Procrastinators

so the Procrastinators Holiday Art Bazaar at the M-Room was a good time. i didn't have a chair at first so i was just standing or kneeling until i got a bit tired of people offering me a chair so i accepted the only one available which happened to be the tallest one in the room. i was sitting higher than my table top. i felt a little goofy.
i have put up all my Sculpey Couples on my etsy (www.themapleridge.etsy.com) so you can swing by and check those out. one of my favorite things about posting my stuff on etsy is coming up with a description for my stuff. just let the mind wander.

and so it continues

so i've created a few more sculpey couples (i really need to come up with a better name for these things) as well as some more sketches from the sketchbook.
this saturday i'll be participating in Procrastinators Craft Bazaar at the M-Room on Girard and the sculpey couples that don't sell there will all end up on my etsy (www.themapleridge.etsy.com).

some sketchbook pages from yesterday

Standard Tap

So the Standard Tap show yesterday was pretty fun. I had some new drawings and new figures. I made 6 couples that i think turned out pretty nice, particularly the guy with the shotgun!
I'll be participating in another Positive Spaces show called "Procrastinator's Holiday Bazaar 2" at the M-Room at 15 W. Girard Ave. here in Philadelphia on Saturday December 20th from 11:30am to 5pm. You can check out Positive Spaces website at www.positivespace.net to see what they're keeping themselves busy with.
I Also may be doing a show on Saturday the 13th, but I'm not sure yet. I'll post it if I am.
until then...

Indie Market

and so...
Last weekend was a great time. I participated in the Indie Market in Rochester, NY put on by the fine people of Second Storie (http://www.secondstorie.net/). I met a ton of great people there. If you go to the Second Storie site and click "vendors" you can check them all out. I highly recommend it. Go! Go now! Get to the Choppuh!!
So i've dropped in some photos on the show...well, my booth and what I was selling. (shaaaaameleeeeeeess).
I have another show this weekend at the Standard Tap (901 N. 2nd Street in Philadelphia). I'm looking forward to it especially since I busted by butt this week trying to replenish my stock. well, that and I since it's at the Standard Tap I can grab a pint while I sell. I'll post pictures of that show afterwards.

BEAST MASTER

so i had hubcap out front wednesday night to deuce it up and i looked across the street and thought i saw a possum walking along in the snow. i got a little freaked because it was light out and that would most likely mean the thing had a few too many rabies sandwiches and i'd have to call animal control. but when i looked closely it was just a big white ferret. odd. it went into the garage across the street from my house. i called up the pet store two blocks away and asked if anybody had reported a missing ferret and she said yeah, a big white one. the thing had been missing since friday morning and here it is late wednesday evening. so i get the owner's name and number and then go over and find the little guy in the garage with the help of one of the people that rents the house across the street. we found him no problem and luckily i still have a big ferret cage at the house so put him in. hubcap was on edge something fierce. i gave the owner a call twice, but had to get to work at 9:30 so he called me back thursday morning and was able to pick him up that evening. he was really happy to have his ferret back--it's one of 5 he has. gave me 50 bucks for rescuing the little guy. i tried to refuse, but he told me he'd just come back over the weekend and stick it in the mailbox. the ferret's name was ivan. i think Commander Snausage would've been a better name.

MOOSTACHE'!

so those were just 4 of the 87 pictures i took of myself while slowly shaving off my big beard. i love taking offle pictures of myself like that. sarah can't stand it, but she looked through them all anyway and laughed quite a bit. it's amazing how creeping a soul patch/mustache combo can really be. i almost can't wait to grow the beard back so i can do it all over again.

new drawing about ICE-CREAM

grilling last sunday

last week was rough even though i had it off from school. i got pooped on twice in the same day. once at work (oh yeah, i work in a group home for the handicapped--dude pooped in my hand and smiled at me) and then once when i was outside the laundromat by a bird. bird pooped right on my head. the last time i got pooped on the head by a bird was when i was like six or seven i think. i was walked down my street playing and a bird pooped right in my hair. luckily, this time i was wearing a had.
anyway, the rest of the week was tough, but the weather got nice on the weekend. a friend of ours (sarah and mine) had just come back from being in california for a month and since it was wintery cold for his arrival we decided to do some grilling on sunday and have people over to pretend it wasn't february in rochester. i stood out in the cold by myself most of the time. i kept asking for someone to come keep me company, but everyone was inside watching the first season of Arrested Development. on occasion i'd have some company. it was in the low 30's but after being out there long enough you'd start to feel it in your toes.
This week was really bad as one of the residents at work is dying. she's in the hospital and has been ever since wednesday morning when we had to call an ambulance and rush her off. that made the entire place miserable. i kept shifting from really sad and really angry all week. i can't do this line of work anymore. i used to work in a high functioning house and it was great because we'd go fishing and play basketball and throw horse-shoes and darts, or just sit around and watch movies and play monopoly, and no one was going to die.
the weather is on the way up again, though! thank god. by monday it's supposed to be around 45 degrees. i can't wait. when the weather is nice like that it's great to take hubcap to the dog-park so he can run around with other dogs and be silly. he loves it, too. he needs to work off some of his sitting-around-the-apartment-all-winter weight. as do we all!
it's time to go for now, but i'll post a picture of myself grilling last sunday once i'm done writing this. enjoy.