Merry Christmas!
Dear Friends, We wish you all the warmest, coziest, glowing-est moments for this holiday season. Hugs, baked goods, songs, candle-light, star-gazing…. the clumsy music stuttering out from a newly-acquired accordion. We wish peace and goodwill to everyone and hope that whatever else the holidays might hold for us, that we all catch some glimpses of [...]
Toning it down a bit…
I was going through my sketchbook, wanting to show you some of my newest work and I realized that my current fixation with life/death has translated into a certain heavy-handedness in my drawings. While I normally don’t shy away from publishing whatever insanebrilliant dialogues pop into my mind, it just seemed so anti-holidays to be [...]
Jar Winner
So I put in all the comments and number 9 won! That’s Jen, who says she’ll do this with the jar: “I would put this adorable jar on my windowsill in the bedroom and fill it with knitting needles!” Congrats Jen! and thanks to everyone for entering. Love, Sam
I make silly faces: GIVEAWAY!
Howdy Y’all! I started making these jars recently for craft fairs and had a request to sell them online, so here they are! you guys bought them all! (Good thing I set aside this gal for the giveaway! Also, I’ll be making more after the holidays.) Each jar is recycled, lovingly cleaned and then hand-painted [...]
inspiration: poetry
Did I already tell you how much I love poetry? I think I did, but in case not: THIS! MUCH! (which is very much, and only second to my love of novels.) Here is a treat for you today, a poem about not-killing-yourself. (by Jennifer Michael Hecht via The Awl) Love, Sam – – – [...]
Our hearts all aglow…
drink to remember, drink to forget, again it’s december. in rain, we are wet, and tired and walking, we’ve only just met, and kindling something we’d lost long ago, our hearts all aglow, our hearts all aglow. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – [...]
when it snaps like cheap kite string…
all our loves and attachments snap at the end, like cheap kite string, and we sail off and off into the atmosphere, until the hunched shoulders of the spool-holders all disappear, until all our fear is finally gone, and fingers crossed, we arrive safely home. – – – – – – – – – – [...]
why i want a christmas tree this year
o Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum, wie treu sind deine Blätter! Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit, nein auch im Winter, wenn es schneit. o Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum, wie treu sind deine Blätter! when i was a child visiting my oma’s house during the holidays, we always watched the singing programs where everyone sloshed around big beers [...]
Holiday Shop update
Lost at Sea T-shirt available here! Dear friends, First off, how are you all? I hope you all had such nice weekends and enjoyed some relaxation and down-time. This time of year seems to blow through like a tornado and I always hate that because I feel like advent should be a slow, silent walk [...]
Sydney was a narwhal.
He was everything you’d expect from a narwhal: pensive and deeply patient, yet compellingly decisive, when the occasion demanded such. Sydney had a favorite thinking spot, where he worked things out… much like your favorite thinking spot, wherever it might be, just imagine it filled to the brim with sea-water and you’d get the right [...]
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