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The 2013 Calendar is here! + a DIY set of monthly calandar blanks for you crafty people, you!

Whoo! I am in full-construction mode piecing together this year’s cute girl calendar, and here it is! They’re now up in the etsy shop, here, and of course will be with me at all the upcoming holiday craft shows in the next couple of months. I say this all the time, but I cannot believe how fast this year is flying by, and the holidays are just around the corner, along with all the cookie-making, mulled-wine, random gift-giving, and happy hibernation.

Every year when I make calendars, I scour the internet to see if I can find some simple, pretty monthly calendar blanks that I can download and use, never with much luck. Most free calendar blanks are kind of ugly, or not proportionate for my use, and I end up drawing my own out with my little brush and ink. This time I decided to whip some up in Photoshop, keep it simple, and share it with you guys, so you can make your own!

This is what they look like, all just in black and white, for you to color as you please. Also, there are no holidays, so you can add or ignore whichever ones you fancy.

Here is the download: 12 separate .jpgs.

2013 blank calendar months for you

Enjoy! I’d love to see what you guys can make with these.

Only five more days…

To buy your tickets under my name online!
If you’re in the Seattle area, please come – it’s going to be so much fun! – And even if you can’t make it, please consider buying a ticket to support me.
To buy tickets, click this link: http://www.rawartists.org/seattle/radiate
In a green box in the upper right corner it will read: BUY TICKETS, and a window will pop open. At the top of the box it will have a scroll down box that says, “Pick the artist you are supporting!”…scroll down and choose my name. Fill in the rest of the information and click “register”, then it will take you to paypal to pay for the ticket. You can pay by credit card through paypal so you don’t even need a paypal account. It starts at 8pm and goes until 11pm Saturday, August 18, 2012.
From what I know so far and from the artists I’ve already met, there will be a great mix of performance and art – a magic show, fashion show, leather masks, ladies and dragons, landscape and portrait photography, and my flowery girly drawings – among so much more! – All housed in the Trinity nightclub in Pioneer Square – 111 Yesler Way – if you haven’t been, go just to see the three separate areas they have (hence -”Trinity” – took me a moment), and the beautiful Chinese-inspired bar.
I hope to see you there!!

T-shirts IN!

Sooooooo – after dreaming about this for quite some time now, we have T-shirts!!! This morning the lovely Milli Kato and Mr. Burrington helped out with their modeling skills [part-time models! You're so beautiful, you could be a - - ] Yeah. Without further ado, here they are!!

We printed the junior’s shirt in two colors, in sizes Z-XL.

Jump shot! High fashion!

The unisex shirts come in X-Small-X-Large. This is the X-small, on Nick:

And on me.

All tagged and ready to debut at Sakura-Con this weekend!

Friday Noon-6, Saturday 10-6, Sunday 10-4

Hope to see you there! :) Wear your costumes!

 

Punk Rock Flea Market Summer 2012

We’re still a few months out, but I’m getting excited for this summer’s Punk Rock Flea Market, to be held at the Underground Events Center here in Seattle on June 23rd. To my great excitement Josh asked me to design the flyer, so here she is:

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The facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/409296509087641/

Official website: http://www.punkrockfleamarketseattle.com

 

 

play harder

“To get what you’ve never had, you have to do what you’ve never done”

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I’m reading a book right now, Upside-Down Zen by Susan Murphy, in the middle of a chapter called “The great Way of Play,” which, by directly referencing the playfulfulness found in the practices of meditation and koans, is talking about everyday action:

“We may well be the only animals that play all of our lives – or perhaps only think we are – and we may play all the way up to our death. We may, in this spirit, play even with our own death, meet even that with rigor and playfulness. It is the rigor of what we do, in practice, that raises everything to the state of play. Any seriously undertaken work is play in the deepest sense” -Murphy 43

………

How can you recognize every action as play? As serious? Sitting za-zen in a quiet room seems like obvious, boring, painful work:

“How is this practice, this immensely sobering Way of meditation, also a matter of pure play? Let’s look at some of the ways. First of all, it costs nothing to sit in zazen.  [...] And it has a very strict and serious sense of form, as all great games do. There are no games without rules; the rules are a kind of desirable restriction.” -Murphy 44