Cut-ups, dreams, and holy hailstorm!

I had a dream last night in which an older gentleman approached me and told me that I have dirty ears. He said I needed to pay more attention when I wash my ears, as they were unsightly, which made me feel simultaneously embarrassed and confused, as I take great care in making sure every body part is meticulously clean when I take a shower. Some other stuff happened in the dream that I can't remember, but I thought about the older gentleman's criticisms while washing my hair this morning. I made sure to get in every nook and cranny of my ears. I also added "q-tips" to my shopping list.

The reason why I bring up this odd and undoubtedly boring dream is because I am putting the latest issue of Be About It, my zine together and I want to make sure everyone knows about it. I am going to try to make this issue available online (in addition to the regular hard copy that I will mail out per your requests), perhaps as a PDF with the suggested Paypal donation of a dollar or two, to help with printing costs. The theme this time is dreams, and although I have plenty of submissions from my lovely readers and the deadline was last Friday, I will still be accepting late-coming works of art. I want to give you all a chance to turn in your stuff because I really think this is going to be the best issue yet!

On another note, I've been making collages like a crazy woman lately. The collages are the prizes from my little giveaway that I blogged about last month. I originally was going to make a bunch of different items as prizes, but I got on a collage-making kick and I'm having too much fun. Besides, everyone loves collages, right? And my friend Evy told me that I'm getting progressively better at the craft. Decide for yourselves.

Three collages I made for my prize winners, which I will be mailing out tomorrow:







The Valentine's Day card I made for Ben:



We've had a lot of crazy weather in San Francisco the past few days. One minute it's raining, the next it's sunny, the next it's hailing cats and dogs! Check out this little video I made yesterday morning, after being woken up by a really loud hail storm:


Sookie was very intrigued by what was making all that racket.


Sorry for the scatter-brain post, but I guess I had a lot to say and I didn't think writing three different blog posts would be appropriate. Have a lovely Thursday!