little

These are little string paintings of fields with furniture and stars. 

and Diorama of pompom dinner table in the dining room

and Great Great Grandfather Boris.

I managed to make these blips but finding time to is so hard. I want to fill rooms with things again. one day.

I am inspired because tonight I saw Janine Antoni speak at the University (of Florida). She is captivating and beautiful and crazy. I love her.  She has a 6 year old daughter and I asked her how her art changed once she became a mother. It seems like a lot of her work before she had a child dealt with mothering issues in a small way.. like weaning and breastfeeding cows. (How we wean our children onto cow milk and so we have this intimate relationship with a cow that we've never actually met)  Maybe I just see things through a mom portal now that I am one. Anyway.. she said she never really realized what her mother did for her until she became a mother herself, and that she wants to work on projects with her mother, as a mother, which would be totally different than the projects she did with her mom before she was a mother.    I think I just wrote "mother" like 80 times.
I'm glad to have been in the same room with someone who gnawed a 600 lb cube of chocolate  throughout the course of a month, and who slept in a gallery hooked up to a EEG machine which recorded her dream waves, which she made into a pattern to weave a blanket hundreds of feet long with her brain waves on it.

and.

Have you seen the apparatus made for women to be able to pee standing up? Antoni made one out of bronze in the shape of a gargoyle (referencing her body as a architecture [temple]) and peed off of the chrysler building.  yes!

check out the patina.

fort

Been doing this

25th Birthday morning

25th birthday bacon

Opened a new store:  Magic Zoo

New terrariums with way better moss (and sand!). These are displayed right now at Satchel's. go there and eat pizza. David and I have other art up there too, which I don't have pictures of yet for whatever reason. Mainly I made paintings of furniture in fields with stars.

Put these shoes and other stuff in the Sunfunnels shop

homestead envy

Met  Penny the cow

Sleepy time

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begat begat

This is what happened the the lemon nubs

all these things in this chest

ill new years eve, drinking turmeric and angelica root tea. giving baby a kiss at midnight.

This morning I looked in this old chest on my back porch and found some forgotten art and clippings made/cut by me, david, and friends.

mushroom arrangement by grandma

One, son!

Carrot cake with blueberry coconut icing, pomegranate seeds, and SHARKS!

I've lived a whole year now with this little bean. ( 21 months including womb time)
Time goes by so fast and bladeblah all those things we say about growing up and time and quickness. But really, having a kid keeps you in the moment and then when that date comes up that signifies a year has passed it's a crazy feeling.
A baby's progress in life during one short year is so astounding. One year ago he was the tiniest blub and couldn't even roll over, and now he can say words and signs and looks you in the eye and understands and can stand up and move everywhere!  I feel proud for having sustained his little self this far, so much holding and hugging and nursing and snuggling.  Sometimes when I  read baby books  or get advice from well meaning friends  I feel like I'm doing everything wrong.  They say "Don't bring your baby to your bed, let him cry it out, you'll spoil him by holding him so much.. and other methods created in an attempt to make baby having more convenient and to liberate parents. Don't have a baby if you  expect it to be convenient.  Don't "liberate" yourself at the expense of your child's emotions and trust. I realize that as a mother, my intuition is what I need to listen to. If it doesn't feel right, I don't do it. It doesn't feel right to let my baby cry in another room, so I make a safe place for him in my bed.  As controversial as it seems, this is nothing new. Women all over the world have been sleeping safely with their babies for thousands of years and we have somehow survived as a species.
Attachment parenting is the only way I can imagine raising a child. For more on what it means to be attached, and the benefits of doing so,  Pediatrician Dr. Sears has tons of info HERE

                        anyway. Here are some moments from Rali's partys. ( He had two :))

Rali said "Hey Girl" when he got out of his sweet ride. for real.

super fast wagon rides

How old??

analog dj

so tired.    this cake is a carrot one too but with raspberry and mint icing.

candy cane beet

Out

in

wound.