(secret sale)

it feels like the right time to do a little spring cleaning, so i have made a gigantic sale section of jewelry in the online shop. everything there is 50% off regular price. the sale runs till Tuesday, at which time most of the items will return to their normal prices. there are a couple amazing vintage rhinestone necklaces in there, as well as several pieces i only have one of. so, you snooze you lose!

did you miss me?

welcome to the resurrection of my blog. it's been quite awhile. i've never been fully comfortable with blogging. i'm inarticulate, use incorrect punctuation, rarely use caps, question my interestingness, and i don't always have much to say besides random rants mixed with strings of expletives. but i've kind of missed it.

you may have noticed the blank etsy boxes off to the side. i'll tidy those up eventually (when i damn well feel like it), but you can still buy my stuff online here. it's a bit sparse on applique right now, but i'll soon remedy that as well.

thanks to Artfire's awesome stats, i can see some of the funny things people google to find me. well, not to find me, but they do:

blood applique

kawaii gore

mature pee pee (gross!)

siver sissor neclace

i have lots of new designs to share with you, like this mouse skirt, and these guys, but it's the nicest day we've had in at least a month so i have to go cure my cabin fever.


oh, and sorry about the annoying mish-mash of fonts, text size, colors, etc. my keyboard is effed and i give up. now, having said that, i may have fixe some of it.
you can find those paper airplane earrings here.

should i start blogging again? it's been a long time.

hellaweave

yesterday i saw a weave getting dragged down the street by a car bumper.

YES WE CAN do whatever the fuck we want, we're "artists"

or "crafters", whatever.

i was just reading about shepard fairey's iconic image of barack obama being in the smithsonian. i have mixed feelings about his art, but that's sort of beside the point (once i get there). and congrats to him, seriously. it will surely be his most historic work. i think as an artist these days one is about more than you can hope for. ah, hope...


anyway! i have seen this image ALL OVER etsy for months now. mostly as scrabble tile pendants (go figure)- yet not one person has mentioned faireys name. oh, i wonder why?
maybe because that would equate admitting you are not selling your art, you are not really supporting the cause-sorry, your paypal account doesn't count- and because it is full admittance that all you did was steal someone elses graphic.
maybe because shepard fairey offered it as a free download people thought that meant "take and do whatever you want with it, that's cool"...
so. does shrinking it down and having the creativity to put it on a pendant constitute enough of a "change" (heh) to call it your own work of art? does running it through photoshop and giving it a weathered look make it your own?
um.

more importantly, if you bought any of that stuff, the odds of a single penny of your money actually supporting obama's campaign- slim to none. they were/are just cashing in on your ideology. i did see one listing mention portions of the cost going to the campaign. but the campaign trail ended a few months ago and the listing is brand new. where does the money go now?
there is little if any difference between these sellers and the random street vendors who set up a tent with their democrat/republican, doesn't matter/choose your own adventure merchandise on the street corner, doesn't matter anyway they got them wholesale from overseas/doesn't matter they'll be gone in a few days laughing all the way to the bank/hey, did they even vote?
bummer.
think about what you buy.



and now for something fun.


i've been eyeballing this shirt for a few months, but as much as i love it i just can't bring myself to buy it. i think the true humor of it would (for lack of a better term) turn frat when worn on a bodacious rack. and by bodacious i mean big.
or maybe don't think too hard about *some* of the things you buy.