Wishes for You

This was a quick (messy) digital collage for my nephew, who is twelve as of last Saturday.

Wishes for you:

bones that you are always strong, and wings

LINE SHAPE FORM SKILL

tear & laughter that shake you

questions that drive you

He's one of my favorite people, my emo guy who calls Gorillaz hippie music, has better technology than I do, who was once four sitting on my lap watching Harry Potter. Once he broke the wand I used to use to cast circle, and I laughed.

Doodle Discoveries

Lorrie Whittington's doing another art giveway. I love the whimsical patterning and "doodle aesthetic" of her work. Want. (Enter by July 21st.) See more of her lovelies on Etsy.

I found Doodler's Anonymous recently and I'm going to do a quickie drawing for their Totem Pole Collaboration. 

I want to remind artsy types about Bliss Chick Christine's poster contest, also ending on the 21st. One week. I'm still failing to make my poster begin, swimming in the chaotic life ooze of time-sucking art-death.

Meh.

My Remedy for Silence, and maybe the three prints that are there since FestivALL, will be at Visions for this week's Artwalk.

Crush Can Pay: Vote for my Twitter Tee

1) We are broke.

2) I have a crush on Captain Mal Father Caleb OhGodI'mGoingToHell Captain Hammer Nathan Fillion.

3) Mr. Fillion tweeted that he sounded like he looked good.

4) I resisted urge to tweet something like: Oh Dreamy Actor Crush For Smart Blognerds and SciFi Fangirls, you ALWAYS sound like you look good. xoxo call me really no don't i'm married because I have restraint and it's eleventy hundred characters.

5) I tweet instead: "I do not tweet at celebrity crushes."

6) @LegalLush nominates it for a Twitter Tee at Threadless.com, the Paragon of Intarweb Awesomez.

7) You vote here, and I can keep the lights, water, food, shelter, etc at our house:)

Treasure Nest Tuesday #25: Hamsah Earrings and Heart Quote Gift Box

It's a double feature! Here are the gorgeous hamsah earrings I bought from The Holy Bead for the Souster's birthday this past weekend. I was in love with them instantly and filled with memories: When Meg and I were roommates, she had a gorgeous hamsah (or hamesh*) necklace that I was lucky enough to borrow, often along with The Date Shirt: a super-soft, super-flattering simple black tee that instantly made a dating chick feel confident and fabulous.

Also I made a sweet little gift box for them with a misquote from Christopher Marlow- I didn't like "in every man's heart" so I corrected him:

 

Ooh! It's really sort of a triple feature Tuesday because Megan gave me that Buddha treasure:)

Here's the much better** photo from Holly's original Etsy listing:

see Holly at theholybead.etsy.com
follow theholybead on Twitter.

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*OK, I am also a tiny bit obsessed with them right now:




**Because I suck at camera-contraptions. Meg says she'll photograph them and I'm really hoping she does because she is awesome.

Comments: A Moral Imperative

Imitation = flattery. We know this:) I stole this from Schmutzie, who stole it from someone else, so you feel free to go ahead and steal it too. Here's the what:

1) If you are already actually on this website, AWESOME, and if you are reading this is in a feedreader, click on this entry's title and come on over. We'll wait, because you're cool.

2) Answer the following three questions in the comments section:
   a) What is your website url?
   b) Where are you from in real life?
   c) What strange belief/idea did you have as a child?

I'll go first, and even post a different weird thing than I posted at Schmutzie's place.

Confessions of a Former Gothgirl re: Bliss and Wild Woman Mojo

 Leah of Creative Everyday tweeted a link referencing Calling All Wild Woman Artists! A link like that is irresistable, no? I checked it out, and here's the deal:

I will take submissions until Tuesday, July 21st. You have three weeks to work on this.

Just send a JPEG image to pinkyogi at gmail dot com.

After I have collected the images, we will put it to the vote. All pieces will be loaded anonymously and the readership of Blisschick will pick their favorite.

The winner will receive a copy of Clarissa Pinkola Estes' Women who Run with the Wolves, but if she already owns that, we'll come up with something else.

Here are the rules:

1. You may submit as many images as you like.

2. The poster must contain all 14 points of the Manifesto.

3. The poster must be able to fit an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper and still be readable.

4. The poster must be Wild, Fun, Expressive, Colorful, and Inspirational!

5. The poster may be generated in any way you see fit -- photography, paints, digital, whatever!

6. At the bottom, the poster must be copyrighted to www.blisschick.net and yourself.

Click here for the Eccentricity Revolution for Wild Women Manifesto.

I'm really excited to design an entry for this. It touches on a theme I've been struggling with forever, that I really started trying to work through with The Artist's Way group. I have this not-so-healthy bullshit hipster belief that being happy is fucking uncool. I am seriously terrified that to really embrace bliss- to gab hold of the frosty beverage of life and CHUG- will ruin my art. I worry that positivity is trite, that art that's not about pain, not ripped out of me with blood and tears, holds no power...That radiating positivity is akin to powder puff glitterfluff sweetness and making good-juju art will kill my edge and I have to have edge. Why? Why do I equate bliss with ignorance and complacence?

I've been stuck in a Steppenwolf binary thing- that's why the book rocked my world so hard. My psychological mission right now is to move beyond that black & white thinking. The blog identity 'daisybones' was an attempt to reconcile my perky hippy mama self with the darker, enraged self. What I'm moving toward isn't about releasing that rage (my brand of anger is feminist and very empowering) but about knowing that whimsy and angst, worry and lightness, bliss and shadow coexist. I'm really excited to start this poster design. I'm getting a little bolder every day in creating my bliss. Here's to you, Bliss Chick!

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P.S. 800th post! Round numbers are yummy.

Things That Are Missing, Followed by Their Respective Remedies

Brain food and mental challenge.

Drawing for fun and for me.

Fun, Mindless (but still smartish) TV-type entertainment in a post-Buffy world.

Treasure Nest Tuesdays.

Sleep. Rest.
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Infinite Summer, a reading group for Infinite Jest.

A working sketch for the Ganesha tattoo.

The L Word, Weeds.

Jenneticmod and a thrifting date with cameras very, very soon.

A long weekend coming up.