Sweater Boys

Color Me Dandy

Nothing says the holidays like gifts made of root vegetables...

For I don't know how long, my aunt and my father had made christmas presents for each other out of rutabagas. Not surprisingly, I ended up taking care of a good majority of the crafting, so, after my father died, it became a tradition between my aunt and I. Here's this year's entry...

Dapper Daniel's got something new to wear

Unfortunately, the elf hat doesn't quite fit... but you are creative folk, you'll figure something out...

Merry Christmas!

Hoping Your Christmas is Fabulous

It's already been four years since I first wrote BJ's Unfabulous Christmas, and I have to admit, I am still kind of proud of it. Here's the first page of my colored version, but as many of you know, I still have a few copies of the coloring book version available. Let me know if you don't have one and you need one under your tree.

One Last Dance

Into The Pool Poster

It's finished! I am so glad I was able to be a part of Blackbird Theatre Company's new production. If you're in the Chicago area this winter, check it out!

My First Attempt at Animatronics

I've been obsessed with animatronics ever since my first trip to Disneyworld, where I made my family ride It's A Small World three times in a row. And I haven't missed a Daytons/Marshall Fields/Macy's holiday display (even though this year's was rather anticlimactic). Finally this weekend I had a chance to make one of my own.



His head and arms move around.

Hopefully this will be the first of many!

Holiday Projects

The time away from work has allowed me to finish up a few holiday crafts. Here's what I've worked on so far:




More on the way soon...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Kitten Punch Volume 1 Issue 4.5

I had the pleasure to be a part of the Generic Zine Exchange, where zine artists were asked to send 25 numbered copies of their blog to a grad student in Buffalo (aestheticoutburst.blogspot.com), where 1 copy would be placed in an exhibition, 4 would be archived, and the remaining 20 would be scrambled and redistributed. Therefore, eventually, I will receive 20 blogs by different people from all over the world! The one stipulation was that the cover had to be hand-printed, and I haven't done any sort of printmaking in quite some time. I finally found something that I was fairly pleased with, and stuck them in the mail yesterday. Since the covers are hand-printed, and since part of the project was that there were 25 numbered copies, I decided to post this edition entirely, instead of hand-distributing them. (click on the images to expand them, and, therefore, read them...they're a little blurry, I know. I'm working on it.) Let me know what you think, and how you feel about them in this format!

Monkey Likes To Party

I had a great time decorating for ahlloween, but come November 1st, I wanted it all gone. I am ready to celebrate something new, as is Monkey. Don't know what he's celebrating, but he is ready!