4 in June!

Yeah, I'm still here... Just been the usual slacker about updating my LJ. You can find me over at www.Dabbled.org most every day though.

Sluggy buds: Did a couple of pieces of guest art for sluggy.com
http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=081226
and
http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=081229

Holidays have been hectic. I just finished baking up a batch of oatmeal dark chocolate chip cookies for neighbor gifts. And my first foray into candied citrus peel was successful also. (I'll be blogging that on dabbled this week)

We successfully completed the whirlwind tour of S. Georgia and South Carolina last week. Saw all the grandparents and sent the Boy off to Disney World with grandma for a few days. So child free! We took advantage of that situation with a nice dinner for two at Wisteria Sat. night. Was yummy good.

We also saw The Santaland Diaries at the Horizon theater a week or so ago. Was quite funny -- i highly recommend.

Maybe my new years resolution will be actually updating my LJ on a timely basis...

laters!

anyone else in on the new corpse? Post at sluggy (http://www.sluggy.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10942) or reply here.

Hey, any old corpsers out there! It's only been several years, so I figured I'd resurrect the game, for a short limited time run. So if you're feeling nostalgic, head over and sign up!

http://www.sluggy.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10942

No neglecting here, no sirree.

I was bored, so I officially sanctioned a new random silliness thread on the sluggy boards.

Silliness just seemed like a good idea.

Oh, i'd love some ideas and feedback on these little robots wearing tshirts:


What other 'bots should I do?

At Dabbled if you missed it:
It's a Dabbled Halloween... all month long we have halloween features like food and decorations and costumes. Check it out. Oh, and the contest too... Sponsors have donated nifty prizes, so get your entries in :)

I've just been busy!
Doing what? I don't know... where does my time go anyway?

Let's see, last weekend was the toga party for wtf100 thrown by the lovely samae. Like my cute hubby and my toga? He finally found a look that fits the hair.

More pics here

What else? hmmm... Well, one of my pictures from DragonCon was Boing Boing'ed!. I love this girl's outfit. Apparently the other 130000 people who've looked at it on flickr do to.


Oh, we went to a wedding in Virginia, near DC. The Boy was ringbearer. Too cute.
Here he is with the "other men", in the Party Bus on the way to the wedding.

Way too much fun at dragoncon...
Skullx, Pete mentioned that you cheat at Pictionary!??

But for the sluggy peeps who are on my LJ, here's some selected photos:

Yes, I worked up the nerve for a belly girl drawing, with my post childbirth belly


( more sluggy goodness under the cut! )

yes, i haven't posted in ages. sorry...
but you can always find me on twitter or at Dabbled if you really miss me! (Subscribe to Dabbled via RSS - or - add the Dabbled Feed to your friends list in LJ)

Having a busy end of summer...

--Went to Myrtle Beach - Review Here, in case you want to know if you should ever go there. That makes 3 beaches we've been to in the past 2 months. (Hilton Head a few weeks ago, and the Outer Banks of NC a monthish ago.)
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( Cut as a courtesy to friends pages - click for more.. )

I had record numbers of visitors on dabbled last week with my 5 part shrinky dinks project series... Next week, the baby ele-purse will make it's debut.

And check out the latest artwork here:

Been playing around with my new watercolor pencils.. this and more, click through

http://www.dabbled.org/search/label/art

cheers,
dot

Attention: Calling all my stalkers... I've set up a twitter account for more efficiency in this regard. http://twitter.com/DotatDabbled 

So, entering more of the web 2.0 world, and now i need friends.  so if you're already on twitter, friend me and let me know :) 

And I'll be doing a series of shrinky dinks from recycled plastic posts on Dabbled this week, so check that out too..

I just posted a tutorial on how to make the Robot Cake.

And also there are invitations and thank you notes (darn it, i need to send those out!) available here.

Ah, unemployment.

So much to do, so little time.

I tried to make sure i got a lot accomplished. Mostly stuff around the house and some spring cleaning on dabbled.org.

I'll post an update later with pics and stuff from vacation...

kisses,
dot

as the weather is getting yummy good, my summer avatar has been pulled out!

As i mentioned, we have had every weekend booked for the last 2 months! So that's my excuse for not posting muchly. I do admit i am more prolific on dabbled , but i don't really post the personal stuff there. So really, no excuse :)

This past weekend was a hectic one, with a wedding in St. Simons--D's cousin. We planned to fly down on friday a.m. but the flights were too full, so we ended up driving. yech. hate driving. but I survived.
Pics here
I still need to upload all the adorable ones of the boy at the beach.

Speaking of the Boy - for my local peeps, we're having a birthday party (3! eep!) for him on 6/7, email me for details..

Oh, did i mention I quit my job? Yeah. Did that too. ;) They were offering packages to leave and i just couldnt resist. Now i just need to figure out how to juggle a nice relaxing month off with the inevitable looking for another one!

And for your illustration update, here's the latest... Click through to see them upclose and personal.


and this one, which is also the invitation to The Boy's birthday party:

We've been busy lately hitting all the spring festivals.
We went to Inman Park Fest this past weekend. Awesome fun. and then the weekend before was the Sweetwater 420 festival at Candler Park. I have oodles of pics i took, but the only ones i've posted were from Inman park. lots of neat ones from the parade particularly. Inman Park Pics

Here's a cute one of The Boy and The Hubby - click through to see the whole thing.


And this weekend we're going to the mountains (thanks, Samae for all the hard work setting everything up!) We were supposed to go tent camping, but it's likely to rain, so we decided a cabin would be a better option.

The Boy turns 3(!) in a month. How the heck did that happen? Must start planning party.

I'm meeting my goal of doing Illustration Friday every week. Here's links to a few if you're interested.

I figured it was appropriate, as I started out this lj with a rant about Amazon, that i post this here.
I ordered some stuff from amazon... a couple of books, a new case for my blackberry, and something else -- i was anxiously awaiting as my previous blackberry holster had bit the dust. and i got the package. with lovely stampage all over the top saying "damaged" "found with no contents" "dude you are screwed" etc. an empty box.

So i immediately called amazon, and the nice lady shipped everything out again (minus the one book that was out of stock) with one day shipping, and refunded the other book. Easy peasy and no stress -- although she was def in India as it was hard to understand her at times.

so, kudos to amazon for a good experience!

Hiya all... as usual, been slack about posting/reading... sorry...

For those playing at home, here are some recent coolnesses from dabbled.

http://www.dabbled.org/2008/04/dabbled-april-fool-contest-winners.html
The winners of the April Fools contest

One of my favorite recent illustrations: Click thru for Humpty Dumpty for "Save"


Other recent illustrations are here.

Henri the Octopuppet, with a tutorial Okay, he's actually a Hexapus..

heh hmm..

Anyway, would like to apologize to my friends that i've been a REAL slacker about reading friends posts lately.

I promise to be better in the future, and i did get through several pages worth tonight.

thanks!
That is all.