viva la mexico

hola mi amigas y amigos! i am headed to Mexico!! Today marks the 28 day count down and then i shall set sail along the Mexican Riviera with my long time travel companion and friend Amber.

why?

well....we are both turning 30 this year and many years ago had made a pact to travel somewhere for the big 3-0 if we were still in fact friends. i am happy to say that we are and now we get to see this teenage day dream come true. although the funny part is that we always said something along the lines of france or a villa in tuscany. i suppose we thought being 30 meant having money! ha! well thanks to some good fortune and a persistent pal, we are taking a cruise to Mexico on the cheap cheap cheap. otherwise we'd still be dreaming.

so i am inspired to do an art project for this journey. off the top of my head i hope to do a drawing a day type of thing. knowing that i am often intuitive and spontaneous with any creative endeavor, i will only promise to pack some art supplies and go with whatever comes to me. of course, i will report back with details and photographs!

in other news i have been a busy little bee, building web sites, making tons of brooches, experimenting with my knitting loom and cross-stitch, and i finally have some sort of logo up for minnow and the bee. the business cards are lagging...it's quite difficult to decide on a few components and i may just put the whole thing on hold for a while since business is good right now.

keep on keeping on little bees...spring is here and summer is in the air! xo

projects ahoy!

dear curious bees,
i am taking on loads of projects as usual. hence the reason i am the bee, as in 'busy as a bee'. i am constantly working. thinking. writing. researching. it is curious that i should be so concerned with not making art when in fact, that is all i do. just not the kind of art that constitutes a body of work in the formal sense. my life is art. i do not need to be a painter to be an artist.
anywho-
here are a few things i have been up to my bees knees in:
-building a new web site for my main client and hopefully building a web site for a new client, another artist in the Bay Area.
-polishing up a slick portfolio and wardrobe for my dearest husband who is off to LA next week to promote his talented self to the College Art Association
-sewing undies out of old message tees (i just made my very first pair last night out of an old 'aqua teen hunger force t-shirt'...i find the text at the top which says, "they are going to eat you!" to be very appropriate for wedgies...)
-signing up for a new blog and etsy site with my friend Ashley who have dubbed ourselves "Minnow and the Bee" the etsy site is coming soon-ish...
-making brooch designs which need to be made for the etsy store
-designing a logo for minnow and the bee
-designing business cards for curious bee designs (which would be all of this minus the etsy store-the web stuff, the art studio assistant work, the freelance curatorial design work, post card imaging, artwork, etc.etc.etc. whew! i am exhausted just typing about it!)

well world...i am just to damn curious to stop doing any of this. i look forward to the day when i have my various talents are tucked neatly under one umbrella. until then i will continue to do everything art related to gain experience and pay the bills.
so there.