Ok, this is the final update for today, I promise! I just finished putting some new things in the shop, and here they are:
Add comment | July 21st, 2008
Last Friday (right before leaving for camping!) I went blueberry picking with Ariel, Aron, and my new friends, Julianna and Rebecca. We had breakfast at Junior’s before driving out to this awesome blueberry patch, every row was a different variety! I bought 11 lbs of organic berries and they were only $16. Pretty amazing! The blueberry patch is called Sweet Home Blues, if anyone from Oregon wants to look them up.
Everyone’s berries together at the end.
I made muffins right away to take on the camping trip.
I also did a bit of work on my BILLUMINATI project, working on Billy Corgan right now! So funny.
After berry picking, Ariel and I went thrifting and I bought a few things, like this Morton Salt Girl mug!
These were purchased from an estate sale for $1 each. I think they are so pretty!
Add comment | July 21st, 2008
This past weekend we were invited to go camping by our friend Judah. His landlords own property out in Eastern Oregon on the Klickitat River, and it is really, really amazing. We were out there with five others and we had such a great time. It was perfect weather, we had a perfect swimming hole, great food, a wonderful hike, I saw a deer, no one was bit by a rattlesnake (although we came across two), and we had relaxing naps and lots of beer.
We discovered some deer bones in the forest.
Roasting veggies in the fire.
Eating snacks.
View from the mountain. There was a forest fire in the distance, you can see the smoke rising up by Mt. Adams.
There were strange things on the property.
Beautiful and perfect swimming hole.
Tent morning.
Smores!! Yes, there is chocolate in there too.
River drinking.
1 comment | July 21st, 2008
I just bought a pair of shoes!
1 comment | July 15th, 2008
Hello, readers! I think it’s high time that I ask you to fill out this little survey about yourselves. I’d love to know more about the people who read this blog, and while I know some of the answers already from your own blogs, it’s fun to read survey responses. I hope you’ll take a minute to fill it out!
1. What is your name?
2. How old are you?
3. Where do you live, what do you live in, and do you like it?
4. What do you do for a job?
5. What would you do with your time in an ideal world where earning money wasn’t the top priority?
6. Do you make anything?
7. What is your favorite food?
8. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose?
9. Ask me a question about anything.
10. Show me a picture of yourself.
11. Show me a picture of something that you think is awesome.
4 comments | July 14th, 2008
Hello hello! I had a fun morning thrifting today, found some very cute things. This time I actually found a few things to keep for myself, which is rare. Having an etsy shop makes me pretty selective with what I keep, because if I keep everything then I can’t make any money, but if I keep nothing then I regret sending away some items. This problem can’t be avoided! Today I found a super adorable romper that I am going to be wearing a lot this summer. I believe it is supposed to be worn as a swimsuit, but I’m going to wear it whenever I like. Rompers are so popular this year! This is the first one I’ve found that I think suits me, usually the fit isn’t quite right.
Such a great print! I love how bright and fun it is.
I also picked up this ridiculously cute yelpy dog. It’s a vintage mechanical plush, and while it doesn’t work anymore it can still do its trick!
Yelpy Dog from anja verdugo on Vimeo.
I also bought this big blank book, perfect for drawing! Pretty funny photo, too. The only other thing I bought for myself was a funny pair of pants, but I’m saving those for a w_r photo.
And now, a look at the new items in the shop!
Add comment | July 14th, 2008
The other day my friend Ariel invited me to go along with her and her boyfriend Aron to a one-a-month comics drawing night at their friends’ awesome 50’s themed house. Since it was pretty hot out we all gathered in their incredible tiki-themed basement to draw, drink some beers, and eat some snacks. Ariel and I made vegan chocolate cupcakes with delicious cherry goop inside that we made by pitting some fresh cherries, soaking them in sugar with a bit of cornstarch and cooking them on the burner until it became nice and thick. So delicious! It was fun to meet some local comics people, and they are all so good and serious about it! It felt like being initiated into a secret club or something, although the basement location definitely had a lot to do with that feeling.
This is what I drew:
2 comments | July 12th, 2008
Amy Earles is definitely one of my favorite modern-day artists. I really love everything she comes up with, the slightly dark fairy-tale feeling of her drawings are really perfect to me. One of her most recent flickr posts made me go, “oh!”, because I realized that I have a skirt that looks almost just like the one she drew.
Next week I will be more prepared and I am going to find a project to work on. I have several neat old knit/crochet books from the 30’s and 40’s and I’d like to try some of that stuff. Rhiannon recently posted about her own knitting talents, I was impressed! It’s a cool skill to have.
My best and most interesting yarn project ever was when I made a huge scarf with George Carlin’s seven dirty words on it. I made it for an Etsy Alchemy (the original version, a couple years ago) post that I spotted and thought was funny. It turned out that the scarf was for a segment on a show called “Attack of the Show” on the G4 network, they wanted to make crazy requests on etsy and see if they could find people to fulfill their wacky craft ideas. It was fun! It’s also the only time in my adult life that I have been on TV.
The finished scarf! The guy who originally posted the Alchemy request has since contacted me to say that he wears it a lot in the winter. I also asked them to send me a copy of the show since we didn’t get G4 on our TV, and here’s the segment that I am in! The funny thing is that we made a big deal about making sure they knew how to pronounce my name (ann-ya, not ON-ya on EN-ya), but there was some glitch when we encoded the video so it skips over my name. Cursed!
world famous wife from dalas verdugo on Vimeo.
The video was posted on dalas’ vimeo account, so if you feel like perusing his videos there are over 300 from our lives. Ultra documented people! I think about documentation a lot. I keep a lot of journals, take a lot of photos (although, they are mostly digital these days) and am starting to make videos as well. I think that my obsession with documentation started because I was jealous of friends who had tons of amazing old photos and treasures from their families. My immediate family doesn’t have much in the way of tangible “family history” type things, and it makes me sad because that stuff is so interesting. I know that when I am an old lady I will be able to show my grandkids or whoever lots of things from my life. Maybe they will be interested, maybe not. I also like having these items of documentation to help me remember. I know that my memory isn’t fantastic, so having reminders really helps me keep everything solid in my brain. Haha. I don’t remember as much from my childhood as I wish I did, but everything is much clearer from the point where I started keeping journals and things, and I like that.
Anyway, it’s so late already and I need to make some food! We have a ton of fava beans from our CSA share this week, they are so delicious.
Look at those delicious little green babies of tastiness.
I am listening to the She & Him album right now. I want to record a song. Have a nice weekend, everyone!
2 comments | July 11th, 2008
It is hot in Portland, and I am writing this entry on my fancy new Macbook! Well, it isn’t completely new since I chose a refurbished one, but dang, it’s nice. Everything just WORKS! I can actually listen to music on it, and have two programs open at once. This is a major treat, I love it! I also just completed a big shop update, take a look at the new (old) goods I have to offer:
and a couple things for me…
On the 4th of July I went mini-golfing with a big group of friends. It was really fun, and I love this photo of Lauren. She matched the course perfectly!
I am going to a comics-drawing night in a couple hours, so I need to get off the computer and get prepared. Sorry I haven’t been updating very much!
5 comments | July 9th, 2008
