by Cat Rocketship
This is a remake of one of the first paintings I did on glass. Unfortunately, I made the first painting on a weirdly sized piece of glass because I hadn’t yet learned to resize the scraps I scavenged from my workplace. And, really, I was too poor to buy a frame with glass in it. I said all this a few posts back, but that’s okay. You could use a refresher.
This one is on old dictionary pages collaged to a wood panel. It’s much easier to hang than the old one, which had to be bolted to the wall.
I also started moving into my new studio this weekend. Barring any packing-avoidance issues (which have come up before), I should be totally moved in by the end of the week. This means many things: markedly less time spent at home, a space for brand new shows and events, a “real” studio that I can take people to, and a place to teach classes on my own terms. This is all very exciting.
by Cat Rocketship
ONE: I have made you a pretty desktop.
TWO: Whole mess of new dictionary tiles over on Etsy. Too cute.
Edit: Dani says I can’t call my own things “too cute”. But I posit that since I didn’t draw these, and I find the drawings cute, then it’s cool and not self-absorbed. Shall I start a poll on this?
THREE: Because it is so icy out, there may or may not be a slumber party going on at my place tonight. Currently discussions going on: Vampire The Masquerade and past theater costumes. Also there is burping.
by Cat Rocketship
For the first week of the new year, I’m featuring a brand new item. These are 9 Scrabble tile magnets made from illustrations in the A section of a 1963 Webster’s dictionary. Check out the entire set on Etsy. At midnight these suckers go back up to eighteen smackers.
by Cat Rocketship
Dani proved once again that she is better at me than finding things. Because my Finding Things Juju has abandoned me. Anyway, this note is particularly good. Did this kid watch Oprah and learn about how his parents aren’t supposed to be his friends or something?
Mom and dad 
Love you!
Sorry I don’t talk to you like you guys are my parents. <3 u
by Cat Rocketship
This year I am making resolutions for the first time ever. Really, these are less year-long goals than first-quarter goals. Or first-two-months goals.
One: Do more pushups. Back in October I attempted the 100 Pushup Challenge. But I had to start over, like, 5 times because I’m very forgetful about pushups. Now it is do-or-die: I am getting married in April, in a strapless dress, and my bust could use some gentle shaping and firming in order to balance out my giant ladylike hips. If my only boobs were half the ladies that my hips are…
Two: Focus a strategy on Etsy shop promotion and online networking. There is a written plan for this, but it’s long and detailed and very step-by-step boring. So just know: I have a plan.
I very much like my current job, but my end goal is to have no job at all. Most artists never make a living from their work, and the ones that do don’t usually reach this marker until they are in their late thirties or forties. If I can, this will be my last “day job”, which I can quit in a few years. I’m undecided over whether I should put a hard number on the years. 3? 6? Anyway, since I don’t have anyone selling for me, I’d better be selling for me if I want to leave my J-O-B.
Three: The Market Street Media Foundry crew has brainstormed several shows for 2008. And classes, workshops, exchanges… But we’ve come up with two fantastic new shows that have never been seen in Iowa before. My third resolution is to do everything I can to make sure these projects happen. …Uh, which means I’d better write that minigrant proposal tomorrow.
Wish me luck.
