when is the last time I did work?????

good morning!!

Thank you to all my New York readers who read through my pile of hate yesterday, it is all tucked safely away inside my head again, so no fears.

How are you all?

So yesterday was a day off for Keith and I...well day off being all relative as there was tons to do, but there was also a bunch of time that I spent on the couch reading comics...

so this is how the day went.

Got up, wrote hate mail to Derek Jeter as my bubs got ready to go meet the UPS man and get our comics before heading to the old comic shop to see if they need help (they didn't...YAY) so he came home, we went through our order, dividing up what is just his, just mine, ours, and our friend Steve's. Once the division was done I noticed that on top of my pile was Strangers in Paradise #90...the very last issue of that book...ever.

This is when I start crying a little. I go to the couch and read the book, tears in my eyes the whole time....none of it even sinks in, so I have to read it again, then fully calm down, then read it one more time.

It was beautiful and a part of me will die every time I think that it will never come out again.

sigh....

We then read a bunch of other comics in a big binge (I never said I was not a dork). Once done I gathered up a small group of collages and headed over to The Frame Station to drop off work.

Once outside I realize it's hot...yucky hot...ugh.

So we make the trip over and once we get there, well I want to make an ok impression on these people, so I turn to my bubs and ask what I always ask..."Am I shiny" and his usual reply "I don't know what that means" (it means for the record...is my nose shiny, so I need powder). I flip down the mirror and yes...I am shiny, in fact I am sweaty....no good.

I quickly powder and we head in...my hair is both fuzzy with humidity and flat with heat...no, no no!!!

So I get there and the owner Melinda is wonderfully nice, and I also get to meet in person Megan from Moogan's Creations. Now, I read Megan's blog so I know she is funny, and smart, and I have lurked in her etsy shop so I know she is talented...but I did not know how adorable she would be...and there I am, with fuzzy flat hair, and all sweaty.

(yes, these are the things I think about)

So, work is dropped off, and then my bubs and I are on to the next errand, picking up prescriptions at the Pharmacy...and the usual "No, I don't have insurance" and the pity look from the pharmacy.

I know, I know, I need insurance but you see, I'm a starving artist.

so we head home for a bit, a late lunch and then I head over to the comic shop to meet Steve so we can be geeks for an hour or so...I know our conversations are probably only interesting tot he two of us, but trust me they are VERY interesting to us.

then Keith comes to the shop and we hang for a bit...he is going back and forth about playing at the Treehouse, he wants to and he doesn't...you see last week was not fun, and it was so hot...we would just go to bed.

But, we decide to go, hell...I could use a drink and I know he could too. SO we get there very early so we can ease into the night and that way my bubs can play early in the night and then we can leave.

So several drinks into the night I have this profound realization while reading the personals in the "Other Paper", more specifically I am not reading the Men Seeking Women, or Women Seeking Men, or Men Seeking Men, Or Women Seeking Women.

no I am reading the best part of the newspaper...I am reading "Other Variations" such as this little gem

"BABY ME, cross dressing adult baby willing to try anything new, open minded and willing to please"

or this

"Old Fashioned Spankings mature discreet PWM will administer to women of any age for discipline, stress relief, or pleasure"

I could go on and on....so my thought was, if the art thing does not work out, that I could read these ads to the blind, maybe that is my calling (or maybe that was the whiskey drinks talking...it is hard to say).

So my bubs played first and he was wonderful, and as we were about to bolt out of there, we noticed that the next act was not just a sad man with a guitar, but a three piece band out of Montreal (love the Canadians!) with a stand up base and a laptop.

we were intrigued so we stayed are were treated to the sounds of "Ghetto Pony"

they were fantastic, seriously I cannot rave enough, we even bought their cd. They were just 3 skinny white Canadians playing the coolest geek rock I have heard in well, forever....picture Weezer but more funk to it.

So you have to go to their myspace and listen to them, for serious...they are that cool.

After that we meandered home...long day.

Today there are things that must be done...I must package stuff, I must make new things not only do I really want to but my shop looks sort of sad right now.

Oh, and for those of you interested in pocket mirrors, they were shipped out yesterday which means they should be here on Saturday....now we have the mean cheese but I might be able to list some on Saturday night, watch the blog for more details, I will lit a couple each day.

OMG this post is so long, I am dreadfully sorry but I am very wordy today...ok truthfully I know I should be working out but but if I am doing this that means I am not doing that.

no one likes to do Cardio when it is already very hot at Chateau Stiletto.

sigh...big giant sigh....

oh, and the picture today was a pendant I made a few days ago, it is for sale in my shop, and it is Virginia Woolf

xoxoxo
jenn

Monday Monday

Bonjour!

How was everyone's weekends? Mine was wonderful as can be...with the exception of huge car repairs and the like.

Friday was an odd day, my bubs did not go to work due to the fact that there was a strange and dangerous sounding noise in the van, so he brought it to the shop only to find out that the thing that stabilizes the van and keeps it from tipping over, had broken and needed to be repaired, the mechanic basically said had we taken a corner going over 40mph we would have flipped....so thank goodness he caught it...so now we are safe...but our little wallets have gotten a whole lot lighter.

I spent the majority of the day finishing up a commission project for someone (please see photo above), it is 18x18 and I really love the way it came out, right now it is hanging in our apartment waiting for it to be paid for and it is just lovely.

When Friday was all but said and done, my bubs and I watched the news and weather and saw that all impending rainstorms were no longer threatening the city...so we decided to go for a walk, and actually enjoy the ghetto park next to us. You see the park next door is all trashy but it does have beautiful bike trails through the woods, and like Central Park once you are on the trails there are moments when you forget where you are, it's just so desolate and lush...even the birds sound more wild and the brush is thick and jungle like.

So we were meandering through the trails something that I really dare not do alone as it gets pretty remote out there, we were about a mile or so in when all of a sudden....sprinkle...sprinkle...sprinkle....it starts to rain (of course) so we turn around, the rain is nice and soft, very refreshing....through the trees it is wonderful, and then it starts to down pour and the west nile bugs were out in force...so much for a lovely walk.

Saturday most of the day was spent working and then when my bubs came home from work we decided to walk to the grocery shop, that walk was rain free!!

Sunday though was the big day, we went downtown to arts fest, it was HUGE, I mean really HUGE, miles ans miles...though in true Ohio fashion I bet if they removed all the places selling deep fried pork something or other and fried dough products it would have only been half the size.

overall it was fun just to be out by the river, I was disappointed that there were not more local artists, and really there was only one place that made me just ache all over with how wonderful it was.

Now...this is where I would love to show you some pictures of what I bought, but my bubs has them hidden away as they will be birthday gifts for me. But...they are beautiful, two photos, black and white with portions colored. They look like everything that my dreams are...they are that fantastic.

One of them is a woman along the harbor at Carnivale, fantastic mask, very surreal and beautiful, the other piece I got is a photo of a window at Bergdorf Goodman's the display are 3 beautiful Marie Antionette inspired mannequins...I know I am not doing them justice, but they are amazing.

so after being outside so much of the weekend we stopped for Mexican at "our place" on the way home...and then when we came home we promptly fell asleep for a nap...we were eventually awakened by the dreadful neighbor girl screaming her fool head off, for a second I though she might be being murdered...but no, she was just screaming for no reason.

brat.

so that in a nut shell was my weekend.

Oh, I do have news though, thanks to very loyal blog commenter Moogan/Megan, my work will now be carried at "The Frame Station" here in Columbus...

so giant shout out to Megan, who I will have the pleasure of meeting in person this Wednesday when I bring some work in for them.

So, this is the deal...all you loyal lovely blogettes and blog misters, if there is anything you wnat from my shop let me know and I won't bring it, I will hold things and accept payments on things as well.

Oh and one more last piece of shop news....Later this week there will be small pocket mirrors/make up mirrors available in my shop. I ordered them this weekend and am already so excited for them to be here, There will only be 1 done of each design, so once they are gone...they are gone (please see the photo above for the designs) there will be 15 in all, well probably more like 14 as I think I will have to keep one for myself, right?

They were made by the same wonderful woman who made my buttons, kittycrossbonedesigns

If any of you decide to place orders for anything, tell her I sent you!!!

ok that's all for now, tomorrow I will be posting some exciting blog news and I believe I was tagged a while back for something that I never did....I should get to that too.

now I must get to work I need to make a couple things and have a long day and night pf packaging to do as well.

xoxo