Home for the Holidays

And here's Amber's girly bird in situ! in theory I'm starting a flickr thingy, but in practice my computer battery is dying. So stay tuned for picts of the farm in Othello and costumes from the 10 k...

gallery shots

ok, not the best, but they give a good impression of my working conditions. see the very impressive looking heater flanked by all those fantastic pennants? it was making me deaf. now i have a space heater under the desk. the card catalog is full of sequins. i have tennis elbow. nuff said.

First Duck Done!

The great thing about living in Wheeler is, even if you sleep for 11 hours a day, those other 13 have the potential to be so productive! So, here's the first finished lady- herons and pelicans are soon to follow. I've also commissioned new work for the gallery in February, which is extremely exciting as well...

One of the few handy things about the particular inn I'm inhabiting is that it faces a post office with a flag that lets me know how miserable my run is going to be. Pretty damn miserable...

& then I moved to the beach!

Well, to Wheeler, actually, which , to those in the know, is not actually at the beach. But I do go running on the beach (normal in Manzanita, though sometimes in Rock Away) almost every day!

I am living in the Kaffer's Inn and have started a gallery down stairs called The Duck & Pisaster! (pisasters are those orange and purple predatory starfish featured in the first chapter of my favorite book of the year Where The Wild Things Were). Anyway, my gallery is full of things made with love by Matt and Me and also that Ted guy, so if yer ever on the 101 come check it out! I'm sure I'll have better photo's at some point. Also, if you google Duck and Pisaster you will find our/my Etsy page, where everything if for sale! Decoys! Mugs! Bottle Cap Covered Skulls! Etc.!

Oh, and Bix is also doing well. He likes crab and running around on the very old rugs in the attic, which must smell amazing...

i need a better camera...

So, it's been a month that I've been unemployed, and here's what I've created so far. Unfortunately the chickens (that you can see here both finished and unfinished) are not quite done yet. The yellower one is, the reddish guy still needs it's belly done. These are some of the few remaining Don Featherstone (creator of the lawn flamingo) chickens. They may resemble symmetry, but they aren't- one of the reasons that lawn decor and decoys will change in the future, I'm sure. Anyway, a lot of these birds are smaller, but i'm still only averaging 1 or 1/2 of one a day. and I'm getting extremely bored! Ah well, still 9 days till I head to the beach maybe a heron and some green tomato chutney will get finished before then...

cold at night here...

if you want to see some actually interesting photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos/getflocked/collections/72157615658959017/

Rabid Killers!

Look what jumped on my handle bars on the way home? And then proceeded to lay her eggs on my tire (big insects still have small brains.) Thanks to the internet I learned that it's relatively easy to breed mantids indoors, so I gently removed the egg sack and stuck it in a mason jar in the shaded window. Maybe Mom'll be able to release a batch of babies into the yard around my birthday. Wouldn't that be nice?

lil zizou

the cat and i soaked up the last 70 degree day... of course, we accomplished nothing except vitamin d absorption. and some flocking. my cat thinks flocking is pretty great (huff huff), but sunshine is much better.