Husband is on his way home to take me to the airport, and I'm playing with my new camera! "It was an early Mother's Day present.", I explained after I bought it.
Current TV just e-mailed us that they will have a set up for live blogging and vlogging, so maybe you will hear from me again over the weekend. To hold you over, I want to show you something special I made to lug around all my crap in. You saw it here first: The Blogging Backpack
It DOES have Boober on it, for now. See you at Maker Faire! XOXOXO
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Girls Love Their Toys Too
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
What I Did for Earth Day
Where have I been lately? Oh ...here, there, and everywhere . Etsy, I love you, but you published my sake face all over your internets. I have been working on all this right under your noses, or while standing on them. Or maybe I've never even seen your nose...
There is no need to wax poetic any further, but Blogity demands the inside story. So, the night after giving my presentation on the environmental impact of crafting, Leslie, EJ and I were hanging with Rachel at her loft. She was tying up some lose ends in the office and yells at me to get in there, but I'm more fascinated that Leslie and I brought the same pair of pants. Finally, Rachel strong-arms me into her desk chair with an open e-mail on the screen in front of me.
It was from the editor-in-chief of Craft:
... they want me to speak at Maker Faire.
We jumped around and drank a lot of port wine.
The next morning, I get an e-mail from my editor at Crafting a Green World offering me the position of head writer! I couldn't stomach more port, but walked a couple blocks to get good coffee. Mind you, I am in the middle of downtown San Francisco this whole time, not far from Haight-Ashbury. Upon returning, Etsy asked me to write that article for The Storque, and I'm slated to publish another in the November issue of Craft. This was an odd conflict to address. I actually left a lot from my talk out of the Etsy article, so it's definitely not the whole story!
So, in about a week, I hop on a plane to California once again. If you will be at Maker Faire, I know that I'm speaking to the makers on Thursday, to everyone else over the weekend(not sure yet on my time slot), and performing a craft demo called "Geurilla Pattern Making" on Sunday at 3. Come throw fruit at me.
It's ironic that we had an earthquake in Illinois between my trips. What was I doing? Thinking that since I had to work at the coffee shop the next day, I would hear a lot of people talking about what they were doing at 4:30 in the morning. I wish I'd been doing something cool, like meditating in a meadow or having sex.
If you want to do something cool besides those two things, you could contribute to The Eco-Crafters List of Demands on Crafting a Green World, or make tire sandals. The rest of my day will be spent designing a backpack with Boober on it. I might even make it with stuffed legs that hang down to show off his adorable Fraggle Toes.Thursday, March 20, 2008
D.I.Y. Disaster Movie in 10 Easy Steps
1. Watch Mega Disasters on the History Channel religiously. There are plenty of untapped scenarios you can base your plot on. May I suggest a Gamma Ray Burst? Why has no one jumped on this??
2. While creating your script, be sure to use poetic license within scientific explanations. Much of your audience will have the audacity to reference your "facts" during "intelligent" conversations. The rest of us will get a good laugh when you are roasted by Phil Plait. It's a win-win.
3. Required characters include: Renegade Scientist who does not work for the government, Heroic Woman with no sex appeal but pretty enough to cause obnoxious romantic tension with Renegade Scientist, Pompous Ass Scientist that works for the government, Black Guy, Cute Nerd, Benign Government Liaison, and various useless characters that can be shot down like skeet.
4. No one takes Renegade Scientist seriously. Regardless, he should receive high level security clearance within 10 minutes of telling Benign Government Liaison the bad news.
5. In the room where Renegade Scientist meets with the joint chiefs/president/generic committee to explain said impending disaster, don't forget to include a smorgasbord that no one partakes of. This serves only to benefit Renegade Scientist, who serendipitously uses fruit as a visual aid.
6. Said impending disaster has plenty of warning signs. The worst of which should level a large European city, kill thousands and destroy priceless landmarks. Things are taking a turn for the worse, but contagious optimism continues.
7. An obvious visual or audible clue is required to let the audience know the government is hiding something. The government is hiding something.
8. Boys love their toys, so don't forget the importance of acquiring/building/stealing/ a multifaceted impenetrable vessel and specialized weapons. Bonus points for anything phallic in appearance.
9. Pompous ass scientist redeems himself either after being terribly embarrassed, or just before he is killed.
10. Can't think of a good ending? Take the easy way out: blur together various newscasts of hopeful recovery while the sun sets (or rises) amidst a peaceful landscape.
Note: You can make that royalty check out to Autumn Wiggins.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Republican Rainbow Yarn
Rainbows are following me everywhere this week. I dug one up from my yarn stash at an inopportune moment:
Autumn: "Go away rainbow. I'm feeling a little too emo for you right now. I want to listen to Emily Jane White and and eat Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream, but only because I'm hungry, and too lazy to cook anything."
Rainbow Yarn : "I understand, but don't lie, you are craving sherbet. I can read you like a book, and I'm a ball of fucking yarn."
Autumn: "A cussing ball of yarn? That's too bad, you were going to be knitted into legwarmers for my niece."
Rainbow Yarn : "Bullshit! You want me all to yourself, you hippie bitch!"
Autumn: "Wow, you sure are a smart ball of fucking yarn, aren't you?"
Rainbow Yarn: "Look, I'm just getting so tired of you left wing liberals with your pork barrel spending, trying to save the planet, and all that shit."
Autumn: "Has someone been watching Fox News in my home?"
Rainbow Yarn: "No, didn't you read my label? I'm 70% wool and 30% Sean Hannity toupee"
Autumn: "Well, I was close. You are right about me though. I'm going to macrame your ass into a bookmark for myself, but you will only be used in non-fiction by Keith Olbermann, Lou Dobbs, or Al Franken."
What happened after that is a mystery. I thought my stash box was safely stowed away, but somehow said yarn must have "fallen out". Eli proceeded to chew it into a million little knots while I was out shopping.
I still made a bookmark.
The end.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
I'm Blogging for Green! ...Options!
Ice is falling on people's heads in Chicago. I know how that feels, because a packet of teriyaki sauce fell out of the freezer on to my foot yesterday.
You can now add "Freelance Eco-Craft Blogger" to my list of professions. Recently I contracted with Green Options Media to contribute 2-3 posts a week on their environmental blog network. Mainly you'll see me over at Crafting A Green World, where I will be sharing ideas for sustainable supplies and projects, featuring eco-friendly microbrands, and displaying benign acts of civil disobedience. Check out my first post, where I show you how to do your taxes!
Other multi-author blogs on this network include:
Ecoscraps
PlanetSave
Sustainablog
Eco Worldly
EcoChildsplay
Clean Technica
Ecopreneurist
Gas 2.0
Green Building Elements
An added super-duper feature of Green Options is the PlanetSave Free E-mail system. After you sign-up, every e-mail you send through the interface will save 5 sq ft of Rainforest land! How cool is that?
Now, go bookmark/ subscribe/ stumble/ reddit/ digg/ tag/ syndicate your little heart out, but most importantly, read. :)
Happy Valentines Day, Luvies! Is my husband as unsentimental as I think he is? Find out Friday!
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