The Spawnpoint

My sweetie pie

2009-05-05T12:43:32Z

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4 in June!

Miss me?

2008-12-29T20:03:38Z

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!

Smidgen of Dabbled Springwidget

2008-11-13T15:49:44Z

Get this widget!

dotdorsner @ 2008-10-17T13:27:00

2008-10-17T17:28:23Z

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

Return of... the Exquisite Corpse

2008-10-14T13:43:19Z

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

See, I've turned over a new leaf!

2008-09-26T20:05:17Z

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.

Other stuff:

2008-09-26T14:20:50Z

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 got to stop neglecting my LJ..

2008-09-26T14:13:37Z

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.

I survived dragon con!

2008-09-05T02:15:31Z

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

My Sluggy and Gus Fink 'tattoos'

My drunken Pete Kiki artwork:

Me & Ellie & my friend Grieg, with Pete

My new BunBun plushie!

all pics here

Dragon con stuff on Dabbled here, here, & here

ok, i know. slacker here, reporting for duty

2008-08-19T19:04:49Z

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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--Climbed Stone Mountain with the 3 yr old. He did really well -- walked most of the way under his own power!

Oh, and check this out. We got the boy at cute new bed and modded it to fit his old mattress.. $6 in the As Is section at Ikea, baby!

This weekend is our big blowout block party! I did the logo for it -- i think it's cute:

And here's some of the art I posted recently...

wow! records set..

2008-07-14T04:00:05Z

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

Twitter!

2008-07-02T03:25:34Z

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..

Robot Party Time!

2008-06-18T19:06:55Z

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.

Sabbatical. Day 1

2008-06-17T01:53:58Z

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

a long overdue update...

2008-05-29T04:37:25Z

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:

festivals!

2008-05-01T02:56:04Z

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.

Appropriately posted - Amazon kudos

2008-04-18T02:03:33Z

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!

Dabbled Roundup

2008-04-07T02:19:54Z

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..

the joys of a tricycle

2008-03-21T18:46:39Z

tap tap... this thing on?

2008-03-14T01:44:16Z

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.

Dabbled roundup

2008-03-12T01:45:45Z

Here's the link to the official April Fool contest post - Like the Anti-Valentines day contest, you can enter craftiness and artsiness, and I'm also including food as one of the categories this time. You DONT have to be uber-talented to enter, so .. Come on over! And pass it along. I had great response to the last contest, but i'm paranoid we won't have as many entries this time. :)
http://www.dabbled.org/2008/03/official-april-fool-contest-post.html

Here's the link to some of my recent artsiness, for those who like that kind of thing:
http://www.dabbled.org/search/label/Illustration%20Friday
My resolution was to do Illustration Friday every week and thus far i'm keeping up with it.

An expanded tutorial on how to make the Playstove - I plied D with beer to get him to dictate it to me :) - is featured on Whip Up - check it out. The original info on the faboo stove is here.

Hey Skullx!

2008-03-05T02:17:53Z

Dame likes my new avvy, and he has an avatar request too. He wants himself as a zombie (he's EvilDED ya know).

;)

New contest

2008-03-05T02:11:42Z

ok, a preview for my lj readers :)
I'm about to do a new contest on dabbled. "April Fool"

I'm expecting some participation from my fav artists... inspy, skully, i'm looking at you.

I'll post the official start with rules later, but this is just a heads up.

Skullx rules!

2008-02-29T19:15:47Z

Thank you skully for my new avatar!

Is it sunday already?

2008-02-24T19:49:07Z

I've spent the morning hanging and tagging my items for the Oak Grove childrens stuff sale. I feel so good that I didn't wait til the last minute this time (and drive poor hubby crazy making him help me). The sale has VERY specific instructions on how to write up the tag, how to hang the clothes, what size safety pins to use, etc. But since this is my second time consigning, it wasn't too bad. Though my finger hurts cuz i pricked it a few times. The whole point of consigning is that doing so means that I not only get a little cash back for the young one's outgrown things, I get to go to the preview day to load up on the choicest clothes for him for summer. So, Yay me!

D decided that yesterday would be a good day to take the crib rail off The Boy's crib and turn it into a toddler bed. This translates into the fact that yesterday the Boy avoided napping, as he took his new found freedom to mean he could get up and play instead of staying in bed. Luckily today he actually went to sleep for nap, after just one time of me having to come in and take his Lizards! book away from him.

So he was nap free when we went to Clay & Holly's last night, for an evening of toddler frivolity and adult hanging out time. All was well till the boys turned the lock on the door while we were on the porch and locked us out. Then they ran upstairs. After a bit of teeth gnashing, Clay went to the neighbors for an extra key, and coincidentally, the boys showed back up and figured out how to unlock the door. So no harm done. But we'll be giving Clay hell on this for the next several years i'm sure.