My friend Matt hired me to paint him a Cityscape shirt for his Seacompression outfit.
Love the way it turned out! He had fun dancing the night away in it and a lot of folks thought it was a real shirt! And I must admit, it’s nice to actually get PAID to make something beautiful once in a while. 
More pics here.
I made antlers(here I must confess I stoled the idea from my friend Seb) and painted trees on a silk slip to create my Halloween costume this year.
I also made an alternative set of horns, which Sam and I goofed off in later…
It was a really fun Halloween.. There was much partying, awesome costumage and much snuggling at Rita and Ben’s house and then I danced the night away at Pheralia with a dead guy and a pirate.
I may have had a rather unfortunate summer, but I certainly have an amazing fortune in my friends!
Cody, kickass organatrix and grand friend that she is, decided to throw a benefit party for me and proceeded to do so, in truly glorious Badbad Faerie style! Jeff generously donated the use of the Little Red Day Spa and my fabulous posse(Yay Cody! Rita! Ben! Anna! Blackbird! Drew! Juliet! Cheri! Sam! David! Julia!) rallied their considerably delicious forces and talents and thus, the Infinite Feast was born!
It was an absolutely sumptuous, sexy soiree, with delicious munchies, hot tubbin’, dancing(thanks Michael Holden for the awesome tunes!),
yum
massage(yay Candace!), tarot(the mysterious Madam Blackbird), poetry(call and response between David Jones and I), luscious desserts, awesome art and of course the Bad bad Faeries and their wicked, fruity shenanigans!
Badbad Faeries!
More pics on Facebook.
It was so much fun! Thanks so so much Coders and all of you who helped organize it, baked for it, made gorgeous signage, worked it, donated awesome art(yay David, Juliet and Liz!) and services(props to Cody, Danni, Sharon, Jason and BB!) to the auction and came and danced and soaked and cuddled and bought art and things…
My Buddha holds a fat envelope full of lovely green bills that will help me pay off a chunk of my debt, buy my ever-growing kiddo clothes for the fall and get my unhappy tooth to the dentist.. Though one of the very first things I’m going to do is GO BUY A NICE BIG CANVAS!!! Just to prove to myself that I don’t have to give up, even if I no longer have those lovely big walls I was so looking forward to painting pictures for.
But regardless of the money, the gift of my friends and community is a rich one. It is a boon and a bounty I’ll not soon forget.
Love.
My dear heartsister Sharon got married saturday to her wonderful betrothed, Jason.
I was honored and delighted to participate in their ceremony and watch them plight their troth in a circle of rose petals and beach stones(with our wishes for their union written upon them) and surrounded by tear-soaked family and friends. It was a beautiful ceremony, Marit did a great job officiating, despite being asked only the night before to fill in the role! She proudly declared them Woman and Husband.
Sunday, we had a big party at the Haller Lake Community center and there was square dancing-
-and so much delight and feasting and fun the whole city surely felt the waves of love…
My heart certainly overflows with the joy of it. So good to see my beloved, glorious Sharon united with such a good man and surrounded by loving family and community.
What a beautiful day!
I did take pics at the party. Enjoy the flickr’d set here.
Last week Ben, Rita, Anna and I possed down to Tacoma to see Juliet’s senior sculpture show.
The art was amazing! Juliet’s pieces were glorious-large metal and rubber structures, but the rubber was this exquisitely translucent material in delicate shades of green and gold.. It looked a lot like glass, but flexible. The shapes curved sensuously and organically, like leafs and flowers, growing up from the floor or dangling mysteriously from the ceiling. One was a gorgeous gold chamber that one could climb inside and meditate in, or simply gaze in awe at the mosaic of gold fragments bound together to create the structure.
I wished I could take it home with me.
Yay art!
All the show pics here.
I love threes and nines, so 39 is simply the most exquisite number EVER. Obviously, my 39th birthday had to be something special. 
Therefore, I combined it with my annual Naked Human party. Everyone brought tons of gawdjis clothes, we made a humongous pile and dove in. The party was so much fun, it just sort of ran itself! None of the performances I’d planned happened-but there was plenty of spontaneous performing ‘midst all the talking, snuggling, playing, trying oning and giggling.
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Brenda Belcher serenaded us with her lovely songs(when Zola wasn’t licking her face).
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Sean made magic with his mesmerizing balls.
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Yonatan stole our hearts with his shy debutante act… And then stole my hat. Again.
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Danni and Cody had us bustin’ a gut with their hilarious body-part-mash-up(Cody is the legs, Danni the top). There were really too many lovely performances to snap pictures of… Mai Li sang to us and told us ridiculous jokes, Juliet and Drew gave an awesome poem/montage of quotes, sweaters were cut into leg-warmers———-
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———-and we feasted on delicious foodstuffs. Rita made me an awesome grapefruit cake-yum! My lentil stew turned out divinely although it was a new recipe and I de-baconated it in favor of my veggitastic friends. Everyone scored loverly new clothes and we all had fun rummaging through the pile…
Such a glorious birthday! Thanks so much all y’alls, you’re amazing. Such a rich, lucky woman am I, to have such fantastic friends and community!
More pictures here.
EQlateral played the Good Shepherd Chapel on saturday night and as per usual when they fill a space with their delectable, ethereal sounds, there was much booty-shakin’!
Susan’s amazing voice gets me every time.
It was much fun. More pics here.
Go buy this amazing anthology!
It’s a benefit for my favorite traveling folksinger, SJ Tucker aka SOOJ. She’s in the hospital without insurance, facing horrifically ginormous medical bills.
My friend Satyr has pulled some mighty strings and rallied a mind-bogglingly exciting parade of amazing writers and artists(including big names like Neil Gaiman, Amy Brown, Charles de Lint, Catherynne M. Valente and Laurell K Hamilton-not too mention himself and my friend Ben Dobyns-woot!) to put together a truly stunning anthology of tales.
You can also help SOOJ by buying some of her awesome cds here.
And, if you’re really feeling the generosity, you can donate here and for donations of $100 or more, I will personally throw in one of my famous ‘Feed your Inner Dragon’ t-shirts. For $1000 or more, I’ll handcarve an SJ Tucker plaque.
You know you want it.
Rita sent me some more cute pics from New Year’s Eve. Dig the gorgeous dress I gave her for xmas-did I call it perfectly, or what? Hawtness and class, all wrapped up in one smooth coppery package!
Could I possibly have cuter partners in crime? I think not.
I painted fireworks on Rita at the LRS New Year’s Eve party.
It was so FUN! Ben played with the band in the cafe space and The Nasty Habits played in the performance hall, where we did our bodypainting act.. Best New Year’s Eve ever!
The juggler, Cody, saw me paint Rita and asked me to paint him too, so I did a double header.
Then we all rocked out on the dance floor. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah… SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO needed to shake some bootie!
More pretty NYE pics here. Don’t miss me new xmas pirate sox! AAAARH!