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So many thanks to my friend Bob who has spent uncountable (well, he can probably count every one of them) hours in my studio with his camera photographing products for the launch of my new product lines. Tonight for seven hours, he sliced and diced fruit to take lifestyle pictures of candles [...]  My friend/investor/landlord, one could even say creative enabler, signed the papers last Saturday on 302 Clinton Street in Defiance Ohio. The new home of S Type Creative [...]  The tactile elements of ceramics have always intrigued me. It’s a medium I’ve had a desire to explore for decades, yet somehow, never managed to do. Until [...]  After decades of dreaming, it’s becoming a reality. This August, I will be launching a new studio/gallery here in my hometown of Defiance Ohio called S Type Creative STUDIO at 302 Clinton [...]  In update to my last post, I finished the sweater. This was my first attempt at dying and spinning enough wool to actually “make something”. As it turns out, spinning enough yarn for a full sweater isn’t nearly as daunting a task as I thought it would [...]  To be able to handle the raw fibre, dye it to any color I want, spin it into any texture I’d like (or honestly, am able to manage at this point), then knit it into any garment I decide…well…it’s the ultimate process for me. [...]  Entrelac is a technique that can produce either the most stunning effects, or make me woozy with the vomitous color combinations chosen. There is no in between for me. [...]  It was a long day. A good day, but a long day. Productivity was high today and as such, when 7pm rolled around, I was downright sleepy. If you know me, you realize how bizarre that statement is since I’m a bonafide night [...]  First off, let me say, LOVE LOVE LOVE Diabolical Streak (the album) by Jill Tracy. (Listen here) While listening, and pondering the flotsam & jetsam that continually seems to find it’s way into my lip balm, I decided, regardless how neurotic, to knit cozies for my lip balm. [...]  As a bonafide Lip Balm junkie, I have to say, I no longer lust after the lip balms at the cosmetics counter, in line at the grocery, or when I see someone sliding emollient goodness across their [...] |
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