Invoking the Muse

I started design work on my next phoenix project this morning. Right now there are only three sure things about it: it’s going to be evening wear, it’s going to have phoenixes, and it’s going to be faaaaaaabulous, dahhhling, fabulous. I’m fairly certain it will have a bell-shaped silhouette (think “big floofy skirt”), and that [...]

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Five rules to live by

I like to read the Daily Post at WordPress.com, which often has interesting writing prompts. While I don’t typically write about them, I find them thought-provoking, so I usually think through my response even if I don’t write it down. The writing prompt from last Sunday was particularly intriguing: You’ve been asked to speak at [...]

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It’s about the work

You may recall that I’d been mulling over where to take my work next – primarily, whether to try selling my work in high-end galleries, establishing a “name” for myself as an artist and hopefully being collected by museums someday. (As opposed to continuing to show my work in the guild/craft world, which is mostly [...]

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The Fuzz

Yesterday we lost our beloved cat, The Fuzz, at the age of 21 years and 7 months: Born in June of 1991, he initially “belonged” to my next-door neighbor, a family renting one of the apartments in the complex. I first met him as a several-month-old kitten, past the fluffball stage but still quite young, [...]

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On harnessing chaos

I believe that everyone has a “chaos field”: something that throws interesting and sometimes totally random things your way. People with strong chaos fields tend to have neat (and not-so-neat) things happen to them, often from out of the blue. This can be a boon or a curse, depending on which way the dice are [...]

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