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A folded black tshirt with a robin's egg blue screenprinted on black on a map of the Boundary Waters spotted with lakes.

Designed: Mpls & hexagons shirt

It’s Minneapolis-in-a-hexagon, in tshirt form, screenprinted in a pale aqua on a black background. In early 2015, I was working on an unrelated Continue reading →

A screen-printed map of the city of Minneapolis in white, in the shape of the state of Minnesota, on a blue folded tshirt sits on a map of the Boundary Waters area. On top of the t-shirt is a polyhedron made of small brass pieces.

Designed: Mpls/MN shirt

Among the new items I designed for the winter Made Here MN show was this t-shirt. I think of it as Continue reading →

The screenprinted happify Minneapolis map poster is framed by another Minnesota map, framed by a black background. On the maps are two vintage flashcards; the top one reads "north" and the bottom one reads "Play in the street." Scattered on the edges of the maps are additional items: a moon globe, a metal drafting compass, four small jars of paint, blue and brass and green colored paint brushes, a black iron scissors, a book entitled "Minnesota," and a handmade happify brass triakis icosahedron.

Minneapolis, a city of possibilities

I designed this map of Minneapolis to convey a triptych of truisms as a starting point for sharing our stories (past, present, Continue reading →

Head-on shot of happify's security envelope origami paper cranes in a blue glass bell jar against a black background.

Designed: security envelope origami

This post was originally intended to be my seasonal offering to the vast internet encyclopedia of How To Decorate Your Continue reading →

A photo of a newly designed happify thread ball pops against a black backdrop shows an overlapping network of interlaced gold lines over a nest of cardinal red, orange, grey-blue, yellow, blue, magenta, forest green, salmon, pink, and other rainbow colors.

Designed: thread balls

A tangle of (stale-smoke-emanating) thread came through the thrift store where I volunteer. I caught it as it was about Continue reading →

An assortment of necklaces (crystal, tazanite, labradorite, vintage pearls, brass tetrahedrons, crystal, silver, etc.) as well as vintage keys and caliper hang from small upholstery nails positioned in the Big Dipper constellation form on a plain white plaster wall.

Snippet No. 12

We’ve hit the part of November where I’m no longer antsy at every moment I spend inside, worried I’m missing the most Continue reading →

A close-up of one of the etched bells on the homemade twine garland, the others blurry in the background against the white shower curtain.

Snippet No. 11

Here’s my shower curtain, with its most recent addition, a string of (most of) my vintage brass bell collection, accumulated piecemeal Continue reading →

Written: My Dead

Below, an unfinished poem I wrote probably a dozen years ago. Offered without additional caveats, on Dia de los Muertos/All Soul’s Day. My Dead Continue reading →

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