I’m back from Chicago! It was a fabulous weekend, great weather, logistics went smoothly, and I did well at the fair selling my stuff, meeting people, and enjoying the time in general! Check out some photos here…

And a big hello to my new friends who stopped by the booth! Soon www.funcupcake.com will be a website devoted to my art, with a link to this blog. But for now, here are a few links to help you navigate around. Here’s a link to my etsy shop, which I will be updating with new merchandise this week. As well as links to photos of my drawings and art! I am also selling some of my wares at the lovely Renegade Handmade store in Chicago. And finally, here’s a link to my “bio” or “about me” page. I have so many new ideas to get working on, it was a very inspirational trip! I had some of those prophetic visual dreams too… and I have some new pens in some fantastic colors. Yay!

We found this old solid wood dresser on the street. When the guy in the house saw us looking at it he came out and helped us load it into the car. He said it had been in his basement forever. It’s old, and well made, better than any plywood crap equivalent. We talked about painting it, but something about it’s aged state makes me like it just the way it is. I love those handles!

And my friend, Sarah Ressler, did these fantastic bird paintings. I bought 3 to hang in the living room. They have great lace patterns underneath the birds, I just love them! It’s so nice to work around creative people, very inspiring. They all help to demystify alot of the elements and tools in artmaking, taking some of the fear out of trying things I haven’t done before. I think my artmaking will get a boost from this!

My beautiful boy Cowboy, is turning 6 months old on September 8th. He is so amazing, and did I mention beautiful? It has been so much fun to raise him from just 2 months old until now… When I get ready for work in the morning he sits next to my closet while I decide what to wear, and let’s out a little whimper, sad because I am leaving him. Today, one of my days off, after taking him out in the morning I decided to head back to bed to lay back down. He jumped up and hung out with me, something he hasn’t done before. I thought the bed was too high for him, but I guess if he really wants to he can jump up high. Anyway, enough gushing. Well one more thing. Another dog owner we run into at the park said the most perfect thing, he said “Cowboy doesn’t have a bad bone in his body.” He doesn’t. He’s so nice, so eager, so happy, so loyal, and so beautiful. I can’t imagine life without him! Happy Birthday Cowboy!

Silkscreened Tee’s coming soon! Do you remember the original drawing? I redrew it to fit on a tee shirt better. These will be for sale in my shop soon!

We’ve been enjoying some things from our garden, some hot peppers and basil. Now it’s time for eggplant, and they look beautiful! Their color and shape is just amazing. I hope our squash makes it to fall harvest time! I’ve been a little lax on watering them!