IF: Wide

Marcy loved Mr. Match's wide shoulders. . . She knew dating him would be fun.



A wee little plush I made from my own pattern back in the early spring.

Wearable Evil Cupcakes/Or What I Did Last Weekend

It all started with this Eeeevveeeel Cupcake

I made it as an illustration back when I thought I wanted to be an illustrator full-time. It has been kicking around in my head for a bit.

I've been making shrinky dink badges and buttons for the upcoming MondoHomo show in Atlanta on May 24th. So, last weekend it suddenly occurred to me: "EVIL CUPCAKES BROOCHES." It had to be.

First I made a smaller photoshop image of just the evil cupcake. Then, I printed it out and jetted off to Kinkos with some grafix shrink film (shrinky dink paper you can buy in bulk). After a few trials I ran several copies on the clear matte shrink film (it worked the best for me). Since shrink film doesn't begin to shrink until about 300 degrees F I figured it would be okay in a color copier. This is not necessarily true. One copier handled the film fine, and the other one was left profoundly unhappy about its experience with shrink film. . .So, uh, ask ahead.

I cut out the cupcakes prior to heating.

I placed them on a cookie sheet lined with cardstock

I put them in the oven until they shrank and turned flat again (about 2-3 mins at 300 degrees F).

Shrunk cupcakes.

All of my wee shrunk plastic pieces

Last, simply epoxy a silver pin to the back of the plastic and you are good to go!

Feminist Crafting

Happy Wednesday

Go and hear the word on some amazing new feminist craft! I am being featured on the Mentortainment blog today: http://www.mentortainmenttv.com/ The posting talks about my upcoming art series. Please go and check it out.

About Mentortainment: MentortainmentTV.com provides young women who want to put their careers on the fast track with the latest, the greatest and pop-culture candy to boot!! Dedicated to empowering, educating and entertaining and not afraid to "go there". This social enterprise is mentor-driven guidance blended with snappy video clips, short films and loads of beauty advice. It is the first and only portal/vlog of it's kind.

Be A Doll in My New Series!

Want to be immortalized in art? Submit yourself to be a part of my stitched doll series -see the post below for more information about it.

I am creating a series of dolls that focus on the inherent beauty of all.

The purpose of the series is to subvert the typical concept of "beauty" by using a traditional feminine housewifery type of skill to create modern depictions of of everyone's beauty.

I'm looking for all types of women, hetero and homo ladies, womyn, lesbians, bois, butches, transmen, drag queens, queers, and femmes to be a part of my series. I want to celebrate the beauty I see in women everyday.

To submit yourself:

1. send a full length, or mostly full length picture of how you like to be perceived to artful.artsy.amy@gmail.com. You do not have to be nude in this photograph, but please do be dressed so that I can ballpark your body type: tall, short, medium, curvy, boyish etc. etc. Your clothing does not have to be tight for me to judge this. Your picture will be kept anonymous.

2. Write a brief paragraph stating how you want the world to see you; please fee free to include any information about how the world does perceive you if you feel this will help relate your story. These paragraphs may used as a part of the doll's description.

3. Submit an alias for your doll to be named.

You will be notified within one-two days if you are to be a part of the doll series. All accepted entrants for the doll series will be sent a free angry cupcake button from my etsy store. :) Your identity will remain totally anonymous.

Please note that you will not retain any legal rights to the paragraph you send me, or to the doll created from the information you send.

And, just to be fair. . .here I am:



And, more dolls in progress:

Lovely Ladies!

You know when I was a kid I recall passionately hating dolls. I was known for it. Which, you know, was rather sad. I was the first girl in two generations on my father's side and, as such, I got A LOT of dolls. I remember I would strip their wee clothing off and leave them naked on the floor all alone. As if it were a puzzle, their clothing was all that was interesting to me.

I couldn't stand to have dolls in my room because their glassine eyes would stare at me creepily. And, do you remember those life-like baby dolls? My sister had at least two and those things scared me more than dark. . .Which, for then, was saying something.

I suppose it would seem that there is a sort of humor in my creating dolls now. As in, "wow, what a massive change!" But, I can't say that I really have changed that much. I still don't like glassy eyed dolls. They still give me the heebie-jeebies. And, well, I do prefer naked dolls ever so much more to the clothed.

Which is why I am now making these:


I know! My wife calls them "dirty dolls."

I really like making them. The theme is the beauty I see in women I know. Especially amoung queer women. I find that unless you identify as a femme, often, in queer-land, your inherent beauty is not celebrated. Sure, you may be "hot," but your natural grace, being, spirit, what-have-you is rarley recognized. I saw making these as an outlet to celebrate women I know.

Oh, and on a more humorous note. . .Does it not tewtally look like my pincushion is shocked at nudity?!

Blog Love from Feministing!

The amazing activist ladies over at Feministing have posted a wee bit of blog love about my recent Feminsim Loves You brooch. Wow. What an honor to be noticed by such incredible ladies.

You really must check it out!

Atlanta Craft Mafia

I'm a proud new member of the Atlanta Craft Mafia, a branch of the wider Craft Mafia family. It's kinda exciting because you have to submit artwork for approval to "accepted." So, instead of focusing on the stuff in my work that I don't like, find amateurish, or whatever, I'm trying to enjoy something good. I promise, I'm really trying.

The mavens over at Atlanta Craft Mafia are amazing, and I highly recommend checking them out.

Yay for crafty networking!