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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Almost there... 
Well I got 8 hours of sleep last night and I feel positively giddy! The night before I had only slept for 4 hours and was sorta zombie like. But. I FINISHED! All the illustrations for all 4 books are done!!!! woohooo! All i have left is to colorize the last of them on the computer and write the text. Here is what has kept me busy for the past 45 days. I have not had a day off in 45 days - researching, writing, painting, scanning and creating vector files from scanned paintings then coloring them. After this I just have to finish two mini pet portrait commissions and one web freelance job that I somehow said I could do while I was telling the client that I was too busy to take it. Funny how that works, huh?

I should be able to finish all the work for this last book tonite. BBE and I give the kiddos their Christmas presents tonite since they are leaving Saturday for Texas for two weeks. I am SO excited to give them their gifts. I saved a little bit here and there for the past 5 months to get them what I wanted to. But what I am MOST proud of is that this past Saturday I got them to sit down and hand make presents for all of their family for Christmas! I know they are going to feel so excited to give their own handmade gifts to all their family. I would post pics of what they made, but family reads this and wouldn't want it ruined.

But here are some pics of what 45 days worth of illustrations look like:








And can I tell you? I cannot WAIT until December 24 so that I can DO NOTHING for 2 weeks!!! Two words people: Rum. Eggnog. (and really? I don't caresomuch about the eggnog.)

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Birthday Success! 
We dined, we wined, we danced, we laughed and I hiccupped and giggled all the way home. I have to say, it was a pretty fantastic birthday!

It started with dropping off the kids at their dad's house then coming back and painting my nails with a glass of wine and watching Sex in the City. Let the decadence begin! See the photo essay to see the progress:




Festive toes! With oddly large spaces next to my big toe! (this actually makes wearing my favorite footwear - flipflops- much harder actually. Irony.




Festive fingers! And yes I'm a dork. I know. I'm ok with it.




Me and BBE all fancied up.




Skyler was watching us take pictures and looked to cute not to share. (That's the dog couch she is on - they love it and take turns on it)





On the way to the fancy shmancy country club place. Before all the free wine. Yep, that's right, I said FREE WINE. Happy birthday to me!!




WE EVEN DANCED! Our first dance was to Brown Eyed Girl. LOVED it!!




In front of the not politically correct Christmas Decorations! They really did it up right for my birthday! heh.





I lost track of the free flowing, poured right to the tippy top glasses of Merlot...I giggled and hiccuped all the way home...

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