Random Thoughts on Top Pot Doughnuts, The Charm Bracelet, and General Kvetching about Moving

Am currently hiding on the top floor of Top Pot Doughnuts and experiencing the ephemeral quality of bliss. Drinking a 12-oz Americano and noshing a plain cake donut. All this bliss for only $3.00? Ah, the perfections of simplicity. By day am working nonstop on spring collection–reading, reading, reading, designing, designing, designing. By night am [...]

The Secret Life of Recycled Jewelry Beads

Lacquered coffee beads, originally uploaded by alexispl.
It started last summer. I was eating a muffin and I noticed how sticky it was. I have a theory that anything that is or can be made sticky can be made into a bead. (I love beadmaking). So, I smashed the muffin into a tiny bead.
I [...]

On Hiatus

The Love Kill Monster Studios are relocating to an exciting new space, and I am preparing for 2008 exhibits, so I will be on hiatus, and I will not be posting any new blog posts until March 2008. Until then, best wishes for an artful and joyous life experience.

Art Review: Jewelry Artist Nick Cave

Ferklempt would be the word to describe my unusual inability to articulate my reaction to a work of art. Yet ferklempt I am after examining the work of jewelry artist Nick Cave whose Sound Suits adorn the recent edition of Ornament Magazine. Whenever I read a book or article about art, I first look at [...]

T.R.U.E. Inspiration Courtesy of Cheryl Mendelson

Having finished Cheryl Mendelson’s Anything for Jane, my appetite was whetted for more, especially since I discovered that the book was part of a trilogy, which I was reading out of order. I read the first book in the trilogy, Morningside Heights then went to the third book, Anything for Jane, and I [...]

A Day of Self-Doubt and Velvet Foam

One of the places I like to hide in the city is this quirky coffee house in Belltown where, today, a guy named Ryan gave me the Best! Venti! Soy! Caffe Viennese! Ever! (I didn’t sleep well last night, so I’m a little punchy). This coffee house, Uptown Espresso, is known as the “Home of [...]