new kitty

New kitty!  I adopted a new kitty this last weekend from Kindred Kitties.  Her new name is Elsie and she's 8 months old.  I love her cute tortoiseshell coloring :3  Oddly, it took me like a day and a half to pick out her name (at the shelter she was Catalina - cute, but too long)  First I had Bobbin picked out because I love that name - and they would be my little sewing kitties - Button and Bobbin, but they sound way too much alike.  The stripe on her nose reminds me of a candle flame, so then I was going to call her Flicker, but I think she looks like an Elsie.  From the picture at the bottom you can see what Miss Button thinks about the whole situation - if looks could kill, I would be dead.

hurray for holgas

I happened to get the plastic and crappily-made awesomeness that is the Holga 120N from St. Nick this year!!! (Similar to Mie's Diana F+, check out the neato pics :)  Hurray! I was so very very very excited to get this and I've just taken my first roll of film in to be processed; I'm gonna pee my pants waiting to see what I've taken pictures of... hopefully I didn't screw anything up...  It's kinda fun working with this "toy" film camera and I like the process as opposed to the easy-peasy convenience of the digital camera.

puppy ornaments!!

I made ornaments for my family this Christmas with the silhouettes of each of our four dogs (including four that are no longer with us) for a grand total of 8 dogs!!!  I only had good profile pics of three... so I had to do the rest from memory - but I must say, they turned out to be spitting images of each pup! Each is printed (via inkjet awesomeness!) on muslin then stretched and framed in a wood embroidery hoop.  I wish I had taken pics of them all, but I already wrapped them up and put ribbons on them... This one was left out because I made it for myself - that's my Mackyboy :)  And, just in case anyone was interested in seeing all 8 dogs together - here they are!

secrets

Dik-dik and thylacine have lots of secrets... ssshhhhh...

snowballs yay!

No explanation available...

grarargrarrrrrrant

Ugh.  So, I really need to get back into the world of illustration and doing more illustrations for myself... the caggio show definitely was for myself, but i really want to start doing more consistent arting... i've missed out on studio sunday waaaaaaaay to much, but it's hard for me to get up there (me = mostly jobless = broke = no gas in my car).  though i still kick myself for not going. hard.  i have been getting some money from my yo-yo necklaces on etsy (thanks again country living magazine!!)  and, surprisingly enough, i'm still getting orders!  so i'm still working on those... and i really want to start work on my "sedna" graphic novel, but it won't happen until after christmas... speaking of christmas - our family gift exchange features not buying our presents - but making them handmade. hurray!  so i'm working on my gift now... and making homemade ornaments for each person... that's 12 ornaments - but i found out a great way to quicken the process!  i found that by spray-mounting muslin (or any other thin cotton fabric) onto printer paper, then sending it through the printer works amazing!  it looks like it's painted on!  and when you peel the fabric off of the paper, the spray mount only sticks to the paper! wunderbar!!  so now i'm going fabric-printer crazy...  try it, you'll love it :)  but i'm also making gifts for friends... though they may not get them until after christmas - d'ya hear that people? after christmas. you have to wait.  but you'll only know it if you read through this whole thing, which i'm sure no one will because i made it far to long and draaaawn out :)

cornered...

 Sometimes I wonder what they say to each other during a confrontation....

Camille loved her tea on cold wintry days

 This is the final illustration (minus text) that was done for a client who sells rooibos tea.  It was a quick, fun illo and I really ended up liking it quite a lot.

goodbye my sargy boy

My Sargent gave us over 13 good years, now he's gone to the big dog park in the sky....  He was such a sweetheart, he was my puppy; even as he grew older, he was still my puppy.  It's really hard to not see him here laying on the floor by me, I'm going miss him dearly....

Happy Be-Lated Halloween!!

 

 

Happy Be-Lated Halloween!! Mack had fun dressed as a lion and helped me hand out candy, Miss Button became the witch's familiar, and Gunny came to visit with his boo! scarf!