the rubber ducky incident.

okay, so i have a million rubber duckies. i used to buy some cheap one every time i had a bad day and i guess i began this at a tumultuous time in my life and was suddenly a collector.

well, i am now on the brink of thirty and am reconsidering my large collection of rubber ducks. i think all those house cleaning shows are shaming/scaring me into wanting to get rid of things. also, real estate in the bathroom is hotly sought after now for our growing collection of epiphites.

this ducky, however, stays. i think it's the oldest one in my collection and is made in ireland - an erstwhile hotbed of rubber duckdom, no doubt. there are a few more that have to stay for reasons of sentiment or kitch, but i think i can whittle the keepers down to five or six.

so that leaves at least 50 assorted rubber ducks that need to go.

make me an offer?

i will consider money, things and services.

you have to go in for this sight unseen (to keep it interesting) but i can tell you the rules i maintained for my collection:

1) no doubles (although i may have ended up with a couple as gifts).
2) no clothes (ducks don't wear clothes)
3) no anthropomorphism (barf. duck + human = barf)

leave your offers in the comments section. let's see if we can get a crazy bidding war going on, which would be amazing considering nobody knows this blog is here.

i will abruptly announce the moment when i decide which offer to accept.

valentine's trunk show.

a bunch of favorite people and beautiful things.































more.

southern ontario orchid society orchid show.

i got taken out to the orchid show as a birthday gift. it was too much! and i got to bring a couple little guys home. take it in...











all this and more.

worksite accidents.

people of the internet, please let me present to you a project i've had brewing for a good while now.

behold the a diptych of gocco printed silhouettes on the sheets of an old technical manual for sylvania electronic products (cathode tubes, and such).

it is entitled 'worksite accidents'.

information about it's online availability will be posted which such an outlet materializes. until then, find me at a fair and i'll have 'em there.

scissorhead prints for the toronto craft alert.

in celebration of two years of the toronto craft alert, i've made this exclusive run of 100 gocco prints. happy birthday, tca!

on the toronto craft alert here:
http://torontocraftalert.blogspot.com/2008/02/from-desk-of-tca-etsy-shop-and-free.html

on etsy here:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9451398

matryoshka dolls and other loot.

aitor and i went to st. lawrence market for the first time and we scored big on deals! i got these two matryoshka dolls (a market that was very competitive there), a bunch of sewing notions and, most exciting of all, a numbering stamp for $1!

aitor also got a new portable typewriter, because we always need another typewriter around the house (and i guess on the road since this one is portable).

a photo a day. a pot holder today.

so i joined this photo a day a month group on flickr. i sometimes stay away from these sorts of things for unknown reasons of cyber-social anxiety. but i thought it would help me trudge through february. i am also trying to make something every day as an added challenge.

day one - with the help of the new sewing machine i was graciously gifted through freecycle, i finished the pot holder i was working on. it was the completion of a project my friend jen had lost interest in. i found the circles of fabric all cut out in a scrap bag of hers and asked if i could finish it. there a lovely green calico and an amazing hand-woven japanese fabric. and it's stuffed with circles cut from one of aitor's old undershirts which made me feel like a thrifty pioneer.