March, 2010

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Mar 10

froze the ocean out of love

This past weekend I read 4 books (The Historian, The Glass Castle, Echoes from the Dead, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson), and took a mini road trip with Brian down to Stanford & Palo Alto to see his lil’ bruddah run track for Notre Dame in some big college track conglomerate. The best part was seeing all the girls do long jump and repeatedly hit the bar, as if it was their first time ever doing it. [But these were the best college long jumpers in the country!]

Anyway, it was lil’ bruddah’s first time seeing the Pacific Ocean, so cute. I guess my first time was when I did a California road trip with brothers/grandma/uncle when I was 12 or 13? Scott kicked my awesome globe hacky sack from Ghirardelli Square off the Golden Gate Bridge, I hated LA even at that age, the only thing I remember about Sacramento was eating at Hard Rock Cafe, and the boys and I bought lots of 2-dollar bills from a slushie shop in the San Diego Wild Animal Park.

I have a love of holding tiny sea creatures. Even if dead. Stupid Radar breaking my coral still makes me seethe.

Catching diseases from touching discarded seagull feathers…

Brothers, both over 6 feet, always make me feel like a rotund miniature.

I like this for the hair but hate it for the chin.

I’ve been doing my hair like ribcages this past week.

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Mar 10

spring explosions!

Holycrap! Today it is 71 degrees outside. It’s officially spring here, and although the weather doesn’t change much in San Francisco, the winter rains are gone and it’s back to mostly sunny/partly cloudly all the time.

And the greens are out (although they never left, it’s much more vibrant). Strange how just last week I was complaining of our radiator not working when I need it to warm us at night. I have so many large bay windows that whatever the temperature is outside, it’s almost the same inside.

I even hear a mockingbird daily that I do want to kill in the early mornings, and that desire worsens after being woken up by cats at 5am (shouldn’t daylight savings time starting mean they wake up later??)

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Mar 10

and now, a fancy poll

I need to rename my etsy shop, because it is boring and I am indecisive. Cast your vote on something fitting- it, like my current etsy, will sell mostly prints of dreamy photographs, but occasionally some vintage clothing and mixed media creations.

I want to keep it similar to my internet presence, but not exactly the same.

For your help, I thank you in advance! (If you can’t see the poll, please just visit the blog itself because flash won’t show up in a reader…probably)

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Mar 10

getting ready to DIY

I’ve never shown the internet my amazing horseshoe crab lamp I got on etsy in December, so here it is hanging out on my back. I pretty much went crazy over it during a period of being jobless (at the time), so when I sold my car, it was the first item I bought after friends’ Christmas presents who haven’t received gifts from me in years. Byebye Focus, hello beautiful wall light (and happy friends!)

So, last week during my off-time from work I’ve been compiling a long list of things to do, either for fun or for business.

1. Think of a decent name for my etsy shop. (SOIMPORTANTWHYAMISOBADWITHWORDSSOMETIMES?! CALLIPYGIAN!!)
2. Carve a stamp out of rubber erasers to use on business cards. (Only after shop name is created.)
3. Finish beading the tattered 1920′s dress Sarah Cork gave me so I can wear it to the first fancy thing I can think of.
4. Make antler bobby pins.
5. Make a tote bag for groceries! I’m terribly annoyed with the recycled plastic ones IGA gives us now, because they smell awful and the cats claw their way into the under-the-sink cabinet to chew on them.
6. Bead some tights, kinda like in this tutorial or the maker of my favorite tights: bebaroque.
7. Make a short dressy cape. Maybe black velvet? Or maybe that’s too vampiresque…
8. Paint some frames to look cooler than they are currently. (One soon to hold my Caitlin Shearer print of Margot Tenenbaum!)
9. Re-design my website and blog. I know I just did this in October but…I feel like it isn’t me so much as my old. But Flash websites are kinda tired, so I need to combine the crafty, collage style of my old with the simplicity of my new.

It really is imperative I come up with a new shop name since “amaliaslash” is kinda boring. Extremely boringgggg. Any suggestions from you <5 readers? Words I like…chimera cloud key feather nest wood handheld paper gilded magic golden antler dream star aurora linen talon quill birdcage claw eclipse wing stitch prism vine

Brian thinks it should just be “amalia chimera” like my internet moniker/website, but I wanted something separate (but connected) for the store. Hmm..