eye candy for you

so, i've been pretty sick for a couple of weeks. very sick for a few days. it's messed with my make something every day goal, which is fine, because i do prioritize rest and self-care and don't want to pressure myself. i've done some doodles and some projects and it's been fun. but since i don't have a lot to show (you don't want to see my ugly doodles, promise!) i wanted to take the opportunity to share a couple of rad graphic treats i've been enjoying lately.

rodney and i were at the pub several weeks ago (which is connected to our favorite bookstore, Kalapuya Books) and i spotted this treasure in the window display. i had to have it! rodney scrawled a note on the back of a bar ticket for hal and betsey (they own the bookstore) imploring them to hold it for him, which, of course, they did. Three bucks and it was mine!

i love this style of kid-book illustration. i love that it is typeset in futura (my favorite typeface right now). and i love that it is pop-up (and that someone lovingly replaced the king's head by scrawling him a new face on the backside of a lunar calendar). the whole thing is awesome.

a while back i shared a link on facebook for this interesting hanging nest seat things. they're designed by DEDON, i believe they call them the restnest or something like that. i just thought they were so awesome. i signed up for their mailing list and promptly forgot all about them.

a couple days ago this amazing catalog arrived. over 300 pages, full color, beautiful heavy-weight matte paper. it's gorgeous. when i am wealthy enough to furnish my outdoor living spaces with their completely rad products, i will be a very happy girl.

i am grateful for:

movies

juice

design

cotton

palladio herbal cosmetics

a taste of the week's creations:

line drawings of art objects. doing these was great. i didn't get wound up with expectations, i just drew. and colored. i have a box of tiles i picked up at bring a couple of years ago and i cut out the drawings and pasted them to the tiles. i like to make coasters with them, modge-podging my images and then coating them with a layer of envirotex (which is a truely awesome product. i also use it for my bottle cap art).

jubal being a monkey in the bathroom. it was a long and busy day and the best i could do was make a memory photograph. i love this photograph because jubal is being jubal and i didn't stop to clean my bathroom counter off before i shot it. it reminds me of an arthur book.

the long road. i'm dealing with a lot of *stuff* right now and i took this photograph as way to honor what's going on. to acknowledge the reality of my life and the extent of my path. it's just a street in a neighborhood but it's my street, in my neighborhood, in my life. and there is beauty in the sky, and in the still-bare tree limbs against it. there is hope and potential, and there is a foundation.

i am grateful for:

art

packaging

my friend martin

sleep

netflix