A Message from SoKaN’s Naughty Archivist

I have been neglecting my SoKaN achivist duties the past few months. You might have noticed by the previous posts, I have been a bit overwhelmed (in wonderful ways).

So much has happened so fast that I feel like my life is going by in dog years. At least six years worth of life have been crammed into the last 10 months. With the arrival of autumn, things are slowly winding down. Several projects are drawing to a close or are now being carried by their own momentum. I think I can return now to being a Good Archivist. And there is quite a lot to report.

First off, back in May (May!) The Angry Russian debuted The Angry Russian’s Birdhouses at the “All Things Art” festival. Here’s an amusing behind-the-scenes tidbit: as The Angry Russian was building these birdhouses, a mama robin built her nest four feet away from his construction site…

Yep. Right on top of the weedeater. As he worked, I could almost hear her tweeting (the oldschool way), “Dude, you are not doing that fast enough….I got babies on the way here!”

Brace yourself. Here comes a picture of her naked babies…

They’re alive, although you’d never know it from that picture. No wonder (normal) birds build their nests in trees – nobody needs to see that sort of thing! But now you have and there’s no going back.

The Angry Russian made his birdhouses from reclaimed wood that was once someone’s fence.

Then sometime around June or July (it’s a bit of a blur), SoKaN hit “The Big One,” where SoKaN’s Elitest Jerk peddled her beady peeps and BeadyBoop peddled various beaded accessories.

I didn’t spend much time at that event because by then we had moved to Peace.Love.Home. and I was running around ~~chasing butterflies~~ doing very important work…

…like cleaning out the barn. The previous owner had left the barn full of stuff, like Christmas trees and scarecrows and chairs and party games and a bunch of chipped dishes and clay flowerpots…so I decided to experiment with a little mosaic work with her (now my) stuff. As it turns out, I excell at breaking stuff.

But my mosaic pot was dangerous to touch and a little off kilter. Kinda like me.

Still, I enjoyed this a lot. Next I want to do make a birdhouse to match my pot. Maybe I’ll eventually set up an off-kiltered-mosaic-stuff garden next to the Greek-ruins ensemble.

And then dear LORD we had Goat Days! The Nutters were selling stuff, or something…I guess, but how anyone could expect me to concentrate on all that when I was surrounded by so much Goaty Goodness is completely beyond me. I mean just LOOK:

I was so completely overwhelmed and carried away by all the Goaty Goodness at Goat Days that I somehow managed to wind up alone and behind the scenes of a traveling circus…

I got kicked out of the circus by a very short man whose picture I did not get, but whose likeness I just rendered for you in Photoshop.

Then, last month, Skattur and I did the Broad Avenue Artists Market Renaissance, which was a cool event organized by local artist, Shaun Barber. It was a “just show up and do your thing” sort of event. There were instrument makers, painters, jewelry designers, musicians, and knitters and nutters, who showed up and did their thing.

The fantastic work of Scott at Tribal Spirits Flutes

Skattur has been creating (and selling) fun stuff like crazy. Here are a few of her awesome bird feeder and garden plate designs – all made from repurposed materials purchased at Goodwill and the Salvation Army.