Child Magic

I love to see things that are imbued with what I often refer to as "Child Magic".

Here are some examples of "Child Magic":






Joseph Yoakum



Postcard Set by Fine Little Day



Kouhei Ashino


The blog: Atelier pour enfants



Anouk Ricard

Fill your day with Child Magic!

Patterns, Colors

Above are a few of the images I have been downloading off the internet for inspiration. For the past year I have been thinking a lot about working with textiles. I've been trying to experiment with digital printing on fabric, screen printing on fabric and painting fabric. I am not sure exactly what these fabrics will end up being but at the moment, I just love putting image and color onto it.

Its interesting to see how similar most of these images are when you put them all together. Its hard to tell when you are just dragging images onto your desktop. Most of the time it just seems random. Is this what you call a 'mood board'? I think I just made my first mood board!

*** I totally forget where these images come from or who made the pieces in them. If you know, please let me know. And if you made any of these, just holler and I will be happy give you credit.

Nest

I made this "nest" out of Mei's cat hair.

Is this weird?

YES / NO

Preparations

I am going to be at Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago this year with boothmate Boyfren/Girlfren. This week I started to get my stuff in order, printing posters en masse, trimming prints, rolling things up into tubes, figuring out how to display things. FUN! Hope to see some of you there??

In other news, I've got a short and sweet and fun interview up on Sarah Ervin's blog as part of their Maker's Remarks series. Go read it!

Homework for the weekend:

1. Chat
&
2. Smile

From Beyond

I have seriously been shooting so much lately. I don't think I've shot so many images in such a short amount of time. In the past couple of weeks, I've made three different series (sorry can't show them yet!) + a friend's wedding + a really fun session with my friends' aweseome band Del Mas Alla and bunny! Phew. Above are a few of the many shots we took.

Del Mas Alla is Julio Navaja and Daniel McKee and they make some lovely tunes. Julio also has got a great vintage shop called Solid State Vintage in Pilsen. I definitely have a couple of his shoes and bags on my wish list. And Dan is a talented photographer who I've had the privilege of working with on many occasions.

Listen to their music and like their facebook page here and then go to their show this friday here!

Crystal Poster

Just updated the shop with this new poster. Really excited about this one. A bit of a darker mood -- maybe I have fall/winter on my mind? I am also thinking of providing a smaller version. Thoughts?

Click here to see it in my shop.

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The giveaway for the collage pearl necklace is now closed! Winner announced tomorrow morning US CST Time on my twitter / facebook!

Desk

Blergh.