Faren Makes...Tissue Paper

I have no packaging for large items, like pillows, so I went ahead and printed some tissue paper to wrap them in because the USPS mailers are not very fancy and definitely not Faren Makes Art-istic.

Once upon a time...

...in 1955, my grandmother ran away from home on a greyhound bus from Tennessee to Los Angeles.

I sort of yearn to follow suit and hop a bus somewhere far away. Too bad it's not 1955 anymore.

Lucky Lizard

A very lucky lizard sits atop my sister's head. Judging by his battle scars, this lizard should be dead. Escaping for a second time from a feline's gnashing jaws, up an unsuspecting lady's leg, this lucky lizard crawls.

This lizard has puncture wounds and a new tail growing, evidence of a previous encounter with one of our cats. Today he got caught by another one of our cats and crawled up my mother's leg. He just sat on her hand for the longest time until my sister tried to get him to crawl on hers. Instead he ran up her arm and burrowed into her hair.

The Craft Barn

I went to the craft store I grew up going to for the first time in years to see if they had some tiny safety eyes that I was using for my bats that the big craft store no longer sells. When I was looking around the store I found some wooden mustaches and a 99 cent bear head.

The store smelled like my grandmother and my childhood, which was awesome and a giant bummer all at once.

Cabin Fever? Stir Crazy?

Nope. None of the above. In reality I'm suffering from a little PMS, boredom, and the frustration that comes from a whole city with not one single copy of Northern Exposure season 5.

Quite possibly my favorite TV show of all-time. Every few years I go through a big Northern Exposure phase where I become deeply addicted to the show and start wishing the town was real and frozen in time and start longing to run away to Alaska (even though the show was filmed in Washington... which I also love, so I could deal with that). The Hallmark Channel played reruns when I was in high school, I would watch it every night, remembering bits and pieces from when I was a kid and it was still on the air. When Hallmark got rid of it, I bought the first two seasons on DVD. Then several months ago I re-watched them and bought the next two. I'm currently on the last disc of season 4 and before I go into my own proverbial hibernation and start sewing for 2 weeks, I thought I'd grab season 5.

No such luck, I'm afraid. After transferring $43 from paypal to my bank account to run to town and buy season 5, I was left disappointed. First of all, my cash is stuck in limbo for a few days, and to top it off, there are 0 copies of any season in town now. So I opted to order it, but my money is still stuck neither here nor there and overstock.com takes paypal but my paypal money is now on its way to my bank account and goodness knows when it will arrive. Then I have to wait 2-15 days before I get the DVDs and by then I'll be at least half-way through my sewing and completely done with season 4.

Oh well!

More Tinks

Trink the Magical Tree Tink.


And two tinks I guess I never posted from May. That gold and maroon one is my favorite (as you can see I copied his face on the tree tink) but I can't find him anywhere...so I made a backup until I find this one.

Famous Tinks Throughout History

Who could forget Tinkey Tink, Hello Tinky, and Termit the Tink?

Death by pillow

Stayed up til about 10:00 am working on the first pillow prototype. I really need to use the sewing machine for these next time.

Coupling.

Maddie is one of my favorite girls and she and her boyfriend Pete are adorable. I am jealous. I want to be able to have couples artwork of me and someone in the not-so-distant future.

You know, other than this: