Bitterbrush Workshop

Had a lot of fun with my mama carving stamps and decorating outfits for a special dude's first birthday

Much belated post about this Valentine I made 💕💖💞

The gators are mostly a .knits design that I did a bad job of following the instructions on so I'd call it a loose interpretation, with accessories that I made up on the fly. Their circus diorama home is watercolor paper that's painted, cut and taped into a sort of box situation, yes it's wonky as heck. And lastly, the hanging heart is air dry clay and it spins with every move, for better or worse.

As I edit this post I see even more pet hairs stuck to the felt in spite of meticulous cleaning 🥲

Just a reminder of who you're talking to

Some highlights of my 2025 making, in no particular order:

- Running a paper flower workshop at 's Feria Southside
- Legume dinosaur for the Red Bean Parade in New Orleans
- Cowboy fox for a new-to-the-world precious little friend
- Faux cactus for
- First steek
- Recycled Bolos made from paper and circuit boards
- First attempt at silver metal clay, and the play dough mockup made to test the design
- In process
- Un-tinsel ornaments
- Finally painted the lamp I flower-ified a while back
- Clementine-o-lanterns
- Dollhouse furnishing earrings
- Recycled tech waste beetles
- Headdresses, among other decorations, for in the Madrid 4th of July Parade
- Soot sprite doodle during an gathering
- Painting our bathroom, before the sun got giant Google eyes
- Wooden Easter eggs
- Sunglasses adorned with recycled scraps
- The backs of some paper ephemera earrings, I think that's 's handwriting
- Squished the cat's paw into some ornaments

Rare photo of me modeling one of my pieces

I made a few ornaments that will be available next weekend at 's fundraiser, along with a bunch more ornaments from other artists! It's the same day as the parade, so double the reason to find yourself in Madrid.

The first two, a bow and a tree, are made from recycled CDs, and the last are ribbon wire icicles in sets of 3 - I made a bunch of these, a tree covered in them would be fun if someone wants to scoop the lot!

Having a great weekend at the Recycle Santa Fe Art Show! Here are some highlights of my setup. Last night was a fun fashion show, and I'm looking forward to being inspired by my fellow recycling artists today and tomorrow.

Made a little limited run of sunglasses in preparation for this weekend's show! They are adorned with bits of cut up CDs and circuit boards.

If anyone knows how to remove all the dust and lint from sunglasses lmk, I swear I cleaned them three times before shooting and yet...

Who is joining me for the fun at the 26th annual Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival, happening November 14-16 at the Convention Center?!

I'll have a booth of re-imagined e-waste and paper ephemera goods (swipe to see an example teaser) on Friday night during the Trash Fashion Show and all day Saturday and Sunday. Get your $5 tickets for the fashion show at recyclesantafe.org or (and?!) come for free Saturday/Sunday!

Dress up for spooky season 👻 this former CD is now a Halloween ready bolo tie!

Had a blast taking a silver metal clay class, and this little pitcher pendant is the result. The final image is it next to my Playdoh mock-up.