my desk is pretty!

As promised, pictures of the awesome part of my dad's birthday present to me...It's a jade plant made out of stone. Yup...every bit of that is stone! It's gorgeous, and a welcome addition to my barren desk. It makes me smile every time I look at it.





So pretty...

Yaaaay

Done in class last week while I was probably supposed to be following along....creepy, but amusing to me. Yaaay!

Birthdays 3 and 4

So, birthday celebration #3 was a joint celebration with my mom, who has a birthday this coming Wednesday. We went to Yen Ching with Allison, Chris, and the kids and had awesome chinese food. I don't get to go there often, so it's always a treat. The kids were in rare form. I think Aidan has two volumes- loud and LOUD. Evan made a pretty epic mess on the floor, including crackers, rice, socks, shoes, etc...He seemed pretty pleased with himself. It was pretty funny. We went to Steak 'n' Shake afterwards for--you guessed it!--MILKSHAKES. I drew Brenna a princess on the back of my placemat thing. It was honestly one of my best pieces of SnS art, but alas..I didn't take a picture of it before I gave it to her. Ah well! It was fun. I always love spending time with them!


And last but not least, birthday celebration #4 was with my dad. He came up for the day and we hung around the apartment, went shopping for a new keyboard and mouse, then went to dinner. We always seem to end up at Macaroni Grill, because it's one of my favorite restaurants. I like being able to color on the table while you wait for your food. And their bread is great. Here is what my dad and I came up with for the evening:


I just had at it!


My dad's handiwork...ignore the shadow of me taking a picture!


This is what the table looked like when we were through with it..haHA!


I'll be uploading a picture of the present my dad gave me once I have it in place. He got me this gorgeous jade flower plant..it's really hard to describe, but it's beautiful. It has little white stone flowers and from a distance almost looks real. I'll be putting it on my desk at work, so I'll take a picture of it there. My dad's always been good at finding unusual pretty things for me, and this birthday was no exception.

You'll see!

thanks, Jon.

Jon sent me a link to a typographic translation of a scene from Pulp Fiction. Which then made me branch out into the related videos. Which reminded me of why I like typography so much. People who have a strong grasp of typography impress me to no end...What they do may seem simple, but it really isn't. They can convey any sort of idea through letters and punctuation, just by changing the font, spacing, weight, etc...At least the good typographers can. Here's an example that I thought was pretty awesome:



Wish it would show the rest of the song...but yeah, that just really impresses me.

Random sketch

My random sketch for the day.