Miss Cake on Les Femmes Folles

In a recent article I was interviewed by Sally Deskins who writes for Les Femmes Folles, a blog "promoting and supporting women in art". It was inspired by an art show in April 2011 by the same name featuring 5 female artists.

Only a couple of weeks before she approached me, my friend Jenna Morrison, a musician, mentioned she was doing an interview for her band Conduits. Now that I'm aware of it I want to read the tales of so many other female artists in Omaha. I like finding another tiny thread that ties us all together.

Read my interview here.

Horribles are Freakin' Adorables!

My gift list for everybody! Horrible Adorables by Jordan Elise on Etsy.

Sherbert Flox, Long-Necked Swampskipper & Stubby Creature print by Horrible Adorables

Shop handmade!

Amanda Browder is Future Phenomenon

One amazing artist I recently came across, Amanda Browder, does most of her work in my favorite medium, fabric. I saw her credit in Lucky Kids magazine for a soft sculpture of a campfire, complete with logs and flames! Always a big fan of soft sculpture and the 3d art of manipulating spaces both indoors and outdoors I was just driven to see more...

I love this cave room she calls 'Beautiful Flux' transforming an ordinary room into a play land of whimsical coziness.

Attention Architects: One thing the world cannot suffer from is too much color.

Impending DOOOOM

Another fun find I found on Fab.com were these feisty fluffys by OhNo Doom. (Say that 10 times fast) They caught my eye because they are reminisce of the iconic Japanese Domo doll, which I just found out was hatched from an egg, can't talk but squeals and likes to watch TV. There trends a lot of creepy cute dolls out there, starting with the Ugly Doll craze, which I don't think I will ever tire of. I actually gave my boss's little girl her first Ugly Doll when she was born a few months ago. Don't worry, she will grow up totally normal.



I really like OhNo Doom because, like me, they like to do a little bit of everything art & designery. Including running an online art gallery/shop where I found the most adorable illustrative work of Kali Meadows (pictured top left)


(photos: www.ohnodoom.com)

"Tea & Titties"

Miss Cake + Bryce Bridges co-lab

” B-oops” Titty pillows and tutu by Miss Cake.


"Queen of Tarts"…rules with a manicured fist, painting here toes-es red. Her paper crown will melt before she does. Monica wears: Vintage princess skirt found at Retro, other pieces are stylist and models own.

Glimpse a first time collaboration of Miss Cake with photographer Bryce Bridges on arti-fashion photo shoot, my term for the "art of the anti-fashion shoot". I had a blast working with Bryce and he totally captured my vision of setting off the realness of the models in contrast to an almost cartoony animation effect. I like things exaggerated in full blast of color, so real its unreal. I want to create the place that women get to have fun being women and flaunt their awesome powers of individuality.


Having fun on set!

Bryce branched out of his typical style to work with my vision. His take on is "it was up to me to amplify the energy so that it would communicate in still photograph form. The approach I chose was to lift what was already an exaggerated and surreal grouping of elements just a little bit higher. By covering everything with light rather than casting shadows I was able to allow the vibrancy of the design and style to really come to the fore and take center stage."

View more images on Esoteric Velvet's feature, Omaha's own voice to hip local art and culture!

Pillow Pets

Aaron Stewart on Fab.com

I don't know when Fab.com hit the net waves exactly but I'm pretty sure they found me. Probably through the numerous other design websites I subscribe to, these marketers sure know what they're doing. By invading my inbox and popping up with sales on fabulous designs by well known designers such as Milton Glaser and plenty more new design houses I've never heard of before. Long story short, I got hooked and signed up. I'm a huge design junkie but I've been falling way out of love for super streamlined, modern, plastic, what I call "surgical" design fads, it can be so impersonal. I'm not in the market to buy anything aside from groceries but if I were, I now know where to go to for new names in design and supre-cool unique gifts.

(reminisce of my white kitty, Pinky)

That's why these pet pillows from Pillow, Pillow, Pillow by illustrator Aaron Stewart caught my eye. The silly, simple illustrations, the handmade quality, to me, hold their place in the design world, and more importantly my heart, just as much as the highest technology in polypropelene. Besides pet marketing is where its at since they are the new offspring of the 20-30 somethings, smart cookie.

Paper Pirate

Meghan Stratman's Bunny Pirates

(images from Meghan's Alphabet Series 2010)

I first came across Meghan's work at her solo show "Rabbit Hearted Girl" at Screen Ink in Lincoln, NE. If these are a pleasure to look at online then in person the craftsmanship and texture of these pieces is just jaw dropping. Many of her pieces are influenced by lyrics and music, it seems to me, in the tender and alluringly strong way of the fiesty femme fatale.


(images from Meghan's most recent solo show "Louder than Sirens" 2011)
Keep your eye on this profuse talent and check out her print shop!

h-e-l-l-o!

Allison Cole is one of my favorite illustrators and crafters making all around goodness. I love these little greeting card sets for only $7. Find them on her Etsy site "Bang, Bang, You're Thread"

"Meet Diaper Fish"

Talking Trash - Make less waste, Duh

The problem: Too much waste: Residents of the United States threw away 207 million tons of garbage in 1993. Local governments spend more than $30 billion each year to manage solid waste, but this burden falls not only on taxpayers. It affects the environment, too. Beyond the problem of finding places to dump or burn trash, waste is often the visible result of using natural resources inefficiently.

Makoto Yabuki + DRESSLAB

Such breathtaking contrast in line and color, hard and soft, highly visible and yet obscured... Yin & Yang