My Evil Exes, Part 1

taking a break from this:

to start this small personal side project:

In honor of Scott Pilgrim, I'm going to draw my "evil" exes in regular and superhero form. Haha. Here are the most recent three.

Progress Report #3: Dulce!

A headless dog!!!

Oh wait! There's a head!

Juuuust kidding. Hahaha sorry. I got so excited after I stuffed the body. I just need to do his head. I'm gonna dedicate all of tomorrow to it to make sure I get that cute face just right.

Now why you wanna go and do that, love, huh?

Oh brother, I did so much work today it's fabulous :)

Spent more money on caring for my car, delicious Cuban food with A, mailed a custom order (but not before doing a photo shoot in the post office) to C...

helped two lovely ladies with a project

and sewed more Dulce. I got less than 2 days to finish this! Braaaawwrrrr!! :)

Rock The Bells: Crafting & dancing with Dulce & the crew

Hands down the most epic hip hop show I'd ever been to. Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Rakim, Tribe, Wu-tang, Murs & 9th Wonder, KRS-One.... Yeaaaaaahhhhhh. My way of pre-partying?

Sushi, green tea, miso soup, salad and jotting down my to do list! Hahaha. I've been so work-minded that I knew I needed to decompress before the show to really enjoy it. So that's what I did.
I managed to find street parking (yay!) and walked behind these fine jesus-loving folk. Everyone loves hip hop.

Afshin, Shaila and Afshin's cousin were late so I saw Rakim & KRS-One on my own, lost in the crowd, sewing to the words & beats, sketching neighboring listeners.

There's a picture of me somewhere dancing to Tribe AND sewing. I'll have to bug Shaila for that one haha.
Just broin' out. No big deal.
What?! And you can't see all 39849320894208934 members of the Wu??! Teehee...
Yeah, that's a bag of potato chips Afshin found on the ground. Yeah, he's eating them. And yeah, they were delicious.
Snoop, you were surprisingly amazing. Especially when teamed with Warren G for Regulators. Thank you thank you thank you. I can die a happy woman having heard that song live.

Work Day at the Beach: Progress on the Life-Size Doggy

I was supposed to go to SF Saturday to see friends and eat delicious food, but I stayed behind to be responsible and work on the custom order dog. This change of plans turned out to be an awesome decision. Adam suggested the beach since it'd be gorgeous out, so off we went to Capitola.

My aunt gave me a mini sewing machine she inherited from her husband's great aunt. Not only is it mini, it's battery operated. It even has a foot pedal! I'd declare it a win except for the fact that I couldn't get it to work... wah wah. So it just stood there looking cute.

Having Adam around was helpful as he also thinks in the third dimension. We nerdily discussed how to approach construction of the head. I didn't quite figure it out until we serendipitously stumbled upon a neighborhood build-a-bear. The salesperson was soooo helpful, handing me unstuffed dogs and bears to examine and flip inside-out. Universe, you're so cool.

It's a fish umbrella!!

This picture is so special I can't believe its real!

Guess which drawing in the sand is mine!

We grabbed ice cream, headed back to the car, found a parking ticket (bahh!) and headed home to have dinner with my parents except that it wasn't actually with them. They had eaten already. So silly. I tried very hard to just relax for the rest of the night while with Adam's friends, but dang, work kept creeping up. So, I bounced because work was on the brain and sewed until 2am. Mission accomplished.

look at those legs!

Now, I'm going to rock the bells... of course I'm going to sew. There's something very entertaining & special about sewing a giant dog while snoop dogg is on stage. Just me?

A Painting a Day...

gives me an upper hand in the boba/bubble tea/pearl war!

Tree Branch Custom Order Finished! :)

Crappy photo. I'll take better ones when there's sunshine.