Sweater deconstruction…

Someday, this sweater will be made in to a scarf…. right now, those two balls onthe right are what used to be sweater arms. It’s surprisingly tricky to get a sweater un-done. I suppose it would help if I were more familiar with knitting so I wouldn’t keep picking the wrong end to start from….

The arboretum in May

I owe a big thank you to J in CA for sending me an awesome letter with a scavenger hunt in it…. it made me go to places in Madison that I’d not been to in a great long while and take pictures to prove that I solved the puzzle. 🙂

Here is what one of the clues yielded:

oh man, I am not up-to-speed on this blog. I keep promising people weekly updates and I haven’t even updated the sidebar to show May intentions and May is practically over. I have many pictures just waiting to be cropped & FTP’d and posted up here…. it’s just a matter of making myself come inside to do it. This kind of makes me want to invest in a laptop so I can sit outside & do this stuff. Think that would work?

Reduction proof

I made a (semi)quick proof for an idea I had…. and I had a really hard time picking what colors to use:

Here are some close-ups of a few selected color combinations:

I’m still not sure what I’m going to do for the actual print but luckily the procrastinating is facilitated by still not having any nice paper in the house 🙂

hot dog art?

One entertaining art night we, ah, started playing with food – cutting it in to small pieces, mixing different food together and rearranging it:

the real art, however, is the smile-y face made with the orange bingo stamper that you can see just under one of the plates 😉