I am motivated!!!!!!!!!!!

Summer Fun

My friend Will took this picture after the sunday Shellac show this summer. I have on my summer uniform: cut off jean shorts and a t-shirt! So classy it hurts.

In No Particular Order, Obviously

Cressy! Thanks for teaching me the way of the googlie beer! So nice to see you.

I met someone and they got me flowers. Exclamation points infinity.

I guess you get pissed on when you lose a McCormick fueled wrestling match? Live and learn.

Camus and Ajax sleeping off a day of Squirrel merkin hunting. Firefox does not recognize merkin as a word? Wish I was that innocent.

Look at these two kids! They are graduated to their own porch. Love you guys.

Hobo photo shoot

Wrestling is so much fun.

I met Ghezal. She is awesome and has a killer laugh. Seriously contagious!

Going to the country!

Persimmon Party vista.
View from the farmhouse outside of Pawnee, OK. It was a gray but still beautiful day.

First nite: John and Mike. Bonfire, beers and amazing add lib songs by Beery.

Mike and Kara. These two kids are amazing. Thanks for your wonderful hospitality. Happy Birthday Kara - Happy Anniversary to the two of you! Two of my favorite people! p.s. that OU Snuggie was so warm...

Ghezal, Cressy and Beery. Fantastic nonstop shenanigans!

Awww lil' Mike... and check the apron! I would pay some double digits for the "Who Invited All These Tacky People?" apron!

Kara and John

Ansley and Ajax harvesting the Juniper.

Adventures in Temping and an OKC Trip

Disembodied heads of commerce

What is going on here???

Another head.

Office prop at Kimball Office. I really like this one.

My neighborhood. I love it! Maybe I'll just stay in Chicago? For a while anyway...

This is where I'm going tomorrow. Somewhere near Pawnee, Oklahoma. Flying into OKC and then driving out into the remote Oklahoman wilderness. Why? Friendship and adventure!


It's Kara's birthday and I have to see her. We are gonna ride ATVs and shoot guns I think. In the country at a cabin/farmhouse. Can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SOFA Chicago Snapshots

The most generous person I know invited me to the SOFA show held at Navy Pier. We had a bare-bones picnic before getting completely overloaded with amazing art. I really had no idea that I would enjoy sculpture so much! Here are some photos I snuck. I will update them with artist name and links as soon as I find out.

Turning Lemons into Glass Pendants

I bought a quart sized ziplock bag filled with old stamp collecting kits a few months earlier at a book sale. Though I had hoped that it would contain a long lost rare misprint but I was a bit disappointed to find that it was just general issue, post metered. This did not detract from the awesomeness of the little colorful squares and rectangles that were designed during the 1930's - 1960's. So I decided to figure out how to make those awesome glass pendants that I've always coveted and here is my first batch! I'm really happy with them. Click on the photo to go to my etsy page where I have listed them.