Craft fair madness

Guess what this display is? It's practice for my first craft fair ever! This Thursday and Friday (10 am - 4 pm) I will be selling my little creatures at a little craft fair at my husband's school campus in San Francisco.

I only decided to participate less than a week ago, so I've been crazy busy trying to get everything ready for the fair. I've ordered a vinyl logo banner online (it's not here yet and I'm anxious to see how it turned out), and I've been making a bunch of tiny owls (to have some cheap creatures to sell), I've been collecting baskets and Christmas trees to display my products in and on, and I've been working on packaging. So far, I'm pretty happy with the result!

I've also made a little money pouch to carry comfortably around my waist, and now I'm off to attach hundreds of price tags to my creatures. 

I only have a few more days left to prepare! I'm trying not to get too frazzled and to just enjoy the process. I'm really excited, but I think I can manage to keep it together! If you're in San Francisco on December 1st or 2nd and want to come and say hi, eat a yummy candy cane, or browse my little real-life shop, let me know and I'll email you the address.

turbofire to zenith - now on bandcamp

Turbofire to Zenith now has a home on the world wide web. We're kicking out the original score for this film. As a start we have the song featured in the teaser trailer, "7 headed golden dragon", on our bandcamp page. As the project goes on, look for the entire soundtrack to be released through our bandcamp page:

http://turbofiretozenith.bandcamp.com/

blast off hello - full color

I finished up the gouache painting on this poster concept today. Wish you could see this in person, the colors look better. Overall I'm really excited about this design. I'm going to do a bigger version of this, and hopefully have my friend Matt silkscreen some of these.

I'm probably going to make the lettering a little less goofy, and also work to make the squid pop a bit more from the background. But I want to keep with the feel of this piece. Looking forward to kicking out more poster designs soon.

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blast off hello - color pass 1

Quickly painted this up with gouache today. I love drawing stuff like this, and then going for a surf. Ridiculous fun.

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blast off hello

Here's a rough poster concept for Turbofire to Zenith. I'm really having fun with this idea. Going to put some color on this next. Want to try to apply some of the amazing colors I've seen out in the water recently during sunsets. Looking forward to making some big versions of these. Also...Turbofire to Zenith is going to have a page on bandcamp soon...

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Another owl, another giveaway

Guess what, there's one more owl up for grabs! This time it's over on the Rouge & Whimsy blog, just click the picture to go there. And if you win the giveaway she's hosting, you don't just win this owl, you win a lot more! Quick, go check it out!

Do you want to win this owl?

Then click the picture and you'll be taken to the Bugs and Fishes blog, where the lovely Laura is hosting my giveaway this week! For your chance to win, just leave a comment on her blog post before 10 PM (UK time) on Wednesday November 23rd. The winner will be picked at random on Thursday 24th November. Good luck!

rolling hills

(click drawing if you'd like it biggie-sized)

At the end of a day of amazing waves, glassy rolling hills kept marching in. The clouds were giant. The ocean was a shiny purple grey. The swell lines hit the reef and threw out big perfect barrels. The spray of the waves glowed an orange/pink from the sliver of sun still hitting them. I'd seen and shot so many waves this day I just sat and watched. They were possibly the most perfect looking barrels I've ever seen. Maybe I should have shot some more. I just took it in though.

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7 headed golden dragon

There were many, many of these barges, part of a large procession down the river. It was spectacular. This one is the royal barge. The most amazing part though was the sound. The singing and chanting of over 2,000 oarsmen echoing down the river.

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Yes, I can!

I learned from sewing the new cow and new cats, that I am able to sew little details (like nostrils or noses) on my creatures with my sewing machine. I thought that would be too small and too hard to do on my machine, but it worked. So I wondered if that meant that I could sew my old handstitch designs on my machine. And there's only one way to find out, so I tried:

As you can see it worked, at least with these three animals. It's a bit of a challenge, especially with stuffing, but I'm very happy with the result. And if I can manage to do small versions on my machine, I can do large huggable versions too!

Back to Wales

I have moved back to Wales  and  started  blogs to coincide to where I am you will now find me under the headings of           wildaboutwales.wordpress.com and wildaboutwales.blogspot.com
 Myegypt.co.uk in 2012 will change to    wildaboutwales.org.uk

This is a very small bird and a rare visitor to the upper delta of the Nile, if  you want to see the rest of today's bird photos.

maelstrom

The swell has fully arrived, but the winds are onshore. So a few of the guys decide we should go trolling for dinner.

The further out we go, the rougher the seas get. I have visions of pearling. Or of the motor dying and being blown into this maelstrom; the boat splintering to pieces on the jagged rocks jutting out of the ocean angrily in the middle of the froth.

As I shift back and forth between pondering a drift story, or getting sucked down into the angry sea, it hits me that we have no radio on this boat. Flares? Doubtful. Life jackets, I don’t think so. Our first aid kit consists of the few band-aids and half used tube of antibiotic ointment I have packed. Not to mention we forgot a large portion of our food rations at Bill’s house; big blocks of cheese and tortillas. And then there’s our one knife blade.

"Uh, you think we should turn around?" Daniel says. Mikala is in the middle of a story about using a board to roof tie down strap as a leash one trip, Timmy is walking around the side of the boat with a box of beer as if we're at anchor in a calm lagoon, and Dustin is casually talking story too like we could be anywhere.

"Let’s turn the ____ around," I say.

Mikala laughs.

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New meows

So I set out to redesign my cat to make it more sewing machine appropriate. I came up with two very different sketches which I both found attractive for different reasons. So I tried them both out to see what they looked like in real-felt-life.

Redesigned cat #1:

Redesigned cat #2:

Which one is your favorite?

articles

interview feature on Korduroy

GrindTV write up

Contrast Magazine write up

teaser trailer is on korduroy!

The teaser and an interview, check it out!

http://www.korduroy.tv/2011/filmmaker-feature-jeremy-rumas-hangs-upon-nothing

A big thanks to Cyrus and Reis over at Korduroy.

Also want to say thanks to friends Jason Lukas and Scott Goldsbury for contributing photos to this project, and to the piece on Korduroy. Jason shot the Turbofire to Zenith amp and guitar shots in the above image. Their links are at the right of this page.

Just Ignore the Beer Stains

PigeonBike Press has now released Lawrence Gladeview's full-length poetry collection, Just Ignore The Beer Stains.  The collection is beautifully constructed and features 54 poems over 72 pages.  PigeonBike is a fine place to visit, says Jamal, and the poems a good read.  Free drinks at the tavern to celebrate.

The volume:  http://pigeonbike.blogspot.com/p/lawrence-gladeview-just-ignore.html

PigeonBike Press:  http://pigeonbike.blogspot.com/

speed of light

Daniel Jones under a rainbow arc of water on a 3 fin bonzer. This board is so sick. It's a one of a kind. Swallow tail with an E-wing, and the old school side fins. It's the dims of one of Daniel's typical short boards, but maybe just a little more volume overall. Beautiful orange resin tint and a double white pin stripe. There's some footage of Daniel on this board in the film.

This is a 35mm shot by Jason Lukas.

this film project on fb: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hangs-Upon-Nothing-a-16mm-surf-film/246361802068338

Vogue Purple/Ochre Fade + Wheelset 54.5cm

Color/Purple/Ochre Fade
Headset/Hatta Swan Super Deluxe
BB/Hatta R9400
Seat tube/54.5cm c-t
Top tube/54cm c-c
Rear/110mm
Seatpost diameter/27.0cm
Standover/80cm
Model Year/2004
Wheel Sets/Araya gold tubular 36h rims, Soyo tires, Sansin 36h fixed/fixed NJS hubs.
Condition/This NJS track frame has a few chipped paint spots but is otherwise in great condition overall.
Special Price/1480USD