I am feeling texty

That's the name of my latest robot painting.



I think the bars on his head kind of make him look like an advertisement, but I like him anyway.

Oh, and I also made this flame lady:



I like her, too.

Cloud view

That's the view from my window seat on an early morning flight the other day. The pretty sky kinda-sorta-almost made up for the fact that my flight the night before was canceled.

Love Maze

I made a little painting for a friend who's been having some romantic troubles:



It's kind of hard to see, so here's a close up of a piece:



And another piece:



Basically, the idea behind it is that love is a really complicated thing, but sometimes along the way, you find other stuff that's lots of fun (like random boys, or roller skates, or a vintage dress, or a mix CD).

I don't love how it looks in the scan, but I keep telling myself that it's cuter in real life.

Dear Carmen,

Look, I posted! Here's a scan of one of my only recent creative projects. My friend's sister wanted a painting, and she likes white blobby art, so I made her a painting of a white blob who lives in a mobile home. (I think maybe things got muddy and the whole trailer park is slowly sliding down a hill.)

Your future, night-flowering

That's the subject line of a spam message I got this morning. I think it's the prettiest, most romantic phrase I've heard in a long time.

Voodoo cell phone

I recently found a little note to myself that says "Make a tiny voodoo cell phone (knitted) for Kait." I think I wrote the note sometime last year, but I don't have even the vaguest recollection of why I wanted to do such a thing.

Normally, I'm into happy, unthreatening technology (like cute robots), but I thought the idea of a voodoo cell phone was funny, so I figured I'd make one, send it to her as a surprise, and see if she could offer an explanation.

Here's how it turned out:




And here's the back of the tag, because of course a voodoo phone has to come with little pins:



It's only a few inches tall, which I guess you can tell by looking at the height of the pins. I made the blue screen and the buttons with the leftover yarn from the sparkly fringe on my scarf.

The sad ending to this story is that Kait got the voodoo cell phone in the mail today. She seemed to think it was funny, but she had no idea why I had wanted to make her one. I guess from now on, I'll try to include more detail in my notes.

Nano costume

Now that the weather's getting too warm for the nano sweater, I decided to make my little guy a new outfit... that's even warmer. Today I used some of the yards and yards of neon fleece I have lying around (from back when I was planning to sew a person-sized robot to watch TV with me) to make this:

As soon as I put the outfit on my nano, I realized it feels sort of Kelly-inspired, which makes me happy because I like her art.

It was originally going to be a robot costume, with little blue arms and legs, but then I thought, "What's the only thing cooler than robot arms? Robot butterfly wings!"

Yes, I know they look like ears. But they're wings.

The fleece was so thick it was hard to sew, but I guess the thickness will help keep my ipod safe. I used a little bit of clear vinyl to make windows over the display and the controller wheel so they won't get scratched up in my bag. The little costume opens at the bottom and has a tab of fleece that wraps around the back. I know I saw some velcro lying around my apartment the other day, and as soon as I find it, I'll be able to velcro the tab closed.

Yay!! I haven't had time for a craft project in so long. And this one is so soft and cute! I think I want the next costume I make for my nano to look more robotic, but I'm happy with how this one turned out.

NOTE: I just remembered my plan to dress like my nano. I think that's on hold for now. I don't look good in neon green.