so many exciting things!

i graduated just this saturday from Memphis College of Art!  it's been 5 and a half long years but i made it.  and next i am leaving this thursday to go to Horn Island.  this will be my third year going on this amazing trip sponsored by MCA but this will be the 27th year anniversary of the start of the program!  we spend 8 days on an island (horn island) off the coast of mississippi.  last year we were leaving just as the first signs of the effects of the oil spill were showing up.  i am both excited and nervous to see what the spill has changed about the island.  hopefully there will be just as many dolphins early in the morning, pelicans, crabs, jellies, fish and all of the many other animals that inhabit this beautiful place. here is a small ceramic sculpture that i made after last years trip.



when i get back (may29th)  i plan to post pictures of the babycreep sculptures and jewelry that i created recently.  be on the lookout in the next few months!

COMING SOON!!!

As soon as i finish my senior BFA piece ( pssst!  it's due the 27th of april)  i will be posting my new collection of babyface and seascape jewelry and sculptures!  so be on the lookout for pretty things to hang on your walls, put flowers in, put your toothbrush in and stuff to wear around your neck, fingers, and on all of your beautiful little heads!  also, if you have any ideas for things i should/could make that i'm not thinking of just let me know but be patient i have lots of ideas and barely enough time to get them outta this bitty head o' mine
:D

The reasons I love my boyfriend (silly and small but true)

so he's putting the vibraphone he borrows from work back together and mentions that when we have to move to a different place the navy guys in charge might not be as nice there as they are here about letting him check out (borrow) different instruments like he does with the vibes. so i said that surely they make a smaller version like mini vibes or something more affordable and easy to store. so i googled it, like all of us do these days when we're curious about something, and came across a link that said: "how to build your own vibraphone" i read this out loud and he says: "I can't hang a picture." and as i laugh i remind him that i'm a sculpture major and can build things so he doesn't have to. i am so glad he is NOT a tim the tool man or anything... lol. god i love him.

And OH the possibilities!

it's overwhelming sometimes. everything. the choices, the options, the possibilities that every day holds. just thinking about it makes me feel like spacing out at the computer staring at pretty things on etsy or snooping through facebook photos of people i've barely spoken to this past year. i have tons of things with which to create but it's daunting. the thought of the many many ideas that go through my mind for just one little object or piece of fabric, yarn or clay. ugh... it's not lack of creativity but having too much that seems to be the trouble. how silly. i am, however, thankful that my mind is not a complete blank. just a crazy conglomeration of "i could make this into this or this or this or THIS!" man oh man... i better get to making. here's what i made yesterday...

gotta put my brain on channel focus so i don't waste today on indecision! :D

printing printing printing... how do you work this thing again?

here i sit... the week of finals... printing on a bajillion (17) sheets of paper. the paper that i MADE... the paper that took me forever to get to the 'this-looks-nice-enough-to-turn-in' stage. so now i'm digitally printing on the back of it which is scary because i don't know much about all this fancy computer stuff. it kinda feels like watching your child ride their bike for the first time... i'm just waiting for this paper to fall and scrape it's knee. only problem is... they don't really make band-aids for handmade paper projects. *sigh*

will promise to post pictures later!

and now it's later! i think i did this last year? better late than never huh? these are from the papermaking class i took. this is a sheet of paper that i pulled myself and then used a stencil i made from mylar (that overhead projector clear sheet stuff that teachers use in elementary school) and pulp painted the layered coral imagery (which was the stencil), and then the silhouette of my son and the words are letterpressed with rubber based inks! man i loved that class.

this is the close up of the inside. it says: I find you buried in the flood

tangled among dreams abandoned

this is the inside

this is the sheet folded once in half. this is digitally printed which was the scary part i was talking about earlier.

and this is it with the final fold. another digital print.

feltin' fool

although i am really excited about knowing how to needle felt... i find myself putting a current project for my surface design class to the back burner. maybe it's because i feel more comfortable with the technique (though if i practiced more i would be waaaay better) and the fact that even though it can be time consuming i have so far been able to do a lot of the felting right before class! i am now realizing that i am cheating myself out of making a really great project and possibly a really awesome grade for the class. so, seeing as how i have exactly 2 weeks left to finish this project and make it awesome that's exactly what i'm gonna try to do! send me your good thoughts and well wishing. and if you are interested in how awesome needle felting can be check out this awesome and innovative artist... www.stephaniemetz.com

and finally here are the pictures from MY big felted project from this past spring (?) semester! not the best pictures but you get the idea :)

Here I am... but where am I?

I'm waaaay past due for one of these little bloggie things... better late than never I suppose!  I hope to remind myself to be devoted to this blog just in case anyone decides to read about lil' ol' me and what I deem bloggable... just how many times DOES the word blog (or some form of it) get mentioned on these things?  "Check out my blog"  "so, yeah i was blogging yesterday and..." "I blog you!"  "blog off!" .... oh geez here I go... somebody stop me!