What's under the surface?

What I have been doing lately.

2007-07-25T18:50:00.000-05:00

Since my last post I have done many things. I quit my job at Books-a-million, and Hancock Fabrics. I now work at Biloxi Tent and Awning where I make and install awnings, and I also work at Beau Rivage Casino where I sew and maintain the costumes of the shows that are here. I got to design and sew the costumes for the Trapeze act. I was very glad to do it. I got to challenge myself by doing and working with fabrics that I was not particularly used to. I was all lycra.

Sew a little- Stitch a little and you are on your way to conservation~

2006-11-08T13:33:00.000-06:00

This is just a little project I have been working on. My uncles were redoing this old house and found all these old magazines and baby clothes. Well i took this one garment. I looked it up and its technically called a "sacque" it is full of moth and other insect holes. My mom was just going to throw it away so I took it and began to buttonhole stitch around the holes. I am using the holes as a starting point to conserve the work that someone put into this garment 100 years ago. They are turning out really neat. They look kind of like Lichen.

I think

2006-09-08T14:55:00.000-05:00

I have been thinking. I think i want to get a little more life experience before i go into grad school. I am thinking about buying a camper touring the U.S. and making it like this big performance documentary kinda thing.

I'm going to call the law!

2006-08-25T21:25:00.001-05:00

I can't stop starting projects! Help Police Help! I need a beefy man to stop me!

New work in progress

2006-08-09T10:08:00.000-05:00

Well- In my quest to come up with some work that is good enough to put into my graduate portfolio I have started This piece using a 100 year old baby sacque(jacket). The garment from being in an attic for so long has been eaten by moths and who knows what else, so to save it from the garbage, I began to embroider the moth holes in which they begin to form a pattern.

Well it's been a while.

2006-08-04T20:59:00.000-05:00

Now I have moved back to my home town and I finally am employed. It is a modest living but I am able to work at night. During the day I work on my graduate portfolio. It is hard to come up with fiber art That i think is strong enough in technique as well as concept. I am working on a few pieces. One piece is a crosstitch of an untraditional image. Another one is using a 100 year old garment. I will be posting pictures when they get further in process. Things are well but living with my family again is very stressful. It is like living in a powder keg.

i am thinking about the future

2006-05-13T21:21:00.000-05:00

I have recieved my B.F.A. and found out I graduated Cum Laude. I am thinking about graduate school. I am doing some more research into more schools. So far i am looking into University of North Texas, University of North Carolina, and University of Kansas. I really want to go to North Texas but we will see.

2006-04-13T17:39:00.000-05:00

This was the first successful piece I did in art school it is called "Wards of the State". I was a commentary on what i saw when i visited my grandparents when they went into a state nursing home. When people's family kinda of just stick them in the homes and leave them there. i like it it was definitely one of the better pieces in the class.

a new muse

2006-04-13T17:23:00.000-05:00

I am beginning to think about grad school. Should i try or shouldn't I. I think i should perpetuate the cycle of fiber art by getting my masters and teaching fiber art. I made a book the other day. I am kind of excited. I am going to try and fill it up with paper cuts. people say they are pretty so far so i am going to keep going maybe try to work in immense detail after i get really good. Who knows.

Howdy neighbor, happy harvest!

2006-03-03T17:03:00.000-06:00

I am going to start Volunteering at the zoo in the farm exhibit. I am so happy to have a new project. The lady said I could do whatever to the exhibit to make it better. Within reason i suppose.

Snow Day

2006-02-10T20:49:00.000-06:00

Today turned out to be the most beautiful day I have ever had living in Memphis. At about 1:30 this afternoon it began to snow. It snowed until about 8:00 this evening. I went to work but my supervisor named Jorge said we are closing for the evening. So I spent the evening talking to Kyleen and then I went to claire's (were I am currently) and hung out with her and her sister, and their friend Chauncey. I liked the snow it made everything look so clean and white. Memphis was the most beautiful gray you could imagine. This was the biggest snow occurence i have ever been in.

it's hit the fan

2006-02-07T14:23:00.000-06:00

Right when everything gets to going good for me.
Everything goes bad for everyone else.
Mercury must be in retrograde.

Super bowl sunday...

2006-02-05T21:03:00.000-06:00

So last night after I got off of work I went and spent the night at my friend's woody's house aand spent all day just hanging out with his family. I miss being around my family though it is semi-functional. I get lonely living with one roomate. We are friends, but its not the same as being around family. I cannot wait until my lease is up. Only 10 months to go. I am adding a piece to add to my senior show series.I am in the process of redesigning the whole thing. I am doing good one redsigning the images.

my first postage

2006-02-04T06:20:00.000-06:00

Well it is 4:13 am. I am at a slumber party. I made a very Jean Claude and Christo fort. We made smores, hamburgers, and drinks. It was the first slumber party I have ever been to. We had fun. I have a crazy cruxh on someone at the slumber party. Everyone guess who.