collage: girl and bird

As you can probably tell, I love bird imagery... I can't seem to get enough. This is one of my earlier wood collages where I started pairing kids and birds together. Why is she crying? – perhaps she has lost her pet owl, perhaps her parents won't buy her an owl, or perhaps she is terrified of owls and they bring back traumatic memories. Either way... I couldn't resist collaging the two elements together.

toque at the western front

Come visit me and several other talented artists and crafters at this year's Toque at the Western Front Gallery in Vancouver (303 East 8th Avenue). The event will be tonight, December 5th 6pm - 9pm and Saturday, December 6th 11am-5pm. I will be sharing a table with two of my favorite artist/crafters Crooked Walker (who also happens to be my hubby Roger) and Track and Field Designs. Partial proceeds of all sales goes towards funding for the Western Front Gallery, an artist run centre. Hope to see you there!

new cards

Ok... so I have finally taken photos of the new cards I made a couple weeks ago. After hours of punching circles out of my vintage books, I decided to turn them into little mini cards. I found these cute manila coin envelopes at the local stationary store... and they seem to match well. Feels good to be able to give new life to old unwanted books! They are turning out to be a real hit at the craft fairs too, so I think I will make more and try listing them in the shop soon.

trip planning

It is confirmed... we have bought our plane tickets for our next upcoming vacation! We'll be heading to Vietnam in February for two and a half weeks... I am so excited (and a tad nervous) I am dancing on the spot. I have never been there, but have heard nothing but great things. It is so cloudy and grey here in Vancouver now, the thought of awaiting tropical sunshine is bliss. Now comes the actual trip planning part... if anyone has any suggestions, let us know!

collage: constant bird talk

Another collage to share with you today. I always love how little kids can talk for hours and hours on one topic, especially when it comes to subjects like animals or dinosaurs. And it's usually the case that they will have an insane amount of knowledge on that one topic as well, thus leaving us adults little to add to the conversation.

shared vision

Some exciting news today! Shared Vision Magazine has featured me as one of their design visionaries for their December "Intelligent Design" issue! I am so excited to be included with such talented people and be able to share some thoughts on socially conscious graphic design. Click here to read the full article. (I also want to thank my friend Jaime Kowal for photographing me and making me look normal, and not like a nervous deer-in-the-headlights – which is how i totally felt!). 

crooked walker notebooks

I thought I would share with you some of my husband Roger's new screen printed notebooks today. He has got into the print gocco fever as well and created these colorful notebooks featuring images of cassette tapes on the covers. We still have boxes of random mixed tapes in our house... all from our elementary and junior high days. Its funny and embarrassing to see all of the different types of music I painstakingly tried to record back then – EMF and Boyz II Men on the same tape?...yikes. Check out the books at www.crookedwalker.etsy.com.