This thing…has like 25 pounds of clay in it. And still isn’t done. #ceramicsculpture #handbuilding

What Day Is It? I woke up in the early morning and panicked because I didn't know what day it was. Would I have to be up soon? Could I roll over and not worry about it? What was I going to have to do today? It took me a couple of minutes to reconstruct yesterday, to realize today was Monday. I…

Started something new. Made paper balls of the off cuts to get Scribble to leave the drawing alone; then turned around, and there she was. #artquilt #drawing

Sequins done, quilt finished. Woohoo! #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery

Stitching bombs on a Friday night #artquilt #embroidery

Red Sequins ERG. Friday, yes. Kids driving us nuts. Also yes. Busy day. Yes. Trying to figure out where and when I get dinner. Or if I go home before 9 PM. It's OK; the after school stuff is good; just maybe the timing is off. We'll see. So yeah, the students have decided summer is tomorrow and…

Thoughts of bombs…sewed a sleeve down too. Embroidery to follow. #artquilt #dyepainting

Couldn’t fall asleep last night considering what next on this quilt. Happy 250th? #artquilt #dyepainting

The Shortest, But Longest Days… Oh hey, it's Wednesday. Weird week. State testing started yesterday, so we have the shortest, but longest, days with kids for a couple days. I keep my advisory for 3 hours and 15 minutes and they annoy me the whole time by being unable to follow directions, log in,…

Hair is done. Bowie said so. Some embroidery next. #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery

Sewing hair down; making a small clay heart. Good day for artmaking. #artquilt #dyepainting #ceramicsculpture

Sewing Braids… State testing starts this week. Wacky schedules, gotta cover my walls, deal with the same 30 kids for 3+ hours, 2 days running. Always weird. We used to do all the testing in one week and kids would lose their minds...OK, they lose their minds even when we only do two days. It's a…

I made more braids and attached them all at the top…now just need some artful placement to occur. With Bowie…who didn’t care about the yarny bits at all. #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery

I spent an hour braiding yarn but not actually sewing anything down. In case you’re wondering how it’s going. #artquilt #dyepainting

Last one… #bugs #artquilt

Making a Heart… Hey. It's Friday. It's also May. Not sure where April went, but it's gone. Whoosh. May is state testing month. Kinda crazy. Already! My brain is trying to focus on what the hell I'm teaching right now and until the end of the year, but it's really checked out and planning excitedly…

Simba loves the bugs…two more done. #artquilt #bugs

Two done, three to go. #artquilt #bugs

Gonna Get There… Gotta write fast; got a meeting this morning. My team had five kid meetings this week and divided them out. We usually all go, but we're all burnt out on them and so we tried to be organized about it. We've been to so many meetings this year for kids...and mostly for the same…

Attempting the neck/body connection #ceramics #handbuilding

Braided some hair for the quilt in the background. Don’t know how I feel about it. Also painted 5 little canvases as future bug quilt homes. I do weird stuff on school nights. #artquilt #bugs #dyepainting

Crafty People… Well I'm still trying to kick this cold, but that's all it is. It makes me tired, but so do lots of things. Coughing up an occasional lung is fun. I have two. It'll be fine. I did go out and do a few things this weekend and then came back and slept on Saturday. Not Sunday. I really…

This weekend in three photos: started embroidering yet another eye, finished the last of the bug legs, and made it to 6 stores on the SD Book Crawl. #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery #sdbookcrawl

Finished sewing the sleeves on the pink head, then sewed a bunch of bug legs. Saturday nights are exciting here 😂 #artquilt #embroidery

Ok that might be it. It sparkles in the light. #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery

Not Just a Hot Flash Last night, I considered what it would take to call in sick today. I am actually sick. I wasn't sure yesterday during the day, but by 8 PM, when I took my temperature, I'm like, well, yes, that is a fever...not just a hot flash. A hot flash of a different kind anyway. Today is…

Tiny progress… #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery

Beads and sequins and a variety of cats. #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery

There’s Always a Back… It's another Wednesday where my brain keeps skipping ahead to Thursday. Surely I've lived through three workdays by now. Only three more days of sex ed and then back to the normal shitshow. Which isn't planned yet. Minor issue. I'd really like to be planned out more than a…

Not sure this piece will ever photograph well…it will definitely be better in person. I made it to the beads! #artquilt #embroidery #dyepainting

Made a piece of fabric out of clay (like you do) and finished thread embroidery; beads next. #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery #ceramicsculpture #handbuilding

Distracted by Actual Squirrels. Hey ho, why is there so short a time to write this morning? I guess I did things, and then I watched the squirrels running up and down the tree (they're young ones, so they're kinda funny about who goes first on the branch thing. But not sure how it got this late.…

Drawing at dinner again…can’t take me anywhere. #drawing

I’m a Big Girl… Hey. It's Friday. I say this once a week. I saw three squirrels cavorting on the slope this morning. I've only ever seen two at a time, mostly one. This was definitely three. Fun times. I definitely have the trees for it. And the one I'm watching right now? Definitely a young one.…

Made it to the bright pink…then it’ll be the bright purple. Also added arms (hands need work!)…reminds me of the low row in Pilates 😂. #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery #handbuilding #ceramicsculpture

Stitching is complicated… #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery

Not a Natural Haven on Purpose… 'Tis Wednesday, yet feels like a later day in the week that is not yet Friday. OK, that only leaves Thursday, but honestly, sometimes it feels like there is a full week between Monday and Wednesday alone, and then you get to Thursday (finally) and it just wings by…

I haven’t even gotten to the beads and sequins part of this yet… #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery

Embroidering eyes. In her mouth. Yup. #artquilt #dyepainting #embroidery

Art Will Be at the End of It… It seems to be Monday again. Some cruel joke. We start sex ed today, a full 6 weeks early, and I am so not ready. I have 32 kids opted out (I think...something like that)...I have one class that only has 6 girls left (girls opt out more than boys). I clustered them in…

And back to this one, with Scribble’s help. #artquilt #embroidery #dyepainting

Oh yeah, so I haven’t finished anything, so it makes sense to work on another unfinished project 🤯. #artquilt #improv #embroidery

So I made stems and/or arteries while watching Artemis enter Earth’s atmosphere, and I can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday evening. #ceramicsculpture #handbuilding #nasa

Soft and Cuddly I love these weeks where Monday and Tuesday are fathomless days, no end in sight, and then all of a sudden, it's Friday. Like what happened there? I guess I appreciate it? I'm just not sure about the concept of time. Still. After how many years? Ha! Years. Time. So it is Friday and…

Sometimes I stitch other people’s patterns (Sue Spargo)…I love that the marks on the raccoon’s body look like eyeballs. #critterandclover #suespargo #embroidery

One is done (ish). Because it already had legs. I found the canvases I mount these on too. Good news; I will never run out of those. #artquilt #bugs

Juggling So we've been back at school for two whole days. It hasn't been particularly difficult (well, staff meetings hurt my brain...)...actually, here's a legit commentary on staff meetings. I'm still obsessing over the word 'justify' and what it really means and how it doesn't mean what people…

5 bugs quilted, ready for legs. Or something. #artquilt #bugs

Making weird clay things… #ceramicsculpture #handbuilding

Need More Leg Parts… Back to school today. No time has passed. The yard and house are still disasters. It's all good. It happens every year...mostly because I like to travel over break (it makes it a real break from what I've been doing). The cleaning and yardwork are constants. They don't go…