posted by erika on July 4, 2012 – 2:42 pm
Between being home so much and it being summertime, Baby A and I have been out on the town a lot. Antiquing (that is where I found that sweet paint-by-number horse painting), running errands, the works. The house and other left-brain things have taken over and I haven’t been able to sit and paint. This will change in a few days because we are quickly getting things more in order around here. Piles grow like crazy when a new little person arrives.
There have been horrible fires here in Colorado and we usually can’t light our own fireworks since it is so dry. But this year the fireworks shows have been cancelled due to the fires everywhere. We are planning to just have our family over and relax together.
Maybe next year baby will see her first fireworks display. :)
posted by erika on February 17, 2012 – 4:25 pm
27 weeks! Pretty unbelievable and we are in awe. R and I went away for the weekend to Breckenridge. The weather was good, not too cold so we could just walk around town and relax. If I could have slid around on my belly like a penguin, I would have. I feel like we are slow going on the nursery decorating but we are getting there. Just bought the crib and dresser this week, hope we can put them together too.
I am in love with the prenatal vitamins, my hair is getting so long so my hairstylist cut some long layers. I am loving the cut, now I need to upgrade my flat iron. ;) I’m all done knitting the baby blanket, been done, just need to sit down in one spot and weave in the ends. I will post pics when she is all done.
Hope you have a fantabulous weekend peeps!
posted by erika on October 2, 2011 – 10:08 pm
Raul and I picked up his mom, brother and Arturo (Raul’s mom’s boyfriend) so we could all go up to the mountains. We go up and see the leaves change every year and this time we went to Estes Park and the Rocky Mountain National Park. So beautiful! We saw tons of elk on a high school campus and then some more up in the mountains. People were crazy and were trying to feed the elk tumbleweeds, insanity.
When we went up to the very top there were lots of chipmunks that would eat out of your hands if you had nuts for them. There were birds who wanted some food and attention as well. We broke the law and fed them almonds and peanuts. One time my hand was too high up so the little chipmunk climbed up onto the top of my hand and stuffed the almond in his cheek! They are so domesticated, the damage is already done. Ah well.
It was a fun trip but exhausting, we have been out driving around for about 12 hours now. Time to get some sleep. More pictures over here in my flickr set.
Goodnight!
P.S.
It’s my turn to post a costume sketch for 31 days of costume sketches over at Scribbletastic, check it out tomorrow!
posted by erika on September 18, 2011 – 11:40 am
I was so worn out from the local SCBWI conference yesterday that I came home and took a two hour nap. Exhausted, but the good kind. Where you absorb so much and you are crazy excited that your body can’t handle it anymore and gives out.
I don’t know where to begin. So, I have been absent here because I have been working on the Alphabet Book as well as cleaning up my websites. Two of my goals with a deadline of this month were to clean up my blog and to fix my online illustration portfolio. The portfolio just wasn’t working at all for awhile now because the navigation wasn’t the best and it wasn’t compatible with mobile devices that did’t work with flash. Long story short, I now have www.erikabarriga.com that redirects you to www.cargocollective.com/erikabarriga. When I was researching I found Cargo Collective and fell in love. I found out they were invite only, gave it a shot and they gave me an account. I am loving the interface, perfect fit!
So I said all that to say this, I did not want to go to the conference without a working beautifully navigated portfolio site. This past week was spent deep diving in code, magazines, design, etc etc. PLUS there was a part of the conference where you could present your work on a chair. I chose to put some of my illos on foam core and present that way. Since I just finished my website last night, I just finished my board last night as well. Everything has been wild over here, trying to get things done while still being well-rested enough to actually enjoy the conference.
So now to the good stuff, I really enjoyed it. This was my second time attending a SCBWI event, the first one was NY in last year. I found this event to be more intimate all the way around. I think I also made a conscious decision to make more connections and just talk more. Glad I did.
Highlights:
I attended the conference with my friend Christie and her husband Nick – their first conference!
I learned ways to connect myself with my stories from a talk by Caroline Stutson
Met Adam Rex who has a crazy amount of knowledge and talent – loved his keynote speech!
Met Brooke Boynton-Hughes – we follow each other on twitter and now we’ve met in person, so nice!
Entered my much edited down portfolio to the portfolio review and received invaluable feedback
It was great! Now it’s time to focus on more goals, draw some more and possibly write some too.
posted by erika on July 14, 2011 – 8:40 pm
Raul and I were beat and we needed a quick getaway. We packed up our backpacks and headed to Breckenridge. It was so beautiful up there. Colorado has been getting hit with some crazy rainstorms and it was no different up in the mountains. Other than that, the weather was perfect.
If you are in the mood for pizza, I highly recommend Giampietro’s. We got a pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, and black olive 16 incher and it was the best!
Poppies are my birthday flower and my birthday is next month.
The town is so cute, I love popping in and out of shops. I am currently obsessed with antiquing too.
And here I am, should have made it a longer trip. Love, love, LOVE getaways. See more pics here.
posted by erika on July 5, 2010 – 4:05 pm
I hope you had a great 4th of July! We had to chase down a fireworks show since there were severe thunderstorms going on but we did see fireworks so I’m glad. Before the show we went to the Cherry Creek Arts Festival with my brother-in-law Gilberto and mother-in-law Olga. I am all better too and very happy about it. That cold kicked my butt.
I’ve been up to things and I can never manage to type it here but this time I am determined. So we don’t have a yard yet because we don’t have a house. That isn’t stopping me from growing in my love for gardening though. My parents are the biggest green thumbs I know and I think a little bit is finally rubbing off on me. George, our red geranium we got last year, wasn’t blooming. The pot he was in with drainage got a little moldy so I tossed it and put it in a gorgeous new pot without drainage. This was a big no no because he didn’t want to bloom after that. But after I plopped him in a new pot with drainage and some drops of African Violet fertilizer in his water, he is a new man. The cutest red flowers are popping up now! I also found some herb seeds at Target for a dollar each so I am growing cilantro, lemon basil and parsley. Another trip to Target and I found some wild flower seeds so I planted those in a pot but those will take months. We’ll see how it goes.
Lastly, Raul and I have started going on bike rides again. I live for summer! So going on a ride at least once a week has been great. We both missed it.
Now I’m just geeking out: backing up the blog, website, working on items for the store, etc.
Back to work…
