News, Updates, Appendicitis, Etc.

After many weeks of holiday whatnots and the usual winter hibernating, some of the original SS crew decided to pop in for a Valentine’s Day visit! It was good to have Tara and Heidi around after their respective sabbaticals First order of business: Topher had an appendicitis. Long story short, he woke Brent and I [...]

Post-turkey Artin’

Drawing courtesy of Pietro Norante! Tonight was our first venture into the world of UStream! After many discussions (more like one brief conversation… that one time…) we decided that we should try to make a UStream broadcast to help bring more people into the collective and remove the obstacle of distance between us and… everyone [...]

Topher wanted to call this blog post “Attack”, but I rejected him. Ha! :P

We had a full house today at Studio Sunday! Tara, Heather (Chapa), Josh, Pietro, Topher, Brent and Jackie were all rockin’ the house with preliminary drawings, Christmas projects and Etsy-majigs. There’s nothing you can’t get done with Jurassic Park and Big Trouble in Little China playing in the background!

Topher being Featured at illustrophile

http://www.illustrophile.com/2009/05/christopher-macdonald/ o/ sucess!

Topher has squeeky teeth

Tonight, Topher discovered a latent talent. He has the ability to make squeaky noises on his teeth by rubbing them with his finger. We just wanted you all to know that. Now he won’t stop.

Lurve lurve

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so some of us in the collective have taken to making love-themed things for the occassion. These Cupid Kitties, for example, all come with your personal message hand-embroidered on the back! Whether or not you celebrate Valentine’s Day, there is a loved one in your life who will appreciate these [...]

Sew What?

Busy busy busy day of sewing! And then we took a break to go see the premier of Handmade Nation at the Oriental! And then we came back to the studio and sewed for four more hours! SEWINGGGGGG. (time for bed~)

NEWS!

Tara’s RagTags are on fire! As in, they’re selling fast. REAL fast. Take a trip to our Etsy store and be sure to secure a new best friend before they’re all sold out! (Editors note: Ragtags are not on actual fire. Its a metaphor for good sales. ) The Calendar is NIGH upon you! We [...]

Ideas A-bloomin’

Hooray for group projects! We are planning a collaboration/installation thing together, and we made a ton of progress today– Post-it Notes are the bee’s knees when it comes to generating ideas! The theme of our collaboration installation thing? Storytelling and fairy tales. So far we’ve come up with a basic story that roughly follows the [...]