Daily Doodle #1 & 2

I was poking around Wet Paint the other day, it's an art store in St. Paul, MN and not only did I run into my friend Steve, but I also scooped up a new little sketchbook, just begging to be drawn in. I don't do a lot of hand drawing anymore (sad), so I decided to change that by starting my New Years resolution a little early. I'm starting what has been named The Daily Doodle; every day I'm going to hand draw something and update you through my blog and if I miss a day, I better have a really good excuse or pull double duty the following day to make up for it. I hope you enjoy. I'm also happy to hear feedback and ideas for more doodles.

Steve, showing off some wicked highlighters from Wet Paint. 11/24

Cami, sleeping on the corner of my bed. 11/25

Kid at Heart

This little cutie is from the American Girl Brand kits that we sell at Michael's. It is a little owl shaped pouch for either your Mp3 player, camera or cell phone. I just adore it and had a cheerful time making it... except when I thought I lost the green thread, but really just one of the kittens ran off with it temporarily. For the little girl in your family there is just tons of fun waiting to be had with AG crafts.

Some Fresh Meat

So my sister has finally left the fast paced world of coffee making of Starbucks. Basically, too much drama. So now she is out in the real world and even though she is still in school, she had done enough hours to work as a Massage Therapist. I, of course, being the best person to work on her future business identity started working on a biz card/ appointment reminder card for her. I still want to try a few ideas out, but I wanted to give you all a taste for what I have been working on.


I also have the pleasure of sharing with all of you about this little number. A few months ago I started following this guy on twitter and then found myself following one of his followers who works in PR and writes her own blog. After befriending one another on Facebook, she invited me out for lunch to talk about a project she had for me. So here is the new look for Marcy's Minneapolis Career Girl blog logo. There is still some more work to do for her, but I'm excited for any and more freelance projects.

Even though this was made a while ago, my friend Mike has been making some dramatic changes to his site and now has incorporated the new logo that I made for him into it. I'm so happy to see my work up in the real (internet) world.

Last, but not least, I want to share the work of my reunited friendship with my buddy Steve Robbins. He is a great comic artist, wonderful character designer and all around great guy. I hope you check out his site and his blog.

Busy Bee

I just wanted to extend an apology out to my readers. I know I haven't posted anything new on my blog for a long time and the truth is, I have been pretty busy the last few weeks. I've been working any where's from 20-35 hours a week at my new PT job with Michael's, I also have a number of projects or clients that I have been working with as well. The Advertising Federation of MN needs a holiday party post card made, a fellow twitter-er needed her logo date pushed up and my sister needs a biz card now. Plus there are little things like looking for work, babysitting, cleaning the apt, trying to stay social, etc. Oh! And, there are all the little things I've been doing to help Jenna out before her wedding on the 28th! Sometimes I think I like stretching myself too thin. Brent says, I'm trying to compete with him, I'm not really, or at least, not on purpose; I'm just trying to make enough money to pay my bills and keep everyone happy. I've been on unemployment for over 6 months and even though I have this PT job, it's not enough to cover everything. So I stay busy, busy as a little bee in the summer time, even though we're going into winter. Hopefully the job hunt will turn around for me, it's been really slow since I started at Mike's.