29 October 2008



Incidentally, I should mention that I did have good birthday, despite the following day having been poor! Spoke on the phone with my Mom and Beth and Kelley; lots of well-wishing from brothers and others, too. Later, I had a happy hour beer with Kim before her internship at the theater, then I went to Beast and saw friends. Ben met me there for dinner and gave me the above antique cigarette package, from 1878. He had made it into the beautiful card pictured above; the writing on the back even more lovely than the design on the front.

Thanks, everyone! :)

the culprit

28 October 2008

holding it~

Update: Heat in apartment fixed, furniture successfully delivered and set up. Alas, the absurdity continues.

This morning, post-pee, a smallish plastic container of lotion fell from wall shelf into still-flushing toilet. Reached intrepidly into nasty freezing bowl to retrieve, but too late-- bottle surprisingly disappeared from view! Attempted coat-hanger to retrieve with no luck. Rushed out in pouring rain to hardware store for proper plunger. Result: continued failure and out $7.99 for unhelpful plunger.

Man sent by landlord with bizarre plumber equipment (some sort of vertical snake-in-a-pole with revolving handle), also had no luck. Thirty minutes later: he returned with additional man, much equipment. Currently have toilet on its side, on the floor (after sawing apart amid flying sparks!). Much mess. Water everywhere. Total nightmare.

Also: currently needing to pee again!

Welcome to year 38.

24 October 2008

Leg the uglydoll


the scrolling wall, complete.

(Most likely, more things will wind up on that wall. Little things in gold frames, oddments, etc. But the painting is finished at last.)

moomins hibernate.

This week started off wretchedly- nothing was working out, timing was all off. Puzzle pieces mismatched.

It has gotten better and better, and things have been falling into place, but today a stumbling block! Nothing so important, just irritating, and my fault. We were expecting a furniture delivery (new living room furniture- we got rid of the futon couch last night); the place told us between eleven and two o'clock, but they would call an hour ahead of time. Well, I hadn't got the call (so I thought) and jumped in the shower. Of course, this was exactly when they arrived and they only waited fifteen minutes and my phone was in the other room, so I missed them! Oh, if only they'd have hit the buzzer! Turns out my phone volume was way down, too, which was why I missed the first call. So, probably have to wait until Tuesday to have a place to sit our asses down in the living room, unless by some stroke of luck the delivery folks have time to come back later today.

On top of this (which is mostly annoying me because it was my fault), we have been without heat since it's gotten cold, and our landlord is out of town, so it's goddamn freezing in the whole apartment.

Not a very great post, after so much time going by with none, but the need to rant is always such a motivator, huh? Ha ha! Otherwise, all is well. November is just around the corner, during which I shall embark on the adventure of >NoNoWriMo, otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month, to which I look forward. I've been researching and fleshing out characters for a story I began five years ago, but never got past chapter one, which has since been dropped in favor of a better beginning. The new beginning, along with the rest of the story, has only been put into outline form, as the whole point of NaNo is to begin and complete 50,000 words in a thirty day time period.

Well, back to work and trying not to freeze. (It's amazing how cold 55-60 degrees can feel when you're indoors!)

11 October 2008

October!

Some abstracts of my new studio in my new apartment with Ben:


wall above computer, no art on walls yet


The wall above the Queen Anne (and Leg the UglyDoll!) in progress


Get to work!

And, some images of the Atlantic Antic last weekend. Warren, Kim and I shared a booth and hawked artistic wares on the folks at the street fair.


Kim at the tables with all of our collective wares


As you can see, I've been very busy with the resin and photos lately...!


A close-to of some necklaces


New this autumn: belt buckles. Available in my Etsy shop...

More to come, but there's an update on what I've been busy with over the past month or so. On the way, eventually: images from the trip Ben and I took to Rhode Island in late September.

"Reckless Example"


It can't be about me; I spell it Lizzie...

Seen in the tunnel entrance to Prospect Park last weekend.