I saw baseball.

Yeah, I did go to a baseball game. It wasn't the first, and I bet it won't be the last.

Do I like baseball, or really understand it?

No. :-P Haha

Why did I choose a mate from a baseball family!?

Oh, and I have a pic of me from the wedding weekend. The dress with the mysterious hole that occurred somewhere on the car ride.

I am snickering or something, scrunching up my face. After years and years of being the one behind the camera, I have recently figured out that I don't know how to pose for pictures. I hate to smile, I hate to show my teeth, and I don't know what to do with my hands. I need lessons. At least my hair looks really pink!

And last of all I have put the dude painting I was working on into the shop...

He is The Librarian.

Came out a bit darker and less dorky than I wanted him to be. It so easy to make men too feminine or too masculine and not at all easy to make them look natural. For me at least. It is always good practice. Both with painting and with Photoshop. *hee*

I am off to see The Faint tonight. Going to watch that dude bop around the stage all cute. Ha.

Wedding weekend completed.

All I did was eat for the entire weekend.

Wedding + traveling means nothing but double double coffees and fast food, buffets, and breakfast made by dad. Good thing my wedding attire could have been a maternity dress.



The wedding ceremony was short and sweet and I got to stand in the shade which made me very happy. Then you know the drill, wait,eat,sit,eat,talk,eat,listen to speeches and drink. And the most important thing about each wedding I go to is that it reinforces the fact that I am not ever having a wedding. NEVAH! :-) We saw no less than 4 weddings around the city on the same day, all with like 12 people in the bridal parties. It seems the number is rising! I don't even like 12 people.

(Oh, and on a personal note, the only bridesmaid dress I ever had to wear was freaking gorgeous compared to the ones we saw on route to our wedding. Thanks Lynds for not having us wear emerald green ruffled nightmares!)

Just now I realized I have a big orange patch on my head. The SHAME.


Argh! Its a battle that is difficult to win.

Oh, here is a sneak peak of what I am working on today...



Girls are so easy to paint, but what about the boys? I am going to try to do some boys once in a while to avoid the "I paint the same girl wearing different clothes" thing that its so easy to fall into.

Oh, and I am going to a Major League Baseball game today.
I know. What the heck?!
;-)

Let me be truthful.

I totally scrapped my silkscreen!!!! It sucked, it was making me insane, and it was super obvious I made my image too large. I can admit defeat. I restarted on a new little screen, and I know that will make my life less full of rage.

NOW. The weekend!

I traveled "home" for the weekend to see some of my friends wedding. I had an important delivery to make. The cake topper!!

The bride and groom were looking for a topper that was close to their hearts, and they are both huge rat lovers. So plans were made and I got started.

I actually made a little pink prototype first, to make myself a paper pattern. Then I made the white one shown here after learning from the mistakes. I had to back the wool felt with interfacing so it would stand up to being turned and stuffed.

Once I had both made I worked on posing them.

Then I made a base and attached them and their little tails. The most fun part was making the teeny tiny bouquet and other stuff.

And here they are on the cake! I had no idea what the cake was going to look like or how big it was or anything. I think it worked out great.

Here is the happy couple with the cake. I didn't get any fantastic pics of them with the cake, but I am not worried as there were about 200 digital cameras at this wedding and I am sure lots of great photos exist.

The bride gave me a super sweet and totally embarrassing shout out in her thank you speech, which was perfect. How many people get their website pimped out over a loudspeaker?

Here is me and the girls in the bathroom. I am going to pretend that tilt is intentional, and we hadn't drank for 10 hours. :-)

As if all the whole wedding thing wasn't ENOUGH, it was also Mothers day PLUS my dude's birthday! Fit all that into a weekend.

So we squeezed in a night of drinks and videogames until 4am. Ill advised before a wedding, but totally necessary.

So thats it. So much squeezed into three days, on basically no sleep. I am getting too old for this. ;-)