastly, let us come together to reflect upon this hour of meat, and contemplate it's deliciously tender smokiness.



Go henceforth, my children, with my message of meat, and spread it to the hungered masses, forgiving those in vegetabledom who may not understand thy message.

and what happens to good boys and girls who eat their meat?



That's right!

So I forgot what the point of this entry was.
But I plan on taking more photographs, knitting baby blankets and booties so that my cousin's child will be wearing them until age twenty, and maybe learn a thing or two about these internets.

It's time to make nana puddins.

Fabrixxx

I am in the process of making my first charm bracelet, but I'm looking for black acrylic bows...and having trouble finding them! So far its an alternating sequence of gold leaves, amber beads and tiny rectangle picture frames. I think I might put pictures of my great-grandparents and make it a "family tree" theme...get it..cause of...the leaves....yeah.

I bought some more charms from Etsy: two black rose charms, blue cameo connectors, blue feather charms, and pink gem connectors. They. Are. Adorable. I plan on making a necklace out of them.


I'm also making my second article of clothing EVAR, just a simple sleeveless dress. I'm using a mustard stretch knit, and I'd like to do some kind of applique but who knows. Gotta make it first!

I found a great website, Repro Depot Fabrics, which has the cutest Japanes fabrics. I was looking for something for a shirt, but I saw this:

It's photocopy, and abstract and completely beautiful. I thought it would make a great purse, quite possibly a shirt though.

I've also looked into these fabrics:







Cool shiz for REAL!!!!

juggernart

as is my inevitable nature of waxing and waning, i am back in creativity overdrive. except now its not so much knitting and photography (well it will always be photography), now its sewing, jewlery and linocut. Actually, I'd love to do woodcut, but it's hard enough finding a flipping art store wherein the biggest draw ISN'T scrapbooking and scrapbooking supplies.

i. need. a. studio. ! ! ! !

a big barn. with lots and lots of fabric. and yarn. and paints. and canvas. and a darkroom. and silkscreen. and woodcutting. and metal sculpting. and a potters wheel. and a kiln. and an espresso machine.

le sigh.


i bought fabric yesterday for my next project. its a really beautiful mustard yellow stretch jersey...im still trying to figure out ways to embellish. maybe buttons, maybe embroidery.

i also wandered over to the jewlery section and decided to make a bracelet. i dont want to go in to detail in the off-chance my idea suxxx. ill post it if it turns out real nice like.

and as far as the linocut goes, i decided to use it for valentines day cards. i love the look of relief printing and it beats buying hallmark.

second best twilight zone. EVARRRRRRR.

the one with the woman who has bandages covering her face because of some horrible physical deformity, and when they finally reveal her we come to see that she's gorgeous (to us), and everyone else looks totally ugly (to us) except its the norm (to them).

beauty is relative.

SECOND. BEST. LESSON. EVAR.

happy new years

went for the first walk of 2008. that sounded retarded. anyway it ended up being the longest walk ever and i found new trails with really cool things...which got me thinking it would be fun to create natural art pieces to display along the trail...i guess my sophomore 3d art class came in handy after all...it could be like...andy goldsworthy....and shit...

oh man...the best twilight zone episode ever is on right now...where the guys put themselves to sleep for 100 years because they find a huge gold mine...they wake up in 2061 and their greed gets the best of them and they all kill each other off, until one guy is left and he's so desperate and thirsty that with his last breath he trades up his final bar of gold...and then you come to find out that gold is essentially worthless because it can be mass produced.

BEST. LESSON. EVAR.

i completely digress.

i also think i saw a hawk on the trail. it was hugemongous. its wings blocked out the sky. and its eyes gleamed at me with power of a thousand suns. come to think of it, it might have been a griffn. a merv griffin.

walking in a holga wonderland

hands away

more holga pictures to come. with real snowing action. hoo ray. speaking of which. ive come to claim the woods behind my house as my own, as no one ever goes there in the winter-- which is a shame, because there is an overabundance of wildlife about. i felt like i was in the pages of audubon society coffee table book. i don't think ive ever seen so many cardinals and robins in one place. not to sound corny, but cardinals were absolutely striking and beautiful against the falling snow. AND i found a vacated beehive, (which upon impulse i wanted to take home, but after some deliberation i feel nature is best left in its intended place), and various happy woodland animal tracks.

i'm starting to know every tree and cave and bend in the river back there. i should charge for tours.

i feel craftier than ever! ive been drawing more, knitting some, taking pictures, and now im learning the art of sewing. having felt somewhat....slighted...by anthropologie's RIDICULOUS prices, i decided to make my own copies myself. it's much cheaper, and i cant help but feel more rewarded by wearing something i made.

case in point: J Crew had the most adorable shirt in their winter catalogue, made of silk taffeta and priced at $135.



mom and i went through books of patterns to find the basic shell. its an incredibly easy shirt to make, or so im told, its just a matter of learning to gather (which is more time consuming than difficult). instead of using silk --which tends to limit the wearer to special occassions anyway -- i opted for flannel, in the same exact pattern. i think i like the flannel better, too.

i'm aiming for its completion by friday, but we'll see.