Where did the time go?

oh goodness! Really? It's been over 7 months since i've even looked at my blog. Time for a super long, photo-full update! The holidays were great, but then we got hammered with more sickness in the house... Mr D even ended up with pneumonia for a bit. But otherwise - here are the highlights:

 We had a pirate party in March, just because...

I still stalk the moon..

and i got this Squiggy necklace by the ever-awesome Kymm Chavers..

we commissioned the incredible Robert Jew to paint our beloved Sammy Cat..

mmmm watermelon...

The boys got me a carousel horse for my birthday, which has always been my dream to have. Just getting started on prepping it and getting him ready for paint..

 Mr B had a Ghost Busters birthday, complete with awesome cake

the balloon artist went the extra mile and made him a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

Lots of art being made...

"skelefriend" for the Vexed show

 "Cheers" for the Wasted show

 "Growth" for the Botanica show

 an ebook cover

 "Hula Girl" pen and ink

 

sketch for an OZ childrens book 

for the "Ladies First" show

"Wild Hare" for the Kingdom Animalia show

got some new socks for roller skating shinanigans...

 indoor camping on the air mattress... ahh the dog days of summer..

sillines...

and our bat named Bela..

okay, next post sooner rather than later! peace, I'm out.

juicebox

Well, if you haven't already heard or seen, since i'm blabbing about it constantly, we got ourselves a 1956 Centennial Wurlitzer. it. is. amazing. and so much fun to be able to see our boys enjoying it as much as we do...B calls it the "juicebox". this is seriously a dream come true for me! not to mention, the awesomeness of roller skating around my house while some oldies but goodies play on it!

it came stocked with the classics!

the guy who sold it to us also threw in a tabletop juke for free! i had to put a bit of elbow grease into both of the jukes, but they polished up beautifully! i also turned this one into a photo album...
took this one of Bunches by the juke for my photo group.

also, it's the time of the season.... and we got ourselves an elf on the shelf. His name is Doodle and the boys adore him!

I've also been getting out to rollerskate when i can, and even got to take Dyl out for a skate! He loved it. plus i think it's brilliant that the "skate gate" now exists! man, we had to learn the old fashioned way, lots of falling, scrapes and bruises.

a great pic of B dancing to The Champs 'Tequila'

and a new commission i just did for a friend...


next stop, Christmas madness! have a wonderful holiday season, however you celebrate it!!

This was Halloween

i'm heeeeeeeere! well since i've last popped onto blogger, the fam was hit super hard by the flu. it's been two weeks, and luckily everyone seems to be feeling much better, outside of a gnarly cough or two. I drew these two witches while completely down with the flu. pen and ink, they flowed out of me surprisingly well.




we made a couple of trips to the pumpkin patch this year. Here's Dyl and his gal-friend Shannon.

On a different day we decided to go and do the corn-maze as a family. Turns out, Bodie is not a fan.... (really he's not a fan of anything at this point), but that coupled with the fact that we got lost in the corn maze walking around for a good hour pretty much sealed our fate that we won't be doing the corn maze again anytime soon. toward the end, he realized he just had to submit and go with it, since he was tired...


great photo opp of Bunches and Dylan... (Mr. B refused to do any of the cut-out photos). i really want to make a pirate/mermaid version of one of these to have here at the house. it'd be great for wine parties, and whatnot.... on my list of things to do...

our pumpkins... Dylan designed and cut his own pumpkin this year for the first time! back center, it came out great!!

Me and the boys on Halloween night. it's obvious they weren't really feeling it this year. but we tried!

Sloanie came over to help pass out Halloween candy. We had a ton of trick-or-treaters, and blew threw all of our candy by 7 pm. Thanks Sloan for making an emergency candy run!!!

being fancy...

So now things are much better, Bunches even bought me oysters and shucked them for me yesterday!! Shuck yeah!!

and on the art front i've been busily working on cover art for a series of children's board books... i'll share more when i can!

well, that's all i got for now... have to get a little more sketching done today, and tonight - i'm putting on the blond afro wig, some serious fancy fake lashes, glitter make-up and going roller-skating with some friends! peace out y'all..



oh and one more thing... this is for my brother, way to be 8 ft taller than everyone else in 2nd grade. it really showed off your bowl cut.

Delightfully Frightful

Hey there all you Greasers! Aaaaaaah, one of my favorite times of the year is upon us! That's right, it's time to doll up and get witchy! i love knee-highs!

This time of year is also great to head up the road from where we live to Oak Glen. Scoring fresh-picked apples and seeing a few beautiful birds along the way = priceless!


Speaking of birds... this little baby ran into our window a few weeks back. i went out, held him and talked to him for about 20 minutes. he was so incredibly sweet. He had knocked some feathers off on the other side of his head, and had hurt his eye, but eventually he got his bearings back and flew off. later that evening i walked outside and saw tons of yellow finches feeding on our finch sock. they all got spooked and flew off when they saw me... all except one. yup, my new little friend let me walk right up to him :)

We recently surprised our boys by taking Mr. D out of school for a couple of days and doing an overnight stay at the Disneyland Hotel. Of course i absolutely love the Haunted Mansion and the imagineers totally knock it out of the park by combining the experience with the Nightmare Before Christmas. so much fun!!

Bunches and the Boys on Pirate Island...

Bunches also got me a new winter hat! oh, i love it so!! Looking so forward to wearing this throughout the winter!! I'm a rabid Muppet fan.

took this pic on Paradise Peir just before we left to come on home...

and here's a piece i did for the "Bodies of Waters" show at the Big Car Gallery... Here's the deets if anyone is interested! John Waters himself will be in attendance on Nov. 12th!!! eeeeeeek!!!


and with the fresh apples in abundance, i made my very first, completely from scratch apple pie. i have to say, i loved doing this... it tasted soooo amazing, and i'm ready for more! (i realize this sequence of pics may not be as appetizing coming just under the Divine/poo painting...)

Sloanie came by to help with the pie and play dress-up :) She also brought a batch of her homemade spaghetti sauce, and whipped up an awesome dinner. i love that my friend loves to eat as much as i do...

being vampy...

i scored this lovely little pair of dolls at our local pumpkin patch last night! They're so fancy and adorable that i'm just going to keep them on display all year long. i love them...

my little punkin face amongst the pumpkins...


Dylan and i scored a prop in the corn maze..

Bubba rules..

So that's what things are like here. Just days away from Halloween - yikes! we've been so focused on decorating we haven't even stocked up on candy! I'll send Bunches to that part... in the meantime, here i sit, passing the time with wine and catching snowflakes in the house...
Have a spooktacular Halloween all!!!