Celebrating Awesomeness....

Way to go awesome artist Megan Whitmarsh. I love everything you make. Plush rubbish piles are really great! And I love your amazing embroidery pieces!!! Seriously awesome.

Chicago Children's Museum

I just went to the Chicago Children's Museum at Navy Pier the other day, and it is truly every child's dream. The exhibits were mostly interactive. It is like they thought of every childhood fantasy and made it a reality. They had a room filled with sheets, pillows and chairs all for fort-making. They had a cave-like room where you could excavate dinasaur bones. A room that had a mini-Chicago. It seemed like every room was connected with play bridges and tunnels. There was a snowman decorating station. A life size chess set. A really neat art studio. One of my favorites was a giant play-boat. I wanted to play around in there. I recommend that anyone go check this museum out.

Camille Canales

Another amazing artist I discovered this year at Renegade Holiday was Camille Canales. Camille does phenomenal textile art using embroidery, beading screen printing. She also does drawings. Her work is extremely intricate and beautiful. She must be extremely busy because in addition to her textile works, she also sells screen printed curtains, scarves and bags that are also very cute.

Cinco

Cinco is this band of artists from Argentina. Their work makes me ultimate happy!

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Joshua Ben Longo

Monster Skin Chair

WOW! My friend sent me this stuff by Joshua Ben Longo, who has an impressive body of plush work that spans nine years. His characters are highly imaginative and often hint at the grotesque. Josh has made so many great plush and its truly impressive because they are fantastically well made! The Monster Skin Chair rules! There were so many pictures to choose from, I had to put quite a few up. Its actually nice to see some plush that isn't so "cute". He calls the sum of his work Longoland, you can even buy a few of his items here. And no wonder his work is so good, I checked out his blog, and he has fabulous sketches he works from. I think the monsters from Longoland would probably skin and eat the Kinderfluff crew.