it's so painfully hot these days. whew. the yard tub is seeing lots of action, my friends.
so...i sewed 8 tote bags (well, one's a shoulder-ish bag) from SCRATCH!!! and now i'm off them, it's enough for people to pick over and hopefully buy a few. i've made two sets of notecards, one is of a little fat bird and it says "hello" (called "hello birdie), and one is of this abstract geometric weird, dog-god thing i can't possibly describe called "all hail geometrix"...that one has several colors and lots of connecting lines and was quite a fiddly gocco experience. gocco works best with thick lines and lots of space between the colors, but it was such a great time this morning, just sitting down to draw anything random and figure out how to gocco it. it was about seven million times more fun than battling the tote bag sewing monster. plus, the note card sets look so cute all bundled together with their matching envelopes, all secured with bean twine or ribbons. i think i'll make one more design in time for the bazaar...then i'll have to buy more screens and bulbs, and i'm super eager to get more ink colors. so fun. i have several blank, already made canvas grocery totes--i embellished one for dad that i really love--different fabrics sewn on to be peas, a carrot, and a tomato...i may try to do some more of those...they are a bit fiddly as well, as the bags are already made and it can be tricky to sew things onto them without sewing the bag to itself, but certainly no more time consuming than sewing the bags themselves (yes, i've found another thing i can craft and can't possibly charge enough for!)...but i also have those big letter stamps (the ones i bought before my lunch date with sam elliot) and they are awesome for doing tee shirts and whatnot ( i made rodney a "megan's best one" tee shirt for our second anniversary--cotton is the traditional gift for that one--he gave me a bright yellow apron with red chili peppers on it that he got from Past 45, this old lady crafters store in downtown cottage grove that we love....but i digress) so i want to stamp some witty baggish phrases on them and hopefully can sell some of those, as they'll be cheaper than the made-from-scratch-with-blood-and-tears ones. i'm going to do a couple that say "bagism" (remember that?! john and yoko in bed...), and maybe potato stamp a couple, as well. should be fun and A LOT easier than the other ones (dear god, please let at least two of those bags sell!)
well, it's late and it's hot and rodney and i are supposed to have a movie date watching The Postman tonight, so i'm off to melt in front of the fan.
i'm grateful for:
rodney
opportunities to learn
my kick-ass sewing machine
the yard tub
creative energy
AND my pig pills, they higher dose of which is helping some
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an excerpt from a work-in-progress
they ate breakfast together: an omlettle he made filled with spinach and cream cheese and tomatoes and a bagel they split with salmon and more of the cream cheese and some capers she went back to the fridge for. they amused themselves discussing what capers are and how they came to be in jars at upscale markets for them to buy and eat on bagels with salmon. he liked to think they came from the sea somehow, and she assured him they were really little berries of some sort of fragrant bush. she fished the capers out of the tall jar as they talked and ate more than usual, something about their brininess described a hunger for her that she didn’t know she had, and then filled it. they drank steaming mugs of rich coffee with cream (and two sugars in his). she loaded the dishwasher and wiped off the counter while he cleaned the coffeegrounds and little spills from the coffee pot. the sun shone cleanly into their white kitchen and onto their bodies as they moved about their tasks and then they kissed one another and left for work, him to an office in town and her upstairs to her office where she worked as a freelance ad designer. it was a perfect morning. it was the perfect morning.
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