i just finished. its a really good feeling to have finished something. it feels like i haven't done much of that this summer.
now hopefully tomorrow goes well, i'm working @ the psu graphic design program's table at the zine symp. i'm bringing amelia. i sure hope she's down for it.
hello friends.
i really can't believe that july is halfway done! this summer its been a bit hard to get any of my big art projects done, or started, for that matter... but one thing that i WILL be doing is putting together a zine and selling it at the portland zine symposium! woot! (if any of you are in Portland, come check it out!) my zine is going to be a collection of self portraits that i drew while i was pregnant with amelia.
one of the best pregnancy books that jake and i read (and we read a bunch of them) was this zine called Placenta Zine. i don't know who made it or if there are any others, but it was a really sweet zine with birth stories, and basically how to be a radical parent.
i think my zine is going to be my tribute to Placenta Zine, in a way, although i'm not sure if i'll have much text, i think its mostly going to be to story of my pregnancy told through drawings. i'm also thinking that if i can pull it off, i'll put together another little zine of some illustrated conversations that i have in some of my sketch books. here's a little preview of some of the drawings that will be in my zine...
also, the link to pdx zines
Last night amelia 'said' more. as in give me more rice. she said it in sign language. her first sign language word. it was really cute and amazing.
Welp, i made my prototype. 
see, its a tie that you can wear as a scarf. a little rough, but it works. i've got some more work to do with the zipper and with deciding weather to line it with some other fabric to make it more scarf-y. the basic idea seems to work out nicely and i'm happy about that. unfortunately, my neck is too big to have a pictiure of me wearing it. next time i'm going to measure.
In other news... i finally finished the leg warmers that i made for amelia!
they're really cute, i had exactly the right ammount of yarn which is crazy. they were started at a time when her legs were much skinnier. soon they'll be arm warmers. and then i guess they'll have to be passed on to her soon to be baby cousin!
so that's all for now. gotta go walk the porter. it's already 80 degrees outside!YES!
We went to texas last week for spring break. It was awesome. Warm weather, Shaved Ice, lots of family, lots of presents. On the way back to Oregon, Jake and I decided to get bumped to a later flight so we could each get vouchers for our next trip somewhere. we hung out in the phoenix airport for a really long time. maybe 10 hours. i might be exaggerating. a really long time though. we'd find a spot that wasn't too crowded, hang out there for a while, go get something to eat, find a different spot... it really wasn't too bad. we had plenty of chairs, bathrooms, food, and internet. Amelia was a good sport about it. I had a good time watching people and listening in to their conversations. the craziest thing was the birds. have i just never noticed the birds in airports before? there were a few in the lubbock airport & several in the phoenix airport (i didn't see any in the san jose airport, but maybe it was too late and they were all sleeping). it makes sense, i guess... there's plenty of food, high celings, no real predators. But isn't that weird? don't they miss the outdoors? can they get in and out? do they just stay in the airport for their entire lives? do they lay eggs and have babies that know nothing of the outdoors? who picks up the bodies when they crash into that big window? is it weird that i'm so obsessed with them? i think jake thought it was.
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