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Oh man, I could officially be the last poster for thing-a-day this year. That’s either highly embarrassing or exciting. A little bit of both. Between being sick and visiting my friend in Chicago, I’ve been far behind with catching up on thing-a-day (I read them ALL and refuse to let me post my catch-up things until I’ve read them all). But, I finally finished reading them all this morning, and so my last few things…

Essentially, I bought this beautiful birdcage at target (I couldn’t resist) when I had come up with the idea to fill it with candles (including a bird one :p) and decorate it with fake flowers to give it a sort of beautiful natural wilderness look. I still am not sure if I’m done with it, I might add another flower at the top, etc… But we’ll see. I like it for now.

I guess I could reword and repost it here, but why don’t you just head over to my own blog and read my little re-cap and requiem for Thing-a-Day 2008. And you can find out what the hell this thing is:

Thanks for a great month, everyone!

Phew!

I had hoped to have this finished for this final day post.  However, the other things I did cut into the time spent on this project this month.  This is an afghan crocheted in a ‘filet’ or net form.  (if you look, you can see some of the colors in the lower layers peeking through the holes in the net looking like bad shadows in the picture).  The plan is to weave yarn through the net in the same black and red pattern as the horizontal to turn it into my family name’s tartan pattern.

All I was able to do today was to get the yellow cross weave in.

well, a work day in the life.

actual life got in the way and I couldn’t finish the full day.

http://sh1ft.org/adayinthelife/

this project, chronicling leap day, seemed like the perfect way to end thing-a-day

thanks for the fun!

It is a speaker. It acts as a microphone. It goes to an amplifier. It plays through another speaker. It hangs from the ceiling. Sometimes it makes wicked feedback.

Julius Caesar figures out that those extra hours have added up, and he reforms the Roman calendar by adding an extra day every four years.

Enter the leap year.

Fini TAD.

This is dated the 29th, but it is actually my thing for the 28th (it was just after midnight when I put the date in I guess). We get one more last one tomorrow.

i like russian poster style, and lately i’ve been wanting to draw a giant squid, because someone at work had a cool sweatshirt with some on it. but i opted for an octopus, and decided to mash it up with the russian poster thing. i’m not sure if the green takes away from the russian feeling, but i like the result anyway. long live the sharpie! i also like that octopusses have so many legs, and the russian text on the drawing translates into “Our strengths are uncountable.”

and so they are…

on the other hand, i taught my daughter how to make real Ukrainian borscht.

The past few days have been very challenging and I have been working so hard–perhaps it is the last mile that is the hardest mile. I did however come up with a new illustration style and technique, and have been writing my thoughts out, while finding new ways to present some of my ideas…

I found the time this morning to matte the other series of sunprints, the pretty little pods. I am extremely pleased with how these turned out.

One of both the flowers and the pods together.

I am not sure where or how I will display these. I love sets of three so I am tempted to make another series of sunprints and matte them into a window. I also may bring one in to my office because a) we just moved in and the walls are bare and b) it would be good to have something in my sight that reminds me of who I am.

Thing-a-Day has been so good for me - not only have I been very prolific for the last 26 days (I am astounded at how much I have produced looking back on the month) but I have very much enjoyed the community, having met some new friends. I proved to myself I can find the time during my busy days to do something creative, no matter how small. It has been amazing to make things again - to physically create something from nothing. To be thoughtful and inquisitive. To experiment and fail. To endeavor and to succeed at times, too.

Back to checking out what is around.

This church was recently unraveled from under walls and bricks. It now sit right oustide (one of) my (temporary) windows.

The rare lost poster artwork from the 1972 Bollywood remake of Masculin Féminin.

I created a short visit to Outpost for the express purpose of making this drawing, but the soy latte was a pretty sweet bonus. And I’ll take pretty much any excuse to visit Outpost.