craft fairs and an art show!!

Hello lurkers~

The short moral of this journal is the place me and the crap I make will be.....

Hello World art show Los Angeles April 20-May 18th
Patchwork Craft Show Santa Ana May 26th
Patchwork Craft Show Long Beach June 2nd

Come buy some handmade crap! Or come gawk at some handmade crap! Either way, I made stuff and things. Hurrrrr

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OH. I am fucking OBSESSED with "Downton Abbey". FFFFFFFFFF Why did it take me so long to start watching? Sooooo good. Uuuuggggggh.

And I can't stop listening to Takenobu's new album "Climatica". Just as fantastic.

I'm severely behind on everything in my message center but I'll catch up soon. It seems like I haven't been settled and home for weeks. The man and I road tripped from Southern California to Seattle from March 20-30. It was delightful!! I'd love to live there. And then just on Sunday-Tuesday evening we adventured to Catalina Island. It was my very first island trip, as well as ferry ride across a fair amount of ocean. So many barfers. Holy crap. And so many of them just kept their stuffed bags on their table, all sweating and steamy from the barf. Sooooo gross and wrong. Catalina was very pretty, but I came down with a cold just after arriving, so I missed out on some hiking and wandering at some times.

Sooooo, I've been sewing like a mad woman for an upcoming art show in Los Angeles on April 20th at The Service Station called "Hello World" www.facebook.com/events/172887… I'm sewing two brand spanking new pieces to show and I am quite delighted and excited to show them off.

Who knew that getting involved with the Stitch Fetish show would inspire me so much and get me more involved with showing my art? It was such a wonderful surprise that so much has come from stumbling over a random art call. I have to admit that as much as I do love inking and painting, stitching is so satisfying to my need to nitpick every little detail. And doing an art piece that is embroidered is just exhilarating to me as it's not a common medium for making something that isn't "homey", not that I'm saying homey is bad. I think doilies and embroidered pillows and all those crafts that people just kind of think nothing of deserve so much more respect. It takes skill and so much detail and attention for so many overlooked crafts that are treated like they are not art or a skill. I just never thought that this is where I'd be, backstitching full pieces of art to hang in shows. I love it.

And I also just got accepted into the Patchwork Craft Shows in Long Beach and Santa Ana!! Soooooo excited!! I can now cross doing a craft show off my bucket list for the year. I'm very optimistic that these will go fine. I'm already starting to feel a touch of panic, but that is mostly in regards to making a display and that side of it. I know what I'm selling, which will be the jewelry I've been fanatically making in glee. I just need to decide on numbers and start making them. Hopefully the crowd likes them more than dA does. I have to admit I was so excited to share them here and no one gave a shit. It kind of crushed me a little, but then I remembered it's dA, so why do I care? That makes me sound like an ego trip but I currently don't expect comments or favorites here anymore. I usually just see activity on my plushie tutorial, which is fascinating that so many people find it helpful when it is so lamely made in paint ms and webcam photos. Hahaha.

I'm rambling, like I always do when I write a journal here.