Epic Cat Battle

A couple of nights ago, I had a front row seat for an epic kitty cat battle between Romp and Oops.

Romp gets a swift kick to the head!

Romp on the attack!

Godzilla Romp gets a left uppercut from Oops!

And then they just chill out.

One Ring Zero

In 2004, ReadyMade Magazine created a compilation of music. A printed template of a CD envelope was included with one month's issue, along with a link and password to download the 12 songs. The "case" is labeled "Volume 1", but I'm pretty sure it should be labelled "1 and only". And really, that's a shame, because I found one of my favorite bands this way: One Ring Zero.

Since then, they've continued to produce amazing musical projects. Around the same time, they released a CD/Book, As Smart As We Are, with lyrics written for them by authors such as Dave Eggers and Margaret Atwood. One of the members, Michael Hearst, also wrote an album full of new Songs for Ice Cream Trucks.

They're just about to release a new album, Planets, about...the planets. Below you will find the amazing video for the new song "Venus".

Now, put on your 3-D glasses and turn up the volume!

Chop, chop!

Did I mention that I cut my hair off last weekend?




Well, I cut my hair off last weekend. And I do mean that literally: I cut my hair off. I think I did a pretty fantastic job if I do say so myself.

I'm a magician with a pair of Dollar Tree haircutting scissors and a hospital razor.

Thrifted Gifts

Brian and Jason went out of town for a few days last weekend. They stopped at a lot of ridiculous thrift stores and flea markets along the way. Being a good boyfriend, Brian brought me back all kinds of goodies!



Puffy, quilted wall-hanging? Yes, please.




Tin Pac-Man lunchbox from the 80's.



Amazing lion coin bank from Japan.



Awesome cat - stuffed body, porcelain face and paws.

He obviously knows me very well.

More Journal Madness

 This is my favorite page from my journal so far.

I made a rough drawing during a break at work. I came home, filled it in with watercolor pencil, blended it, cut it out, and detached my head balloon. The drawing is sealed to a piece of scrapbook paper with Mod Podge, along with an embroidery floss balloon string.

I'm seriously not going to overload this blog with every page from my journal, but this is another of my favorites from this week:

Please, no ogling. This is my first experimentation with image transfer using Mod Podge. Needs some fine-tuning, but it basically did what it was supposed to. Did I mention how much I love Mod Podge? It's magic.

Journal Crazy

My new journal has lit a proverbial fire under my creativity's backside.

My first entry was created with my also newly purchased watercolor pencils. It was inspired by the new teal-ish nail polish I'm sporting.


I immediately felt like trees would start growing out of my hands the second my nails were covered.

I made a second page on Monday. I won't beat around the bush; I've got a head full of anxiety a good deal of the time. Sometimes it feels like my face looks like this:



I have a feeling that all kinds of crazy things from my brain will be springing forth onto these journal pages from now on. I already have four other pages in various stages of completion. I'm a journaling machine!

New journal

I bought a new canvas-covered journal yesterday. I obviously had to run home and paint it.

1. The cover.

2. The back cover.

Now to fill it up!