Woman 1: What is this? Woman 2: Twelve inch by one and a half inch cardboard strips. Woman 1: I see. I think my question was more (waves hand at the collection of cardboard cuttings)[…]
Week Two of 2018: Basket Weaving
This week, I tried to stretch my basket weaving skills. Instead of making a coil basket from plastic bags like I normally do, I made a plain wicker weave style basket using strips cut from[…]
Meeting New Year’s Resolutions. . . Kind of
With every New Year, people the world over evaluate their life goals and make resulations. I am no exception. I have an unreasonably long list of things I hope to accomplish in 2018. Life Goal[…]
Big Dreams and Larger Scale Unfinished Projects
I haven’t posted here since July. I usually like to write posts after I complete a project, but lately I feel as if I have been unable to finish anything. At the end of July[…]
Is This Too Much?
My grandmother use to draw pin-up girls; scantily clad WWII beauties making ridiculous poses like catching a giant beach ball in an absurdly awkward way that accentuated breast and butt alike. When my adolescent self found my grandma’s sketch pad hidden[…]
My Ginormous Plastic Hat
I made a giant hat, huge hat, enormous. It’s bigly. . . This project was meant to serve a few purposes. 1) It would use up some of the plastic bags from my ‘stash’. I[…]
The Rabbit Hole of Unrealistic Deadlines
At the end of April, my ‘Bedtime Stories for Privileged Children’ quilt was awarded 2nd place at the St. Louis Artist Guild’s ‘Migration and Displacement’ exhibit. The fact that I had entered this quilt into[…]
Yellow Book Bags and Hats of the 1930s
Friend: What’s this? Kate: Someone hung them from the knob of my back door yesterday. Friend: Someone left you a bunch of Yellow Book bags? Kate: Yeah. Friend: Do you not find it odd that[…]
The Retablo Making Process
I’ve been reading a book, “Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century”, which documents what middle class families have in their homes. Chapter two is entitled “Material Saturation: Mountains of Possessions.” The authors point out[…]
Book Rat
The mouse population seems to have exploded in the office where I work. One can hear them moving about in the cubicle walls. They get to food people leave in desk drawers. They rip up[…]