Yesterday amidst rocket fire, I went out back to play in my spray book. While all of Los Angeles put on their party pants, encircled my house, and launched their BIG BOOMING fireworks, I secured the cat posse indoors, inserted my ear plugs, took 9 nerve pills and sprayed away.
Somewhere in the midst of the KERPOW! and BOOM! I finished this:
my travel journal! I posted about the insides HERE.
the whole enchilada:
And then from the dark recesses of my primitive art brain an idea started making it's way down my neural pathways.
Not a regular idea. A BIG idea. So I made all of these:
Today I'm working on the rest of the story. Muchachos who've been wondering when I'm going to stop loungeing like a big old reptile and get going on Stencilry 2. Well... Stay tuned! And..um.. get your sewing machines tuned up. Think: kooky stenciled sewn graffiti-esqe chapbook on crack.
The VERY limited glimpses of your new travel journal are both frustrating and seductive. I do declare, Miss Moss, you are such a tease! :)
Posted by: susan crane | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Holy Wow LA Girl! Your journal looks awesome. It's definitely going to enhance your journey. Anxiously awaiting Stencilry II, even tho I'm still lolly-gagging my way through Stencilry I.
Posted by: Linda | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 12:14 PM
susan dahling, however did you know that all my past boyfriends have referred to me as SEDUCTIVE & FRUSTRATING???
i added another pic just especially for you.
Posted by: mary ann | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 01:00 PM
Everything about this blog makes my toes curl under with joy.
Posted by: judy wise | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 02:42 PM
Yum...that's the only word I can think of...YUM! You must share with us how you did this...Please, Miss Moss, pretty please?
Posted by: Dawn Sokol | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 02:58 PM
This journal is awesome! I can't wait to see it after the travel part! You are inspiring me to get out the sewing machine to use it more often! Can't wait for S2!!!
Posted by: Roben-Marie Smith | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 05:52 PM
Oh dear. The dreaded sewing machine, that hides in my closet. Can we do hand sewing?
Posted by: anna maria | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 07:33 PM
A+ Teacher! That journal, as someone said before me, is seductive and frustrating. I WANT TO TOUCH IT. Open it!
Also, what is a chapbook?
Digging out my sewing machine....
Posted by: Tara Finlay | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 07:50 PM
Your travel journal is amazing! I can't wait to see how you use it on your trip. And I am patiently waiting for Stencilry 2, and hoping we make something half as cool as that journal. Excited to mix the sewing machine in with the stencils and paints!
Posted by: Jessica Herman Goodson | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 08:39 PM
My sewing machine is buried in the attic but if I can do stuff like this then I'm digging it out right now! I love your travel journal and the new pages are awesome....but what the heck is a chapbook??
Posted by: Janet | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 08:55 PM
cute people,
chapbooks are little self-published books mostly of poetry, but other kinds of writing too - fiction etc., they originated in the 16th century. here's the official definition of chapbook from Encyclopedia Britanica:
"small, inexpensive stitched tract formerly sold by itinerant dealers, or chapmen, in western Europe and in North America. Most chapbooks were 5 1/2 by 4 1/4 inches (14 by 11 cm) in size and were made up of four pages (or multiples of four), illustrated with woodcuts. They contained tales of popular heroes, legend and folklore, jests, reports of notorious crimes, ballads, almanacs, nursery rhymes
, school lessons, farces, biblical tales, dream lore, and other popular matter. The texts were mostly crude and anonymous, but they formed the major part of secular reading and now serve as a guide to the manners and morals of their times."
Here is a good link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/02/theneedforchapbooks
my travel journal is really too big to be a chapbook, but i just finished making one that i'll be debuting tomorrow..or the next day.
Posted by: mary ann | Sunday, July 05, 2009 at 09:17 PM
man oh man... who among us level 1ers can resist kooky stenciled sewn graffiti-esqe chapbook on crack???
xo
Posted by: lynne | Monday, July 06, 2009 at 12:11 AM
gosh these i love!! the travel book looks fabulous really i love the colors!!!
Posted by: shawn | Monday, July 06, 2009 at 04:17 AM
well fine, if you are going to make chap books on crack instead of working on MY yellow travel journal then I will be forced to make my own yellow travel journal that will positively ooze "come hither" glances rendering us irresistable to the entire population of lisboa.
Posted by: sister! | Monday, July 06, 2009 at 07:15 AM
and so, what is the size of your travel journal chap? - if not chapbook maybe a CHOMPbook since it be bigger.
That drying rack shot looks like fireworks captured on paper - exuberant, colorful, and irresistible (just like their mom)
Posted by: susan w | Monday, July 06, 2009 at 07:58 AM
fabulous!
Posted by: jessica loughrey | Monday, July 06, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Your travel journal is a trip iteself!! Fantastic!
Posted by: Seth | Monday, July 06, 2009 at 09:02 PM
A new travel journal- the anticipation of a trip- what a gorgeous one to take with you.
Posted by: Paula McNamee | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 at 08:30 AM
Gorgeous travel journal. I love love love red, turquoise and chartreuse together! Are all those things on the white rack done on file folders? Is your sewing machine an industrial model, that book looks pretty thick to stitch through. I don't think my Hello Kitty machine can handle too much. My Singer is buried under "stuff".
And does sister have a blog we can look at?
Posted by: barbara | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 at 02:18 PM
HERMOSO, DELICIOSO Y TODOS LOS OSOS EN LA FAZ DE LA TIERRA........ERES UNA INSPIRACION.
Posted by: LUCIOUS MAXIMUS | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 at 05:32 PM