Some Sketches

Here are some sketches I did While I was in Monterey, and one of 4 I did while comming home on highway 1 in the center. This is my new sketchbook that is also a journal that I carry in my purse at all times. It takes ink and watercolor real well and only cost me 6.50. It is made by Pentalic.

Another Great Weekend!!

I just got back from visiting my sister and her husband down in LA. SOooOOooOoo much fun! I am now working on an addiction to World of Warcraft. I am really going to have to budget my time now :) My sis took me to all these great places I had always wanted to go. GR2, GReats, and just GR, all of which were so cool!! I was very good not to buy everything in sight (because you know I wanted to). The food at GReats was very unique, and tasted amazing too. Who would have thought that frenchfries, yams and BANANAS would all taste so good together (there could have been more bananas..those were surprisingly tasty). And the burger was yummy. We went to a Japanese market after that and found lots of goodies. As if all that was not enough, we all got gussied-up and went to Hollywood to a place called the Geisha House for dinner. WOW! I cannot describe how cool that was, you will have to find their site. We then topped the whole thing off with a movie at the Arclight theater. LE was hot to see The Illusionist. It was a very good movie. The way it was filmed really set a mood. The score was perfect for the movie and LE said they used some sort of old style filming process which was subtle, but put a perfect visual effect to match the essence of the movie. If only we did not require sleep. I say that because it was so fun to play World of Warcraft with LE and Jon...with our cute posey of Taurens (cows). I have purchased my own game and I am working on getting it started right now, but it is already so late so I will probably have to do the trial run tomorrow :( Well I better get ready for bed...Nite!

The Geisha House

Geisha house fallen sun drink. Hangin out with LE and J Dog. Way fun!

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I Had a Nice Weekend

Thursday after work I drove to Monterey to meet up with Donn for our 4 year wedding anniversary. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Friday and just hung out in Monterey Saturday. Sunday we went to breakfast and parted ways. I miss him a lot. For Sunday's drive back, I decided to take Hiway 1 all the way. I stopped many times to take photos or do a sketch. I ate at Nepenthe (photo in "View" entry) and browsed the phoenix shop. Lots of great jewelry there. All the views were so beautiful! I ended the trip with my last bit of money at Haufragh's (not spelled right) in Morro Bay for a beef dip sandwich. This weekend I plan on seeing my sister in LA, that should be a blast!! I better finish my project I am working on and get to bed. I am exhausted!!

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Another drink

Orangedrop @ el toritos in montery

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Yet another drink photo. Can you see the flag pole in the background? I did a quick, not so good sketch of it. I may or may not post.

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This was a maui and pinapple from a couple weeks ago at enterprise fish co. with the 9 e girls.

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Maui punch at CPK in San Luis Obispo.

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Heat Wave Finally Over, For Now

The temperature is finally livable in my room again. There was a period where I did not even want to turn on my computer in fear of it overheating. I am almost done with the Copper and Green True Colors II journal. Maybe one more night on it. I have to do some scanning this weekend. Tomorrow is Santa Barbara's Fiesta! They let us out half day from work to enjoy the festivities. I am really looking foreword to it, but do not want to stay out too late. I want to do something fun this weekend, but I do not know what yet. I hope to workout a bit. I have been good, but I have some catching up to do from when I was in Shasta. I want to loose more around my belly and upper thigh. Who doesn't though:) Only 11 pages left in my journal I carry in my purse. I cannot decide on which one will be my next one. I am liking the doodling mixed in with the life sketches and the "diary"-like entries. This one might set a precedent for the rest. I would like to get in a few more pasted and acrylic-ed pages. I am always wanted more color too. I need to get these jewelry pieces done. I feel I have been working on them way too long (procrastinating yet again) That is something I should work on this weekend, even if it is just a little bit. Maybe that is something I could go to the beach to work on. And my tan ;) I better get to bed. Toodles!

Trip to Getty and a Dodger Game

Went to The Getty for a sketchcrawl, but could not find anyone. That place is huge! So pretty and only cost $7. Amazing! Too hot though, but so was ... everywhere. I hope everyone posts their work since I was not able to meet up. I had never been there before and cannot wait to go back ... when it is cooler.

Went to my sister and her husband's new place and dipped in her pool after the Getty then we all went to a Dodger Game. It was 98 at the game and the Dodgers lost. It was fun though, and it did cool off towards the end.

Wow Has it been hot. I am not sleeping well at all. It is going on 3 weeks straight now! Enough already! The whole country is too hot. Man I wish I had AC. It is late and I have work tomorrow so I better at least try to sleep before then. It is now 87 in my room.

Mount Shasta

Just got back from Shasta, but I have been working so much, I have not caught my breath yet. I better get to bed it is late.

Zebra is Done!

ALLRIGHT...i FINISHED THE bLACK, wHITE, AND oNE cOLOR jOURNAL!!!!!The paper was black so I used white ink with a dip pen to draw all the white stripes (took me a total of like 5 hours just to do that part). I will post a detail later so you can see what I mean. I hope Toni likes it, it is not like any of the other entries. I better get off to bed now.

Procrastinating..Or is it Just too Hot

I was hopping to have the TC II Journal done and sent by today, but did not plan for its large size. The spread is like 24" by 12". I have started my Zebra, But I am not quite halfway done. I will work on it today and hope to finish it. I am off to Dinosaur Caves with Mom tomorrow. I hope to do some sketching and some tanning. We might go to Nacho Libre in Santa Maria after that, on the way home. Monday at work will be totally crazy!! I am sure it will be a late night and very hard to get a lunch. We have been spoiled by our savior, Nancy being in town for the las few weeks and helping us out. It will be an adjustment now that she is back in Oaklahoma. Then The 4th of July I have a bit of work to do and the I am off to Shasta! Donn is bummed I will not be there 'till later that night, but I am not going because of the holiday, I am going to see him. Oh well. I am hopping the trip goes well, it will be a lot of driving in the heat and a lot of $$$ in the gas tank. I hope to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean wile I am up there. I just joined the new 1001 Journals. I hope to get some journals to work on. I think I will make a couple to put in coffee shops in SB. I hear they are always stollen. If that is the case I hope to get some scans or photos in before that happens. Maybe I should get one ready for the next ATC swap at Good Cup in SB. I better get cracking on some ATCs too. That is comming up! Well it is noe 78 in my room so maybe I will go to the studio and get to work. It should still be somewhat cool in there. Started a game called Paradise. I will play somemore tonight. It is a bit teadious but the effects and backgrounds are cool. Keep Cool!!

kyoto is my fave sushi place. sashimi on its way.

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Here are Some Sketches

I have been wanting to post these sketches, but had to wait for the DSL. I will post a photo of the Black, White and One other color True Colors II Journal page when I finish it. So far I have the image traced onto the pages. The pages are almost 12" by 12" and I am doing a spread so it is a large order to fill.
I have some more sketches that I will post later. The top one is my favorite.

Here are some new ATCs

These are the ones I made with my new jewelry templates for the SB ATC trade group.

I H A V E D S L A G A I N ! ! ! ! ! !

F I N A L L Y !!!!! Okay...now I have a lot of scanning and a few big photo posts to make. It is very hot in my room right now, so I think I will go get some icecream before begining this large task. I also got my next True Color 2 Journal. I need to figure out what I will do in it tonight and get it started tomorrow. Mom is off at FiberFest in Washington and Dad is in Roswell New Mexico for a new beattle meet. Sounds like they are both having a ton of fun. I cannot wait to hear all the stories.

It was a nice beach day. just might just have to go tomorrow too.

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Too Bad I Cannot post Photos right now

I finished some real cool ATCs last night using my jewelry templates I cut for the crow necklaces. I will scan them tonight, but I will not be able to show them here until my computer get DSL again(still crossing fingers). I am still tired, but I am still being good about working out. I wish working out was not such a time sucker though. It is usually 8 PM before I am done with getting home, working out and eating dinner. On top of that, it can take about 1 hour to get the juices flowing and the art rolling. Anyway... I better get some lunch before my break is done. LATERRR