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find these custom cowl neck scarves on my etsy site

jadeite wear

an interesting hypothesis

beeeaaaads

birds and noise

this will be my first attempt at uploading a video that i made last summer.

bike!

after quite a few months, ive finally gotten my act together and asked for some help to put the back wheel on my bike. seems simple, but that back chain got so tangled, it was unreal. i would get a headache just looking at it. but here it is, in all its functional glory - the antique blue bike. sans fenders and basket or course, as i am removing the rust on those and re-spraying them with rust paint, just to send myself over the edge in admiration.
whilst my bike was in pieces, i have been thinking of ways to put a design on the bike. at first, i imaged using a type of flimsy acetate and spray adhesive to create a type of stencil that i could stick on the bike and spray bomb over. then i found a lovely tutorial on the internet that showed how to create a stencil from tape. i figure, if i can purchase a wider-variety of packing tape, and use an exacto knife to cut out the intricate design that i want, that this might be the most plausible solution.
but of course, i should have mentioned that i want to stencil a lace pattern...and that might be easier said than done.

makin' a blanket.

I've begun my very first starblanket, and while I have been pretty successful - I've already run into my share of problems. Here are some images of the in-progress blanket:


Having no pattern to go by, this has been a project of guesswork and make-shift-mathematics. After some quick sketches I decided to go ahead by creating each of the 8 points of the star in long strip rows. AND, I very quickly realized that despite my efforts to move quicker than a snails pace, you probably should measure each small diamond about three times as you are sewing it to ensure the correct placement and alignment when the entire thing gets put together. There really isn't a lot of information specifically about sewing these types of blankets online, and so I will try to post more info as I work through problems when they arise. For now my only suggestion to any prospective starblanket quilter would be to measure, measure, measure!

some last minute holiday shopping needs anyone?

here they are: a few lovely scarves made for holiday orders for lovely folk just like you! i am still available (for a limited first few people) for all holiday needs knit-clay. yay



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fun with texture

another idea for gifts this year, also available at blue earth organics on portage avenue, as well as on my etsy site as found below. chequebook covers and craft cases!!

in celebration of the upcoming holiday season, here is a small sample of things that i have been working on. if you are interested, please find the link below to my etsy site where most of these goods are for sale. otherwise, they are also available at blue earth organics on portage avenue, should you be located in the city of winnipeg. this is a beautiful store which sells local produce, organic and naturally made body products, as well as a few of my things! please check them out - great local business.

beason

in an attempt to come up with a design that can be used to market my work as a package deal, i have come up with some new layouts and designs for my website, and for my etsy shop (shown below). this is the avatar i came up with goes with the header i came up with, all along the same "beason" theme.

etsy...

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade suzannemorrissette.etsy.com

As a part of a Professional Practices project, I have recently been busy collecting and building for a photo documentation session. The following are images from this project. Please note the lovely new wall that my father and I built for this purpose!

beason

this is the template for some stamps that i need to get made for my ceramics and general etsy store stampage.

nceca

Some openings in Pittsburgh were a bust, but this show - opening for a masters program in the states - was particularly interesting.

land and land documentation

The following are a collection of some images that I have been hoarding in a folder on my computer. These images relate to the land around the Interlake region in Manitoba and the documentation of it's ownership over history.

www.suzannemorrissette.com

These are some images that I have recently put together to organize my website: www.suzannemorrissette.com .
I am trying out a new layout that relies much less on text than I had previously used in hopes to distance my work from being one thing or another. This way ceramic work can also functions as installation work but be organized under the same image designation. Whether this becomes confusing for viewers is interesting, and I would prefer this to something simply didactic. All and all, this site needed some big time changes, and I am experimenting with formats to display art. A bit of a curatorial project, so to speak...