Chocolatespoon: Emily’s Musings

Our whole group at work took a field trip this afternoon to the SJ Art Museum for a docent-led tour of the M.C. Escher and Op Art exhibits (and then we wandered through the very cool Il Lee: Ballpoint Abstractions and interesting Jess: To and From the Printed Page and spent some time on the [...]

S picked me up from work and we drove up to SF to see a talk by scultptor David Behar Perahia at the Academy of Art. He showed some of his really interesting, site-specific art, one of which we had seen in a museum on our trip.

I worked my second shift at the ZeroOne art exhibition tonight. Tuesday I was in the South Pavillion of the convention center and was a bit dissapointed, but today I was assigned to the Art Museum and there is great stuff going on there. Of course I was immediately reassigned to help out with the [...]

Here’s my first attempt at one of those fun book purses people keep making (and which I was so excited to see for sale at a Friends of the Libary store when I was checking out the sites earlier this week). Since we were expecting house guests very shortly I didn’t drag out the sewing [...]

I forgot to blog that we finished the 4th chair and the table over the weekend (and touched up the first three chairs) Here’s the full set: Special thanks to Susan who inspired me and helped me to paint my dresser a couple of years ago. Just in time for more house guests to arrive [...]

Wouldn’t it be cool to have the knitting needles count stitches for you? Not that I’ve done a single knit or purl for months, but I think if these were actually sold somewhere they’d be very hard to resist.

I convinced Emy to take a quick detour after the movie and we checked out the current exhibit at the SJ Art Museum, Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design. I love looking at examples of great design, and there were definitely some very cool things included in this exhibit. If you’re downtown it [...]