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Infinity scarves are the greatest, but my favorite variation is this one that I made out of red t-shirts. I love wearing this thing, it drapes so fly.

drawers/drawers

If there is a something hideous around, sometimes I just spray paint it a color in hopes of improving it. This does not necessarily work on all surfaces however, particularly if that surface is a reject from some kind of country mystique collection from the early 90s. I could make the mint-green checkerboard and pink peonies on this dresser go away with a coat of plum, but the flower pattern that adorned the top was raised, and it remained to make my paint job look pretty fucking terrible. Until I just decided to even things out by tracing the four lonely flowers with sharpies, and continuing the pattern all over the dresser. Like I just know how many toothpicks there are.

The insides got the red treatment:

I put a monster on the back, so I could have the satisfaction of trapping it against the wall. It definitely resembles a wild thing. Monsters all be wantin to wear the same outfit.

November

I finished a painting. It's from my Bones of the Earth series that I've been floating around in for some time now.

{November}

throat candy

Yes yes, I know. I'm terrible about updating. It's odd, one might think that being a writer by day and a maker of stuff by night might equate to some kind of natural blogger, but apparently it's not that kind of Venn diagram for me. But I have been making a lot of stuff lately. Truth.

Like these collars! Though I admit, I completely stole the idea from Miu Miu's recent line.

But it was just so damn easy to just cut the collar off an old disco shirt and paint on it as I fancied. These things are great, actually. I really like wearing them with weird dresses, and little t-shirts. They just fit so perfectly under things less substantial than bulky sweaters. Lookout Etsy, here they come!

{mer}

{moth}

{shit luck}

So, I sell a few t-shirts through a site called redbubble.com. It's not anything like a profitable venture since I'm going through a middleman that I think is based in England; but it's a good bookmark until I release my first impending, independent tee line. It'll likely be a collaborative effort, so stay tuned for that.

The designs on redbubble are freaking random. That's because for the most part, the only things I end up making for t-shirt designs are either esoteric images that make me titter, or requests I get from friends wanting to sport a certain something. Surprisingly, the appeal is more universal than I thought. Particularly my design Karl's Animal which has, for some reason, become the most popular of my redbubble wearables.

Not many besides those who follow the adventures of Karl Pilkington will know his reasons behind creating this staring, feathered oddity of an animal. But he was right about one thing: the owl head looks nice to humans. It also looks nice on humans; a perfect example of which is my new friend Ashley, whose fiery, ginger glamour is giving my shirt FEVER.

I met Ashley through the infinite networking prowess of my friend Shonna, and I came to adore her very quickly. She's a fancy, real-life blogger whose adventures you can view here and get obsessed with. After spying on her infinitely excellent example of what proper bloggers do, I was inspired to emulate her and resuscitate my own flaccid web log. Shut up! Even the road to hell is paved with good intentions! Plus, I need somewhere to post these pictures of her making my shirt awesome.

Yes, this lady is a tall drink of lovely, but don't worry. Randomness looks good on everybody! Work it, hermano!

Jónsi>Sleep>Sense

Sooo, a million years ago, my trusty associate Keith and I decided to attend the Jónsi show in Oakland. Hah, "decided"! More like, "compelled against all odds" -which we truly must've been, because the show was most wretchedly scheduled for a Tuesday night. It's amazing how minimal such details can seem when you're lost in the ecstasy of booking tickets. The anticipation of concert pilgrimage is top-notch at banishing all thoughts of logistics from my mind. But when the date creeps up and you only feel right in wrangling one midweek day out of the office, desperate measures are necessitated. We were able to spend one day running around San Francisco before the show, and then booked a hotel for a quick 40 winks before rising at 4 a.m. to get me back into the office by 9. Go do, indeed! Keith had dragged a perfectly lovely but perhaps unwitting friend into the wakeful whirlwind of our trip (poor Nick!); and the pair of them armed themselves with their fancy, smart cameras and expertly documented most of our ramblings. I have no idea how they managed to do this, since I seemed to have had a wad of chewed-up gum in my skull instead of a brain for the better half of this trip. Sleeplessness is a hell of a drug!

As are Keith's videos! Take me higher, homage:

{song: Tornado by Jónsi}

I've been experimenting with making jewelry lately. There are a hell of a lot of trinkets out there, and the possibilities for pretty adornments are endless.

I buy a lot of stuff on ebay. It's almost a problem; I have established systems and everything. Oh well, I'll just write a book on my strategies someday, and my habit will be legitimized. But seriously people, ebay is legit. You can find literally anything you want if you know how to look.

Take the spy camera, for example. I'm obsessed with spies, and so naturally I really wanted a tiny camera to play with. I think you can get mini digital cameras shaped like those espionage staples of yore, but no, I wanted a REAL one that used film and belonged in the gloved hands and trench coat pockets of an old-school spy. Yep, I'm insane. But ebay doesn't discriminate; it yields its varied bounty to the sound and unsound of mind alike. I found a genuine toy spy camera from the 1950s, which was in working condition if one could find the archaic toy film that it requires to produce pictures of indeterminate blobs. I wasn't one who could find it. But I didn't mind much, because ebay also coughed up a great, bunchy chain to string the camera on, and one of my favorite necklaces was born. If you can't use it, wear it!

Painting the inside of a chunky, filagreed locket seemed natural, so I did it. Plus, hearts are so boring, I always feel like they need to be dressed up somehow. Some sciencey how.

I'm a big fan of charms, so my talisman design gets a lot of use in repetition. It strings charms and jewels together on braided leathers and natural cords. You can variate almost endlessly within this idea, but I've only made three so far.

antique carved-bone rose and lion:

spider quartz:

another heart diagram: