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!

This has been one of my best selling illustrations, and I got several requests for tee’s with this print so I finally got it together and have the designs ready for the screenprinter. I will be selling these at the Renegade Craft Fair and then putting them in my online shop.

And these… original reproductions. Is that an oxymoron? These are altered prints. I have taken original drawings, made print reproductions of them. Varnished them, then painted on them, and then varnished them again. Fun!!!! I am getting my coloring book printed tomorrow. Cannot wait! So much excitement for the next week!

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!

We have started to BBQ these past few weeks and it is so great to be outside more! We found these buoys washed up on the beach. Stay tuned for a shop update!

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.

Spring is finally here! It is so nice to open all the windows and air out the house, get outside for a bit of sun, etc. I actually wore flip flops to the beach this weekend, no more scenes like this. We went to this over the weekend and acquired a new art piece! Spring is so great!

I told myself a while back, that this blog was supposed to be about art and stuff. But for so long it was just about my life, so it’s hard to edit these personal posts even though there is plenty of work and art to talk about.

We have been searching constantly (but in a fun way) for any idea of what our beloved little Beppo might be… What kind of dog is this stray we have adopted? So cute, but also obviously wierd, so that people we meet at the park actually laugh and say “what happened to that?” Anyway, we now think we know what he is. We think he is a Chiweenie! A Chihuahua Wiener dog mix! Laugh at this baby doggie photo because I think it was how Beppo must have looked as a pup. The first photo I found on the internet. The second is of our 12 month old random adopted mutt rescue dog. Hahahahahha.

Ok. More art coming soon. I promise.