Archive for Oddities

From oddness springs oddness.  Apparently.

From oddness springs oddness. Apparently.

You may have noticed by now that I kind of have a thing for finding strange stuff online. While I can’t tell you exactly where my attraction to the odd comes from, I do know that it started pretty young. Recently, while sorting out old…

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Inspiration and Oddities

Inspiration and Oddities

It’s that time of winter where I’m desperately looking for signs of spring, and yet we’re still getting dumped on with snow.  I have major cabin fever adding to my already just silly level of stress, and am in need of a little something to…

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The day I nearly blew up.

The day I nearly blew up.

I spent the last two days trying to learn (all of) JavaScript, and I think I gave myself a brain tumor. And more than a little anxiety. I present exhibit A.) A short while ago I went to the kitchen to make myself a hot…

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Gift Help for your Artsy Friends and Family

Gift Help for your Artsy Friends and Family

I thought it would be fun to create a little wish-list based on items I’ve pinned on my own Pinterest page to help out those of you who have someone creative, artsy, or just a little edgy and different to buy for.  From $11 –…

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Life is hard, do it anyway!

Life is hard, do it anyway!

And, just like life gives you, some random things. So I just celebrated another birthday, yay me for living another year! I don’t know about you, but I tend to not so much celebrate birthdays as look at them as earmarks of where/what/when is going…

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Chicago Comic Con 2012

Chicago Comic Con 2012

Two days after it ended, and I’m still not really recovered from 4 full days of Wizard World Comic Con.  By the time it ended on Sunday, my throat hurt, in fact everything hurt, and I was stupidly exhausted.  Think I was in bed by…

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Haunting Tales of Horrorbles

Haunting Tales of Horrorbles

The first book of the horror anthology based around the amazing, scary, and yet charming horror Berwyn shop Horrorbles (seriously, check it out) is released!  I had the pleasure of contributing a funky little pin-up for this comic.  I haven’t gotten my hands on a…

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What’s moving in March

What’s moving in March

Oh my, my, my. March, you are everything I hoped and feared so far, and we’re only a week in. It doesn’t hurt to schedule in the occasional evening of sanity-vegging time now and again when life gets crazy like this. So I’m thinking about…

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Artists are complicated.

Artists are complicated.

Case in point: food. So I’m one of ‘those’ people now. I am, it’s true. I never thought it would happen, not to me. But, I’m only one of ‘those’ people half of the time. Sigh. The story starts in high school when I worked…

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A Little Sugar Goes a Long Way

A Little Sugar Goes a Long Way

It’s getting pretty chilly here in the Midwest. We’re hardly into November and I am missing cooking out, festivals, trips to the beach and all the warm weather good stuff already. And more than anything, I’m dreading the long, cold winter I know is coming….

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