Posted by erika on March 9, 2010 – 9:26 pm
Whenever I see anyone sporting a mohawk, I immediately think they are brave for making that fashion statement. A pink one is even braver. I couldn’t do it.
Go ‘head Grandma.
My attempt for Illustration Friday and 52 Designs.
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I have other things going on than just illustrating like a mad woman. I’m also exercising like one. This is my third week of hitting the gym for at least 45 minutes of cardio and weights, three to four times a week. It feels wonderful to get back into my fitness routine. Not sure how I got off track but I’m being mindful so it doesn’t happen again.
Went to my first estate sale the other day and found some good finds. The sale had a ton of photography equipment along with collector’s edition model cars. Most of the things I got had some great vintage quality to it from the 1930s. My mom met me at the sale and found the LP for West Side Story at another estate sale up the street. Now I just need a record player. ;) But I love that musical so I’m just happy to have it.
I see some buds peeking out and I can’t wait until things start to bloom. I am so ready for spring, not even funny.
Posted by erika on March 2, 2010 – 6:28 pm
What is truly beautiful is based off of your own perspective. This limited edition print and others available in my shop.
My entry for Illustration Friday and 52 Designs.
It is starting to feel like spring here and I am beyond excited about it. Move over snow, come on in flowers and sunshine.
Posted by erika on February 25, 2010 – 7:18 pm
This is my entry for the Caterpillar contest on Sketchoholic. This is the site Bobby Chiu is starting to migrate his Chiustreams over to instead of using Ustream. My style is completely different than everyone else who submits to the contests there but I just went for it and we’ll see what happens. Bobby features artist interviews and he just interviewed Kei Acedera last Saturday, the first female artist to have an interview. On top of that, he proposed live! It was very sweet and everyone was nervous for him in the chat. So cute. The interview for this contest is with Michael Kutsche tomorrow and he was one of the character designers on Alice In Wonderland.
I would love to win a print from him but even if I don’t, this submission pushed me and helped me learn even more. This limited edition print and others available in my shop.
If you wouldn’t mind, vote for me! :) Voting starts in a couple hours and ends tomorrow at 9 p.m. GMT. Thanks!
Posted by erika on February 22, 2010 – 10:21 pm
My attempt for Illustration Friday.
The bunnies are propagating and taking over my site with their trampolining shenanigans.
Silly bunnies.
Posted by erika on February 19, 2010 – 6:06 pm
There was a Chiustream/Sketchoholic contest about three hours ago and although the stream ended an hour and a half ago, I couldn’t stop working. The topic was “Big Mouth” which was nice because it was a little broader topic than usual. The topics are usually “dodo or rabbit, etc”, they are more concrete. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to submit a complete piece for the contests there. Scratch that, I know I will someday. I already worked so much faster and looser on this piece, lots of progress. Check out more entries!
I love anything that pampers so I love loofah sponges. The plastic kind but they seem to always fall apart. My husband is anti-loofah, just like a lot of other guys I think are as well. When we were at Walgreens yesterday I saw the Dove Men+Care line and they have this manly version of a loofah that I want. It’s called the Active Clean Dual-Sided Shower Tool (hehe, love the name) and I think it is the coolest thing. Of course just because it says “men” on it doesn’t mean I won’t be buying one. Way to make a loofah masculine Dove! I dig it.
Raul still isn’t going for it though. Ah well. Oh, have you seen this Old Spice commercial? It cracks me up. Look at your man. Now back at me.
Have a great weekend!
Posted by erika on February 16, 2010 – 9:13 pm
Operation Clean Up.
I talk about it a ton but I can’t help it. I have been overhauling this condo for awhile now but I’m finally seeing some real progress.
Not the, oh-this-can-be-stuffed-in-the-closet-too type progress but real I-could-show-our-house-in-an-open-house type progress. See the thing is, I have been in the same home for a little over 10 years and have gone through the just-moved-out stage to the going-to-college stage to married-and-no-longer-living-by myself stage. I have improved immensely with my organization and it is starting to show.
(This is turning into a hyphen-saturated post, my apologies).
This past week I did a complete closet makeover which resulted in a big whopping $18.55 from Plato’s Closet and the rest went to Goodwill. I have had a wall unit/media center probably since 1990, so that housed a lot of books, magazines and a standard non-flat-screen TV. So when Raul and I decided we were going to get our dream flat-screen TV and realized our tastes had changed (he had a huge TV/media center monstrosity in his condo too and got rid of it when we got married), we had to find room for this extra stuff. I would keep going through magazines and gutting them for different categories: inspiration, recipes and workouts. Although I got rid of magazines, this pile of the good stuff was still a back-burner project. I got binders and sheet protectors and I’m loving the results. Magazine butlers were needed for my Anthropologie and J.Crew catalogs that I consider art magazines. They also house a select few Martha Stewart Living magazines since that magazine isn’t standard size. The pages won’t fit in sheet protectors.
Operation Clean Up has been a big project but I’m seeing the finish line and I am excited. I figure extra stuff = extra boxes = extra money when the time comes to move in the future. Just planning, we don’t have anything lined up but hopefully in the near future we will. Thank God for my parents that have a little area in their basement for some of our stuff, but mostly we have purged quite a bit.
I just had to share because it feels good and friends encouraged me with their clutter clean-up stories too.
P.S.
I hope you had a great Valentine’s Day full of love or just hanging out. When I was looking for a card for Raul I saw a card for best girlfriends’ night in. Pretty sweet.
