I actually took my DSLR with me on a couple of walks this past weekend, and look at this. Instead of leaving the images for millenia on the memory card, I picked my favorites and put them here for you. <3
2023-11-02 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear ones,
As always my intentions are off from my delivery. This month, I’d planned a pile of things, which were canceled for a terrible cold that kept hanging on. Nearly four weeks, and the chest rattling cough is finally abating, and my energy is coming back. Such is the fate of a pare...
2023-10-30 18:37:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey friends, a quick update, unedited, so you know where I'm at. Maybe I'll do more of these?
Kiddo has started preschool. This means I get a couple of hours Wednesday and Friday mornings. I'm trying to use that time to be creative, as the lack of creative time and space has been pretty rou...
2023-09-22 17:26:32 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s my name.” I said.
“I know.” Frenchy replied.
“You used my name?” I boggled mildly.
“Yep.” said Frenchy.
“You used my name.” I said uselessly.
“Yeah, but what do you think?” Frenchy breezed.
“Why did you use my name?” I blin...
2023-09-18 19:32:35 +0000 UTC View PostI have stopped charging for my creative content! That does not mean I do not deserve to be compensated, but rather, I acknowledge that the place I'm at in my life means I cannot promise to deliver weekly or even monthly work. That said: I promise to give you your money's worth. Y...
2023-07-26 20:01:48 +0000 UTC View Post"You Americans have so many things that do just one thing." Bjaran criticized, and Sofi grimaced inwardly at the way they referred to all humans as Americans. "You have so much space for so many simple devices. Why not make fewer devices that do more things! You Americans." Sofi wondered whether ...
2023-07-24 19:18:29 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://fabricnfiction.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/tutorial-thread-shirt-buttons/
I’ve been reading/listening/talking/digesting a lot of sewing/garment construction content....
2023-07-18 03:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post
(I’m trying yet again to post this brief update. I’m flaky enough without Patreon adding to the process!)
This past weekend, the whole fam loaded up in the car and pitched out to a lodge in northern Wisconsin for a monumental anniversary (CBot’s folks’ 50th!!!)
There weren’t...
2023-06-21 01:32:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I spent some time on this, but not THAT much.
2023-06-20 02:51:31 +0000 UTC View Post(Those of you who are FB friends with me may have already seen this, so I'm going to try to fill it in some, because ooof, I've been absent!)
1. Convergence Grid was submitted on Saturday, with two updates made to schedule updated and submitted today. There may be edits/updates, bu...
2023-06-14 18:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostWe came upon the statue in the middle of the forest, there at the base of the mountains. I say statue, but don't misunderstand- the size of it was stunning, horrific, gobsmacking, confusing when we finally realized what it was. Even those of us who had no gods, those of us who wanted none, felt s...
2023-04-12 05:02:29 +0000 UTC View Post
So, last post (a while ago, I know, I know) I wrote about being okay with giving up- I have so many projects that I've started and not finished, and it's healthy to be able to say: Nope. Done with this. It's not the right thing for me/now/my energies/my resources/skills/talents/etc. Today's post ...
2023-03-13 05:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I ditched the sewing project I was working on for a sewing challenge from the sewing website. I thought engaging in the challenge (pattern mixing) would keep me working on projects and my skills, but I think I realized a number of things:
Hello Dear Ones,
I'm barely staying ahead of things these days, so of course I'm missing telling you about all the things!
Art Shanty Projects is open!
As you might remember, I'm co-chair of the board of directors for this magical event. We're a working board, s...
2023-02-01 21:28:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Trying to sort out the timelines of the early 2000s. Making amends, something to do with big tympani drums and teeth and stripes of black paint pulled across the cheek.
He has become a dark red velvet cape. I lose my lens cap in the wind. Peter and the Wolf is playing.”
When I wa...
2023-01-18 14:44:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y’all! Maybe it’s the earl grey talking, but I’m really excited about my reading stack right now. Not a lot of fiction or poetry on it, but everything is pretty appealing.
1. Seed Savers Exchange Catalog. It is that time of year. The time to think about the garden, to make spreads...
2023-01-11 02:37:58 +0000 UTC View PostI surprised myself a bit today, throwing together a project submission for a call for artists that I received just today. It'd be a little like Ring Ring Poetry, but with a science and nature bent, as it's for a restoration project at Lake Pepin. I'm delighted at the idea of writing and recording...
2023-01-09 06:13:59 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year's Day, dear ones.
Make ambitious resolutions and go at them full tilt. Life is short, and now is your chance to push reality in the direction of your dreams.
When you "fail", take a day off. Or two, or three, or a week. Think and write about your experience. Then make t...
2023-01-02 06:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostAs is traditional, tonight I will visit you in your dreams. I may come to you in my true form, that of a blade of grass- just a small green thing in a sea of small green things that you cannot know whether you've stepped on or not and it really doesn't matter whether you have or not because we ar...
2022-12-22 04:54:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm as astonished as you are.
Look at that pattern matching! And it's FOR REAL finished. So what's the story behind the dress?
My dear friend Caly has a December birthday. Not just a December...
2022-12-19 05:10:23 +0000 UTC View Post
My last post, I said something like, "I'm hoping to wind down for the year. No new projects, I said." And you know how that goes.
I’m working on a dress to wear out this weekend, I made a big old vegan pot roast out of the Herbivorous Butcher cookbook, and I was commissioned and sold a be...
2022-12-13 21:01:13 +0000 UTC View Post
When I cut this pattern, I was a lot bigger than I am now. And so I sewed it up a bit tighter, but still it was too big (see winter pic), so it was always twisting or falling off. I took about an inch and a half in at the sides today, and now I will wear it. Yay! One garment off my "finish/alter"...
2022-10-20 21:31:41 +0000 UTC View Post
For as many garments as I’ve sewn now, I’ve never made a muslin (a toile or a mock-up garment made in similar texture/weight/stretch to the intended final garment). Well, now I’m embarking on that process.
Burying the lede, but I’m thinking I’ll do a livestream reading some night...
2022-10-18 19:51:27 +0000 UTC View PostI've been taking a Zoom course with playwright Gemma Irish on writing uncommon narratives through Strike Theater*. It's been a pretty casual course, with a small number of students (just four of us)- it maybe doesn't push me as hard as I like, but it's been really good to have time that I must se...
2022-10-05 01:58:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear ones,
As much as I wanted to start a podcast, I can see that it's not happening at this point in my life. So we're going to just be really tidy and clean with the benefits, and you can adjust based on how you're feeling.
$1 for patrons only posts, which will mostly ensure you're ...
2022-10-04 19:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello my neglected loves,
Summer has been busier for me than I'd anticipated, but let's be real. I've always got too many burners going, I'm always doing too much, and hopping from one project to the next to the next to the next. So, what have I been up to?
Big Projects 2022-07-21 20:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve been playing with placement, so you may see some head movement, but I think I’m going to have a lot of fun with this.
2022-06-15 16:53:29 +0000 UTC View PostA potential collaborator asked for links to videos of readings I've done, and I was embarrassed that I didn't have much to share with them. So, let's do an online reading in the coming month. What day of the week seems the most likely for you to show up for an evening reading?
2022-06-14 19:13:34 +0000 UTC View Post
If you know me, you know I love biking. Long bike rides by myself are meditative- I'll start off frustrated with something, upset about something, just generally out of sorts, and half an hour of biking later I'll feel better. An hour later, I'll maybe even have a plan of attack from whatever's b...
2022-06-13 20:58:07 +0000 UTC View PostI am behind on my posts, on my cleaning, on everything. I feel spring coming around the bend… any day now, but the false springs are causing some drag in my momentum. I had this intention of using poetry month to be another kick in my writerly behind, but it’s hard to find time to write when ...
2022-04-02 05:34:52 +0000 UTC View Post