Urban Burp SF

I bought a groupon on a whim: $40 for $20 worth of vintage fabric at Urban Burp. I had never been so I hopped on Bart & braved the wind & rain.

This was the building across the street. Reminds me of Paris or something.

I found the shop hidden behind a salon, which I later learned was Urban Burp's husband's salon. He bought the space, and they agreed to create a partition splitting the space so walla! You have the best curated fabric store I've ever been to :)

They specialize in 20s-70s fabrics. They have a whole section for vintage cowboys! I did find some nostalgic prints like carebears & fabric my mom used for Christmas table runners when I was a kid. An hour later with a significantly lighter wallet (beautiful but pricey fabrics oh boy), I walked away with these gems:

Not sure what I'll do with them yet. Perhaps a special vintage fabric line or something. Who knows. I'm content just staring at them :)

Thundercats Are Goooooooo!!

Looks like I'll be illustrating a children's book. Woo!

Ok, that is all.

:)

64

...is the number of plush I currently have. BAM! Magic! The goal is 75 for the summer craft fairs. Picture of my overflowing plush trunk soon to follow.

Yay I can post this now!

the gift has been given so i won't be ruining any surprises.

a custom order for rohin :)

Another dumb retail experience

So I went to Michael's to stock up on polyfil and watercolor paper. They have weekly 40% off coupons in the newspaper ads & online. Usually I just 'em my phone with the coupon pulled up and that works just fine. So today I went to Michael's with my sister with an expired coupon to see if their eyes would glaze over the date and a current coupon.

Cashier: Um, this has expired.

Me: Okay, let me pull one up on my phone.

Cashier: We don't accept those.

Me: Yes. I've done it before.

Cashier: Not at this Michael's.

Me: Sooo... now at this Michael's you want me to waste paper and print out a coupon?

Cashier: (beat) Yes.

So I just get one item using the good coupon.

Cashier, waving the expired coupon: Do you still want this?

Me: Do I still want an expired coupon?.... that you didn't let me use...?

She kind of grumbled, the people behind me laughed and I walked away shaking my head at how dumb some people are. Ha.

I'll just go back tomorrow with a fresh Sunday coupon for the polyfil. I refuse to print coupons that I can just pull up using my phone. So wasteful!

Oldies but goodies

I was sifting through my old sketchbooks and found this one. Now you know where the banner art came from. I was volunteering in a kindergarten class in Thailand and the kids borrowed my sketchbook to write the Thai alphabet & the days of the week in English :) . I can't believe that was more than a year ago. Oh brother I miss traveling, says the girl who was in Hong Kong less than two months ago.

Then I found this in an old new york sketchbook:

can you spot the sketches that later became the paintings below? :)

Rawr! card

for moments when only a hearty 'rawr!' needs to be said.

now on etsy!