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A little reminder to anyone and everyone in the Philadelphia region, the craft show which I will excitedly be participating in is THIS SUNDAY!!! The deatils are:

I’m super excited about the whole deal and have been spending my days making a lot of books for the occasion! ALSO, my good friends over at Studio 27.28 will be having a tent sale on Sunday as a compliment to the Fairmount Arts Crawl that’s also taking place. Sorry for the lack of more post today – but I’ve got plenty more books to make!

Update about the weekend on Tuesday? – why not.  On Saturday I stopped through New York on the way up to Connecticut and was able to spend a little time wandering around the city, mostly in Greenwich and the West Village. A couple of highlights:

1. The window displays at Macy’s for the 2009 Flower Show were really beautiful. Paper flowers strung up as garland and flowing as mannequin hair bouquets were colorful and exciting in the warm afternoon. The displays were made by Eloise Corr Danch out of Brooklyn (whose lovely work can be seen on her website) and were supposed to come down this weekend:

I’d love to get my hands on one of those coiffes – I’d absolutely wear it in public. Walking down Bleecker Street I also passed by, and stopped into a shop that almost knocked me off of my feet. Murray’s Cheese Shop. It took just about everything I had not to throw down my credit card and pick up 5 pounds of delicious cheeses.

For those of you in Philly – it’s like a paired down and ultra cheesed Di Bruno Brothers.

One of my favorite parts of walking around NY, or even speeding across town in a cab is the way glances of some of my favorite buildings are caught through other buildings and then disappear again behind others. Too often they appear and vanish before photos can be taken, but they’re still some of my favorite memories.

It amused me to realize today on the walk to the bus that from the corner of 42nd and 5th av. one can see the Chrysler building down 42nd and the Empire State building down 5th. It’s one of my new favorite corners, especially being so close to the library and Bryant Park <3

Most of the week will be spent making a TON of books and crafts for the upcoming craft show this weekend! Wish me luck!

Aloha. It’s nice to be back after some time away.

So what’s been going on in my little creative world? If you might recall I’ve been taking screenprinting classes (which is almost over unfortunately), and one of my friends gave me a chance to put some of the things I’ve used to work to make some t-shirts for his new little upstart landscaping business. They turned out alright:

Of course, cutting everything out by hand – yes, all of those tiny letters were hand cut – was by far the most time consuming part of the printing. The registration of the green over the black letters was the hardest part, and didn’t work out as well as I’d thought. Part of that is due to the fact that the green ink was obviously weaker over the t-shirt than the black ink. If i had printed that area with white before hand then printed the black and green it would have come out more even. But, since this was done entirely by hand with hand-cut stencils, the registration would have just about been impossible. Anyway, a couple of lessons learned and a couple of ideas developed. I’m happy to have gotten the chance to make them so I’ve got a better idea of the types of prints I can make in the future, and I’m mostly pleased with the results.

At this point it’s full steam ahead for the craft show coming up on the 26th of April! Can’t wait to fill you in as I work along =)