custom order.

i have like 15 people i need to email tonight. you're probably one of them!
thanks for sitting tight. i love u.

my birthday has passed with very little photo documentation.

i can tell you that there was grilled meats, fancy cupcakes, southern tier mokah (bavarian lodge), tapas, sangria, old rasputin (map room), guiness (exit chicago), four-am-fried-eggs, ribs, downtown brown and beamish (empty bottle), scott H biram, chocolate cake, korean stone bowl, churrascaria meat-fest, wine, creme brule, imperial stout (rock bottom), a lot of laughing, too many late nights, a couple of my favorite swiss men, kelly driving like a babe, great friends, five days of madness.


out there

cake in the office

big babygay sent me flowers

chicago is fun

in other news

these bastards are HOME (hoo-ray) and are now in the shop for pretty pennies.

i'm thinking about resurrecting my other etsy shop also, but not sure yet. more on that later.

I HAVE SO MUCH WORK TO DO
omg
I should have the small sadnesses done this week, along with a bunch of other stuff, and my PLUSH YOU designs and the beginnings of the Monster Manouche band
my brain is going to explode

new amigurumi - custom order

he's totally old school



so 2006



i love him. he's gotta mail tomorrow, but i might take him to the garden first and photograph him up right

the pile of work is not getting smaller.

ooof.

still in progress, it's a doozy of a project.

THE ROUGH SKETCHES!

(i am excited by this project)

Slate Amigurumi Cat Cow Monster Thing

he's moving to australia tomorrow! woo.







i am burning through yarn this week. more soon. workworkwork.

it comes right out of the wall! no hoop. i am pretty pleased with myself on this one. it was the customer's request, and a fun little challenge.

i'd like to make some more, we'll see. right now i am up to my eyeballs in work and art show deadlines.

holy balls, working. i'm trying so hard to get work done this weekend but i am sleepy and easily distracted by food and naps. UG. i am now chaining myself to this desk and not leaving until i get a big chunk of work completed.

for example.


you know the Melancholy Monsters. right. well now i am working on a batch of their cousins - the Small Sadness's. They will be ready this week. I like them. They are cute.

and, this will be complete in a matter of hours. photo shoot tomorrow probably, and then he is off to a nice new home in australia!



now. work. cue the dancing danny divito in my brain: "gooooooooo go for it go for it... gooooooo"

my little guys in good company




(images happily ganked from art whino and chris creatures)

wish i coulda gone, but ah well.

but yea, for anyone who was interested, those two monsters, "wonder" and "believe" are now available from the art whino gallery for several pretty pennies.


ok back to work.

inspiration for the next thing i'm doing


these boys

i adore them

this fat bastard

you may remember him

im finishing up the sketches, i'll show them to you soon.

tonight!
korean food!
bruno!
chubby!

onward.

My art business has been a little quiet, at least on the surface. I've been processing a lot of information and ideas from travel, catching up on work, catching up on the part-time desk gig, catching up on spending time sketching and drawing, writing, cooking, cleaning, settling.

thinking

Meanwhile, as i do that, my first published article came out, in Stuffed Magazine, and hit Jo-Ann Fabrics, Borders, Barnes & Nobles, etc, all over the country.

Meanwhile, my first check for writing an article, for said magazine, came in the mail, and I felt another milestone under my feet.

Meanwhile, these three bastards are on their way home, and will be available for consumption soon.





Meanwhile, I've got two more of my 'children' arriving in Maryland for my first plush-art-show experience, at the Art Whino gallery, for the Mortal Plush show, this Saturday, July 11.




Meanwhile, I am keeping to what I want and keeping it honest and keeping quiet.


wabi sabi
dusty yarn
expensive beer
worn-out hands
5am
charcoal
my dog
banjos
gondry
cheddar
florenza pincushions
mini comics
cambodia
chubby
higgins ink
henry miller
your face

sketchin' sketches

available here

workity work


awesome. more here


time to refresh your browsers, kids, this thing is pretty much up and running
www.melissasuestanley.net
flickr/blogger/livejournal/facebook/myspace is ok i guess, but i prefer having a nice, clean, neat place to look at my work together more cohesively and more professional-like. Something that says "Hello, I am an artist and I'm not fucking around"... rather than "OH HAI! I MAKE STUFF wanna See? and we can be Friends!!!@!"


wouldn't it be fun to turn off all social networking sites for one month?