Birthday!!

Out of Cat Food

(a bad situation for all)

It was great meeting a lot of you folks from blog-land at CTN-X! I hope you all have a happy Turkey Day!

Girl Doodle

Brush pen (and gouache) on a story pad cover.

Snapshots from the Morning Drive

Here are a couple of memory sketches from my morning drive through Burbank's Rancho Equestrian neighborhood. I usually see people on horseback




And people walking many dogs. Almost every morning, I see a particular lady walking three portly dachshunds.


 

Also, who is going to CTN-X this year? I will be wandering the floor looking to say hello. Also, my roommate Carrie is doing a generous CTN giveaway this year, so be on the look out for that opportunity! :)

The Snuggie

When the Snuggie made its first appearance via late-night infomercials, I don't think anyone could have imagined that the product would ever achieve the kind of popularity it has. A couple of years, several parodies, and many pub crawls later, the sleeved blanket has become popular enough to justify the creation of Snuggie variations such as the Two Person Snuggie (for the couple that likes to be lonely, together):

 
And of course, this thing:

Now, even your pets can be a part of the fun! My cousin recently got my parents the Snuggie for Dogs as a gag gift. Naturally we had to make Daisy, the family Bichon Frise/Poodle mix, try it on. As you can probably tell from her facial expression, she loved it:

Later, I borrowed the sleeved blanket so I could make Chaos (current third roommate/foster child) a little more fashionable. Never before has a cat looked so regal :

 

But why stop at our four-legged friends, Snuggie creators? This of course has to be the next logical step:

I'm sure this would make many a salt-water aquarium owner very happy. But what would I know about sleeved-blankets? It's not like I own one or anything...

"Whaaaat?...I'm coping with being unemployed just fine.."

"I'm doing so well that...that I'm definitely not wearing a zebra-print snuggie as a sweater and eating a plate of bacon and boysenberry pie for lunch because that's the only food I have left in my fridge--"

"Hello?"

The Dress

Most people have anxiety dreams about terrifying free-falls, rapid tooth-loss, and the horror of leaving the house clad only in undergarments. My nightmares occasionally involve me being somewhere or doing something important and realizing that I am wearing my high school show choir dress: