Silliness

Inane doodling

New hallway light

Hello here is my new hallway light. Now you can really see my terrible hallway in all it's lit up glory

Procrastination to the Max = BDS

I began the day with a huge overwhelming list of things to accomplish, all of which are jobs that have been on my list for weeks and weeks now.  I half-heartedly started a few, then quickly gave up out of frustration, lack of interest and general lethargy.  Then I decided it was time to have a day off from my to-do list and spent the next 3 hours idly doodling around on Illustrator designing a logo for my  yet-to-be-in-existence new club: the Backroad Design Syndicate.  Isn't it a beaut of a logo?  I am really pleased with my progress.

Pulley light!

After about a year kicking around the house, I finally got around to installing the antique pulley onto my rather blandish hand blown glass pendant light! Woohoo, cross it off the list.... it's done!

a few card front ideas...

I'm starting to think about my next round of business cards... what do we think of these two options?  I may also get rounded corners but maybe not... which do you like better?  Thank you Bocky for taking such stellar photos... our trade hasn't been forgotten (wink!)

Weird app that makes me happy

Here is a weird tiling app that I have been thoroughly enjoying

Craziness has ended

With the conclusion of my show going up I have now officially ended my crazytown feelings and am back to being procrastination-kate. Crazytown-kate is my alter ego I reserve for procrastinating until its almost too late then freaking out and becoming ultra productive. Thank you to all in your time of support!

I will not spoil my show opening by giving you a full peek but here's a glimpse!

A few things that are done

So here are some of the pieces for my new show starting Sunday at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery.  I have been struggling with the ups and downs of firing my glass decals on.  My lino printed panels are as epic as can be (I think)

I have a dreading feeling that its possible my linos are a bit on the bland side of life, they're pretty minimal but I am hoping as a whole the show will look good together.  Fingers crossed, the last of my glass pieces come out of the annealer tomorrow!

I know it's only 8pm but I'm off to bed!!!

Little square cloud thingys

Envision a group of 9 of these bad boys.

The start of something wonderful

Here are some 30x10 Lino paintings I'm starting

12x12 Lino block

Here's my newest Lino block I cut today, it will be a part of my new cloud show in a couple of weeks. I needed a larger size cloud pattern

Newer cloud painting

Cloud painting using a 9b pencil I bought for jlee

Decal crazy-time madness

Oh my I am going CRAZY!!!!!
I accomplished so much on my decal initiative today, I am out of control!

Here are my decals stuck to a board after being clear coated
Then the vase blanks they will go on
then the finish prefixed look

Stay tuned for post-fired pics!!

Kate Mash-up

The original is in the form of a little pink book, which is actually a regular choice for a bedtime story at our house. This scan puts it out of order, but it's still great.

Jlee Mash-up

Another couple of gems circa 2001 Sauble Falls Provincial Park

Going through old photos!

I just came across these scans from sometime before 2009 which I thought were highly hilarious!!!  Especially the 2nd one - I had titled it the Origamist

Triangle Tumblers

This is how you make triangle tumblers:
1 - put colourbar in annealer
2 - set beautiful triangle mold on floor
3 - Open annealer door and look at suddenly appearing triangle tumblers
4 - Sunshine magically transports them into a row on a piece of clean white paper.

Done and done.

Crazy Ice

i saw some CRAZY ice at the studio today

Old Mail Shelf

Did you know that one day I went to work and this was sitting on the loading dock of the post office and i asked if i could have it and they said yes and now i have a beautiful maple post office shelf that weighs a million zillion pounds but is nice because it was free?  yes.  that is what happened.