peanut, pussywillow

i love this photo that sue took. she bought the little mini casserole dish with bunny and handpicked yukon pussywillows over the weekend at the...da da na na..oneofakind show..which is now over. what a crash. i was having so much fun w/ the little bunny store and then it...ended. always so sad. endings.
i did a reading last night for the burner magazine 02 launch party. that was a nice time. sarah and leah are such good ladies. you can read the feature article where i talk about if anne sexton and sylvia plath were who they were in the 90s, they could've had a band. and so forth. jason did a blog post at the party. click that link to see some funny pictures. i'm wearing my friend kristin's dress..METTE. i love that dress and am always looking for opportunities to wear a dress. it has POCKETS! feel free to create an opportunity for us to all wear dresses. fancy or otherwise*

i have to go sort some bunnies now for a bunny delivery tomorrow. on my bike.

(what a treat to ride my bike in the winter! thanks toronto)
*i dont get alot of opportunities to wear dresses in the yukon. but i do wear my lavender corderoys alot.

'get me out of this thing'
my friend JASON showed me a super fast way to transfer images from iphoto (i was taking the long way) to desktop and now here...thanks Jason!

manet

 

I will be sad to see this little lady fly away home. Carly made her stand! Then she stood. Then she started walking away. I had to cut her off at the door. Her outfit is inspired by this Manet painting that is always  in my head. It's all about the buttons. There is a bit of an optical illusion going on with fifre's  brass buttons; from neck to sleeve and then continues down the  front. A row.  She only has two buttons, of course..she's tiny.  So this is only the subtlest of emulation. Mother of Pearl by roxy music is a very good song. I only use those buttons. Abalone will do in a pinch.

zero to ninety in 30 seconds flat

Tweekie, my personal assistant, went ahead and uploaded these pics of me in my makeshift studio (thanks to shary!). This is the other day. I had to finish some last minute sewing which mostly included dressing a few half-dressed bunnies and snapping some snaps. ALSO! finishing up the tiniest, tiniest peanut-shaped bunnies to sit inside doll-size teacups. It's good thing I did that. They have been flying off the shelves.  I love that term. Flying Off The Shelves.

My best boy pal Ian took those photos. He was making me laugh my head off. As usual. He talks in a whisper.

(please note 'rescue remedy' on table...practically been doing shot glasses of the shizz..seaweed rice crisps, oreo-shaped container for buttons...the bird-shaped scissors my aunt diane gave me and i have had to mail them to myself a hundred times from airports. i FINALLY figured out a way to smuggle scissors onto airplanes so i can sew! The fold-up scissors will go thru security...or rounded tips/kids work..esp with a case/plastic SHEATH..i got a pair at muji in japan..just saying. it's hard to get scissors onto planes!)

you MUST MUST click this link to fieldguided's blog...our beautiful collaboration of my handwriting and their hardwork and design equals MEOW BAG...BEAUTIFUL! i love them. Mew. Do you remember that book 'it's not the end of the world by judy blume? A. i love that book. B. her cat was named "Mew". a gray cat. all cats are gray. debbie harry had three gray cats. she wrote a song about one..is it 'sunday man'?

gonzo

Here's my new favourite bunny print! the yellow is so beautiful with the pink backdrop. Rachelle at the lovely shop 'Hawk Eyes' on Roncesvalles put the deer aside for me for bunny purposes. I say a 'deer ride' is a very fine purpose.

You can purchase a print here.http://www.etsy.com/your_shop.php
The first day of the Oneofakind show is now over.  11 more to go. Today was fun. Many, many people love the bunnies. I just burst out laughing when i typed that. It blows my mind. It is truly surreal. For me.

BLACK BEAUTY (part 2)

I'm starting to upload some prints to Etsy. Lil Black Beauty is up now and available HERE. The print is an 8X10 for $20. So please imagine the above image with more gray on either side. I love black and gray together right now. Charcoal. The primo black angora lady herself is $150. She will be also be on display shortly at the One Of A Kind show here in Toronto where I am currently  being spoiled by  my wonderful friends here.  (i have to multi-task/hang at the same time). I'm making up for lost time since I have spent the last 2.5 (more?) months in a hermetically-sealed (dexter) room making bunnies for 12-16 hrs a day. Bracket, bracket, bracket. But I got out a bit for nature walks/daily exercise. You know...like what they let you do in jail. It was very fun.

I spent all day yesterday setting up..actually most of that time was stuck in a large U-Haul picking up stuff all over the city w/ Conan the Barbarian in the passenger's seat yelling at me (about the evils of grains, vegetable oils, ugly black 90s leather jackets as friend deal breakers, etc etc etc).  It was so fun! I mean it..like hanging out with my brother. My favourite part of the day was watching JJ draping the most delicate cheesecloth/gauze in the booth..standing all over Grant's chair..i was on the floor pretty much babbling at that point..incoherent from exhaustion. BUT!!! Thanks to JJs/Conan's handmade shelves and all the other magic, the booth looks fantastic. Selena Wong helped me for the rest of the day and did her special magic. My seasonal manager PAM came in and bossed me around and made me a 'to do' list (on top of my 'to do' list), whipped everything into shape and then went onto her other job as Karen Cain's assistant at the National Ballet. These people rule.

Hopefully i'll get some booth pictures up soon. tomorrow is the first of many more very long days.