Today is the one year anniversary of Aretha Franklin’s death. She passed August 16, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 76. Aretha changed the course of music. She changed the course of women in music. She changed the course of black women in music. And for me - and so many other women - her songs were anthems, getting us through too many ( Read more... )

Guys, it’s up!! It’s up! My book is officially released! Aaaaaahhhhhhhh ( Read more... )

Literal 5min sketch, free hand, with nothing but a pencil & eraser. Sketching is not my strong suit, but this isn’t *terrible*, sorta. Making myself share it even though it’s not my strong suit, bc I fucking drew it. Like the face is weird, but the hair came out good and the eyes aren’t bad and those are the parts I was focused on. Am attempting ( Read more... )

Today is a strange day for me. I wish I had gotten to Mom's grave, just to make it feel a little like *something*. But alas, it was too wet to be pushing my chair across the grass of a cemetery - not very accessible places, unfortunately. But in Mom's honor, I did want to post a little something. After I got my IPad - but before I got my IPencil ( Read more... )

Was posting elsewhere some pics of my new hair color - got it all done up for the cruise - and thought I’d share here! First we did the cut and tried some color, but the pic I brought in for inspiration was more of a cotton candy pink color and it just didn’t work well. My new hairstylist - who I am crushing on just a wee bit - tried watercolor ( Read more... )

Doodling here while I watch cartoons with The Niece. Death to 2016. Hope for 2017. I showed it to The Nephew & Sis and said, "See, 2016 is dead. 2017 is gonna be better," and Sis said, "Uuuhhh, are you sure about that?" and I said, "No, but I'm gonna pretend I have hope." Anyways, I'm starting out the new year with a terrible sore throat and ( Read more... )

Because I have not had the time or energy to sit at my desktop computer and make a proper tribute graphic to Carrie Fisher, I went ahead and did a quick sketch on my IPad the other night while in bed. I am still learning with the new drawing pad app, as well as the Apple Pencil, but I have gotten a few of the kinks worked out. This is not my ( Read more... )

So, if you’ve been following this journal for a year or more, you probably know that Halloween is a big deal to me and my sister. We started buying things to go in the yard as soon as we moved in together - a sound activated creepy bat/ghost/witch/light up eyes in the front bushes, giant spider and cobwebs, light up zombie/skeletons coming out of ( Read more... )

So there is this site where you can turn yourself into a PowerPuff girl - here. I saw it on vikingprincess's journal and it looked super fun, so I made some PowerPuff Dodgers, which I need to post here, they came out super cute. But then, every year on Mother's Day, I try to do something nice for my sister. She's not my mom, but she had a big hand in raising ( Read more... )

I can't believe this weather. Just over a week ago it was 30 degrees out with snow and winter weather advisories. Now it's 75 degrees out and beautiful as everything. My sister spent the weekend putting down mulch on the areas of our backyard that don't ever grow any grass anyways. And then my brother came by to assess to start building our new ( Read more... )