I want so badly to be a morning person. I always have. But I have a really hard time sleeping at night. Last night I went to bed at about 10:30, and kept waking up all night long. I woke up at 8:30 this morning and yet I'm awake now (3:30am) I tried to sleep but I just lay there. It's so obnoxious. I just want to be awake and alert!
I just got a really good idea that I'm not going to tell you about. I've been struggling lately. Thoughts on my letterpress and art and design and life in general. Trying to find a way to make it more personal and suddenly I had an idea. When I get a chance, I'll show you/ tell you more.
I'm itchin' to sew something. I picked out an apron from Lotta Jansdotter's book Simple Sewing. Now, to find a minute to make the darned thing. Devan's got half days for the rest of the week, and mon-tues, which are really silly when you're in kindergarten.
Oh yea, I took some pics of some recent letterpress things:
Most of this stuff is for sale, with more details at my etsy shop and there are more photos, with more details here.
Not thrilled or dismayed by the final episode of Sopranos. It just was like a normal episode... only there won't be anymore, if that makes sense.
As has been our tradition over the past 7 years, we had a big Soprano Sunday Italian dinner of deliciously cheesy baked ziti with sausage and ground beef. Saving the bruschetta and salad for tomorrow night.
I played with my press this weekend. I can show you the few things that I've made sometime tomorrow, because it's late and there isn't any light to take pics right now.
Speaking of pics, I'm anxious to have some film developed. I shot some photos with a vintage box camera last week, and I shot some holga photos this week and I'm curious to see if anything turned out, and if anything looks good.
I'm feeling kinda, I don't know, overstimulated lately by blogs in general. I don't frequent blogs that read like diaries (you know, like mine usually reads) I'm more interested in seeing art and design and craft from other people. I took some time Saturday morning before Dev's karate class to read the archives of port2port. It's a wonderful blog between 2 friends full of fantastic imagery and inspiration (not just their work but the links they give of what's inspiring them.) I'm a bit overloaded and I kind of feel like I don't know who I am right now!
Oh that's me up there. Last weekend, waiting for Jon in the parking lot at the store.
I tried to 'change my life' this weekend, ie. go to bed earlier so I could wake up earlier. I stayed up all night friday and ended up crashing for a couple hours late Saturday afternoon. After we went grocery shopping and ate dinner, I went to bed at 9pm. That's a record for me! I woke up every hour from 4am Sunday, but didn't get out of bed until 9:30. I was exhausted still, and took a nap from noon until 3pm. It's 1:30am right now. Basically I failed at changing my life. I'm not giving up though. I'm off to bed now!
-(11-08) LIKING:
knitting for babies, soccer, pregnancy, little potatoes, mitered squares, my bed, the ocean, travel, sleeping in my bed, Jonathan Safran Foer, tenament museums, linen, Air (the french band), Hugh Laurie, Intervention, babies, Iron & Wine, Clive Owen, letterpress, Yeats,
gray, mini-pigs, hotel chevalier, tea, pigs, Quebec, being anywhere but here (nj), modern simple quilts, autumn leaves, white on white, paper, lily snoring
