Happy Friday! I've been a bit obsessed with this new series of illustrations I created for the Art Walk at Drygoods (I'm typing this before the actual event so I don't know if anyone will end up showing up, but just having the chance to participate was awesome. Thank you, Keli!). Over the years of experimenting with different kinds of illustrations, I've decided that painting anthropomorphic animals is at the top of the favorites list. I mean, a foxy seamstress, a wise quilter, a ... Read more
Book Events!
One of my new goals is to do more book events. Not only do the events help promote the books to which I dedicated mega effort, they're great fun, and I'm challenging myself to get better at public speaking. I'm not a shy person, but my college speech class permanently scarred me, and I've avoided piping up in front of groups larger than two people whenever possible. I may have mentioned this before, but confronted with an audience, my physiology betrays me: sweaty palms and forehead, shaky ... Read more
Monday Outfit: Puperita Colleen Dress
Good morning!! It's good to be back! I have to warn you, though. I'm jumping the gun because the husband is still murmuring about adding another security measure or two, but I decided I just needed to get back into the blogging groove or I would lose all motivation and this little space would die a quiet, unacknowledged death. There's a small chance that the blog will go down again, but I think it's safe to proceed with caution. Later this week, I'll do a roundup of some fun things going on ... Read more
STILL Hacked
It doesn't look like much is happening with the ole blog these past few weeks, but under the hood, it's getting outfitted with some impressive security measures and tensile armor. Or something. I don't know, when the husband starts to emit sounds that include words like "sql" and "SSH keys" my ear flaps involuntarily close up. Unfortunately, the tinkering that's going on means that even though I've tried to add new posts, the blog keeps reverting back to the Happy Friday/going to Vancouver ... Read more
Happy Friday + Randomness
Happy Friday! So, we're getting out of town and heading to Vancouver next week! K's friend is visiting from Guatemala and on the spur-of-the-moment, we booked tickets for Amtrak plus an Air BNB, and off we go on an all-girls' trip to Canada. One senior citizen, one middle-aged mama and two tweens. This should be interesting. We're all about the same age mentally, so it's going to be a blast. Due to the crazy number of things going on, we can only stay for a couple of days which means we won't be ... Read more