Oh So Pretty puppies

Customer appreciation photos wearing their upcycled and custom collars! Check out those working dogs work-it!

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IMG_3971, a photo by leathery&things on Flickr.

Desert Dog pretends to scope out the dog park booth, but he really is only interested in the treats on the table...

woodsy

 

desert dog and i went for a long hike in the woods, to the Devil's Punchbowl near the border of Oregon....the hike was hard, but seeing the ravaged and naked pine trees along the trail, with piles of bark littered with bore holes at the base, the effects of the  pine beetle--that was more difficult.

the agreeable weather made me home sick...not for any specific place, but for every night spent sitting outdoors with a cool drink listening to the sounds....maybe i am warming up to the pioneer California...death valley?...the rustic dreams of early settlers...tough women trying to make their way in the WEST...

...since those days are long gone (and i doubt i would survive...although desert dog would), i am thinking of picking up this classic book by Helen Hunt Jackson instead or the movie in Technicolor!

POST-MAKER FAIRE REPORT

As most of the work I aim to do is custom, I was fortunate to share a Maker Faire booth with two lovely ladies so I wouldn't have to space my goods out like some kind of conceptual  art exhibit (see previous post)...



KC Made it!

Laruen LoCalolo

my little corner

Presently finding myself very busy with making, professionality, and embracing a house routine. I have to get another shipment ready for Fancy Pony Land in Marfa...this time, all bags!

workworkwork=lovelovelove

The exhibit of Charles LeDray’s in the exhibit workworkworkworkwork made me talk in tiny weird nioses.

The title of this exhibit is also the title of his 1991 piece, "nearly six hundred precisely fashioned miniature objects created by the artist were layed out on a sidewalk in the center of New York’s Astor Place."

Charles Ledray (b. 1960), workworkworkworkwork, 1991 (detail). 588 objects: Fabric, thread, cotton batting, yarn, embroidery floss, nylon cord, carpet, leather, wood, metal, foil, metal chain, wire, nails, porcelain, pumice, beads, buttons, cardboard, corrugated cardboard, paper, magic marker, paint, approximately 45 feet long x 10 in x 2in. (13.7 m x 25.4 cm x 5 cm). Private Collection, Houston, TX

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This post will segue into the week-theme of sidewalk sales!

inspiration

Busy weekend of lovely ladies and wedding times with my sister.

Always trying to look for lovely inspiration!

Image taken from  Where the Lovely Things Are 

http://www.wherethelovelythingsare.com/

this is also right up my trash-collecting old-junk-hoarding alley:

Making Desing Out of NOTHING

desert dog

Desert Dog yawns reading about Comanche exploits in the high desert and plains...nothing compares to his adventures raiding trashcans and dodging cacti while chasing tarantulas.

OK, so maybe he was scared of the tarantuals...and the rattle snakes...but he chased the bunny rabbits and stuck his head in many-a-hole of burrowing animals, it just doesn't sound as tough. 

On the subject of adventures, I have been preparing for the Origin Design Lab's Maker Faire this Saturday, my first craft fair...hopefully I don't implode. Happy Friday! 

PS: I just made myself wish I was doing Critical Mass instead of freaking out all night tonight.

http://chicagocriticalmass.org/about

(i wouldn't do a naked ride, but i like that others do!)