AVAM Kinetic Sculpture Race

AVAM Kinetic Sculpture Race

Every year, the American Visionary Art Museum sponsors a kinetic sculpture race. This basically means people create giant float-like sculptures that are powered by people bicycling (or walking), and they race. They go right down the street along with cars, through an...

Artbomb Party

Artbomb Party

I want to share some pictures from the Artbomb Party we had at Sailor and Dre's. I had a very good time, and left with tinsel in my hair. We all decided to make a bunch of little things that we would leave around for people to find. We took everything we made, except...

Guerrilla Gardening

Guerrilla Gardening

One of my goals for 2013 was to do some guerrilla gardening. Guerrilla gardening is basically just planting flowers and plants in unexpected places. You can see some awesome examples here and here. I went to the thrift store and bought a few containers that could be...

University Of Baltimore’s First Yarnbomb

University Of Baltimore’s First Yarnbomb

Last month, Erika (who I met at the Fun A Day opening) recommended me to the knitting group at the University of Baltimore. I went to one of their meetings and we talked about yarnbombing, planned what they were going to do, and of course.. knit! They are a very nice...

Celebrate May

Celebrate May

Looking back on this month, I realized how long it felt. Things I didn't even think happened in April were just a couple weeks ago. I'm honestly glad that it's over, and ready to start a new month. A few of the big things I originally had planned for April didn't...

Ribbon Garland

Ribbon Garland

Right next to my orange balloon, I strung up a bunch of ribbons. It's a really simple installation, but it's really beautiful to see all the colors flapping in the wind. Sometimes we need a little bit of color to make the day better.   I wish you some happiness on...

Weekly Happiness

Weekly Happiness

Happy. Gotta focus on the happy. + having a picnic on a hill with Jenn + wearing my pineapple print dress for the first time + making arrow crafts and talking about moving forward at work + pretty paper lantern garland in Hampden + funny times to pause a DVD + going...

One Orange Balloon

One Orange Balloon

Yesterday I cut out a big orange balloon from a piece of posterboard. I attached a string and took it to Baltimore, where I taped it onto a brick wall. (You may recognize the wall from the Giant Googly Eye installation.)     The string is made of yarn, so you can hold...

Monday Mailings

Monday Mailings

Last week I didn't have a regular mail post, just Operation: Pass Out Postcards. An update on that: I didn't receive any e-mails from people who found the cards. 🙁 Anyway, here's everything from the past two weeks.   Outgoing       Some prints I found at the...