Just a quick post to let you all know that strange little bear and I have been accepted to the July 8th Felt Club! Apparently another vendor had scheduling issues, and I was top of the fill in list! It's a craft show in Hollywood and I'm going to start panicking about getting enough stuff together, being good enough and getting all my promotional material together...right....now.

Eggplant, the bear(from summer 2005).

Robyn sent me pictures of Eggplant, a bear I made in Vermont and gave to her. He's my last completely handsewn bear and stuffed with goodness knows what(a lot of dryer lint and scrap fabric, I think).

This is my favourite picture of any of my bears.





He has weird feet!


I'm going to make more vegetable/fruit themed bears in the future...even though I should be making more gargoyles! Aaaaaa.

elsie, the gargoyle

This is Elsie. Elsie is a shy little gargoyle with self esteem issues. However, today she is going to ask her crush out to the prom!

I swear, I'm going to end up creating a series of gargoyle stuffed animals based on my high school experiences. Actually, I wasn't terribly shy in high school and I NEVER asked my crush to the prom.











I started out with the intention of making cure plush versions of the Gargoyles canon characters. Hahaha, yeah right. As if I could ever develop that much attention to detail. I couldn't even remember what colour Goliath was(I couldn't remmeber if he was purple or blue. apparently it's a purplybluey.).

Stormy, the bear

Summer vacation has technically started. Yesterday was the first day I really had to stop and actually think and do things I wanted to do. Well, I did have to run over to the middle school and lubricate some swivel casters with PAM(yes, I would have preferred WD-40), but other than that, it was a nice day for me. Today, I have a strike, but I don't have to begin thinking about that quite yet.

I made another bear recently!










His name is Stormy and he wears scarves a lot. Too bad he lives in Southern California.

middle schoolers rock.

I just wanted to say that these middle school kids are so awesome.



On Wednesday morning, only my black outlines existed on that back wall. The kids filled in ALL the colour(and half of the work they did isn't even in these pictures - they painted a whole load of props too and did a bunch of touch up as well). One art class totalling about an hour and a half, four kids from orchestra that were sent in to help(they were great) and a core group of four girls that kept on getting permission from their teachers to come back and paint. And no one goofed off. They WORKED. Hell, I think they worked harder than most crews I've supervised or worked with.

I'm so completely exhausted with working with these kids who seem to have an endless supply of energy all day, but it is so worth it.

Yorick and Hester

Finals week begins tomorrow. My oral examinations are tomorrow. Am I ready? Hell, I haven't finished reading the books I'm supposed to be quizzed on.

So, instead of dwelling on what I have yet to do, and most likely will not, and the impending possibility of NOT getting A's this semester and/or being told I shouldn't stay in grad school, I will post more pictures of bears.









The black one is Yorick, and the other is Hester. They were on display at my grad student exhibit - I felt a little silly having a bunch of stuffed animals in the same room as people who were turning out really awesome stuff.

last five years

Whenever I get cranky and stressed and bored and tired with my job, I try to remember that at least the final purpose of my job is usually making things look pretty. I can live with that.



This scene is actually much prettier in real life because my camera doesn't capture the beams of light terribly well.

tech week countdown: two days down, five more to go.