I. GRADUATED.
(Ta-da!)
It’s been nearly a year since I last posted… anything at all. And what a year it’s been. I’ve been focused on academics, as focused as I could possibly be, really. Eat, breath, sleep academic art. Incredible experience- it’ll be interesting to “get back to normal.”
In the time immediately after graduating I think we all feel a sort of deflation. Not an emptiness, but a stillness… the release of pressure and the sudden realization that, realistically, there are no imminent deadlines. (How is that possible? What am I forgetting to do?? haha) As I adjust to this… looser… lifestyle, I’m trying to pick up things I’ve neglected for the past few months: mainly, that means I want to get back to making things.
Though I let go of the thing-a-day format, and I came dangerously close to creating nothing at all for long periods of time, this has been a bizarrely productive year. I won’t bury myself under the task of recapping the things I’ve done, or scare myself by promising to jump right back into the thing-a-day format… but I’ll try to keep up with sharing what I’m doing 
I’ve been making a lot of jewelry. Last December I was accepted to Seattle’s Urban Craft Uprising, one of the largest craft fairs in the Northwest. It was an incredibly validating weekend- I completely sold out within hours on the first day, and had to start making more stuff before lunch! I spent that whole night making more things, and sold out again on the second day. I wish I’d taken pictures of the things I made, but they were made and gone so quickly it was pretty impossible. A humbling experience.
If you want to see the jewelry I’ve been making more recently, check out my etsy site for a nifty catalogue of it all (and maybe even pick something up! It’s all reasonably priced.) I just spent the day taking nicer photographs and overhauling the design, so it’s looking pretty slick and tied together finally:
Oh! If you want to take a class from me (yes! I’m teaching!) and you live in Seattle, go by Fusion Beads on Stone way and pick up a class catalogue! I’m really excited about this, I love to teach and I love to make stuff, so this is a pretty perfect gig
Ok, enough plugs. I’m back, and I’ll be updating more frequently once again!
Sweet,
M
