the cure of the sewing machine and hamburgers

I'm feeling much better after that horrible day. Patrick grilled his special hamburgers to make my evening better! then it was up to the sweat shop to finish two more bags. i'm getting ready for pile of craft. I'm going to start selling my bags out of Trixies Palace in Fells Point after that. Plus ,I believe I'm apart of a trunk show at double dutch in July! I need some vaca money! We leave for Whistler on the 26th.. .Finals start tomorrow...meaning summer is right around the corner!

really BAD day

gave myself a shiner today
trying to make a cage into an office
trying to make space where there is none
up came jenny onto the corner of my desk
in my little office
that is a cage
....and then my ipod got stolen
not a good day

samantha

i love the act of stuff objects, especially when stitched details embellish the surface. now add surprising items like everyday objects, such as chairs...who would want a stuff "chair"....not a cute teddy bear or bird, but a house, a chair , a car. i love these objects by an upstate New York painter turned momma raising two boys. All stuffed toys are made with 100% wool felt and stuffed with lambswool. Check out here wares at here etsy store here.

diggin' the new vintage

etsy has made some really great upgrades on its search engine and finding cool vintage items has become a lot easier. here are some of my favorites that remind me of the good days. i'm hoping we make enough mulla on our yard sale next saturday to purchase at least one of these....

owl family wall clock by domestikate

Francisan China Autumn Divided Serving Bowl by sirkus

Whimsical Red Table Cloth by CoffeeKlatch

Vintage 1960's Children's books by the Saturday Shoppe

Retro Vintage Sizzling Serving Bowls by My Vintage Pad

Vintage General Electric Fan and 6 Vintage Game Cards by Mina180

A night to Remember....making McB proud

Last night was the reception for the Senior Show for Baltimore County Schools. This is the big show where all the high schools get to put their best work from their seniors and juniors into this show. It's at Goucher college's Rosenberg Gallery. Its a really BIG DEAL for us art teachers and art students. Awards are awarded...accolades are exclaimed and it really does a great job of patting us art people in the back and say"you've done a good job...because look how amazing your students have grown. WE, at Parkville High, RULED last night. I mean RULED! Everybody showed up...that includes my awesome staff of art teachers and ALL of the students showed up. And boy did they look GREAT! I will Absolutely miss these kids..except for Justin C...he has another year with my insane-ness to put up with. Here they are by their works with the awards they received. I am so proud!

Simone Norman…Best Sculpture in Show

Justin Terry Best Photograph in Show, Honorable Mention and Selection from Azarael Gann & Franz, Attorney at Law

Justin Caruso , People’s Choice Award, Selection into Azarael Gann & Franz, Attorney at Law Art Show.

Isaac Aladeseyi, Honorable Mention from Crayola Award

Nina Koduah...looking so pretty

Pile of Craft

Charm City Craft Mafia is pleased to present the SECOND annual Pile of Craft held on Saturday, June 21st, 2008. The event, featuring 40+ crafty vendors, will be held indoors at St. John’s Church located at 2640 St. Paul St, Baltimore, MD 21218, from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM.
check for vendors here

Mr. Peacock in Blue

Decided to expand my canvas color options...here is mr. peacock in navy blue. look for other canvas color options in the future.

cool placemats

in the place mat department most of us have our stand-by fabric decors for everyday or formal use. but how about these pop-up references to home and entertainment! the designs remind me of elegant cartoon land...i guest it s the tweedy bird bird cage and Victorian chair motif. these were created by Publique Living at the national stationary show in new york that was graciously reviewed by design*sponge.

i'm being featured

check out CustomCreations BySydnei
today.. Sydnei has been gracious enough to include many pics of my jennyjen productsa s well as posting an interview and a give away for people who look and comment on my shop! What a great idea! Thanks So much Sydnei!

Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg

A great lost we had in the art world, not too long ago. This video by Susan Sollins-Brown, Executive Director of Art21 was emailed to me today. This week i have been thinking so much about painting...thinking about dekooning, been reading Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin...showed Pollack to my Ap kids, been thinking so much about paint. I love Rauschecberg's work since the first time i saw his work in the BMA. I've loved his work ever since i started to paint...i mean truly understand paint.

quickie vote

my favorite peoples at let's share, are having a vote for berkley illustration 's new animal for their June line. Its real quick , like tomorrow is the last day...sorry I just caught it. i added their link to the jennyjen links to continue checking them out. i love their animals in suit prints...i'm hoping you noticed them in prime areas in my living room. i'm thinking that a porcupine would look real good in that suit!

sneak peaks

i love sneak peaks on design*sponge so much that i decided to start the same sort of thing for the baltimoreetsy blog...and to be fair I had to go clean up and straighten up and take quick pics (before Patrick took the camera for his big race this weekend) of my favorite peaks around my house. I truly believe that artists have to have their hand in just about everything that deals with aesthetics and what we see and live with. I thought I would begin with studio spaces first, so you can see that this Saturday of my sweat shop on the baltimoreetsy site.So I thought I would post some of my other favorite parts of our house here....today the living room. yes the walls are tea green..when you first paint it it looks like tenis ball green..the light here was just before dusk, so it looks a bit more orange. Paintings are mine...prints are from berkley illustrations and jason Kachadourian and Charley Harper

look what we made today!

Patrick is a downhill bicyclist...meaning he rides down what people ski down in the winter time...except more in the woods...over rocks and roots....not straight down the mountain....at least they try not to go straight down. anyway, this weekend is the US open in Vernon New Jersey...yes they have something like a mountain in New Jersey. if you haven't strayed onto the traction mag link from my site...check it out today...in fact do it now and you will see what i'm talking about. he and his buddy Dave have lined up some great photo shoots as well as Red bull having a photo contest during the event, and they wanted some way to capture the view from a biker's chest...you know right behind the handle bars... so we partnered up...Patrick and I and made our own version of a camera harness. i always wanted to be part of a think tank...how great to have your own think tank happening in your own home! check it out. i really need to expand my totes into more variations of bags...need to check out strap options.

my favorite interiors

design*sponge posted more from surtex 2008 and featured some great photo's from one of my favorite fabric designers joel dewberry. i have been obssesed lately and have included a lot of his fabrics. Nice to find out he is as wonderful as his designs are. i find his color and pattern choices to be perfect for my peacock and owl totes.