Bleeg Blog

I made a stencil of this to use in my printmaking class. It’s Kitty’s face, based on this picture:

Sadly, someone stole that print whilst it was drying, so my series of 8 is really a series of 7. I actually made a new stencil and then printed 3 more way more awesome prints, and I hope no one steals them before I get back to Menards. I mean, school.

My first-ever print in printmaking class. Click to view larger.

Made this a while back.

Vacation Polaroids are up in the “Random Pictures” section, over to the right. We have been busy updating the Zine A Day website - we are almost there! I have also been working on sewing myself a new wardrobe for school, which starts in 2 weeks. On Monday, I start working overnight at Oasis twice a week.

The last week or so has been pretty crazy, between getting ready for our trip on Thursday and fun stuff. On the Fourth of July, Brock took Jay and me to his home town of State Center, Iowa (it is not really the geographic center - go figure) and we went to his friend’s house. His family bought a BUNCH of fireworks, so we just sat in lawn chairs and watched them, and we lit some Roman candles, too, and it was a great time. Then several different people came into town (Marina Hardy, Big Nurse) and we were going to their show/hanging out with them/letting them crash in our place as the cases may be, so that was pretty mad. And we are leaving for Chicago in three days for our summer vacation. It’s going to be fun, I just hope it doesn’t leave us homeless and starving when we get back.

Until our summer vacation. We are busy getting stuff ready, printing shirts, making zines. We bought some Polaroid film on E-Bay for making zines on the road. Apparently Polaroid has stopped making instant film, so we had to pay like $60 for 5 packs of film, which I guess isn’t that much more than it was initially.

Also, we’ve been printing a ton of shirts to take with us. My grandma gave me an awesome sewing machine (our old one kind of broke from sewing paper with it), so I also made a neat dress, and did some sewing on some shirts for Brock and Jay. I may post pictures of those soon. I have kind of been wanting to go around and take pictures of a bunch of stuff I made and post it, but … one of these days.

Trip back to Council Bluffs last week. Hung out with my brother AJ!

So, massive flooding in Iowa City has rendered me jobless … indefinately (those are photos of my work). Which is half good, because I REALLY didn’t want to work 40 hours a week all summer at the IMU, but it’s also kind of bad because we are going to be spending our savings very shortly on our summer vacation.

But, my uncle suggested that I file for unemployment, so I did. I am waiting to see if I am approved. Since I am only temporarily laid off due to natural disaster, I don’t even have to find another job! Sweet! I can just chill all summer and get paid.

At 12 o’clock, that is some teryaki-basted grilled tofu topped with furikake. At 11 o’clock, we have some grilled catfish marinated in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, a splash of pineapple juice, salt, pepper, and some dill and cilantro from our garden. In the center, mashed sweet potatoes, and some bread with sheepsmilk cheese on top. Yesterday’s grilled dinner.

The orange glows in the dark.