Catch up.

It seems I have fallen off the face of the earth these past few weeks. I've been rather busy, between work, babysitting, volunteering, and trying to get some rest. However, having a three year old sister makes that difficult. Anyway, enough excuses. Hopefully this week, I'll get back on track with blogging and catch up on email. (I went from checking it every 10 minutes to once a day or less and then forgetting about it.) So here is some of what I've been up to.

Driving through epic thunderstorms. (And by driving, I mean riding in the passenger seat.)

Trips to the zoo to visit arctic friends.

Buying desperately needed clothes.

Wonderful garage sale finds.

Successful vintage shopping.

Animated horse races.

Magical Tea Parties.

Working on decorations for Shrine's vacation bible school.

Starting new books and reading my first graphic novel.

Getting ice cream for a penny at the Oberweiss grand opening. (Ciara loved it.)

Wrapping bouquets and sweeping up petals.

Finding old friends at the library.

Learning how to dance...or just making collages with the directions.

Visiting Ikea and finding what I never knew I needed (to be mounted by my drawing table).

Getting hooked on awful games. (Apparently I'm on a zombie kick lately.)

And hanging out with Mia.

Time for some strawberry shortcake! Mmmm!

Lots of Lovely

I've been cleaning out my bookmarks lately, and thought I should share some of these things that I thought were worth a second look.

This address file by Lovely Design.

This Flickr set of a vintage abc book.

This vintage inspired anniversary shoot by Jill Thomas.

These photos by Kate Miss.

 

Best organizational system ever.

The best thing since sliced bread.

Maybe I'll share more later. Right now, I have to go make a sketchbook for Mia. And work in a sketchbook of my own.

Happy Mother's Day!

Instead of Bunny Sunday. Which I'll continue next week. After I get back on track with blogging.

Home!

It was so nice to get home and be surprised by a clean room! I share a room with my 17 and 14 year old sisters, who forgot that there was a floor underneath all their clothes. And with my bed in Cleveland, not to mention, little room in that room, I have to sleep on an air mattress all summer. Which is fine since the room is clean! (Thanks to my mom who took a day off work to go through that black hole.)

Mia's glad I'm home. She hasn't let go of me yet. Even after she fell asleep. Ha.

I get to start work tomorrow! And a new sketchbook...

Packing/Procrastinating.

This is the hard part. You see, I've procrastinated packing until the last possible moment because, well, I hate it. You would think that with all my moving around from one home to another in different states, I would have a handle on it. Nope. I despise it. So I'm just now getting around to it today. I go home to Detroit tomorrow afternoon. Oops. Clothes are no big deal. I really don't have that many for the summer anyway. Art supplies, however...

This is always the tough part. Deciding what I want to make over break. Which is everything. I want to do some linoleum carving (I've had those blocks sitting there for far too long). I want to learn how to make granny squares since I finally have time. I want to sew some dresses and maybe a new wallet. Oh, and I want to fill up a bunch of sketchbooks. I love to collage in my sketchbooks. Love to. It really helps me get my ideas out. But I just haven't had time this year. So I wanna get back into it. But collaging back home means I have to pick which magazines and vintage papers and drawing supplies and, oh hey, sketchbooks to take with me. I have to have a clear idea of an aesthetic I want to go with, or else I can't commit to a sketchbook. And they all end up halfway filled.

Right now my room looks like a war zone. I thought animators didn't have to have that many supplies? Oh wait. I don't make mine on the computer [usually]. I need to collect junk for stop motions and magazines for cut out animations and drawing supplies for 2d and rotoscopes. Oy. I feel so materialistic.

I'm still procrastinating.

Anway, here are some pretty collages for you to look at while I figure out what to bring home.

Made by misspaq on Flickr.