I Have A High School Graduate?!?
Yeah, that title is accurate. Somehow or another, my oldest son suddenly became high school graduate age. At the same time, my youngest just graduated 8th grade and is on to high school. It's been a whirlwind busy week of graduation related "stuff", and none of it has completely sunk in. I may be actively denying that reality in my head, though. I'm not quite ready for any of them to be grown up. There are so many things I feel like I missed out on with them, things I wish I had done with them, lessons I think
New Shirt Alert: A New…Plunger?
Well, here we are in May (?!), and I'm finally getting around to releasing a new shirt (and if you want to skip my rambling and go straight to decorating your torso, and you missed the other links, you can go get yourself the new PMD Wars shirt here). This one was almost ready to go, much like the Blade of the Monkey shirt from the end of 2020, but I got hung up on the final look. I'm still not 100% sure (not that I ever am about anything) that this one is "done", it's one of those that
Happy Mother’s Day 2021!
It's that time of year again, when we collectively pause to appreciate the people that either brought us into this world, raised us, or brought our own children into this world. It's been a challenging year-which is almost becoming a new cliched thing to say, unfortunately-but while I'm sad to have not been able to spend more time with my family, I am extremely grateful that I didn't lose anyone close to me to the pandemic (though last year in general was a tough one for losing important people in my life: my grandmother, a close family friend, a
Gallery (and Stuff) Update: Insert Witty and Creative Title Here
I told you my hot streak of blog posts at the start of the year wouldn't last. It's been a month or more since my last post here, but, as is usually the case, I've been keeping busy. I've been working on Inside Toby's Brain a lot, as well as focusing on my latest sewing project for more than a month now, I think. Somewhere along the way, I also did another book cover for L.S. Gagnon: Thea The Little Witch: The Search for Coco is the sixth book in the series. You can get a copy
Who’s Got the Best Smile?
Four weeks into 2021, four new blog posts?! Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. I can tell you right now I already don't have a plan for next week, so my streak likely ends right here. It was good while it lasted, at least, though, right? These posts also have been taking a considerable amount of time between editing/prepping files to upload, captioning them, waiting for sluggish load times, and getting into fights with technology in general. I have spent four hours so far (as of...this word) putting this all together, which is fine. I still count
Xmas Card Envelopes 2020, and Some Stuff
I think at this point it's safe to assume all of the xmas card envelopes I illustrated are in their respective intended hands, so I'm going to go ahead and share them all here. As I mentioned...somewhere, I returned to the theme I stumbled onto last year: Totally Reasonable Uses for a Plunger. It proved fun in 2019, it was equally fun in 2020, and I'm much more confident about the potential of turning the idea into a picture book of some type. I'm building a list of "uses" to illustrate, and the envelope art will serve as some
Please let me know what you think, it makes my brain happy.