Skull pancake!!

First interesting pancake of 2010! oh wait. this is not a pancake. this is injera made wisconsin style (with miller light BEER instead of club soda!)

Small Fish Prints

So a while back I ordered a different kind of linoleum composite to try out for printmaking and I'm sad to say that I don't really like it all that much. It's harder to cut than the stuff I was using before (though still not as hard as true battleship linoleum) and it's more likely to curl it's edges under which makes printing hard. I'm currently drying a couple blocks under a heavy weight to see if I maybe can press the curve out, but I'm not exactly holding my breath. It also seems more sensitive to ink consistency than the stuff I was using before. I was trying out a new ink that turned out to be WAY waterier than I'm used to, and that stuff printed even more poorly than the ones in this picture. hmmmm. I will still figure out a way to use them up and work with them. I hope.

Jazz Trio

Fairy Light Switches

Custom light switches made for a friend's Christmas present:

Disgruntled Holiday Cookies

Two weeks ago I invited myself (and a friend or two) on S's quest to make 9 dozen cookies. Here are the results:

DISGRUNTLED HOLIDAY COOKIES!








And my favorite:

Blue Monday Stitches

Here's Lindsay's 365+++++ day promise delivered:



(others are on their way ........ slowly.)

Of Love and Hunger

SNOW!!!!

At a friend's suggestion, instead of immediately shoveling my driveway, I built a snowman! (snowgirl? snowbear? snowballerina?)



And also decided that my new(ish) bumblebee sculpture (acquired at a local flea market just before Halloween this year) looked pretty neat-o in the snow, too:



Needless to say, not much shoveling happened tonight :)

while i'm posting embarassing pictures

Check out how cool dusty spots can be just before you clean them!!!

whoops

I thought I could move an entertainment center downstairs by myself.

I was wrong.

(Nothing was hurt in this process but my pride. and the entertainment center. And it's possible that the cats thought the world was ending)

Now available on ETSY!

Select stuff now available on ETSY!

http://wintersnowgypsy.etsy.com


but this, I think, is going to be slow going folks. There's something left to be desired in ETSY's interface for uploading stuff --- though I'm sure eventually I'll get the hang of it :)

Wood shavings

I did a little "woodwork" this weekend and on more than one occasion i very nearly drilled too deeply while getting mesmerized by the wood shavings swirling up the drill bit.

Kitchen mishap

A kitchen mishap created a friendly (?) face of sorts.....

New cabinets - installed!

There's still hope for a finished kitchen in time for Christmas 2009!!!!

BEFORE:


AFTER:



No countertop just yet - that process will take a good 2-3 weeks to finish. Also - no hardware. I forgot about that little detail, so i guess I'll be perusing hardware stores and on-line for nifty knobs.

Kitchen Part II

Kitchen Part I pictures are currently unaccessible (I need to locate portable harddrive driveres to install on my laptop. sigh.) BUT in the interim, I give you these. These pictures are from the second half of my kitchen renovation. I started this half of the kitchen in October 2009......and hope to have it completed in time for Christmas 2009.













I'm currently waiting for the kitchen install team to come over and install all those boxes you see in the last picture.

I miss having a kitchen sink.

Here's me and one of my favorite helpers --- notice the helper is hauling away my kitchen sink :)

Beer Magnets

First attempt at beer bottle cap magnets. I have some refining to do, but these were kind of fun.

Cucuzzi flower

B and I discovered a new vegetable at a local pick-your-own veggie farm --- cucuzzi squash! They're most commonly found in Indian cooking, we think, though (with the help of my mom) have found italian and korean and some other recipes for them, too.

They have nifty looking flowers and many fun squiggly vines :)

Blue Glass Head

I try to keep an eye out for mannequin parts for a friend of mine who likes to play with photography that involve body parts-n-such-stuff.... so far I've passed up a $1 Michael Jackson mannequin at an auction last summer (sad, I know --- i still think of him as "the one who got away" as this was right nearby in deerfield!!) .... i also passed by a set of small children mannequins in Ventura, CA (only $30 each!)because I couldn't figure out how to get them home with me on a plane (small child-like mannequin in suitcase? creepy. small child-like mannequin in overhead compartment? also creepy. both very good stories buuuuuut...... it was determined a no-go mostly because they wouldn't fit in my suitcase and I wasn't going to have time to buy a suitcase after 5pm on a saturday when my flight was leaving at 6am the next morning. i also wasn't sure i could convince my old roommate to send them in the mail. opening a big box to find two children in it? also creepy ;) but fun!

ANYWAY. FINALLY this summer i located a body part that was w/in her price range, w/in a reasonable distance from my house, and better yet ---- going on sale for 30% off on Sunday! so finally finally finally I got a body part for her and it rode around in the backset of my car looking like this:

Kitchen Rack

I know i promised you kitchen before/after, but i still can't quite bring myself to address those pictures. Also, I'm still only at 70% done (essentially same as I was last December) which is depressing, and apparently I've freaked out my mother a little bit because I want to "gamble" with the system and see if I can finish the remaining 30% in time for guests to come over for Christmas :)

ANYWAY.

Here's a small project from last weekend --- I finally found and installed racks for hanging glassware out of the way of other stuff. YAY!!!!

Second Quivet

OK --- technically my first one that I assembled, but it's the second one I finished. It took me forever to find an acceptable "other side" color ---- I settled (happily settled, mind you) on a deep purple. so there, mom. it's not green :P I think you'll like the purple!