One of the things that have been in my art pile has been a set of four 'hero' cards of my sons' band directors. Their marching band program has a superhero theme to it so I agreed to turn the directors into superheroes. We have a new band mom heading up the spirit committee (who frankly is a bit of a flake) and I don't think she quite knew what ( Read more... )

(Friday, packing up to go camping ( Read more... )

Last night I lost two hours of drawing time but that's okay. I gained two hours of listening to my boys play at a pre-UIL concert. They both have band contests coming up in April so music teachers had the big idea to get them ready by having a dress rehearsal of sorts. This will be the first time for both of them to go to UIL. Since Paul lost so ( Read more... )

Yes, my son's high school lost the football game last night, in spite of being picked to win it by all the sports writers, so we don't get to go to playoffs. Why am I happy? No more early band practice, no more Fridays working the uniform room, and best of all, no having to plan Thanksgiving around the playoff schedule. One year we had playoffs ( Read more... )

Well, half of my mouth is anyway. Thanks to gorebash and his dental horror story, I was really dreading my deep cleaning at the dentist's today but it really wasn't all that bad. I expect that I floss more than Gorebash does. *L* I also had to have a filling changed to a crown so I took some of my commissions to work on. Typically, I had someone try to ( Read more... )

Dear AARP ( Read more... )

... and I mean that literally. It was 107 on Sunday and 105 yesterday. We're hoping for a little break when Edouard comes ashore sometime today. He's not much of a hurricane but we're hoping he shoves the high pressure system off of Dallas long enough for the temps to go down. A little rain would be nice too -- the front yard is down to crunchy ( Read more... )

... for some idiotic reason, people commenting on my Elfwood gallery think I'm Anthony Pryor Brown's personal keeper or something. Sure, I drew a few pictures based on his 'Wulf the Freelance' stories but that was nearly 10 years ago!! I have NO idea where he or his website have gone. The gentle advice that they go on Google and look it up goes ( Read more... )

In an effort to get Ryan away from his brother's Xbox and out into the sunshine, I talked him into having lunch at the mall. Anything involving food is a good lure for the almost 13 year old boy. *L* Ryan is funny when it comes to shopping. I have to force him practically at gunpoint to try anything on -- he views this as a necessary evil -- but he ( Read more... )

So, I dyed my hair with L'oreal Color Rays, allegedly fuschia but looking a bright pink/red, especially where I have a lot of white hair. I just did the bangs and a few streaks because I have a lot of hair. I thought it looked okay but then I went to pick up boys from school ( Read more... )