Music-loving robot with headphones

This little painting was a gift for a robot-appreciative coworker. I think he sort of looks like a Jazzercise instructor (the robot, not the coworker).

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.