Wooden Robot + Common Visions + The Candliers 7PM $4 2838 N. Fratney in Riverwest

Tonight my band plays a basement show- friends from Asheville will be playing along with friends from Milwaukee. Should be fun & cold + over by 10 pm, which is nice.

Finished reading "Look At Me" by Jennifer Egan. Margaret lent it to me over 6 months ago, little by little I got to the end. I enjoyed it in a strange way, not entirely, but I definitely wanted to finish it. Now I'm reading "The Childrens Hospital" by Chris Adrian.

Back to work, lot's to do at the Paper Boat today. Oh and found out that we get to have a show with Monica Canilao in late 2007 or 2008. I couldn't be more pleased, her work is super dreamy & right up my alley.

Tomorrow is Gallery Night in Milwaukee

Gallery Night, blessing & curse. All the best openings in the city are scheduled the very same evening and if you are a gallery owner (me), you never get to go to them since you have to be at your own place. Not to discredit the awesomeness of owning and curating a gallery, which I love and wouldn't trade for a live pink pony, BUT I do always wonder what I'm missing out on.

Tomorrow (Gallery Night), I am very excited to get to meet our current featured gallery artist Amy Rice. Her show, "Bittersweet" has gotten write-ups in pretty much every local paper, tons of new people have come into the gallery to check out her work, and I couldn't ask for more out of an artist/gallery relationship. Amy has been a total pleasure to work with, and it is an extra bonus that she is taking the time to take the train down to Milwaukee from Minneapolis to hang out. I hope that a bunch of folks make their way to Bay View to meet her and see the work (and the extra bonus of Gallery Night is always.... free beer).

If I wasn't going to be at our super sweet reception with Amy Rice I personally wouldn't miss swing by these two events-

The Little Friends of Printmaking:

DON’T TREAD ON ME, SUCKA

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DWR is pleased to present Don’t Tread on Me, Sucka, the first Milwaukee exhibition by recent arrivals The Little Friends of Printmaking. Internationally-known silkscreen artists and recent winners of the Art Directors’ Club 2006 Young Guns award, The Little Friends straddle the line between commercial and fine art, injecting everything they make with their own brand of cheeky humor. Music by WMSE's very own DJ Dori. Beverages courtesy of Lakefront Brewery.
January 19th 5:30-9:00 and January 20th 10:00-4:00

DWR Milwaukee Studio, 167 N. Broadway, Milwaukee WI 53202
414.224.5353 www.dwr.com

Fasten Co-Op Clothing Gallery (ALSO IN BAY VIEW) hosts work by Amanda Tollefson 7-10

There is another opening at the Hide House that I have no information on in front of me but it is hosted by Milwaukee's young art super star Noah.... I know that there will be music by DJ Missy Donkers.... if anyone reads this and knows more, please post below.

have a safe weekend everyone.

postcard & a zebra. wooden apples & pizza party

First postcard of the new year..... made my day.

Want to send me mail? It's one of my New Year plan's to send more mail, want to help me out? Send me something and I'll write you back, cross my heart-
{Faythe} PO BOX 134
Milwaukee, WI
53201-0134

A few weeks back I got this beautiful surprise package from a very sweet Melissa Baker of Moustache Rides Yarn. Handspun goodness with a zebra trapped inside... I don't think I have the heart to release that zebra any time soon, plus he looks so cozy. Maybe in the summer when it's hot.

I've been making some time to doodle on these crafty wooden apples I picked up at a thrift store. They will be turned into a limited edition line of apple pins in the next few weeks (or months....) the packaging for them is the best, but no pictures of that yet. ...... .. .
And, finally it snows in Milwaukee this week while we were at a dinner party at Pat & Rose's house. While it snowed we gorged ourselves with delicious homemade pizza and drank a fair amount of wine. Oh, and I can't forget the ice cream sundays, they were the the suprise treat. At the end of the night this is what I decided it would be a good idea to take pictures of. Late night sundays in Milwaukee with your peeps ... . .. .


fact: painting on the wall done by Pat Buckley's mother.

making time

Look what I made time to work on last week. These are hand painted collages made into mini note card sets.

Printed in a edition of 50 sets (each set has 5 cards).

Now available in my online SHOP

$5.00 a set

Both styles will also be available in Milwaukee at Beans & Barley, The Tool Shed and my shop Paper Boat. In Brooklyn Mini Mini Market will carry the Lion cards.

This week I have a lot of sewing to do for an big ol' order from elsewares.com red & blue messenger owls and tooth fairy pillows galore!

In other news, my band Wooden Robot has started playing again after a two month break. I always miss playing music more than I think I will so it's really nice. We are playing with a new drummer too, so it's almost like a new thing, almost, it has been 4+ years now. We will be playing an all ages basement show in the next few weeks with some local and out of town bands, I'll post more details soon.

The last few days were spent updating my etsy shop as well as the Documentary shop. I had donations from over two months ago waiting to get photographed and uploaded. All that stuff takes so much dang time. I also updated the Documentary flickr page, there are still a bunch of titles and whatnot that need to be filled in, but at least the pictures are live!

I bought one of the Amy Rice pieces up in the show at Paper Boat this week. I couldn't help myself.... Come meet her this Friday January 16th on Gallery Night 7-10 {free beer}

Time to go eat homemade pizza with friends.

First Art Purchace of the New Year

Happy New Year! I really want to update with a list of my favorite things of 2006, but more important right now is getting settled into our apartment. We moved in Octoboer, pre-craft fair season and shop madness, so things are sill in horribal growing piles all over. But that ends the first week of 2007.

This is the first art purchace of the year, a beautiful Rachell Sumpter print from Tiny Showcase
titled "The Downfall of Pluto". I Just checked the site to reference the print title and it seems as if the edition of 200 sold out in less than 15 minutes! I knew this was most likely the only time I could afford one of her pieces so I set my alarm, wow, good thing!

So, more soon after my piles get a bit smaller. Again, Happy New Year!