Girl vs World

Moving

2006-08-28T02:10:00.000-07:00

I've moved my blog here and here...but I can't quite let go of this one, its been such a good friend...

Play

2006-08-17T00:05:00.000-07:00

I've spent the last 3 days arguing with assholes and shysters out to screw whoever they can for the smallest amounts of money, and I don't believe in karma so I don't even have the satisfaction of believing they'll get their own in the end. There are a lot of rotten people out there and they'll be rotten their whole lives and that will be that. The best I can do is never be like them, and while they lie and cheat I'm just going to stand there and play my accordian. So there.

Illustration Friday - Clean

2006-08-01T00:45:00.000-07:00

Here's a portrait of my kids in the bath, sort of. They're not quite so furry. click it to view the larger size.

My Bird Friend

2006-07-02T17:44:00.000-07:00

It's nearly 6 pm and I was supposed to be at a friend's bbq 3 hours ago - but moments to myself are so few and far between...I've been nearing the point of obsession lately with wanting to do my own thing and I think my poor children are suffering from it. This morning my 5 year old told me that there was no one he loved more in the whole world than his best friend, and why shouldn't he? His friend will always play hide and go seek with him when he asks, and not say he needs to have some quality drawing time.

I'm Sticking with You Cause I'm Made Out of Glue

2006-07-01T01:00:00.000-07:00

As a mother of an 11 month old who insists on feeding herself, my first idea for Illustration Friday was of course, a baby eating food, but one of my favorite illustrators beat me to it. Then I thought of that song that I like, but wasn't in the mood to try and draw a glue person. I've been drawing a lot of kids lately.

p.s. Recently, Life of Pi author Yann Martel held a contest for an illustrator for a reissue of his book. He commented that it was sad that publishers didn't publish illustrated books for adults. Now that he said that I can't get the idea out of my head...if I ever win the lottery I'm starting a book publishing company. I'd better start buying tickets.

Feels like Rain

2006-06-23T21:34:00.000-07:00

Illustration Friday - Dance

2006-06-18T21:20:00.000-07:00

Illustration Friday - Jungle

2006-06-11T20:10:00.000-07:00

you can click on the picture to view the larger size. I'm not sure what I was thinking exactly when I made that hairdo.

Illustration Friday

2006-05-16T23:01:00.000-07:00

This week's illustration friday topic, angel & devil.....

2006-04-09T01:14:00.000-07:00

Every now and then I like to pick a random book from the library and this week's book inspired this late night illustration. I'm having some fun with Acrylic, Microsoft's free (for now) graphics program.

Speed

2006-04-07T15:54:00.000-07:00

And old drawing here, it was originally an illustration for an article entitled Ricism or Racism in Ricepaper Magazine. I promised myself I would do new stuff only for Illustration Friday, and for my second round I've already broken my own rules. Oh well.

Out on the ice

2006-04-06T00:27:00.000-07:00

Okay, its playoff time folks, and our first game tonight against the higher-placed-by-one-spot 4th place team led to a victory in the last minute of the game. It was remarkably similar to 3 trimesters of pregnancy -
very tired first period (and you ask, how can you be so tired in the first period? but we had to play 3 D, of which I was one, which often leads to 2+min on the ice),
superhuman, wonder-woman strength in the 2nd ( there is no way you are getting that puck off me!)
followed by the urge to cry and lie down in third. Thank god for our leading scorer who scored both the tying goal and the winner in less than 45 seconds.

Spring Has Sprung

2006-04-03T01:11:00.000-07:00

my very first Illustration Friday illustration.

A sign of good things all around, I've been feeling too well-adjusted (and too slightly overworked) to blog. I'm feeling renewed commitment to writing though, just not right now. Its one o'clock in the morning and my baby has woken up.

2005-11-29T00:20:00.000-08:00

Strange, the compulsion to blog. In effect I am sharing with the world things that I'm not necessarily sharing with those closest to me (if in fact anyone will ever find this page). I believe in that old saying - just because it happened to you doesn't mean its interesting, and so this is part therapy for me, and part recess for my friends.

It's late at night and I should be in bed because

2005-11-24T00:28:00.000-08:00

tomorrow my husband is working and I won't get to sleep in. I've just returned from my hockey game and still need a minute or two to wind down - something that certainly has come much easier now that I'm so tired from getting up several times a night to feed my 4 month old baby. She won't take a bottle but she's surprisingly patient with my being away for 3 hours for a game. I had a pretty good one, and maybe its coming back to me after my 7 month absence to grow my girl. I was worried there for awhile, I thought the fatigue would get to me. Did I also mention when they're breastfeeding they suck your brains out? It definitely helps when you can remember some of the basic rules of hockey, and there's been a couple of moments there when I've been lucky to remember my own name.

Hello World

2005-11-23T15:12:00.000-08:00

After keeping a journal for 10 years, and then not (for another 10 years), I've felt the urge again to write, if only to have a place to rid myself of all my paranoid and hopeless thoughts. At one time writing in a journal helped calm me - little did I know how much I would need it now. The reason? I have kids, and that changes everything.