blue lagoon

Shots of my plush bonanza at the Crammed Organisms show- courtesy of David at Cranky Yellow.

*EDIT* Is anybody else sick of those damn Hello|Good Buy Beatles-Target commercials? I hear them all the friggin' time and it's starting to make me puke puppies or something. Or not shop at Target anymore. :|

lolz

hemmin' and hawin'?

new plushies, gawd, geez, finally


So I've got some sweet new stuffs I've been procrastinating on lately... slowly but surely getting my Etsy back on track. Cute animals, and halloweenie stuff. Who doesn't love a shrunken head voodoo keychain? So far I've made this one, and a blue balding one for my monster-creating co-worker Justin.

On a sad note, Ben left for Ring-a-ling-a-ling this morning. Bummer for me, but turns out there are like A-KA-TRILLION video games companies out in this neck of the woods, so at least we know he'll be back. Plus, one more snail mail penpal, woot.

I also [might] be updating the look of the ole blogger this weekend, since I've caught up on sleep and my severe lack of donuts this past week. (In case you didn't know, I'm actually this freaky-cool steam-punk human-bot that runs on donuts and 10 hours of sleep a night [and hyphens, apparently.]) Expect great things!

check it, foo's

So i got some work up on JibJab.com, you should check it ooooout. I'll post more when I, erm, find 'em. (The site is kind of a mess right now, after the great migration from the old site to this one.)

swizzle stix

Soooo... this thing has been (slightly) neglected due to my crazy-long hours at work. I wake up at 7:30am, leave for work at 8:25 to be on time at 9:00am (I bike, it's very rough and tumble stuff.) Work doesn't let out until 6:30pm approximately, so it's a long day, every day. BUT, I've done some pretty cool stuff- some of which is gonna get launched soon, so woot-woot! You best be making sure you be checking it out like whoa.

I also work with some pretty cool cats- we're kind of a design gang with sweet facial tattoos.

Other than working hard for da monies, I'm enjoying the greater Santa Monica/Venice area. There's a farmer's market one block down from my apartment every Saturday, and this Sunday is the one-a-month-only ROSE BOWL PASADENA FLEA MARKET. When I first moved here, my boss went and found some amazing things (can you say DINOSAUR PHONE??) so I've been dying to go. I'll be sure to take some pictures and post 'em here if I can.

And art. I'll put that here, too, eventually. :D

astro-not

Something from the sketchbook, with photoshop colors. I'll update with my sketchbooky stuff soon, I just don't have the interwebs at home yet and I am uber busy at work most of the time.

movie mania!

If this isn't cause for celebration, then I don't know what is: TWO Brenden Fraser movies are coming out this summer, WITHIN A MONTH OF EACH OTHER. And one is in 3-D! And the other is part of the Mummy franchise!




Also, on Hollywood Blvd there is the biggest Wall-E I have ever seen- must be like 20 feet tall. Holy crap. That movie was so good/cute/amazing/heartwarming x 20. And Hellboy 2 is coming out! July is the month for awesome movies!!

a family gathering is never complete without cake!

My week-early birthday party at my grandma's with nearly all my fams (minus Aunt Linda who had a class to attend.) I tried my bst to ruin as many serious shots as I could.





My cousin Tyler is the coolest kid on Earth. My other cousins do not find us as funny as they should. :P Eh, awkward teenage years. Whatev.


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Ben looking all serious and stuff. EXTREME CLOSE-UP.

Chancey-Pants! The best dog in the world!

My cake! Chocolate and tasty with orange flowers and gobs of icing.


Good times. :)
I'll update the rest of the trip when we get to another hotel with wi-fiiii.

georgia to indiana, the travel-log

Georgia and the most ridiculous traffic ever. Followed by Tennessee's equally craptastic traffic (but lovely views) and Kentucky's bible thumping tiger-striped dinosaurs. YEAH!





Yeah, people are getting out of the cars to see what's going on. I just turned the car off. We were not going to move for awhile.


And that would be the reason why we were completely stopped for 45 minutes. 4 workers were having a chat.

Some photos of Tennessee, including the stupid traffic in Nashville (but at least it was because of a crash, not because some yellow jacketed d-bags were being Chatty Cathy's.




Our Dinosaur World between Orlando and SRQ has a SISTER world in Kentucky along I-65, whoo hoo! Look at that realistic paint job! There were also some wholly mammoths cresting in the background that we didn't catch in time. (Do mammoths crest? Can they crest? Maybe they roam. I don't know.)

Our sole picture of Indiana before it got dark and started to rain like a mother-F.

And the cutest cat in the world! Oliver! He sat on his little pouf for ...21 hours, just sleeping and watching the scenery. He had never left the house before, other than to go to PetSmart a few times, so this has been an experience for him (and us.)

st. louis and the crammed organisms show!

[hi.] We're on the road to California and we got to stop in beautiful St. Louis and see the last leg of the crammed organisms show at APOP records. Lots of the plushies had been sold, but I got to see the unicorn I'd made for the show that got posted last Friday. I also bought a really cute one- a fuzzy skeleton dragon I re-named Bone-regard.









^^^WOOT!!^^^

The show was crazy awesome, and I can't wait to get my copy of the book. I thought that just my cupcake girl was on the cover, but Jason (KillTaupe) added Aldous too! Mustaches and monocles for all! I'll post a picture of the book when I get it in the mail.

We took a TON of pictures from Georgia to our current location (northern Texas) so those'll be up soonishly. 2 more days til L.A.!