Full Weekend

Narrator: Tabitha of The Pairabirds

My brain is too full right now. I have too many projects in there. And, not enough resources to complete them. This weekend I tried to pour out some of those ideas.

One of the ideas was to create some 3d wall pop art using thrifted fabrics. Which meant I could do one of my favorite things, go shopping at the thrift stores. I found several shirts that had wonderful prints (maybe not wonderful as a whole shirt) that would be good for cutting apart. As a bonus I found two kitschy shirts for me to wear and a large sized corduroy Gap tote bag, which was $3 (I'm not into brand names. I just like to say the brand so that people will be amazed that I found it for such a low price)!

I assembled a pair of earrings for myself this weekend. Bonus: while shopping for fabrics, I found some sweet 80s blue post earrings. I call them my ~wing~ earrings.

I bought a staple gun from JoAnns. Plus, I found some very nice embroidered fabric in the remnants section. I managed to find two of them.

I updated a ton of websites I have my art on: Deviantart, Window on Web, Trunkt, Flickr.

And, I added a gallery to my long neglected website The Pairabirds (yeah, I really do have a real-live website). I had not updated it in months and I really want to bring people to it, especially if I end up adding a shopping cart.

Now that I have acquired all of these new things, I beginning to feel flustered. I don't want to lose focus on making illustrations, but I do want to branch out into other things and promote. Sometimes I feel like being an artist is a lot like being a mad scientist. We have to try all of these crazy formulas before we get it right. I think I maybe getting close to the right formula for P/birds success.
I am hoping 2008 will be my year.

Vintage 80s earrings

Found at: Salvation Army, Illinois