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Yes, we’re moving. This week. Yay!

Just noticed a friend has a whole gallery of pics from a bodypainting performance I did with Sophia at SEAF several years ago.

Yay, fame!

OK, so it isn’t exactly a mansion, but it will be the biggest house I’ve ever lived in, so it feels like one to me!

(view from living room into dining room)

It’s a lovely old place in one of the yummiest parts of Wallingford, just three or four blocks up from Gasworks Park in a friendly neighborhood. Can’t wait to put my new garden in(yep, breaking sod again!). And I’m just drooling over the thought of cooking in the humongous kitchen and my kiddo(son Sam, age 11, expert comic artistninja) is jazzed about the great big, climbable curly willow in the yard!

There are two possible rooms available to rent. A huge top level, light-filled room with gorgeous views for $650 and a small, sweet, main floor room with built in loft bed for $550. Oh, and the landlord, Lee, is also renting a sweet little daylight basement two bedroom(in the same house) for $850. Lee is not into having pets live here, though I did talk him into the cat I promised Sam as a move in delight. Utilities and internet are not included. House is not wheelchair-accessible(there are stairs).

(living room fireplace)

I’m looking for honest, friendly, responsible(rent and bills on time), artistic, clean, creative, playful, happy, communicative, open-minded, sane, earth-conscious people that want to be part of a magnificient artistic household as well living their own private lives. ‘Cuz I love to be social and have family style meals betimes and awesome art feasts with friendsies, but I also dig my solo time too and I’m not big on drugs or drunkeness or TV-which is not to say I don’t enjoy a good pint of Guinness or a glass of port or a snuggly movie night on occasion. I love food and cooking and gardening, painting, dancing, music, meditating, chi gong, sculpting, bodypainting… I’m all about art and the art of living a well balanced, beneficent, delicious life. Sam lives with me half the week(alternating sat-wed and sun-wed). Oh, and I’m 39.

Available July 1st.

Soooooooooooooo excited to move in!

me out of bed again. I suppose I could blame the genmaicha and brownies, or pin it on my tightly twisted pterygoids and their incessant insistence on wretched ruminations when all I want to do is close my tired orbs and sleep, sleep, sleep…

But I suspect the real story is much farther in than skin and muscle. Coursing through blood and bone like the susurrus of river reeds in a kelpie’s ears as she urges her heedless lover deeper, or the twitching of a tigress’ tail in the tiger’s face as she vanishes into the ruins of that ancient temple in the restless jungle heat.

There’s naught for me to do but play it out and hope the universe is listening tonight.

My son’s school had a rockin’ fundraiser festival today-Whistlepig!

I painted cuffs on the fairgoers:

So much fun! And they kept me busy too, lining up for cuffs-I barely had time to sneak off and dancedancedance to the awesome tunes of 17th Chapter!

Pics.

The greens are grotty and the virgins hard to find, but apparently unicorns are alive and well, hiding out in Seattle’s ratty alleys and needle-infested parks. Magically thriving on a largely dumpster-foraged diet, these radiant mystical creatures have retained their sparkle and are much given to prancing, ethereal soul-gazing and rainbow harnessing.

Here’s a couple shots I really liked that didn’t make it into the Creative Catastrophe album:

(Photo by Cody)

This one was probably too harmonious to fit in well with the album’s catastrophic nature. I love it though, as a stand alone piece-amazing, the way the car, stucco and concrete match the parasol and the flanking red vehicles echo the brake lights.

(photo by Jessica)

This one was probably too tasty(ie: sexy but non-disturbing) to make the cut. But city unicorns love to snuggle(and show off their cute rumps) and it’s far too pretty a shot to just hit the cutting room floor, in my ever-so-humble opinion.

Hurray for the creatively bizarre!

My half-second of video fame.

..On Matt Freedman’s photoblog.

So, I HAD planned to do three silk/lace mache dresses on Rita for SEAF, but some over zealous volunteer ‘cleaned up’ and apparently threw away our bag of silk and lace pieces that we’d cut up for the dress-making(along with my scissors and pasties)! Grack!

The only fabric and paint dress I ended up making was this sparkly little silver number:

The rest of the performances I had to resort to paint only. Sigh, all those lovely little lacey, silky scraps trashed! Mrrrggghhhh.

Oh wells-more pics here.

Anna won my heart with her awesome multiple hair twists. I decided to meet their complexity and elegance with geometric shapes and black lace…

More Anna twisty hotness here!