free brain

School's out...at least my major hort classes are done with till fall. I'm taking Financial Accouting this summer...whoopie...very exciting. And...just working to make the dinero so that my man and I can land ourselves a cute yellow house.

beets. it's what's for dinner. yummmmm.....


My next project....it's nice to knit something from somebody else's pattern (mari lynn patrick's provincial waistcoat).


Sunday in Maine. Nothin' betta than thriftin'


This was taken in Osaka, the night i broke my camera across from a KFC restaurant. that darn colonel.

my orderly life

Brioche (not the bread - the stitch)....a new sweater i'm working on that has to be finished in a week or so! the yarn is lovely and it's fun to be using a color again (the last sweater was white- see photos).

plants & textiles

I've been working on a paper for school on this topic. It's a no wonder why I can't love one without the other...they are intricately woven together in history and continue to be entwined. I love plants...they are amazing...oh yes indeedie. (that's a cotton plant btw)

happenings

School, photostyling and knitting are consuming me. Completely. The summer shoot is coming up, so I've got to hurry up and finish my sweater. If I was a real designer I would have had to submit my design & sweater weeks ago. Lucky for me, I guess, although wouldn't I be so happy if I was done already?

One thing I'm truly psyched about (obviously) is my trip to Japan...is it March yet?
Itinerary: gardens, sake with my Muffin, and hitting the 100 yen stores.
oh yeah.

Here's a picture of me and my monkey man, Miles. luv luv luv him.

happy 2007

It's only been forever since my last/first post. Promise to do better this year. Just an update on madder megazine: it won't be in paper form. It's an e-zine! Even better because I won't have to worry about distribution and wasting all kinds of materials in the process. I'm excited for this adventure and hope the premiere issue will be ready by May. Till then...I've got lots of work to do.

Hello

Fort Nest, once a physical space on India Street in Portland, Maine is alive again, yet in digital form. It's cheaper this way.

Fort Nest will now be a home for my own work rather than what it was, a gallery for local artists. Now, it will be my very own gallery to show my knitting designs and projects, which I hope will soon evolve into paper form: Madder Megazine. I'm sure I'll squeeze lots of other juicy tidbits like photos of my cats, inspiration and...whatever else.