Tis' the Season!

This is how I feel about the holiday season...

Merry Christmas!

Have you ever seen that movie Four Christmas's?  Well, that pretty much sums up our Christmas Day.  It was crazy hectic...we were up early, went to four different houses, were told we were being disrespectful for leaving early at one house, were told we were disrespectful at another house for admitting we didn't like pumpkin pie, and had a cranky baby to deal with once we finally got home.  And people wonder why we're such bah humbugs and hate this time of year.  It is not magical...it is not fun...and I'm pretty sure next year we are just staying home.



Here's my Christmas doodle.  A day late.  I'm just happy the holidays are finally over.

Happy Xmas Eve!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

So I'm well aware that I am almost a week behind in posting my Christmas doodle, but I still wanted to post this before the year ended!  I actually did this weeks ago during some down time at work, but just got around to scanning it and posting it today.  I've been super distracted and unmotivated lately due to reasons I will explain in a future post, but for now here is my last post of 2014!  I had a pretty descent year, and looking forward to a very exciting 2015!  More to come!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!  I hope everyone is eating tons of candy!  Here is my little Halloween doodle for you to enjoy! 

Halloween Week!

Happy Halloween week!  I know I haven't been posting a ton on here, but I can guarantee you that I've been slowly filling up my sketch book!  If you've been following me on instagram, you will find that I sometimes post art on there that I don't post on my blog.  Anyways, as I wrote in my previous post, I have been super inspired by Tim Burton's 'Nightmare Before Christmas', and decided to make a little doodle of Jack.  I'm all ready for Halloween!  Now I'm just hoping I don't eat the entire bag of Reese's Peanut Butter cups that I bought for our trick-or-treaters!

Painted Pumpkins!

Fall is probably my favorite season.  I love the weather, I love the fashion, I love Halloween, and I love painting pumpkins!  I only painted one this year, as opposed to the two I painted last year, but this year I got a little bigger of a pumpkin and painted both sides.  If you couldn't tell, they are inspired by Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.  I have always been a huge fan of Tim Burton's work, and couldn't think of a better time of year to be inspired by him.  

And if you can see in the last picture above, I also have a hand painted mail box.  I painted this years ago, but I don't think I ever showcased it on this blog.  I had found an old, white, flower covered mail box, and not wanting to pass up an opportunity to be creative, I did what any girl would have done...I painted skulls on it!  I've had this mail box on my house for about 4-5 years now, so it might look a little dirty in the close up below, but I still wanted to post it. 

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Here is my Valentine's Day doodle.  I scanned some newspaper in as the background and I'm kinda liking the texture it adds to this illustration!  

Merry Christmas!

...and when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse!

Hope you all are having a great Christmas!  Mine's been pretty sweet, got a WWE Daniel Bryan 'Yes' t-shirt, some Ninja Turtle slippers, and the ultimate gift of an automatic car starter!  I also scored a brandy new sketch book and a Shel Silverstein book from our holiday grab bag at work!  And with all the holiday baking I've been doing, I've only managed to set off the smoke alarm once!  

Now I'm off to spend time with my family.  Have a great rest of the day everyone! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

At the beginning of November, I made an early New Year's resolution to not be so grumpy around the holidays.  For those of you who remember last year's post, and this post from the year before, you know what a grump I can be, so hopefully you will be seeing happier holiday posts from now on!  

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!  One of my favorite holidays!  Hope everyone is enjoying the day and eating lots of candy!

Halloween is in the air!

I'm usually not one to decorate for any holiday other than Christmas, however this fall/halloween I have been feeling a little festive!  After years of trying to perfect the art of carving pumpkins, and failing miserably each time, last year was the first year I gave up carving, and turned to painting pumpkins!  Do you remember this post, where I painted my very first pumpkin in the dark due to hurricane Sandy?  Well, I had so much fun painting it that this year I decided to paint two of them!  I prefer smaller pumpkins, for me they are just easier to handle, so I picked up two of 'em at ShopRite last week while I was food shopping.  I gathered all my supplies, including some yummy homemade cucumber water in my new mason jar (recipe here), and went to work!  (don't mind my pink striped pajama pants and polk-a-dotted slipper socks. I like to be comfy as I work, haha).

I took my time, and completed these two pumpkins in a just few days.  They were so much fun to paint, I wish I bought more!  Here are the end results...

Now the hard part is deciding where to put them.  In my living room in front of my fire place?  Or outside on my front steps?  Decisions decisions decisions...

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas everyone!  Every year I say I am going to design my own Christmas card, and every year I get consumed in decorating my house, christmas shopping, wrapping gifts, making presents, ect. that I never have the time to do so!  This year I put my foot down.  I actually designed this card back in October, to ensure I had one to post!

  I hope everyone has a great Christmas!!  

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  

Hurricane Sandy

Anyone who hasn't heard, Hurricane Sandy swept across NJ on October 30th and destroyed almost everything in it's path.  It left a lot of people with out power, myself included, who was without power for 10 days.  One way I prepared myself for this hurricane was to go grocery shopping three days before.  While I was there I saw these cute little pumpkins and realized that it was almost halloween and I totally forgot about getting a pumpkin!  I picked one up with intents that I would paint it if the power went out.  Well our power did go out and within moments I lit a bunch of candles and painted this by candle light.  I had so much fun!  Since the power was out, there was nothing to distract me, like tv or internet, or my cell phone, so I was really able to enjoy it.  If I realized that I was going to be without power for so long I would have picked up a few more, but instead I spent the rest of my 10 days knitting and trying not to be grumpy.  I will be posting some of my knitting projects once I stop being lazy.