Friday morning

I realize its 10:00am, but its far too early for me to smile pretty and be nice to people. I've had half a cup of coffee and I am being subjected to painfully uninteresting small talk and Tony's terrible combination of show tunes and weird late 80's r&b.
Today is definitely a giant headphones, sunglasses inside, and sitting-in-the-corner-glowering-at-people-over-my-laptop kind of day.
grumble grumble grumble.
....

oh yeah, found this thing growing outside the studio a couple of days ago. and I can't find out what it is. Martha Stewart doesn't know, google is of no help, and the hippys from the mushroom club (yes, this is a real organization here in Atlanta) told me it was a Jack-o-Lantern fungi, it is not.
any ideas?

I know it's not a Jack-o-Lantern because, like an idiot, I spent 10 minutes standing in a small dark closet staring at a fistful of the bloody thing to see if it would glow... it did not...

wedding photographerizing

This past weekend I went to Savannah with Robert, Julia and StudioBaby to photographerize a wedding. This is something that Robert has been doing for years, but was my first wedding and my first outing with my new camera. Practice is definitely in order, but someone has to be the neurosurgeon's first craniotomy. 

So I would like to thank Jon and Kortni for being my first. I think we all escaped lobotomy free. 

but I'm still learning so we'll see how it goes.

It's October!

Yay For Halloween crafting workshops! last year was pretty awesome, but this year will be even more awesomer! We are once again going to be decorating and painting pumpkins, but this year we're going to be making monsters also. I am excited. not that it takes much, just stick me in a room with a pair of scissors, a glue stick and a few tubs of glitter and I will be the happiest of all the campers! 

Everyone wants to be loved.

So I updated my Etsy page yesterday and, because Etsy tells you exactly how many views each item gets, I have been obsessively checking to see if anyone is interested in my nonsense... as of this morning my shop has 9 "Likes".
Generally speaking I am not a fan of the "Like" button. I am beginning to question the true motives of Facebook and for some reason the "Like" button especially bothers me and I can't quite put my finger on why exactly.
But my weirdo, Facebook-is-watching-me-pee, paranoia aside now I am obsessed with the idea of who it is that is liking my shop... and I want more "Like"s, more and more! I want to be popular and have the whole internet love me and chant my name aloud as they buy my artwork waiting with bated breath for my next Etsy listing.

KidsFest

Its KidsFest this weekend. Another poorly publicized Avondale event. But despite the lack of advertising theres a pretty good turnout. So I'm sitting in the studio, smiling at children from behind my laptop and occasionally getting up to try to convince parents to buy my art. As we didn't know about this event before yesterday we hadn't planned anything. So last night was the last-minute-art-hanging/rearranging-and-poster-making mad dash!

The new intern starts Tuesday. Now we must find many a menial task for her so that she might learn we that we might be amused. Welcome to YayStudio, intern.