Doo be doo be doo bah

Per his request, I made my son's Perry the Platypus costume for Halloween. I couldn't have bought one if I wanted to, even online they were sparse and hideous. I'm all about sewing Halloween costumes, when hot glue guns, velcro, and unfinished edges are perfectly acceptable.

The head piece was made by using a baseball cap as a base, with foam used to shape the rest of the head and the beak. I could only find a black fedora, but, amazingly I bleached it and it turned out the perfect brown.

Quilted Platypus tail:

Five Year Old Pictures

A few of the photos that I took of Frankie on a lovely, cloudy day. I can't believe he's so big.

Little Red Tree

We spent a weekend in the Mountains, and the leaves were beautiful.

Donation

This is the 2-tone charcoal sketch for the people that purchased it at Jenecee's auction in March. This was kind of a weird situation. To me saying that you buy "1 portrait" means ONE person. I tried to tell him this multiple times, but he would just ignore that I had ever said it. I finally gave up and went from the picture they wanted. Not my favorite piece ever, but hopefully they liked it. They got a killer deal.

Black Eye and Good Light

I was taking pictures of Frankie's black and swollen eye. I discovered that perching him on the end of my dining room table is a great place to take portrait photos in my house. I kind of wish he didn't have the black eye in these because they are great.

Birthday Cake

It is so much fun to brave the marshmallow fondant once a year and create Frankie's cake. To be fair, Frankie helped with this a lot, too.

Summer Slacker

Like the title implies, Summer and all it's excursions have been rough on my creative goals. That, and work has been crazy busy. Plus my little family is hoping for a new addition through adoption. It has been really time consuming getting everything ready. See our adoption blog here, it was a creative work in and of itself.

But here's a few things, and I should be getting back into the swing of things now.

This is a rendering of a house that I designed, basically from the ground up. The floor plan and everything else was from scratch. I think it turned out beautifully, too bad their subdivision doesn't think it fits in and probably won't let them build it this way.

In the photography realm, here's a few that I like. Frankie going for a swim on a fishing excursion:

And my nephew, I took a few family pictures for his family, but this was my favorite.

I scrapbooked! My son is now 3 months old in his baby book instead of a week old.

I finalized a sketch for another illustration for Nick's game. This is the space pirate Big Mama Mehah. I was giggling to myself as I did this sketch.