Bazzart

Make your plans today if you are in the Baltimore area during Thanksgiving weekend! At the American Visionary Museum for an evening and one day event. You can Beat the crowds and come that Friday night for an opportunity to get the first shot at the original creations by 50 regional artists and craftspeople prior to the Saturday Bazaart extravaganza. Spend a relaxing evening strolling among Bazaart artisans and their wares while nibbling light fare and enjoying a special beverage. Location: American Visionary Art Museum, Jim Rouse Visionary Center, 3rd Floor. Admission to Preview Party & Sale: $20 at the door.

Saturday • November 28 • 10AM-5PM • FREE ENTRY: BAZAART: Artful Holiday Shopping
American Visionary Art Museum's Annual Holiday Marketplace of original creations by 50 regional artists and craftspeople. Painting, sculpture, paper crafts, metalwork, jewelry, textiles, mixed media, and other work that simply defies categorization! FREE ENTRY. Location: American Visionary Art Museum, Jim Rouse Visionary Center 3rd Floor. Note: Bazaart shoppers are welcome to tour the entire Jim Rouse Visionary Center for Free! Ongoing exhibitions include the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre automata, Baltimore Screen Painters, Emily Duffy's Bra Ball and more.

Jennyjen will be there along with some of her BEST buddies : greenstarstudio & tigerlillyshop

get ready set go

My schedule has been a crazy one. All I can think about is four weekends in a row of holiday shows! And the first two are two day shows each! So I'm busy making and making and making and actually coming up with new designs on the way. I get bored pretty easy (that high school attention span condition). So I'm sorry I'm not posting as much as I should...but here are some new bags that will be making their way to Philly next weekend!

today's memory: Ultravox

Memory of the day...been checking out on the way back machine lately and finding more memories. Today's goes well with the polyrock video. I remember watching this video for the first ime at The Marble bar during one of there video viewing nights.

More Birds on the Wire pillows

All a part of my urban bird pillows series. I've been drawing with my sewing machine! I'm really liking the newer telephone pole designs. Transmitters, wires and all!

Tea Cozies! New frmo JJ42

I love making tea in my little green tea pot. It makes my day when I'm not in a good mood and it delights my sore throat when its begins to get scratchy. Problem is the tea gets cold before I can finished off the entire pot. Problem solved..tea cozies. I made one for me and had such a great time I had to make more. I love the prospects of the birdies with the tea pot and tea cup and had a great time making the tea bag. Looks like a great holiday present for that tea lover we all know!

Finished my Holiday Card for '09

After much thought and design options, here is what I came up with for this year's holiday card design. The photo was taken last winter by Patrick for our BEST etsy feature. The back simply has my craft show season's calendar. Email me if you would like to receive one through snail mail with your name and address.

Monday tunes

remember Trees Lounge? when was this? I use to have the soundtrack and this was my favorite song from it...and you can't get it on itunes....so here it is...happy monday

and now for something a bit more interesting....

Lawrence Welk Meets Velvet Underground

Found Mixed Tape

This weekend has been very productive in terms of me making my space...my space. I made the living room brighter by hanging some Japanese lantern lights that I had from my previous loft living, took off the dark curtain from the front door to let in the southern light, hanged Elsy in the space that opened up by the book case that left this week, put my space light in the dinning room for more light and hanged my kitschy onion and corn hangers in the kitchen..and then today's project...finding more storage space for my sweatshop. Voila...shelving from the basement became cleaned and back board painted and more space for fabric and materials....as well, the organization job from hell....finding the cases for the Cd's so that I could give someone his music back. This seems to be a very traditional and important part of the divorce....never leave your music behind. In organizing the shelving system in the basement to bring one up to the sweatshop, I discovered the crate, box and bag of CD cases. Some had some Cd's I completely forgot about. Most were empty, but some were luckily not. I found this great CD that I made for Patrick when we were first wooing each other. I called it my dark one and I made this awesome case cover. I found it to hit the mood for me by the end of the day. My favorite song, (one which Patrick didn't really appreciate)was one that Milly and I would love to listen to in the dark on those dark days: Velvet Underground's "The Gift". I think it so appropriate for the Baltimore humor.
Here's the song list I wanted to share..I think its a great studio mixed tape:
Jane's Addiction : I Would for You
My Time
Velvet Underground: The Gift
Lady Godiva's Operation
Husker Du : Diane
Minor Threat: Salad Days
Good Guys (Don't Always Wear White)
Stumped
Cashing In
Massive Attack : Karma Coma
Three
Bauhaus: Bella Lugosi's Dead
Sonic Youth: Tunic
Bauhaus: Waiting for the Man
Nico: I'll Keep Mine
Fugazi: Long Division

Cut the Craft

And the holiday season begins Philadelphia! I will be there! Hope to see you there too!
Check out the web site here for more info.

the new hair

so I did it. took to pics from the movie the apartment and this is how I ended up....will take a bit to get use to it. My head is a great deal lighter...I have suxh think hair. It reminds me a bit of my early punk rock days at TSU...minus the asymmetrical back.

tune for the Day

As a kid I thought the bigger the woman and the better the momma...so of course I thought that Momma Cass had to be the best momma ever! Here's the tune for the day. I actually had a pretty good Monday, so this song felt right to post. Happy Memories!

Conditions of Pooh Chracters

Inhabitants	Conditions	Additional fatcor	Cause	Drug (brand/common name)
Pooh	inattentive subtype (ADHD); cognitive impairment; possibly Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) (ADHD impulsive subtype excluded), if so he may have Tourette syndrome	Obesity and poor diet	"Shaken Bear Syndrome" (dragged down stairs by Christopher) resulting in microcephaly, ADHD: cause unknown	Stimulant (Ritalin/methylphenidate)
Piglet	Generalized Anxiety Disorder	Bad environment	emotional trauma from trapping heffalumps	antipanic agent (Seroxat/paroxetine)
Eeyore	chronic dysthymic disorder or Major depressive disorder	Housing problem	[[Unknown	antidepressant (Prozac/fluoxetine)
Owl	dyslexia (very bright)	Housing problem	see: Theories of dyslexia
Roo		statistically high risk for Poorer Outcome (single-parent household (overprotective, unemployed) aggravated by Peer influences, i.e. Tigger as a Role Model)
Tigger	hyperactivity and impulsivity subtype (ADHD)		unknown	Stimulant (fluoxetine) + sedative (clonidine)
Christopher Robin	possible Gender identity disorder in children (from illustrations),	overactive imagination (though delirium is not speculated in article), complete absence of parental supervision and educational problems	Unknown
Rabbit	Narcissistic personality disorder (God Complex)		Unknown

New Banner for the Season

The weather in Baltimore is never predictable. In fact, I have to admit, I really like that about here. Last week I had to give in and turn the heat on, today I have the windows open. The leaves are changing and the season is definitely fall. My favorite! So I've changed my banner in the shop and added some new fall colors. Now, any help that I could use in how to get my image to be solid??? As much as I play that I know photoshop, I so don't know it. HELP! I've also have been slowly adding new items. I also posted my holiday schedule too!

Pics from Philly

Well, it wasn't the most profitable...but it was fun! guess how many vendor names were Jen? We really needed a ball to play four square. Being in a gymnasium in the Old Pine Center really made me home sick for Elementary School.

Faceoff #2

Faceoff #2 I'm truely liking this site: Awkward family photos! think I may have some good ones to submit.

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i think this is where my brain is right now

One Minute Soundsculpture from Daniel Franke on Vimeo.

Come and See mE!!!

This Saturday is Squidfire's first Art Mart on Philadelphia! So come and visit! Start your holiday shopping early ! Great vendors in a great area of Philadelphia. I'll have new pillows..including this great new tree pillow! More bags , cloth napkins, coasters, pouches and clutches....hope to see you!

BEST MAkes it a HIT!

Yay! BEST wins the Mobbie Award for Outstanding Art & DIY blog in Baltimore! Won't you come and help BEST celebrate tonight at Metro Gallery? Say around 7 or 8? I'll be there! Thanks so much again to all of our wonderful readers and the Baltimore Sun!

I made it!Holiday Heap!

So I'm in Holiday Heap!!!!! And this makes my holiday schedule complete! I'll be at AVAM's Bazzart on November 27 & 28, Charm City Craft Mafia's Holiday Heap on Dec. 5, and Squidfire's Holiday Mart on Dec. 12......all in B-more.....all one right after each other....boy do I need a clone!