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 couch watch the Listening Post). It was a great field trip — I just love that museum and it was so much fun to all go together and get away from our desks for a while.

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 skate board piece over in the Tech’s courtyard, but the artist packed up early so I went back to the museum. The highlight (of both shifts, but I was so tired Tuesday my brain didn’t make the connection until it was too late), was that Spinnity and her husband were there!

I would definitely recommend checking out the exhibits at the art museum. I’m still hoping to swing by and see the stuff at the city hall if I can…

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 machine and do it properly, so this is more a prototype than anything else (its held together with double-sided peel-and-stick fabric tape so I don’t think it’d actually hold anything). We picked up a couple more books at the library’s book sale today to try later, but here’s the first. The handle and fabric is from Michael’s. It definitely needs some embellishments…

Arystocrafts Tutorial (with great photos!)
HGTV instructions
Great examples

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 this evening!

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 is definitely worth stopping in for! (And the director of the museum was at my table at the Commonweath Club dinner and was raving about the upcoming Caja de visiones/Box of Visions: Manuel Álvarez Bravo exhibit which is supposed to be fantastic. June 18, 2005 through September 11, 2005)