I feel passionate about being a ‘flattie’, a woman who chose not to reconstruct after breast cancer treatments and doesn’t want to wear breast forms either. I am getting used to being flat and am experiencing the stares of curiosity that is a normal part of our humanity but also a showing of how fewContinue reading “Breast Pockets-with deadline! 1000 pockets in 3 weeks?”
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Thread Dyeing and other Fun. Also a Call For:
Yesterday, I was making coffee and who ran past the window? A black Squirrel. I immediately grabbed some granola and put it on the sill. Grey Squirrel quickly ran over and started eating. It is funny! At our subway stop there is a transgender person and a shoe shine man who both ‘beg’ change, theContinue reading “Thread Dyeing and other Fun. Also a Call For:”
Got that Off my Chest
Today an article I wrote about going flat, breast cancer and gender went live at Role/Reboot. While I feel passionate about the topic, I feel some trepidation on how it might be received too. Being flat after treatment for breast cancer is quite an interesting experience, our society is so focused on breasts, it canContinue reading “Got that Off my Chest”
Dreaming from the Journal Page Give Away+
Dreaming from the Journal Page is a pretty snazzy book, if I do say so myself. North Light was very gracious to me when they heard I had been diagnosed with cancer and rather than flying me to home base to have step out photographs taken, they hired a photographer to come to me. ManyContinue reading “Dreaming from the Journal Page Give Away+”
Looking back.
Hey there. This blog post is a bit hard for me to post but one I feel passionate about and one I feel needs to go live. It is about cancer, recovery and ‘going flat’. Last year, on June 21, I had bilateral mastectomy without reconstruction. And as you might imagine, my thoughts, feelings andContinue reading “Looking back.”
Artist+Clothing=Adorn?
So here is the story. I have been quiet on the home front of cancer. I don’t know how to frame a discussion about my experience last year, all I know is I am just beginning to land and unwind, and integrate what I have learned from being ill. But at the same time IContinue reading “Artist+Clothing=Adorn?”
From Messy to Clean and Back
I don’t know how it works for you but at Casa Melly, the studio gets messy as all get out, I can’t stand it anymore, I can’t clean while in the middle of project. Then, just when it is driving me batty, I clean it up, spic and span. While my studio was clean andContinue reading “From Messy to Clean and Back”
Sleuth Work!
I think I have figured out that I can purchase the pattern online and print them out on paper. I have an acquaintance who speaks and reads Japanese. Now, I don’t want to a pesky, but. I am on a mission with this shirt. It contains surface design possibilities. Here is a helpful pdfContinue reading “Sleuth Work!”
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