the wild abandonment and return of thought

I’ve got a ghoooooooost heart.

hibernationalist — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:55:05 +0000

Tackycakes

hibernationalist — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:00:16 +0000

They’re kind of garish, but oh how tasty! This was an excellent excuse to gather some designers to talk about grad projects and try out some fancy icing tips. I really want to decorate a giant cake in the ugliest fashion now. Speaking of grad projects, here’s a link to my grad project process blog.

Time for a Night Nap

hibernationalist — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:23:03 +0000

A kid at work named her Angela. She's misunderstood like all beasties

Hello. It’s been a year?

hibernationalist — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:09:40 +0000

Let’s try this again.

Two weeks into my final year at ECU, I’m moved out with two lovely gal pals and I’m waiting for the dough for my tart crust to chill. My room is looking like a Design*Sponge “before” shot. We have no couch and I bought the wrong screws today, so we still don’t have a dining table. At least, my bed is made and last night’s banana bread (made to christen our new oven) was mighty tasty.

Oh, and the grad project has taken flight. Here we go.

For the Wanderers and Wonderers.

hibernationalist — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:46:07 +0000

In process work for my Typography class.

I cannot take credit for the poetic genius that is the lemon curd excerpt, from a lengthy poem called, “Tomfoolery”. This poem was a collaborative work by a primary writers’ workshop of which I have the joy to be involved with every week. Fantastic stuff. Those kids are brilliant.

Time to get sassy for SAS

hibernationalist — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:20:23 +0000

Every summer my plans are a no go and I never accomplish what really needs to be done. The biggest strain is not prepping products to sell at the ECU Student Art Sale (SAS). So, it’s that special time of the season again! Three weeks to produce handcrafted objects to be purchased and loved. Let’s see if I can get that website up too. Oh ambition, don’t fail me now. As for a preview of products, I’m going to spice up my usual clock and shadow box collection with some magnets and cards (that baby card gave me hope that my card making skills aren’t completely awry).

Spookies

hibernationalist — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:57:23 +0000

Welcome, Little Sprout

hibernationalist — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:42:24 +0000

I’m a fan of bartering. A handmade card for expecting parents in exchange for cookies and a crochet lesson sounds pretty darn good to me.

Late night crab attack.

hibernationalist — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:09:33 +0000

I’ve just spent the last two or so hours trying to make an “underconstruction” page for my website on dreamweaver. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the program, and I think I’m sort of – not really- understanding bits of it. Uh, yeah. I carry very little confidence in my abilities at this point. And after all that struggle, it looks like my web host has decided to not connect. So, I’m crabby right now. Crab attack.

This is all part of the process, I’m quite aware. All I want to do is stomp around and break plates though. Grrrr. To redirect my frustrations, I’m reminding myself that everything has to begin somewhere. Right, little owl?

Summer owl says, hellooo.

hibernationalist — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:50:55 +0000

Cornelia is the my smallest lantern with the fastest turn-around (completed in three days) to have participated in the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. I made her upon my return from London with the intention of making a small lantern. Huge emphasis on the scale because of last year’s wolf which was perhaps 4x the size of this gal. I dedicated more time to the papering aspect, which paid off quite well. I was going for a Ukrainian feel, but according to some Folkfesters it looks Westcoast inspired and possibly Japanese. Hmm.

I attempted to bring her to the Illuminaries at Trout Lake only to be drowned out by rain and a magnadoodle of lightning. Cornelia had to be plastic sacked for fear of her paper feathers becoming soggy. However, the evening was a gorgeous orange spread across into grey punctuated with sudden squiggles of light and cracks of thunder. Nature at its most astonishing.