Stop and smell the...tulips

As stressful as my day job can be and as much as I hate going to it somedays, I do feel grateful that I work down the street from THIS!

Ring Number 2

Ring Number 1 UPDATE

Eventually I'm sure I'll come up with clever names for everything I create, but right now, I'm lazy. So for lack of a better title, here's a photo of Ring #1's progress. Here is her before. Oh and yes, I feel my creations are of the female gender.

Went for a walk

It's about mid 70s in Chicago. And it's only March. That's definitely not normal, but I'm not complaining! I went for a lovely walk with my better half this weekend. We strolled, drank coffee, held hands, and jibbered jabbered away about our dreams. It was lovely. Oh and there were these things:

Diamonds #1 Complete

I finally finished my first drawing in my diamond series! Check out what it looked like in the beginning. I'm hoping to do a lot more versions using different colored pens, washes, and various arrangements with the diamond motif. For now, this O.G. is being gifted to a special someone. But as I mentioned in the past, I do have plans for some print action happening.

Patterns around my studio

Sometimes it's the process that can be so beautiful.

My new theme song