knitted dresses

I've been on a knitting frenzy lately, I just cant stop, and it's really great. It's like being on speed except instead of ending up with a comedown at the end of the night, I end up with plant cozies and socks and silly hats and uh, hopefully, one of these days, a really elaborate knitted dress like one of these:

tattoo painting by jeff musser

Sam

My friend Sam died recently. He was such a handsome guy with a heart of gold. He had infinite amounts of cute in him, was so fun to be with and had a contagious laughter. He did the best dance moves on the face of the planet. I can't believe I won't be able to see him again.

His sister asked me to do a drawing of him for his funeral, so I did this portrait of him:

I wish all the evil people would die first.
Life is unfair.

verunicastar!

One of the first things I hearted when I joined Etsy was this uv Buddha necklace by verunicastar:


I drooled over it for ages, so it was such a cool surprise when she contacted me months and months later, suggesting we'd do a trade.

This is her wearing the floppy eared hat I made for her. It totally suits her! I really like the yarn she picked for it as well (and I also really, really like her tattoo!!):


In addition to the uv Buddha chocker I also got a print of one of her beautiful mermaids - I love the way she draws! I haven't bought much art from other people before. I guess I've been thinking that I'm capable to draw or paint stuff myself, so why bother - but it's SUCH a difference having someone else's art up on the wall! It's really refreshening and inspiring to see someone else's style and skills.

This is the mermaid I got:


And here are some of her other cool drawings:



Veruncastar has a blog here on blogger, so go say hello to her! verunicastar.blogspot.com

And check out her Etsy shop filled with mermaids, zombies and funky jewelry!

gizmo

Apparently this is a baby fennec fox.. who are they trying to fool? It's obvious that this is a baby mogwai.

Just look at the striking similarity:

news from the office

I've imported my personal art and craft blog posts from my other blog into this one, and am merging the two together. It was too much work to keep up two blogs, and my personal art blog always seemed to suffer for it. After all, I'm already familiar with my own art, it's more fun to blog about other people's art.. ;)

From now on you will see a bit of my personal art and maybe some of the crafty stuff I make here from time to time.


The sad thing is that I had just made this awesome messy banner for my art blog that I have no use for any longer:


So there. At least I got to toot my own horn & show it off so it wasn't completely in vain. God, I'm such a geek.

borderline journal

This is possibly the strangest thing I've found on Etsy so far. I wish I could afford it, but I'm always broke and it costs $375. I don't think it's a bad price for what it is. It must be hard putting a price on something like this - it's someone's personal journal.

This is what the seller has to say about the journal:

"This is my journal from roughly age 16-18. I spent most of that time in psychiatric residential treatment, and mental hospitals. I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, and attempted suicide multiple times. I have toyed with the Idea of cleaning this up, and attempting to get it published, but that has proven too difficult for me, emotionally. It is a standard lined 'marble' notebook. Every page is filled. There are a few drawings, most done in crayon, as that was all I was allowed sometimes." TheBillyburgReject

I'm loving the decorated, taped cover. I used to have journals like this at that age but I burnt them in case someone would read it if I suddenly died:


Click on the pictures to get a bigger version if you want to read the text - I think you should read it, as it's actually a really good read!:



I like the bit about talking loud and singing etc to stay grounded. It reminds me of lucid dreaming and the stuff I do in dreams in order to stay in the dream when I feel I'm about to drift away to wakedness.

I would totally read the rest of this journal. I love secret stuff though, and looking at stuff I'm not supposed to see, so maybe the fact that it is a journal, and supposed to be secret makes it all the more special to me. I bet it makes it special for other people too, just because people are voyeurs. And it's totally different when it's the original, and not a printet copy. It's extra special.

Check out TheBillyburgReject's shop on Etsy if you want to buy the journal!