Kelly & the Dream of Horses

Some recent selections from my sketchbook, the first one being a dream I had about taking pictures of horses jumping into a steamy lake. I think my New Year's Resolution is to draw more and get a full-time job. In seasonal news, I had fun wrapping presents for my family in wall paper, old ribbon, and vinyl letters. I also had some help from Boo who I am cat sitting.

WELCOME AMERICAN NERDLINGER

Highlights from a roll of film I shot around the house one fall afternoon.

(Film processed by WELCOME AMERICAN TEENAGER FILM AND VIDEO SERVICES)

Photobooth Diary: Third Edition

Man, I had a really good photobooth diary all lined up, but then my hard drive crashed. So, this is from when I got my new hard drive to today when I got a haircut.

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Ever since Jack hung these great curtains in our living room, I have been taken by the huge line-filled flowers on them. Recently I have been trying to perfect making seamless/repeat hand drawn patterns. I decided to recreate the pattern on the curtain's as a test. It's not exactly the same of corse, but heavily inspired. Below is my interpretation in a few different colors.

I think the pattern would look great on tights or leggings! Maybe not with heels though.

Six Different Types of Collars

I was thinking about how much I like peter pan collars today, and it reminded me of all the different and sometimes strange types of collars there are for clothing. In my high school sewing class we were given old hand outs on all the different types of collars and selves there are, and then we were tested on them! I remember being fascinated by those handouts, and today I tried to recreate one, but I included the type of person that might wear the specific collar.

10 Little Things

1) Adorably illustrated graduation card from my Grandma.
2)"WILD" Intaglio print by Abigail Mullen.
3) Last shot of a photobooth picture strip from the Turf Club.
4) Ticket to a performance of "The Lion King" at a young student's house.
5) A piece of a "Regular" box of tampons.
6) Love Letters mailbox eraser on a headphones jack.
7) Jody Williams book, open to my favorite spread.
8) My collection of Arc's Value Village tags.
9) Picture of my mom.
10) Many years old newspaper clipping of Elliott Smith.

Instructions:
1) Gathered 10 little things from around your room that are special for some reason.
2) Arrange them and scan all at once. If you don't have a scanner you could lay them out in a rectangle and take a picture. Tip: I realized after I did it that it would probably look good if you put a solid colored piece of paper on top of the objects, to get a nice background.
3) Number them, and write short descriptions, or just labels.
4) Post and share with you WWW friends!
(note: I got a piece of spam mail, and the subject was "To my WWW friend" and now I want to use it.)

"Flowers for Feminism"

I'm proud to announce that the art director from Bitch Magazine (Briar Levit) has blogged about my publication Cult of Flowers on the Bibliobitch Blog (Bitch's literary focused blog.) It's really exciting to hear someone else describe COF besides myself! I've read Bitch since high school, and it has been an inspiration for me personally and for the creation of COF. I hope everyone who was involved in COF check's this out and knows I couldn't of done it without them. I also set up a 'shop' to sell some copies of COF on my website. P.S. I also recently added a sketchbook section too!