Just spending about 1 minute on each page… Feels nice to be quick and simple right now! But brought out the paints and started painting a bit too. We did a huge re-haul on the house today, rooms are different, furniture is different, etc, etc. Fun! More, later!

In celebration of my upcoming birthday, I am doing a give-away! I just finished this piece this weekend, it is watercolor, pen and marker on heavyweight watercolor paper. I would love to send it to you! In order to be eligible, please leave a comment on this blog post telling me your favorite birthday memory! I will randomly choose a number on Saturday June 28 and mail the piece out the following Monday! Don’t be shy!!!

Well, The Brooklyn Renegade Craft Fair has come and gone. Man, doing those fairs takes a lot out of you. Flying in the day of the show, on 4 hours sleep. Sitting in insanely hot and humid weather all day. The fair took place in an old abandoned pool, so when the rains came, the pool filled! We had 3 hours+ of torrential downpours (and amazing lightening) that ruined some of my prints and just soaked everything else, including us. On Sunday we borrowed a car and drove on the BQE (Brooklyn Queens Expressway) and hoped that the gas tank gauge was wrong, because suddenly it seemed we were about to run out of gas in bumper to bumper traffic (we didn’t.) Regretfully eating way too much crappy food all weekend (pizza, ice cream, rice crispy treats, coffee, lemonade, beer, chinese food, etc, etc.) Feeling like a detox was badly needed but thinking that the 2 days of sweating I did probably took care of some of that? Walking around Williamsburg with 3 large suitcases and a heavy steel-framed canopy for an hour, because the cab driver (on day one) was lost so we got out to find the place on our own. Anyway. Although I met some great people and sold a good amount of product, the fair was a logistical challenge! And I was just exhausted! It was really well-attended I thought, crowded both days. I am updating my shop, with my new screenprinted tees and bags, and coloring book!

Thanks so much to Katherine, from KG + AB who stopped by my booth at the Renegade Craft Fair and then gave me a mention on one of my favorite blogs, Poppytalk. Look at her adorable ceramics! I want to buy them all!

Also a thank you to Clare who made me her featured artist on her website! I met Clare years ago while we both lived in Santa Barbara, California… she is now in Alaska and I am Boston! I was going to attend grad. school for my teaching credential in art, but decided teaching high school art wasn’t for me. So then I moved to New York City and worked as a footwear designer!

Happy Weekend!

I finally designed and produced a coloring book! I am so excited about it, please check it out here and you can buy it for $12 (which includes shipping in the US!) Coloring is a very meditative process, relaxing and fun. The book contains 25 pages of original illustrations, a color front and back cover, and the whole thing is spiral bound. This is definitely a book for all ages!

I hope you will stop by booth #61 this weekend and say hello to me if you are in Williamsburg Brooklyn (at McCarren Pool Park) at the Renegade Craft Fair! Should be fantastic, this art and craft fair is the cream of the crop, the best one by far! I am working like a mad-woman finishing up everything. It was 100 degrees today, and although we live on the sea, we don’t have air conditioning, which can prove to be a little sticky! Although varnish dries quickly so I guess that is one good thing… More, later!

Blurry? Transparencies, Multiplicity, Nature, Love, hate. Been thinking in the realm of extremes lately. From freezing cold New England winter to soon to be sweltering and sweaty New England summer. From Small town to Big city. I lived in Manhattan, I live in the second smallest town in New England now. From the two sides of us that definitely always exist. There is a side, fighting with another side. There is a part that is subordinated by another part. There are so many sayings I want tattoo’ed on my arm; “Wherever you go, there you are.” “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” Eek. Is that one puritanical? Sortof? And being thrust from one extreme to the next, and sometimes, feeling that even a slight shift in life feels like a massive one. And skeletons in the closet. All that good stuff. All the things that soaps are made of! Anyway, should this image be silkscreened on a tote bag? The “drops” seem to bother the boyfriend. But they don’t bother me.

I just cannot put my finger on where the time is going… it is just moving too fast! I just sold my piece SLOW from my etsy shop, to an old friend, whom I met when I was 15 years old in Palm Springs. After not really keeping touch for the past 15 years or so. We got in touch and he bought this piece, and I just re-read what I wrote about in my shop, and it is SO how I feel! “I guess I just see the world a little slower than it actually happens. i think the world should slow down just a little bit!”

What else. Check out my boyfriend’s new blog. Yeah! What a nice website too… Click on OS Ocean (the lobster) for the English version or OS Country (the Rooster) for the Italian version!

I am so busy at work. Incredibly. Planning all kinds of travel and corrections and all this and that. Meetings, deadlines, line closing, sales, this that and the other. It is a good busy, but I am coming home so tired! In 3 1/2 weeks I am going to have to be prepared for the Brooklyn Renegade Craft Fair. I am so excited about it, I love that my sweet and extra talented friend Sarah and I will be sharing a booth, and I love what I am working on for it! Altered prints on wood panels, a coloring book, greeting cards, silk-screened tees. Yay! Cannot wait to share it all. I also really, really want to show you all the of the cute and sparkly shoes I have been working on, so many lovely things, tangerine and fuschia faux snakeskin gladiator sandals, baby shoes with embroidered roses and hearts and anchors, just so much cute. But, I will hold back until things go to retail… maybe I can show just a small segment to you? I am busy, proud, exhausted, and a little worried about sharing too much before even buyers see the stuff! Remember, it is 2009 that I have already designed… Actually, in 2 months, I will be starting on Fall 2009 footwear designs! For now, here are some quick things from the dusty crevices of my current state of mind… Been thinking a lot of duality, love and hate, all kinds of simple but narrative things. And also, just spending a lot of time looking at the beautiful texture of textiles, rope, yarn, knits, etc.


The stuff I’m doing…
Illustrations on wood panels with varnish.

Yay BBQ season! Our little copper fire pit on our new porch. It is so nice to eat outside!

Please visit my shop to see the new original pieces (matted & framed and ready to hang) for sale! I also have framed prints for sale, which you can see here on my flickr account. Also, just to the right you can see these prints (reproductions on archival paper with archival inks, matted and framed) to the right ->. You can buy right online with paypal on etsy or you can send me an email if you are more comfortable! sarah at funcupcake dot com. Thanks!

This is a print from a drawing that I did by hand, and colored digitally, and then applied to a wood panel and varnished. Working with alternatives to framing, for reproductions.


I just made these collages from a few small washed up pieces of wood and parts of my illustration reproductions. I am excited by chopping up these little worlds I have drawn on a clean sheet of paper, because I look at each element differently. I love to draw in a really crowded way, but doing this forces another look at what I have drawn and the way I have put it all together. And, I am really focused on finding unique and alternative methods to framing, for art. Especially considering I have to find an efficient way to transport a lot of merchandise for the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn in June. Frames have glass, and glass breaks. Plus these other methods make for a more unique piece I think. Still experimenting!

Look closely, can you see what this pattern is made out of? A horse from this drawing. I am working on getting things ready to screenprint for Brooklyn.

I have been meaning to mention a few of my creative friends who are making things happen lately…

My talented friend Ian just wrote this great book entitled Paralle Strokes, If you are at all interested in typography and graffiti I highly recommend it! You can purchase it for only $25 with free shipping! Check it out!!!

My friend and co-worker Marka just had a show in L.A. for a new toy release, he designs these amazing mini-gods that also function as speakers, and he also paints, draws, you name it.

My friend Nancy, whom I went to the Fashion Institute in NYC with and studied handbag design, just launched a website with her beautiful handbag collections, please check them out!

I am so proud and inspired of my creative friends!

We found this lovely piece of wood with screws and nails already attached (with a lovely natural ocean patina) washed up on the beach. We have been collecting the small objects as well, and just placed them on the board. This weathered piece hangs out in the bathroom now with some other little lovely things, including a mold of my teeth from the 80’s when I had braces, a lovely ceramic tooth shadow box made by my friend Kristine in Portland. And a couple of blue fish that somehow made their way into our cart at Target. I think the key to having art in your bathroom, is to have ceramic pieces or things that are meant to slowly weather with the humidity.