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in the wee hours in the wee hours at around evening time 73 Comments

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Mood : i know i came into this room for a reason  Listening to: the black keys

I am enmeshed in finishing up the design of my webstore and site, filling orders and finishing commissions. I am hoping to have the webstore up in February. I am so flipping excited and having so much fun! It feels like a big step even though I do so much on eBay and all that already. It will make life so much easier especially wholesale boutique orders. Oh and so much prettier! I have memes that are piling up as well. I was tagged by the uber talented Emma of benconservito.  Emma's tag (four things meme) I did awhile back – gosh one of my first posts ever! Course that was not that long ago in the archives as I don't post that often. But I figure if I average a post or two a month perhaps I will never burn out on blogging?

illio friday topic – sprout. Click for supersize and yes the snow here in Colorado is awesome but making me a tad insane.

Before I get to the tag – I am so excited I finally get to announce at least one of the secret projects that I have worked on this past year that is going to be published. Lately so much of the art I have been doing is secret! Which is fine but it does not give me much to show on zee blog. My dear friends Sarah Fishburn and Angela Cartwright put together an AMAZING book called In This House – A Collection of Altered Art Imagery and Collage Techniques. You can pre-order it on Amazon and comes out July 1st. There are thirteen artists in the book and we all have a chapter depicting our interpretations using the theme of "Home". Some of the other artists in the book are Erika Tysse, CW Slade, Alice Scott-Morris, Lesley Riley, Jen Osborn, Céline Navarro, Susie LaFond, Kelly Kilmer, Nina Bagley, and Jill Haddaway. Angela and Sarah worked tirelessly on this book and the result is that the whole book is just stunning. I am so excited to be a part of it. Everyones work is so different from the others, so many mediums and so many interpretations. Some personal, some not. I can not say too much but if you read my blog you might know I am a pretty private person. Maybe being an only child or something – who knows?! Let's just say I don't really spill. . I just don't go there. I decided to tell the story of the bad girl on the block (which I like to think of myself as) using one of my favorite short stories Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is a fantastic story of a female vampire and although Carmilla is a lesser known and far shorter Gothic vampire story than Dracula, the latter is heavily influenced by Le Fanu's short story. To interpret the story I collaged old antique etchings and other bits keeping it in a black and white palette. I love old etchings they almost appear to made from velvet with such bold blacks and crisp whites. Well. . .the book comes out July 1st – I can not really think about it much more or I will pass out from excitement. 'Till then here is a sneak peak at Carmilla.

Now for the tag from the wonderful and fabulous Carlene . . . 6 weird things about myself.

  1. When I was 9 years old our house burnt to the ground. We had to stay in a hotel for 6 months while they rebuilt our house. Although losing everything sucked I was able to have Spaghetti for breakfast, lunch and dinner. . . it was fantastic! I could eat spaghetti every single day! One of the best spaghetti sauces – ever. . . Bove's Vodka sauce.
  2. I have no mathematical sense. I always exaggerate amounts and anything with numbers. Just a heads up. If I am saying anything that has anything to do with amounts or numbers assume it is way off.
  3. Let's just say I don't keep farmers hours. . .I tend to stay up late every night – like real late 3ish. 
  4. When I was ten I faked my eye test. I just really wanted glasses so bad.
  5. I really hate talking on the phone. I just don't like it – I avoid it like the plague. I tend to not even call people back. I like talking to people I just hate talking on the phone. Although, I do long to be one of those people with a cell phone full of cute charms and dangles. Oh well next life. . .
  6. Every light in my house has a dimmer. I hate bright overhead lighting. I feel like we should be playing poker with the Soprano's gang and smoking cigars. Even if we are at friends houses I am always dimming their lights and messing around with the lighting until it is dealable.

 I finished all my lighted assemblage pieces. . .aka light box commissions. Plus a few extras. I have not gotten all the photos narrowed down yet but here are a few of them. But they will all be there when I unveil the new website. Click on them if you want to go see more.

Have a fabulous week! Off to catch up on zee blog reading.