The Termites Are At It Again, My Love // Image Copyright © 2010 ♥Ineffable3
More Progress. Back in the summer, I made a terrible decision to stain this piece, not fully understanding the wood I was working with - bad move. The entire heart had to be sanded down to nothingness :( Heartbroken (literally), I abandoned ship until I was able to think clearly and figure out a way to salvage this beauty. 
So today, Friday February 5, 2010 I finally solved the problem. Hoooofuckingraaahhh!

The Termites Are At It Again, My Love // Image Copyright © 2010 ♥Ineffable3

More Progress. Back in the summer, I made a terrible decision to stain this piece, not fully understanding the wood I was working with - bad move. The entire heart had to be sanded down to nothingness :( Heartbroken (literally), I abandoned ship until I was able to think clearly and figure out a way to salvage this beauty. 

So today, Friday February 5, 2010 I finally solved the problem. Hoooofuckingraaahhh!


Joanna Newsom // ‘81

I ♥ Joanna, and I’m anxiously waiting for this album to drop already. Just  a couple more weeks, and BOOM!

(I’ll take down this video when I can get an actual copy of the song)

This pic was taken in 2006 when I first began working/carving on (then titled) “Bare Beginnings.” Like most things at that time, I abandoned it and moved on. I have MANY pieces with this same exact sob story. Fortunately for this one, I’m pulling myself up by the boot straps, and gettin’ down to business.
Our then Bare Beginnings is now titled Metamorphosis. Progress pics are coming soon :)
*Disclaimer: This photo was meant to serve as an artistic re-enactment. I DO NOT actually carve this way. It is unsafe, and you will LOSE a finger. Thank you for reading.*

This pic was taken in 2006 when I first began working/carving on (then titled) “Bare Beginnings.” Like most things at that time, I abandoned it and moved on. I have MANY pieces with this same exact sob story. Fortunately for this one, I’m pulling myself up by the boot straps, and gettin’ down to business.

Our then Bare Beginnings is now titled Metamorphosis. Progress pics are coming soon :)

*Disclaimer: This photo was meant to serve as an artistic re-enactment. I DO NOT actually carve this way. It is unsafe, and you will LOSE a finger. Thank you for reading.*


Fiona Apple // Why Try to Change Me Now?

I still wanna marry her…the dream has not yet died :)

Stations of Bianca // Preliminary Sketch // Image Copyright © 2005 ♥Ineffable3
This has been sitting in the Ineffable Vault of Oblivion for a long time, but it’s finally found an suitable owner :) Yay!

Stations of Bianca // Preliminary Sketch // Image Copyright © 2005 ♥Ineffable3

This has been sitting in the Ineffable Vault of Oblivion for a long time, but it’s finally found an suitable owner :) Yay!


“Beware of the sound of one hand clapping.”

— Expelled: No Intellegence Allowed

Baby Ruiz In Utero.

As some of you may already know, I’m all sorts of knocked up :) and despite the absurdities of pregnancy (weight gain, mood swings, boob enlargement, ridiculous heartburn, etc.) it’s been a pretty sweet ride so far - ie. no nausea + no vomiting = woot!

To be quite honest, I never really pegged myself as the mothering type, but with age I guess, feelings about matters like this tend to change. So here I am, 22 weeks along, and expecting this adorable, silly putty like, little creature…

…and I couldn’t be HAPPIER :) Meet my kid in utero, Antonio Rios Ruiz 

My husband and I decided to officially find out the sex of the baby yesterday (tho months prior, a table full of in-laws doing some brujeria had already confirmed it). Despite knowing what I knew, I had really been hoping to beat the system and have my girl anyway, but when I think of it in retrospect this is actually better. Growing up I had been such a tomboy, and knew only of Gi Joes, Thundercats, Ninja Turtles, and Batman. What on earth would I do with a girl? At 28 yrs of age, my brain still can’t fully comprehend the meaning of pink or the wearing of high heels on a daily basis without the event of an occasion. I seem to be missing that chromosome. LOL!

As expected, my husband was threw the roof…as was my father. My poor dad had always hoped for a son, and when my mother was pregnant with me (and due coincidentally on his birthday Oct 8th) he was sure I would be his little boy. As you may have already guessed, this was not the case. Like most Libras, I came out quiet and defiant, 1 day later, and a GIRL. My poor Dad who had been stuck in a house full of women most of his life finally got his wish yesterday. But mostly the happiness of knowing there would be a grandson to carry on our family name.

Happiness is truly this :)


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Tegan & Sara // Soil, Soil 


“Memory is quite the bitch lately. (via the dank little chamber of celebratory finger flicks, neck kisses and the like) In letting go, we close doors. They stay locked tight, and hidden behind deceiving curtains.
Glitch.
Locks have a nasty habit of dissolving, and curtains have an even nastier habit of being sheer at inopportune moments - this being one of them.”

— LV//11:16


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Undenied // Portishead

“Untitled” // carving in progress // Image Copyright © 2009 ♥Ineffable3 
There’s really not much to look at right now, but even having this much completed is very satisfying. I like the process of seeing something take form :) I got 2 more columns and a bit more sanding to go!

“Untitled” // carving in progress // Image Copyright © 2009 ♥Ineffable3 

There’s really not much to look at right now, but even having this much completed is very satisfying. I like the process of seeing something take form :) I got 2 more columns and a bit more sanding to go!

OK kiddies - What’s wrong with this picture? 
</rant>maybe you should get someone with an artistic eye - or a thimble full of fucking brain cells for that matter, to hang the artwork in your gallery</rant>
I, along with the work of several others, were jumbled up! What was supposed to be beautiful continuous images spanning from picture frame to picture frame ended up looking visually confusing, and more than that - completely meaningless.
After seeing this fuck up, and being obviously peeved (don’t screw with the emotions of a pregnant woman), I decided to grit my teeth and continue looking at other work.
wtf, sigh…
My husband approached the owner and explained the mixup, and how, other than the fact it’s VISUALLY OBVIOUS how the pieces should flow, I had noted on my contract as well as behind the artwork itself how the pieces were to be hung. The owner (a nice dude by the way) apologized for the screw up and assured me that the problem with my artwork would be taken care of…
The visual, as well as the story behind April Blooming is kind of dear to me, and the fact that it’s been shown incorrectly in 2 shows really kills my artistic spirit a bit :/
Oh well, can’t win em’ all…
(FYI, don’t expect to ever see these pieces again. They are officially being retired when der Zeit comes to a close)

OK kiddies - What’s wrong with this picture? 

</rant>maybe you should get someone with an artistic eye - or a thimble full of fucking brain cells for that matter, to hang the artwork in your gallery</rant>

I, along with the work of several others, were jumbled up! What was supposed to be beautiful continuous images spanning from picture frame to picture frame ended up looking visually confusing, and more than that - completely meaningless.

After seeing this fuck up, and being obviously peeved (don’t screw with the emotions of a pregnant woman), I decided to grit my teeth and continue looking at other work.

wtf, sigh…

My husband approached the owner and explained the mixup, and how, other than the fact it’s VISUALLY OBVIOUS how the pieces should flow, I had noted on my contract as well as behind the artwork itself how the pieces were to be hung. The owner (a nice dude by the way) apologized for the screw up and assured me that the problem with my artwork would be taken care of…

The visual, as well as the story behind April Blooming is kind of dear to me, and the fact that it’s been shown incorrectly in 2 shows really kills my artistic spirit a bit :/

Oh well, can’t win em’ all…

(FYI, don’t expect to ever see these pieces again. They are officially being retired when der Zeit comes to a close)


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Why? // Rubber Traits

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