These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

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Star-álfur

Nature has turned arctic over night and I didn't have to work this entire beautiful weekend. What I did have to do was look for a car. After reluctantly dragging myself to a car dealership and negotiating with a positively lovely man who told me I barely looked 16 and had a few sexist tricks up his sleeve, I'm 99% sure I have a new old car that smells like Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo and more or less works.

Now the exciting stuff: I've been wanting some kind of canopy fandango for my bed, so I spent last night poking holes in my ceiling and hanging up fabric. I even dug out the cardboard stars from my apartment on Fernon and sewed them to the sheet. Now my money plant lights don't look like they're coming out of nowhere. My room feels supercozy and all my decorations are high enough off the ground that Tess can snuggle with me and won't be tempted to eat them.

Last but not least, my avocado plant is HUGE. I'm going to have to figure out some way to pot it without snapping off all the roots so that my baby can grow to its full potential. And so I can make guacamole in 9 years.

My dear, but if I make the pearly gates I'll do my best to make a drawing

Two and a half years ago, I drew a sketch of a poster of words from "The Trapeze Swinger" I eventually wanted to make when I had time and supplies. Thanks to graduation and my brother's old prismacolor markers, I have a new poster.

Yǔ

Emily wanted a t-shirt with the Chinese character for rain on it. I've been in an art-making mood and I like mailing her things, so I made her one. I think it turned out pret-ty naiiiice and the colors even go with my blog. Yeehaw!

Gift Giving: I am (>) Martha Stewart

Step 1: Find a source

Step 2: Take photos

golf clap, pray, ninja

Step 3: Draw

Step 4: Stencil

Step 5: Paint

Step 5: Ask your little brother to model

Step 6: To the mail!

Crafts in the Bathtub

Water + Baking Soda + Dish Soap + Food Coloring + Paper = Marbleized Paper

Tying the Knot

Learn to make skinny ties out of regular ties. See the full post on autostraddle.com.

Sometimes I Write Things In Other Places

Mostly at Autostraddle, although occasionally things I say make guest appearances over at Emily's blog (Do you read it? She's cutesmartandfunny. Especially here.) when she wants to talk about my areas of expertise. If you happen to be interested, you can learn about a few of my favorite things: silver white winters that melt into springs, girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, and brown paper packages tied up with strings.

death and all his friends

things that threaten to destroy my robots:
+water
+power surges
+black holes

things that threaten to destroy me:
+alligators
+not flossing
+vitamin d deficiency/rickets
+reckless drivers
+heart disease
+heartache
+my robots
+black holes

paper-cutting olympics

shirts!

a lone ranger:

[pretend like it's in black and white on a green shirt]

rima xxxviii

¡los suspiros son aire y van al aire!

¡las lágrimas son agua y van al mar!

dime, mujer, cuando el amor se olvida

¿sabes tú adónde va?

+gustavo adolfo bécquer

[breaths are air and go to air

tears are water and go to the sea

tell me, woman, when love is lost

do you know where is goes?]

the trapeze swinger

i like...

drawing people i know as comics.

work in progress x3

work in progress 2.0

this is the beginning of the second painting in the series.



and here's the fireplace that i spent all wednesday night making instead of writing my spanish essay, my art history essay, my gender essay, doing my race reading, or working on one of three paintings i have due soon. it was totally worth it.



in other news: we ran out of orange juice a week ago and now i'm sick. i don't think that's a coincidence. actually, we ran out of food a week ago so i ate stale pretzels all weekend, which may or may not have something to do with me being sick.

it's about how unfamiliar even the familiar can become

work in progress