Behind the Scenes

I love how messy and fun these colour testing strips turn out! Right now I use them as thank you notes to slip into orders, but I kind of would like to turn them into something else at some point…

Perfect, quiet, happy studio mornings.

My favourite part of the day is eating breakfast at the little dining nook in my kitchen and looking through the little cut-out in the wall into my studio and planning all the things I’m going to do that day. My least favourite part of the day is getting off of the chair at the dining nook because anyone who’s been to my apartment will know that the dining nook and the chairs were built and left by the previous tenants who happened to be, like, SEVEN FEET TALL and so the chairs are VERY hard to clamber on and off of. But, uh, I digress. Mornings. They’re nice. I like ‘em.

Well, it’s Christmas market season now, and while these boxes all normally live out in the garage (yes, I am VERY LUCKY to live in an apartment that’s got some storage space for me to cram all my market stuff into), they’re getting a little action by staying out in the hallway for the next few weeks instead as it’s just too much to cart them back and forth from the garage to the house.

Anyway - this is all to say that this is what my hallway’s gonna look like for the next, like, five weeks.

Just working away on this little blue guy this afternoon!

Upcoming markets! Wahoo!

So my ~BiG gOaL~ of 2018 was to finally start doing tabling at markets. I’ve always found it so intimidating (“I don’t have enough stuff to sell!” “Who the heck is going to want to buy something of mine?” “Where do you buy one of those big-ass TENTS from?”*)

But I finally bit the bullet and applied to a bunch of shows and figured I’d just cross that bridge when I get there (an excellent business strategy, I’ve heard) and, well, looks like I’ll be tabling at my very first event in June at Dundas West Fest! I have gone to this street festival a lot and have found that of all the street festivals in Toronto, this one has a good selection of not just food and open patios, but also good art and craft vendors as well. I’m very nervous and very excited.

But what this also means is I’ve got to get cracking and start really focusing on producing some more work so I actually have a bunch of things to display and sell at the market.

* uh, Amazon. 2017 Nat was a dummy.

Another graphic novel update - slow burning, but chuggin’ along.

I’ve written more about this in detail here, but I’ve decided to write a graphic novel about my relationship with eating food and body image. This is an idea that has been swimming in my mind for years and years now, and I have the feeling it’s going to be a project that takes me a long time to finish - not only is writing a book, uh, hard? but also writing one about something that’s kind of a difficult subject makes it even harder… but to be honest, I think it will be really worth it.

Please bear with me as these updates will most likely be a bit sparse at first, but I hope to have it done sometime soon.