LizzyHouse

I am still alive!

I just wanted to inform all of you, that I am in fact, still alive. How? No one is quite sure.

I was in the printing lab yesterday for a total of 12 hours, printing and working for 11 of those hours. I have been using a tool called a mezzotint, ( i will be back later with a bigger catch up post and show you what I am talking about) well it has these microscopic teeth and you have to rock the tool back and forth on the plate, very fast and tight, and then you have to do it in 12 directions. My arms are SO SORE. It looks like I have been working out or something... which I have not.

So I was just stopping in to say hello, and I will be back with more later.

Have a great Saturday!

Also one more thing!!!! My new friend Angela has a blog! She is the awesome book artist who sells the Italian Cotton Ribbon, which I now use on EVERYTHING. Including my daily hairbow. Check it out!

paperairplane.

The line of patterns that I did called PaperAirplane is almost back in action. I am reworking some of the designs and getting a new plan of attack. There are 13 different patterns and 4 different color options. One of the new Cherry House Quilts will feature a few of my patterns. Here is a sneak peak of one of them. Enjoy!
this is from the color way tree-tops. More later.

silly lizzy

so I was talking to a good friend of mine the other day on the phone, and we were talking about being stressed. I proceeded to tell him, that I am always stressed. I am just a high stress kind of person....

I am going to be late
I am going to get fired
they are not going to like my work
I will be alone forever because I can't commit
there is something to do that I have forgotten about
I once again have saved everything until the very very last minute.

I make lists of everything and the only way I can get things done is if I give myself personal deadlines. Now I can stress myself out with these deadlines, but usually I set them before the ACTUAL deadline so the panic is completely self made.

I remember being stressed as a child. I have just always just put a lot on my plate... well here is the end of the semester and an entire 3 weeks of stress... BUT I am trying to manage it and I have made a list of everything that has to be accomplished AND I have given everything a deadline. I can commit to a deadline, and I can commit to being a vegan and a good person... whatever

Cool thing though, the point of all of this stress talk IS that I am printing a book. Actually hand printing a book of prints that I have made, with ryhming couplets and I have to have it all done in what is essentially two and a half weeks. Each step has been carefully plotted out so I can leave myself enough time to get everything done. SO MUCH WORK. Well, what are you going to do. So I have made charts and graphs to help me get everything else done, along with being a dresser every night for Oklahoma! for my costume design class lab hours.

So, I will be in and out for the next couple of weeks. Pray for me please, and I will try to stress out less and remember to eat so I don't stress out more, and I will get through this so I can go home to Texas and sleep for 2 weeks.

thanks everybody
sorry if I stressed you out.

24

Courtney and I have been watching the first two seasons of 24 on DVD. For whatever reason I will watch just about any show if it is on DVD. I mostly just sit and sew signatures for books together, but it's nice to just sit and not really do anything for a small space of time.

Well last night we watched a really compelling episode, most are compelling, but this was especially. Jack's ex-lover/woman who murdered his wife, and is a spy and let a bomb go off at CTU (Nina)... well she is helping them find the people that are going to set off a Nuclear bomb in LA, and Jack got put on the case even though he doesn't officially work for CTU (counter terrorist unit) anymore, and they were afraid of him seeking revenge on Nina. They have to get on a plane and fly to another city to stop this guy responsible for the bomb... well, they put this other agent on the plane with them (Nina and Jack) so Jack doesn't kill Nina... Jack hands this guy a bottle of water, and Nina is talking smack. Next thing you know, the other agent passes out, and Jack takes the bottle from him, and he stares Nina down.

HE DRUGGED THE OTHER AGENT. That is how the episode ended.

Then I went for a bike ride. It was the most intense bike ride of my life. I was suspicious of everyone. There were people on the street and I assumed it was because they were agents, or spys. There were people sitting in cars and I knew that they had been sent there to watch what I was doing. There was a cat in the street, and I knew it was a mole cat, with a camera on its collar to alert whoever it was working for, that I had in fact just ridden past...it was also suspiciously dark. All the street lamps (there aren't really street lamps), but all of the street lamps had been burnt out. It was if I was being followed.

Not really, but that is what it felt like after watching two episodes of 24.

have a great day everybody!

A dry point.

So, I have been working really hard on my printmaking. I have found that I am best at dry point. This way I don't have to deal with any chemicals and it's just me and the plate, and some incredibley expensive tools. I really can find the most expensive thing, or method in anything. I think we discussed this before. It is a gift. Embrace it, or me, whatever.

This is called SubSuburbia, and it is a piece about suburban sprawl... there is more to it but we can talk about that later. It will be an edition of about 20, as it is dry point and you get as many prints as you can before you crush the lines.

Note: this was just a proof, so the plate isn't wiped great, but you get the picture

Enjoy!

Birthday haircut!

Court and I went to Paul Mitchell on Saturday to "gets our hairs did". We were both really happy with how our hair turned out. I cut all of mine off, because I really wanted a change and as silly as it sounds I was finally ready, really ready, to have SHORT hair again. It was like a had to prepare for it. Silly, but it was time and here we are.

Now I always have a bow in my hair and I feel justified in that.

The winners!!!

I would like to thank everyone who entered my little contest, and who wished me a happy birthday. It was nice. I did not really do anything special, but I was ok with that. I wrote in my journal, "what a pleasent birthday!"

I heard from all the people I love, had time to make 10 books, and I got some rest. What more do you want? A cake? that's really just calories you don't need....

So, I did the drawing last night. I put all the names in my velvet cloche from 1932 (I "borrowed" it from a theatre department a couple of years ago). Then, I had my room mate Courtney draw two names.

Congratulations!!!! SO, Joan and Nanette just email me your addresses and I will mail you your beautiful books!

Happy Birthday!

WOW

Sorry that I have not been here the past couple of days, these last few weeks have been so crazy and I am trying to find a job as the free-lancing in Idaho isn't going so well....

So, for the end of the semester there is a book/print/ceramic sale and my goal is to have 30 books to sell. I have a lot of work to do, but I am a 1/4 of the way there. I will sell whatever ones I have left over on Etsy.

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has been so supportive of Cherry House Quilts!

soooo this weekend I am making books, obviously, and making a book tutorial for Whip Up. You will all have to try it out and let me know what you think, and if you don't want to try it, you can just buy one from me... it's all the same sort of.

one more thing. You officially only have two days left to enter my birthday contest for a free book and a treat!

wow there was a link in every paragraph.

goodnight everyone.

So much going on!

Make sure that you get our free pattern

but also, you can now go to Cherry House Quilts. This is where we will be located until the website is up in October.

Thanks to everyone for being so supportive!

Also make sure you enter my Birthday Contest whoever the winners are, I will also be sending some of my candied orange slices. I will tell you all about that adventure on monday

I know it's all a lot of info and stuff but please bear with me...

Sunday will be a nice breather.

On the House

go to FREE-a-BEE for the pattern!

I hope that you enjoy it!