Showing posts with label year in review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label year in review. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2011

2011: A diamond in the mind

What was...
oh so many challenges, changes, surprises and happy accidents
Left with the MEMORIES of all that….

A slow start
42
Tubing @ Mt Snow

Thinking of Grad School


Hong Kong

Applying to Grad School
Artist as Entrepreneur

Taiwan, Taipei 101, being in 2 places at once

Carlos Santana

Hong Kong, again.

Let’s go Celtics, let’s go! 20 year reunion with Joe Strummer (for a day.)

Spring time in NY, snowboarders on long island, museums in NYC
Judgement Day














Foggy boat ride with Capt’n Steve-o and the Twisted Ankle, Hanging with 40 year old band geeks: Heather and her beautiful daughters, Nurse Brown, Eduardo & the Mrs., Girl talk with Becki. We missed you, Mike.


Cloth Paper Scissor feature. I made this.

Accepted to Grad School! Can’t believe I’m doing this
Big Ideas, Small Books
Books Unbound: 100th anniversary of the Triangle shirtwaist fire and the honor of a juried prize.

20 years with Mr Jimmy. Where did the time go? We've only just begun.

Discovering Laurie Zuckerman
Queen City Craft
Sailors Valentines
Random acts of assemblage


postcards and banners
press kits, newletters and proposals
grant writing
twitter, facebook, pinterest

Eric Ford: DJ Lazy Eye comes to the rescue
Burlington Free Press
Seven days : I heart u!


the road
night work

year of the flood

olive kitteredge

memory keepers daughter

way of seeing

walking dead, season 2
oddities





Art Is You
Focusing and finding, soundtrack to art, telling stories, wallpapering, glue it and screw it

Sal and Ellen, Sue Pelletier, Seth Apter, Richard Salley, Keith Lobue, Andrea Matus… and of course MDM...And how can I forget, finally meeting my BFF in real life: Jodi Ohl, our madcap adventures and sophisticated taste in wine. Fake it till you make it, baby.

Artists Medium, Altered Books, Lots and lots of gel medium, Van Dyke Brown, disparate objects, rusty things, bird houses with soul.

Dumpster diving, Goodwill hunting, Sal’s Army and Free-cycle

Craigs and a new Showroom
Proto room facelift
Transitions, exits and entrances
Softgoods baby boom
a Technical Design for The Program
Jake’s battle with cancer. Kevin’s return to snow.
 
Hurricane Irene
The Maine Vacation that didn’t happen
Lake Ontario Lake House

hop, hop, hopping... (another incredibly) successful Art Hop.
Heroes Dare
Litany against Fear
People’s Choice Award
much love to the folks at SEABA
solo shows, group exhibits
Represent Show
Art of Horror
More creepy doll art
Art by Mothers
Ghost Stories @ Black Cap
Sing to Me
(sometimes we make) Promises (we never mean to keep)
how we left the forest, part 1 and part 2
proportions of a man’s heart
sweetest flowers
gifts of a stranger
mercy
leave the light on

Making Strides

Muppet movie made me misty, why?

All You Need is Now: Miss A, Indian food, Neon Trees, Chewing Gum, Brits
Vintage Inspired Marketplace, congrats Mary! Thanks for everything!
Nightfires 2012: A Bear King and beautiful voices: 14 stunning costumes. Thank you Marianne, for gifting me with this.
Grant love from Vermont Counsel of the Arts.

Return to now…

everything she touches changes, everything she changes touches
we've got magic to do
hugs and thanks to you

what will be....
oh... so many things... like a diamond in the mind

Welcome 2012, I’m ready for you.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

what was, what is, what will be

what was...what is and what will be...

2010
what was...
oh so many challenges
growth
and resolutions
surprises and happy accidents
started the artist's way and never finished it
No new clothing challenge
Suzanne Vega/Lebanon Opera House/Can't believe I got to meet one of my musical muses/Thank you Phil!
QCCB, best craft show i've done to date
Xcountry with Nini, Dave and the kids
Hanging with Debbie, Moose Lodge and Light Beer
Grown up cousin Nicole walking down the aisle, say I do, Alice and George beaming
Spring time in NY, snowboarders on long island, museums in nyc
Flooded kitchen
Down trees, power's out
Garden tours
Memorial Day haircuts from Capt'n Sean
Brimfield treasures, antique warriors and onion ring for Jesus
Scotch and cigars with Edwardo
Ferries ride across Champlain
Tahawus, Fort Ticonderoga 13 stitched for Jacko
Allentown: this is my rifle, mad world, sorry Blue Devils, but Cavi's rule
Hershey's chocolate and amazing roller coasters
Gettysburg you touched my soul forever
Art walks, Ghost stories
Find Beauty Everyday
photoshop class, postcards and banners
press kits
lots of etsy love, treasuries up the wazoo (thank you all the etsians, who i have never met who featured me in their treasuries)
twitter
facebook
Burlington Free Press
Seven days four weeks in a row
nickgammaphotography, master of light and mood, i heart you.

zombieland (the remember the little things)
doctor parnassus
lovely bones
boardwalk empire (oh the 20's)
walking dead
while i was gone
mermaid chair
drive from clausen's pier
ahab's wife
adventure's of sherlock holmes
in the tenth house
ursula, under
daughter of fortune
mrs dalloway

yards sales, estate sales, and auctions
Ethan Merrill, the best looking auctioneer in New England
Stacking wood and bon fires
fake it till you make it
lay-offs (grrr...)
dog and pony shows
Market feedback, skittle kids, park rats
SIG, SLIG, SLIM, TEAM
new hires
mentors, coaching, a to b model
what do you want? how do you get it? what stands in your way?
some things are better left unsaid
spooky doll house
bird houses with soul
man in a shoe
Captain O my Captain
Charlotte O Charlotte,
I lost the tip of my finger
(small price to pay for an amazingly productive, creative day)
angels and demons, mdm (aka tom waits) you still inspired me and i learn something from you every-time

hop, hop, hopping... first year showing in a the juried show at the Art Hop
much love to the folks at SEABA
solo shows, group exhibit
Art of networking
Art of horror
77 Reasons
what remains
so many memories that linger in my mind, i will not forget you.


what is-NOW
Opportunities, opportunities, opportunities
find beauty everyday
everything she touches changes, everything she changes touches
we've got magic to do
hugs and thanks to you

what will be....
oh... so many things... come along for the ride and see the sites with me.