While I was back in America visiting my family, I looked through some of my mother's scrapbooks and found this book I'd made. I'm not sure it's my first book ever, but it's definitely my first hardcover book.


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These are my American grandparents. My grandmother died when I was in high school, but my grandpa has recently gone to live in a care home. It's a huge deal, because he's been in his house near Seattle since way before I was born, and he built it himself, so leaving it has been hard on him and the rest of the family, to say the least.


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Back to the photos I found when I was back in Seattle recently... Here's one of my all-time best days at school that I can remember as a kid. It was first grade, and our class was making a big papier-mâché elephant for the school auction. We didn't finish painting it grey before recess break, so I begged the teacher to be allowed to stay in the ( Read more... )

Another one from the childhood photos I dug up on my recent visit to the States. Proof of past princessing.


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Jet-lag and catching up means it's taken me a week and a half to blog this, but here it is, my Stumptown blog post!


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When I was in Seattle, I had a great time going through some old family photo albums and taking quick snapshots of some of them. I noticed a couple themes that emerged. One of them was books; there were loads of photos of people reading to my sister and me (and looking at photo albums). I'm certain that had loads to do with me being an obsessive ( Read more... )

I'm back! I've ridden in a taxi, Amtrak train, another taxi, car, two airplanes, two Underground trains and a bus since yesterday (was it yesterday? It's 6am in Seattle right now and I am all confused.) I'm too tired to blog about the comics festivals, but I'll leave you with a couple things ( Read more... )

I needed to supply a photo of me as a five-year-old for a current project, so I dug up my old first-grade school yearbook. Here's my mug shot, which I notice I carefully circled and labelled:

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My first diary illustration ( here's my original post):


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