Here's a recent breakfast Troy and I had. I made bread. It was snowing and it had been a long time since I'd made bread from scratch. Seemed like the thing to do. And it was.

new picture, post show...

i know we haven't decided how we want to continue to use the blog... but i'm ready to start being creative again and stop with the lists and the to-do's. it was nice to go to the gallery yesterday and take in the price list and just look around; a feeling of completion.

installing make/believe

installing the show at waterstone-- a three day process....

installing make/believe

friends and family came over to help us mount photos on panels, add hardware and make origami cranes for the fear dress.

show up

so it's up! and i think the people that came to the preview show liked it. oddly we both forgot to take pictures of people in the space and each other. My friend Morgan brought her daughter also wearing a tutu, that was very festive, and the nephews were a little uneasy with all the peoples but it was a good evening. . . cheers!

so for the east coasters, this is a little of what the show looks like, but in real life it's all in focus. . .

lists.

we have:

prints

panels

dresses

collage

drawings

origami paper

a small work party 

hopes that the work party will grow in attendance

we'll eat:

indian food

chili

bagels

errands:

hardware store

art supply store

grocery store

what will I wear?

create:

artist statements

thread drawings

printed blog entries

find:

other objects

drawings

photos 

etc

map dresses

I didn't get quite as far on the map dresses as i thought i would last night. but i did decide to give them darts to help give them shape and to wire the seams.

and they are a weird minature. the arm holes turned out really small, but the bodies aren't super small. i'm debating about sewing in some tuck pleats to make them more proportional. tonight i'll photo at least one and post it so you can see.

I do like the wiring in the seams, i am pretty sure i can do this and still pack them up and bring them with me. I'm not forseeing much sleep friday night.

in other thoughts, woke up this morning with panic that the photo printing place might send my prints to me here and not remember that you are picking them up together, must now send neurotic email it Phil. cheers.

lists.

To pick up/have delivered:

prints

panels

To buy:

hardware for the back of panels

hardware for installation

archival spray adhesive

cotton rag paper

numbers or something for individual installation pieces (for sale list)

fishing line

xacto blades

liquor

therapy

To do:

write artist statements

fear dress, done until portland.

i have a small confession. as much as i've been so cranky working on this project and as difficult as it proved to be to create this original idea of all these fears, the sewing part of all this, makes me feel like myself again. i was telling stephen yesterday the history of my sewing machines. it surprises me some times how long dress making has been a part of my life. but it's generally such a comfort, it's a much better way of life, then not sewing, not creating. 

i still feel like i have so much to learn, i have all those sleeves to conquer . . .

ps sorry for the poor image, tulle is really hard to focus on. ha ha ha, i didn't mean it like that.

for me to wear.

i think it will look better on me then on isabel . . . and there are still some tweaking i'd like to do, but tweaking isn't on the schedule until tuesday or wednesday . . . thoughts?

thoughts?

in honor of Fyo's birth i did not find any armholes last night, instead i drank wine with my friends and celebrated the baby. 

so here's where  i am now, i think she could have another layer of skirt tiered under the skirt there, just to make it a little be longer, it feels like a weird proportion. Maggi however loved it. she thought it looked like a ballerina. . . 

so imagine the black cranes in the bodice and strung through the skirt 

the bodice before it was a bodice

not as lost

i'm not posting a picture because it doesn't look that different from yesterday. but i'm making progress with it.  this is going to sound really silly, but i can't find the armholes. and i have to be really sure about where they are, once i cut them out, it's over. 

tomorrow's goal, commit to the armholes.

oh my god.

this is such a problem.

tutu of fear?

if this was a dress, it would want to be made like this:somehow i'm not sure if i can just trust this dress. here's my problem, my first idea about how to make this isn't as lovely as those pleats (harpers bazaar says pleats should be resting now. but these pleats won't have it.) and my colors, ps, my red/brown tulle looks terrible with my red origami paper. new color idea? some kind of pattern? writing on ribbon? 

so, what are your thoughts? I almost called you (well i did) but I almost asked your voice mail if we really needed this "sculpture". it wants to be a tutu. does that work? at all? 

and i suddenly want to make a pleated tulle skirt to match my after five hat for our opening.  it's so rare, the opportunities to wear tulle skirts and after five hats.

drowning in red tulle and loving it.

one of the things i love about working with tulle is that it's like water colors. layering it by itself and adding in different colors and layering that all together totally changes the feel. i added orange to the red last night and i love it, but it looked really happy and not fearful. i don't want it to look terrified, that's not the kind of fear i wanted to get at. so tonight i added a really good brown and it changed the color in a good way.

I'm still working on what this dress looks like, my direction of how to make it completely changed during one of my naps this weekend. i think i like this kind of shape. it needs some kind of bodice. 

anyway. tell me what you think.

i don't know if you can see this in the photo, but i am really enjoying the sloppy angled pleats. 

Oh! and i thought i could make a cocktail hat for wednesday nights opening, an old fashioned after five. I mean, since i don't have time to make a new dress . . . .

the fear dress

this is the beginning of what we've called the fear dress, i love the red tulle, i love working with tulle, and i love how adding the origami squares will change this. 

i had another thought though, which was what will i do with this dress when it's done. where will it live?

so now i think, not quite life size is good.

night pictures i'm thinking of using for snap shots.

i'm starting to let the bottom one go, i suddenly have like 10 to print as "snap shots" and that seems like way too many.

for writing

a couple of weeks ago we went to see the fleet foxes, who i believe are from gig harbor washington. and it was amazing. 

but while listening, i couldn't help thinking about how i wanted someday for my east coast life to be more a part of my west coast life and vice versa. 

maybe this is a small side effect of our show. this is the first time i'm bringing this much of my east coast life home. even sans stephen.

as soon as i left dad at my house on his last night here and went to stephen's to sleep, i realized i didn't take a single photo of him the whole time he was here. it just seemed so normal seeing him, even though it's been nearly 2 years. . . and we talked about cameras the whole time. we're such photo geeks together, except that i never take pictures. 

i regret now not photoing his hands. 

More October

October work

sept: for 8 x 12" printing and mounting

sept: for 8 x 10" printing and mounting

sept: for printing little, not mounting, maybe

September pictures

my favorite augusts . ..

my augusts. . .

August pictures