So much for this commission. I wonder if my gallery isn’t representative enough of the quality of my work? Hm.
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Oh Well.
May
25
2005
Completed Cat Portrait: Sissy!
May
25
2005
I’m waiting on final approval on her, but here she is. I’ll post the final scan & details after the paint dries!
Equal Opportunity Mom
May
25
2005
Caitibug spent over an hour reading my blog lastnight on daddy’s laptop. She was giggling and kept reading my entries back to me and telling me how funny I am. Well hey, at least I can amuse an 8 year old! She would like to see more pictures of herself on my blog. I had planned on posting this one today anyway, so now when she gets home from school and checks in on me she’ll be a happy little camper. So everyone say “hey” to Caitibug! I’m sure I’ll have some great pics of her over the summer since she’s a little fish. You’ll know her by her goggles and snorkle.
Update: I remembered this pic, so I scanned it in, look at how much she’s grown!! Awwww.
I’ll be finishing up Sissy’s portrait this morning, then working on Taba’s mouse, and sketching out my first order for E.Webscapes! So it’ll be another busy day here!
Cat Portrait: Sissy WIP #3
May
24
2005
I’ve been painting all day today, and here’s Sissy’s progress. She’s almost complete! I’m going to try to add her final coat tonight, if not tomorrow morning.
Clover
May
24
2005
It’s been a nice (long) weekend, and now it’s time to get back to work. I have a ton of stuff to do this week! I updated my project calendar as well so everyone can see what I’ve got going on. Things have moved around a little bit, and those 4×4’s, well – I’ll work on those when my clients orders are fulfilled.
😉
Purple House Finches
May
23
2005
All I want to know is, why Purple? They’re not purple. Harumpf.
Update: Well, hm. Not only are they not purple, they’re really not “Purple”. I asked someone at Cornell (Project Feeder Watch) and she confirmed that these are House Finches. Now I know. And so do you. It’s pretty hard to tell them apart!
Thank you, mommy & daddy finch, for posing so nicely for your pretty picture. I love my backyard.
B.Y.O.F.
May
23
2005
This was a weekend of magic at our house. Not quite Disney Magic, no. Pain and swelling was involved. 😉
In one moment, you yourself can experience the magic! Wait! Don’t go away! You’ll enjoy this, I promise! Many of you have met Chloe, our beloved pup. Well, once a year we bring her out to the center of this empty circle in the yard, as this is where we perform our magic. So here she is, waiting for us to begin.
Well typically, it is recommended that you perform this ritual with a group of 3 or more people. We just had the two of us (the girls were off playing somewhere), so we made due with what we had. So we start walking circles around Chloe, you know, doing the chant thing and stomping here and there, and voila.
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His Wife is Wierd.
May
22
2005
But practical, and an even better term, innovative! Because everyone here who enjoys raking, raise your hand!?
I was gonna rake, I really was. But how long would it take to rake a bunch of rotten seed? And who wants to see pictures of my birdies dead on the ground from some wierd intestinal tract infection from my rotten seeds? And he thought I was wierd. “What on earth?!?!”, he said. “What’d we buy this thing for?!”, I said. It’s a shop vac, so why not?? And it worked. Brilliantly I might add. And so I proceeded to use it to vacuum the helicopters lying around that have been bothering me. And now they’re gone. And I feel smart. And he sat in a chair and took pictures. (And when I saw some of them I said, “you pervert!” and laughed. Because perverts are really cute, when you’ve been married to them for 15 years.) And he said “you’re nuts. you better blog this!”, and so I am. How much you wanna bet that he realizes the benefits of my ingenuity when he cleans out the gutters today? hehe.
Now for some real eye candy. I spy, with my little eye, something soft and fuzzy clinging to a tree! Do you know what it is???
OH yuk, the bad part of the day yesterday, malware and spyware and viruses, OH MY! I had used trendmicro diligently (house call, scan for stuff) for a very long time, but lastnight when we returned from running errands I had some strange thing asking for permission for access to the internet (I use ZoneAlarm). It’s a program called WildTangent. Apparently not a good program, even though it claims to be a tool for viewing media. Hm. So it’s filled with spyware and junk, and I uninstalled it. But it left pawprints in my registry, so I deleted that. Then I found a helper place online (which I’ll link to when I can remember the site name), and they recommended scanning your computer using Panda (link here, opens in new window, select “free online scan” in the top right corner, or purchase active scan pro.). I did. It found SEVEN infected files. I purchased the online pro scan (which removes all the junk if you don’t know how to remove it manually from the free scan results, and it was cheap for a scan/removal tool, 6-months at $8.99). I’m re-scanning now after manually removing 4 yicky infected files.
So, please, everyone scan your systems with this thing, I’d hate to think of anyone losing all their data, because if it happened to me, I would cry. Really hard. And become a hermit and never talk again. So GO SCAN FOR YICKY BUGS.
I’ll be painting today, on cam perhaps, so check out my cam status later. Come back many times. Check often! My blog will still be pretty, and you can watch me vacuum my yard! It’ll be GREAT Sunday fun!
Vacation Photo Album
May
21
2005
To sum it up, we had a great vacation, the girls were amazingly well behaved the entire trip (all kajillion miles of it), and now we’re back.
I’m going to get into great detail now, so when you “read more”, be warned we’re going extremely graphic heavy for you dial-uppers so I can show you some of my favorite shots from the last couple of weeks! Some of these pics are repeats if you’ve stayed tuned-in during my absence. If you’d like wallpaper of any of these just give me a holler. I’ll throw the wave I caught up here as a link, that one is a larger one for desktop wallpaper. 🙂
**one more warning about multiple images, you may want to click it and let the page open for, I don’t know, 2 hours ought to do it!**
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