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BLING

The girls at BLING in Chicago have been hard at work and are selling jewelry for Christmas this year!

some littlethings

Some good friends of mine have started a project called littlethings: www.somelittlethings.org

"Littlethings works toward bringing inspiration, opportunities, and empowerment to young women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Littlethings is an entirely grassroots-funded non-profit started by Sarah Thontwa in 2007, founded on the notion that every person has a little thing to give , and that if we each do our part, we can make positive change in the world. Sarah's particular vision is for her home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. She started her work in helping other young women in the DR Congo through making simple necklaces and earrings in her dorm room while she was still an undergraduate student in Chicago, IL. Sarah's jewelry project slowly grew to include other like-minded young women, and we started holding jewelry parties and inviting more people to share their little things through jewelry making." (text from littlethings website)

installation idea

an installation idea for my show at the art center in january. thoughts?

the fifth metatarsal is broken

News from my life is that I broke my foot 2 weeks ago at the Art Center, navigating the gallery in the dark, before I was awake, while they were putting up a new show. I stepped on a broom handle (without the broom part) and fell down. Resulting in 2 breaks in the fifth metatarsal, apparently the worst possible place to break your foot. SO I am teaching on crutches/in a wheelchair and living with a big ass boot on my foot.

Little known fact is that not all of the elementary schools in Jamestown are handicap accessible resulting in me teaching classes in interesting places such as a storage closet.

Right now I'm just trying to stay on top of my life and heal. It's a lot of work and I am very tired.

blog action day

I used to believe in global warming. Then I moved to North Dakota. In the last 6 days, it has snowed 4 of them. Last night Anders and I made a SNOWMAN in the park.

I also don't really understand how blogging about climate change will change the climate.

this is a new collage mixed media piece i have been working on when it's not snowing so much.