Christmas art bonanza!

My DH is the best. The digital camera I have been asking for was a perfect Christmas gift. But the GOCCO machine from Japan was totally unexpected, and something I mentioned in email passing months ago. I got a GOCCO machine! Woot! (Don't know Gocco? Go here! and it looks as if the supplies will be available for a while, so Gocco is sorta saved. )
He is the bestest!
Oh, and coffee and new slippers. Just what I need to go and create!

2008 Resolutions

Here are my resolutions, art and non-art related:
1. Continue the weekly quilt series. This time, each month will have a theme.
2. Start a new monthly series where the works are larger, 8.5 x 11 inches, vertical orientation.
3. Enter my quilts into competitions. (3 quilts are started for entry into shows)
4. "use it up!" I buy so much personal care products that I have too much. This year, I am not allowed to buy more until I use up all of what I have on hand. Except fabric and art supplies... I can never have too much.
5. Write more letters. Keep in touch with distant friends and family. Who doesn't love to get a letter?
6. See the bottom of the blog for the obligatory weight loss one...
7. Blog more!
Here's hoping your 2008 is healthy and happy!

A New Year's Resolution- completed

I had a lot of things that I did this year. What I am most proud of, besides my husband and my kitty cats, is my year long weekly quilt project. I did all 52 weeks without interruption. On weeks that I was away, I planned ahead and brought projects with me. At times when I thought I was too tired, too uninspired, too hot, too cold, too grouchy... but I made it through.
Here is week 51. I was int he Christmas thrall, and went to the sketchbook for a project, and went to sketches of more kokeshi dolls. Part of the cute but evil series.
Week 52.
I had great ideas for making week 52 this grandiose, over-the-top project, and in the end went to a sampler pack of supplies I bought at the IQA-Chicago show in April. Thanks to Quilting Arts, which is the booth I bought the Oliver Twists Experimental Packs from, and you can get this set on their website here:
CLICK HERE

And here is my project.
Not bad for having no idea what to do with the silk carrier rods (now the binding), the throwsters waste (the flowers), or the wire (now the stems).

Look, I'm sorta famous-ish

Besides being the wife of "the famous painter" which I get a lot, or my work in the comic book industry, my little quilted dolls got picked up on this blog!
Check it out!

Still Alive

So that you, too, can have this song repeating in your head... Not from the game, but used as a soundtrack for a dancing robot:

"Please... say hello to me..."

I saw "I Am Legend" this weekend, and while an ok sci-fi movie (not at all like the book), I loved Will Smith's performance. On a similar, slightly related note, I came upon a post in Neil Gaiman's blog about songwriter Jonathan Coulton. One of his songs was written for the game "Portal" by the same dudes that did one of my hubby's favorite games, Half Life. This song "Still Alive", is very very cool, and I must have listened to it a hundred times by now.

After a bit of research about the game, which I have never played -mind you, I made this weekly, with my favorite part of the song, and the next line which I did not get to add to the quilt:

We're out of Beta

We're releasing on time

Since I do Tech Support and our major project is about to release, this rings especially true for me.

Quilted into the bottom corner....You have to look to see it, but it's there.

the cake is a lie.

She's Crafty... and just my type

My sister and I had a fun day today. This project did not turn out as nice as I had hoped, but oh well... I have several projects to do and this was just one of them.

Persephone

All weekend I planned to take these pomegranate pictures. I have never eaten a pomegranante before, it was really good! I took these for a study I am working on next year.

I also made this doll for a blogger, whose blog I read every day. I was the winner of a giveaway she had on her blog, so I'm returning the favor.

And this is my weekly quilt for this week. When I stayed with a fellow quilter after selling my house, she let me go through her fabric scrap bag. I found strips that were already pieced, and I made this bargello quilt out of it. Not sure how to quilt it, I settled for scallops.