coming out of hibernation

SO here I am back at the apple farm not as a seasonal migrant worker but as a full time year round apple tree caretaker. We are finishing up our season of pruning the dormant trees. I have moved into the bunkhouse and have made it my home.

I set up a sewing table in one corner and a printing table in the other corner. I am offically all ready to start helping whiskeydog come out of her hibernation.

Thanks to my ever inspiring ever motivating pal tracy who last weekend brought me all kinds of t shirts to print, I have a good supply of read to be printed apparel. Not to mention all the amazing slips and bloomers I have been finding at the thrift shop down the street.

I started messing around with linoleum block printing instead of silkscreening. It takes so less supplies and its what I had, and well i LOVE it!! I do miss my silk screens but im going to ask my mom to send them up to me. I have found a whole new love and appreciation for birds so my main focus on the linoleum is cutting out birds, all the birds i see everyday in the orchards and out my window.

So to go along with the linoleum block printing I am not only going to print them on clothing, but I intend on making postcards and stationary as well.

Along with those bright ideas I plan on making a good stock of spats,maxi pads, feather accessories and custom rubber stamps!!!

so everyone cross your fingers and give me some words of encouragement every now and again and remind me how much i love to do this and why the hell am i just sitting around!!

New creations!!!

Just got alot of fun packages in the mail of new supplies for my new crafts I am about to pick up. I got all sorts of sizes of linoleum blocks to cut and start printing with those instead of silkscreening. My first one is coming out pretty darn well so far, its of a south american maned wolf.. You will see how wonderful he is when he is finished.

Also I cut out a pattern that I will start sewing tomorrow for my flannel washable maxi pads, got all my fun printed fabrics in the mail and will start putting them together tomorrow.

I have 2 more clips to photograph and a dress as well... Hopefully by the end of this week I will have posted all kinds of new goodies on the site and whiskeydog can take off again!!

Keep watch and I will be posting photos of the process of both new projects!

Feather Hair Clips are back!

Made a few clips and posted them.. Will be posting more today sometime.

Update!

Howdy there everyone! So I haven't written in sometime, I got back from the apple harvest beginning of November and settled for the time being in Asheville NC, Jareds got a buncha pals here and we have settled in purty well so far. I have started my crafts again, I dont have any of my silkscreening supplies so I am making due with alot of feather pallets and wood burning. I ordered some linoleum blocks and I will start doing my prints from these blocks! I am excited to try this out, the prints will be a whole different story!

We are heading back to New Hampshire in January to do winter apple tree pruning.. Basically walking around in the freezing cold with sticks with chainsaws atop of them.... I plan on doing alot of crafting while I am there also, seeming how jared and I will be the only ones there this time around in that big ole scarey house.

Anyway this week I plan on posting a few new feather pallets and head gear, a dress, stockings, and maybe some wood burnings.. So I know I have been out of commission for awhile but Im back and here to stay!!!!

In New Hampshire.

In new hapshire doing an apple harvest. We drove our little 86 tercel that jared put back together up and over the mountains into new england. We have been here for a couple weeks now and finally getting the hang of living in a tent in the woods and waking up at the break of dawn and picking apples till dusk 6 days a week. Everyday I strive to do better and pick better apples, I may not be the fastest picker but I am definitely the reddest picker. I will be posting photos of the bunk house and the orchards and of us with our buckets 50 lbs heavy with apples and shit eatting grins on our faces.

WhiskeyDog is on hold until the end of harvest(the end of October). I got the bunkhouse a sewing machine at the flea market and brought my hot glue gun, wood burning tool, felt, and feathers so hopefully a few projects will come out of my time here but pretty much other than work all i can do is sleep..


Updates will be posted.

Postal Bike for Sale!

Aug 16th photoshoot items posted on etsy!

Really fun shoot this weekend, Got pictures of at least 20 items and posted them on the etsy site. The photos came out real great and the girls did a wonderful job.. I hope to do one more before i leave town! Pictures will be posted real soon.