exhale

Sometimes I have to remind myself to have fun. Relax. Make mistakes. Play. Draw in pen on scraps of cardboard, grab the white gouache and a pink marker and make those fake candy ads I've been imagining.

Tomorrow I'm having two other makers over. We're going to eat chili and other deliciousness, swoon over fabrics like this, swap from our stashes, sew, maybe make buttons? In all, a good time, I expect.

So today is cleaning, lots of these guys and this group and of course my favorite. I bought a dustpan yesterday, so I don't have to use whatever cardboard is hanging around anymore. And tomorrow morning I'm going to make cookies, so the whole apartment will smell good.

And then it'll be back to the push and shove: school rushing to a close, grading papers, my thesis, etc., ad infinitum. Or for you, I'm sure, ad nauseum, so I'll stop now. Happy weekend! Go see the flower show if you're in town. Otherwise--what are you thinking of doing?

(On deck: something made from fabric from Blair; photos of what happens when your friend goes to Japan and feeds your fabric addiction.)