december view : dec 28.10
i've been trying to walk to &from work
when the weather is good.
mostly boring views, but a small good spot of graffiti
probably the last one of the year
off to texas in 1.5 days! yay!

december view : dec 23.10
off to the city before the Weather comes!
happy hollyDaze, one&all!

december view : dec 22.10
they finally put a pencil drawer under my new desk
but it was too late
i had already brought cans from home

december view : dec 20.10

december view : dec 19.10
some color for yet another gray day

december view : dec 17.10

it has been so frigging dreary here. and COLD (which i don't really mind). and sometimes windy (which i do, a little). so i haven't been wandering at all, even though i am going crazy wanting to make pictures with my iPod Touch and all those damnFun little photo apps. today was sewing day, so i had to do that first, recycling two ugly dresses into skirts and fixing one skirt that was too long. i still have to sew some new buttons (rhinestones!) on to the "fur coat" that the poet bought me for xmas from our favorite thrift shop last weekend and fix the collar on my favorite trashedout denim jacket. and i fixed my newest overalls, that were too long and are sooooo stiff. now i will try to start breaking them in. then i took the girls' little gifties to the post office and crossed my fingers that Bad People won't steal them if they don't fit in their inadequate apartment mailboxes. then i decided to drive around in the alleys on the east side and do some driveby shooting, so i did. it was good. now i am having some red wine and outside is the same color it was when i woke this morning and has been ALL DAY, it seems like forever. i have almost lost my sunglasses. i feel pretty happy lately. for no special reason, just because. that's good!

december view : dec 16.10

december view : dec 13.10

december view : dec 12.10

ironDog, brassElephant & uplandSandpiper feathers
december view : dec 09.10

december view : dec 08.10

photograph by annie leibovitz, december 8. 1980

december view : dec 06.10

sitting place

and now i am finally sitting here. after tearing apart my home all weekend, trying to make it better, more functional, more like ME. finally, after over a year, i think i got it. i quit trying to decorate for a life i don't have. now my space (a huge room with a soaring ceiling over a 3-bay garage) is mostly studio (and bookshelves). instead of having a tiny and timid, restrictive studio stuffed away in a corner, i now have a tiny, cozy, dear sitting area there. i moved the barrier to my sleeping nest (you can't see, but it is behind that bit of screen), which feels a little strange, but i think i will like it.

all weekend i have shuffled my STUFF, sometimes back and forth like a madwoman. the studio was the hardest, and ideally i would have bigger tables, but i made it work. besides, faerie lights make everything better. and incense. and that little cute cupboard i found in the alley for my paints. i wanted to make more pictures, but it became dark so quickly. so maybe more tomorrow. now i am going to sit in my new space and drink this glass of wine and write in my story and be GLAD that i don't have to drag any more crap around and that i can do fun stuff tomorrow like laundry and playing with my iPod touch!! yeah!

a walk on the northside today.
before i started tearing up my house and wishing i hadn't.

onward.

hanky on the table
bygod would you look at that little hipstamatic TTV?

so in October i did my own October project.
that was good.

then in November, i did this:
also, really good - and i'm still working on it, since i consider Nano a jumpstart mostly.


now for December, i think i will do this:

and i'll start with this, since i was a greedy piggy and could NOT wait until christmas for my own little present. i have been really really good about new toys and new boots and everything, it was time to cut loose a little, so i acquired that little iPod Touch i have been longing for since they finally made one with a camera. it is SO MUCH FUN!

my first hipstamatic (tm)