new niki sculptures at the cca

Last one, almost done...!

New Niki de Saint Phalle sculptures at the California Center for the Arts, installed this month. Gorgeous color and texture, so fun. Come play! Read more here.

cyber monday

french toy loom, playskool beads, vintage book, Raymor xmas tree, girard placemats on eBay now.

gratitude, a lot!!!

(That's the tooth by the way, tmi, but it is so ridiculously small and square! Now I finally get why mothers do gross things like save baby teeth.)

oh so FRUSTRATED

segundas

The latest growth industry in town are segundas, or second-hand shops. Within the last year, when other businesses have shuttered, they have sprung up like mushrooms. Unlike the Goodwill or 99-Cent Store these shops are all home grown and as individual as the hand-painted signs that show out front.

Dollar Saver 2nd Hand Thrift Store

Lupe's Treasures

Mi Segundita

Angel's Thrift Store "Segunda"

Needful Things

Thrifty Store Belem's

told and cut in linoleum

Dick Whittington and His Cat, by Marcia Brown. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.

Although the artists are not connected, and the work is separated by some 50+ years, the instant I saw this I flashed on Nikki McClure, another artist I like, who also draws with knives.

the complete encyclopedia of stitchery

The Complete Encyclopedia of Stitchery, by Mildred Graves Ryan, illustrated by Marta cone. Doubleday, 1979.

There are hundreds more.

headphones, blue brains, and me

pattern combo of the morning: study in contrast

Space-age meets flowers, hand-me-down meets new, casual meets fancy, pjs meet daywear. It worked, and out the door she went.

campo train

Campo. It's in the middle of nowhere. An old train will take you even further out, and back again.

On the other side of the tunnel is Tecate, Mexico. You approach, stop on the bridge, and then silently go back the way you came.

Tall, long, brown border fence.

http://www.sdrm.org/

campo house