Soo....

It's nearing the end of July??! Sorry I haven't been around. I don't really feel bad about that. Lots has happened and nothing at all has happened!

Life plans have changed, and this time we're REALLY excited!

That's all I've got for now.

Super-KALI-fragillistickexpialidocious

Do you know Kali Fontecchio? She is a super talented, super awesome, and super cute drawer of drawerings of the cartoony kind. Go look at her blog now- you will be amazed!

After creeping around her blog throughout the winter, I finally asked her really, really (REALLY) nicely if she'd draw a caricature of Shawn and I- because her caricature work is rad- and BOOM! This showed up on our doorstep!



HOLY ACCURATE!

I commissioned this as a surprise for me and Shawn, and lo and behold, both times I attempted photos of the characters holding their caricatures, Shawn was wearing his signature shirt!




Thank-you Kali! <3

Just in time for vacation...

...I mysteriously threw my lower back out! So I've been taking it easy at home for the past few days, icing, stretching and relaxing in hopes I can nip the worst of the sprain in the bud. Seems to be going okay... KNOCK ON WOOD.

Regardless, we leave on Sunday evening, spend the night in Banff (at the Inns of Banff, with the awesome roof top hot tub!), and then onto the future hometown! I can't wait! Especially since this is the forecast for the week we'll be there...



Hoooweee! See you next week!

Getting out of Dirt City!

As many of you may know, Shawn and I are planning our eventual escape to the Okanagan Valley, and at the end of May we will be going on a fact finding mission! Well, it's more like a fact finding mission, combined with a vacation and wine stockpiling. Yay!

Shawn will be working with Kai at Stix Ink in Penticton from the 25th of May to the 29th. Tell your friends! Here's the pretty promo poster!

Prototype, on Earth Day!

...I didn't plan it that way- that's just how it happened! How appropriate!

Tree Friends will not only be available in prints (soon!) and maybe cards, I am working on a cuddly, huggable version of the Tree Friends.

This is my first attempt:



Obviously, I have some changes in store for the next little guy...But for the first pattern, first attempt, finished in a few hours, he did turn out pretty cute!

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Spring Cupcakes!

So, I've been feeling a little, err, off for the past few days- generally unfocused, unmotivated, blah. I talked to Shawn after he got to work this morning, and he suggested I make cupcakes to de-funk myself.

After I hung up I thought, THAT'S IT!

I haven't baked and decorated cupcakes since....well, probably Christmas!

So here are my spring cupcakes! I tried to pull off dahlias, and although I don't think I quite got it, I'm pretty happy with how they turned out!






...maybe I'll pretend these are belated Aku and Tomas Magnum birthday cupcakes!

To all the fake'n'bake dummies out there!

As I've been saying for years, tanning beds ARE just as dangerous as the sun! Exclamation point! Stop turning yourselves into orange-skinned cancerous tumours!