to boot

yep. I have a boot problem. a bad one.... and with this awful Minnesota snow, I'm focusing on the ones that will keep my toes warm too! There are a lot of sidewalks here that haven't been plowed or even shoveled! Walking back to the apartment from my car today, I actually had to climb a mountain of snow to cross the street! A pair of Sorels might make that easier.



(clockwise from left: kensie girl Kedrina, Sorel Caribou, Sorel tivoli, Sporto Kelly, Sporto Kim, Sperry Top-Sider shearwater boots)


p.s. I leave to see my family in the mitten state tomorrow! It's going to be a week long christmas and birthday (for me AND my mom!) celebration, with lots of cookies and cake and food and fun! HOORAY!

dog days

oh hello, blog. This update is mostly for my buddy Chance, who informed me that he finds babies entirely too scary and didn't like seeing one at the top of the page. SO! Here's some recent artwork, and a list of other recent things:



eating: sparkling linzer stars which I made to bring to the paper bicycle cookie trade.... but then the sky opened and dropped all snow in existence onto Minnesota, so I turned into a little weekend hermit and ate them all myself.

wearing: this great vintage poncho which will eventually have to be better photographed, although it's too cold for me to wear it as my coat. It will probably make an appearance in Spring.

listening to: the oddest combination of Bing Crosby christmas music, Savage Love podcasts, Warpaint, and... Kanye (SHUT UP I know I know. But I can't help it! I'm watching that half hour long Runaway video right now and I love it. SHUT UP!!)

watching: Boardwalk Empire. It's seriously so amazing. Just... watch it.

baby grand

BABIES. BABIES EVERYWHERE! If you have a baby, you know a baby, maybe you even are a baby (and if so, how did you learn to use the internet so fast) perhaps you would like to get a beautiful onesie from this great company called Slumby! I did some design work for them earlier in the year, and I have to say it was a lot of fun.

Speaking of gifts, I've been loving all the great gift guides that design*sponge and riflemade have been putting out! I'm finally getting a good idea of what to get my various family members!

give thanks

Okay, so maybe I'm posting too many camera phone pictures (I blame vignette) but it is awfully convenient when you've been traveling almost constantly for the last couple days - MN to MI to OH to MI and tomorrow... MN! So here's my Thanksgiving in a nutshell:










(p.s. Wondering what that tiny little doorway is at the top? Perhaps you'd like to know about the nerdily adorable obsession Ann Arbor has with FAIRY DOORS.)

white out

In case it wasn't made clear enough in the last post, on Friday afternoon it was a perfect fall day. By 1AM Saturday morning, it looked like this... (that's my boot on the ground, i realize the perspective is a little confusing).



When Bryan and I decided to go to breakfast later that morning (after many z's) it looked like this, and Bryan spent a good couple minute getting the snow off his car while I huddled inside....




winter welcome wagon!

band together

uhhh yeah. Girl crush-o-meter has maxed out in mere days on Warpaint, I heard them twice in one day on The Current and I DIDN'T EVEN CARE. They are like girlyness embodied but in a "wearing my garter belt and playin' my guitar" sort of way. And, in case you were curious, I love the music too! "Ethereal" might be too obvious, but it's snowing like crazy outside so I can't quite think of a better way of describing it. LEMON OUT.

present tense

Sometimes I will see a link to something (music, artist, youtube video, whatever) constantly linked to on all the blogs I like... and for SOME REASON I don't click on it. Does this ever happen to you? It is a strange phenomenon that most recently manifested itself in Gifted Magazine - linked to by two of my favorites, RIFLE made and sweetfineday. Well I finally clicked on the link and was NOT disappointed, holy moly.

lots of gold? check.
cute gift ideas for everyone? check
delicious photos and whatnot? of course.

I highly recommend you page through this rockin' free online magazine from creature comforts if you like pretty, cute things.

Speaking of holiday madness (it isn't even thanksgiving yet, what's wrong with me!?!? I still have to freak out over pumpkin pie..) I created these maps of the fair Twin Cities for the MCAD Art Sale. Go buy them!