Penny Richards' photos

I swear, I didn't even see the unicyclist coming--got lucky with this one!

Costume contest! Princess Leia was super-intense.

A tiny Darth Vader and a tiny Luke Skywalker battle it out.

Members of the 501st Legion were on hand to pose for photos in front of the Death Star backdrop.

Hat: thrifted Top: thrifted Tunic: Made by me, handsewn from fabric I got at Trash for Teaching; scraps of fabric and stash buttons used for trim at neckline; also some crocheted circles there Skirt: thrifted Tights: Hue? Shoes: thrifted, Rockports

I made this card for a friend's daughter, who's having a baby shower this week. Image is from my own family albums--I don't know who mother or baby are, but they're so sweet. Background watercolor is from scrap paper in our school art room; there's also a leftover painted strip of cardboard, and two punched pieces held on with a brad, and some machine sewing, ink, rubberstamping.

I'm probably going to keep adding streamers and tulle and beads and such, and I have better underdress planned, but the crocheting part is pretty much done now. (Didn't get a good photo of the back, so that'll have to wait till next iteration. But I like the back a lot.) The shoulder rain is made from 30 shoelaces; the lower streamers are shredded t-shirt fabric; shoelaces and t-shirt strips are from Trash for Teaching in Gardena CA.

I crocheted this baby mat for a friend's granddaughter, from strips of t-shirt fabric found at Trash for Teaching in Gardena (they're donated leftovers from factories, in this case from American Apparel). I added handles and ties, so that it can also be used to tote bundles, like laundry or beach towels. Completely washable, of course.

Birdhouses mounted on a post (looked like this part of the lot was being prepared to be a community garden). Ours is the one in the foreground--daughter did the right half, I did the left half.

Birdhouses painted at the event, drying in the sun.

Working on our joint birdhouse (daughter did half, I did half).

These are some of the artists' birdhouses displayed at the event.

These are some of the artists' birdhouses displayed at the event.

These are some of the artists' birdhouses displayed at the event. (I don't know who did the yarnbombed birdhouse, but it was nicely done, as were all the rest, really.)

1000 block of South Fairfax, near LACMA.

Acrylic paint, paper collage, sharpies, and inks, on canvasboard. Image of Danish philanthropist Bodil Neergaard (1867-1956) from the Bergen Public Library on Flickr Commons. www.flickr.com/photos/bergen_public_library/5725784125

Just more snaps of flowers seen during walks around my neighborhood.