beaver

beaver, originally uploaded by lovinganvil.

wow. check this out. an interview on flashfilm.com

xxox
coco

mira!

el chicharron spotted at the hogfarm!

keep your eyes peeled...

what a deer

what a deer, originally uploaded by lovinganvil.

feels like spring

ocean jasper, originally uploaded by lovinganvil.

thank goodness.
it also feels really good to be back in the studio. looking at all of the wonderful stones that need to be made into wonderful rings. gil is painting in his studio upstairs, finishing work for the june show in nyc. we hope to sublet an apartment in brooklyn for a few weeks while we're there.

xxo
coco

it was a great trip to nyc and boston.  love brooklyn... finally got to explore around some.

really excited to be represented by these great spots, check it out:

FASSBINDER

38 8th ave

ny, ny 

212.206.

3600

and 

OAK

31 gloucester (and newbury)

boston, ma 02115

OOMA

1422 Grant Ave

San Francisco, CA 94133

415-627-6963

and

CHRISSY BEE

622 Shrader St

San Francisco, CA 94117

415-221-3020

xxox

coco

xoxox

ho-le guacamo-le. it's been a really really really long time since i've posted. a lot, and i mean a ton has happened. we've started our hogfarm music series. the next one is march 21, 2008. i haven't updated the hogfarmstudios.com site recently enough -- which i will turn more attention to when we get back from VEGAS. so we're going to vegas for a huge mondo crazy big fashion tradeshow and we're really excited. if you're at the pool/magic tradeshow, come visit lovinganvil at the new york designers showroom, booth #1218 whoo hoo!

so. let me stick with a running theme here and discuss the weather. it's super hot and muggy and to be honest, i am not complaining. it was chilly last week and i wanted to weep that the beach weather was over. we went to the beach today and swam in bitterly cold water (my ears still hurt) but we SWAM and we swam to cool off and that was really a good thing and i didn't mind that i couldn't wear my glasses in the studio today because they actually impaired my vision so you know. i dread the coming snow. we also just purchased a new fancy pants macpro laptop that i'm typing right now. it will help tremendously for all of the fancy pants shows coming up this september.
oh. on that note. check this out. the link doesn't show anything now but it will tomorrow.
xxxox

holy moly. summer is here and that's such a good thing. it is really humid, but again, we'll take it. learning how to manage the mosquitos a bit more. and we've been to be beach a few times already - we'll go for a dinner picnic today when gil get's home. he works with habitat for humanity a couple days a week which is nice. it's funny, tho, it already seems like too much time (working out of the home) considering what we're getting ready for this fall. still dreaming of a road trip but reality is totally infringing. damn reality.

ok. i've been looking at other blogs a bit more lately, and people seem to be posting a lot of their art work, which i am not doing much of at all. so ...i'll give it a shot. these necklaces are doing well -- and i really like making them. lots of different, odd charms.

ok. morning coffee break. we've given up and are paying $$ every few weeks to just order stumptown coffee beans from pdx. it's just too painful otherwise.

xxo

ok. wow. so a couple months later. just survived a hellofamarchtoapril winter. brutal. but it's been a couple weeks of rain, not snow. so i don't want to relive the endless icy landscape. there was a couple days of sun somewhere once and now it's just been gray. really, i'll take it. gil's been working on insulating the barn and we'll start classes this coming september. really excited about that. would love to take a road trip this summer but i'm not sure if it will pan out. i'll be in the next sportswear international magazine - for mens accessories. that rocks. (
www.sportswearnet.com, myspace.com/simagazine ).

chloe and i found the bench my dad had dedicated to my mom. it's along the eastern prom walk in portland, maine. she LOVED to walk that, briskly...vigorously. very healthy strong woman. i've walked it with her sooooooo many times, when we would come into town. and then pizza and wine at flatbreads.

i can't believe she's not here. it was so good to sit with chloe and play around the bench. but then looking at the photos just crushes my heart and i can't stop thinking about how much my mom would just love and adore and enjoy and be so blissed out with chloe. they would be such amazing friends. it's insane. oh man.

oxo