Handmade Gifts Make Me Smile
So I turned 25 a week ago. I stressed to my friends not to get me anything, and they know better anyway. I’m not big on material things. When I get tired of a video game, a movie, a new electronic gadget, *whoosh!* up it goes on eBay. So you better believe I was surprised at the gifts some of my friends came up with anyway.
Above is a gorgeous painting done by my friend Katie Regenye. Katie creates some seriously beautiful artwork, and I’m pretty upset that this photo does it zero justice. The lighting in my apartment just doesn’t illuminate it properly. She uses tons of color and little pieces of scrap thrown onto the canvas, like Easter basket grass, plastic bracelets, bits of wood, etc. The result is something truly unique, and I’m thrilled to have this hanging in my room…
… even if it did fall down on my face when I was sleeping the other night. I need to hang it up better.
My vixen of a girlfriend and my pal Alexis both made me pillows! The same dimensions and everything! Ah, the universe is so strange.
Heather made hers out of the t-shirt she bought from me when I first met her. When I was on tour with Foster, I spent some time running their merch table, and sold Heather this dark red t-shirt. This is, of course, inexplicably sweet and cute. Lex made a pillow with a picture of my bunny, Ash, on it. So awesome!
Eat your hearts out, Etsy people. Hee-hee.
This all makes me wish I had some sort of crafty talent aside from photography, but perhaps that is something I can consider this Christmas. Some sort of cute, personalized photographs for good friends and family, rather then my standard getting-people-DVDs-cause-I-don’t-know-what-else-to-get tactic.
Made me want to sign up for Buy Handmade. Check it out.
aww honey, i love you.
Comment by heather — November 7, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
Aww, that’s such a cute idea!!
Comment by Nicole — November 7, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
yipppeeee!!!
Comment by katie, your first wife — November 7, 2007 @ 11:44 pm
awww…how cute.
Wait, did I say that? I mean…how about them Iggles.
My GF made us a pillow out of a XXL t-shirt that we bought on sale at Burlington Coat Factory. It was a picture of Tupac. We thought that it was so ridiculous that it would be a perfect accent for a Market East apartment. The t-shirt had an actually stud in the nose of the gang-banging subject. There is something very sublime about listening to my bad white guy alternative music or old album rock music while getting cozy on my extra-large Tupac pillow with fancy fabric purchased at Staplers before they went out of business.
Comment by Stefan — November 8, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
Hmmm. Your GF is smart, beautiful AND talented? geez. She’s making the rest of us look like garbage. And look at your other talented friends! Tres Cool. I want to make something for you too! Thinking…thinking…
Comment by annie — November 11, 2007 @ 12:41 am
I love that painting. I wish I could buy it.
Comment by Mel — November 14, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
Your birthday is almost my birthday! That makes us cool. Happy very belated quarter-century.
Comment by Gabbiana — November 17, 2007 @ 12:22 am
ERIC! If you sell that painting I will murder you. But I will certainly make more if need be!
Comment by katie, your first wife — November 19, 2007 @ 2:54 am
Dig the blog a LOT!
Nice style and I like the way you discuss the tracks. I’m going to book mark it.
Comment by Weber — December 18, 2007 @ 5:48 pm