Making your holidays extra sweet

Happy Holidays!

Happy turkey day!

Since I don't like turkey and probably won't be eating any this thanksgiving, this is what I'd like to imagine my turkey will be doing instead.

See you soon Quatty!

Trick Or Treat Wolf

For the Halloween Micro gallery show, I made this little trick or treat wolf. He actually turned out looking more like a fox, but he's supposed to be a wolf.
He's about 6 inches tall, made completely out of needle felted wool, and has a small wire running through his tail to help him stand.
This photo has a cloth scarf, but the finished piece has a black scarf that I knitted with toothpicks and embroidery floss. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of it yet.
The money they made from the show was donated to charity.

The next show will be winter themed. I don't know what I'll make for that yet.

Feelin' Chunky

Dear Quatty,
I'm wearing a thick knitted sweater today and I feel like a ball of yarn.

-Scoopy

Trick Or Treat!

Here's the pumpkin I carved while I was in Seattle.
See who it is?

Micro Gallery

At work we had our first micro gallery show, set up at the end of one of the halls. Everyone was invited to do an alcohol themed piece no larger than 6 x 6. The purpose was to raise money for a portable bar.
This is a slanted poor quality photo of my framed piece.



"Sea Sots"
Watercolor, ink and collage.

It's hard to see in the photo but the plastic around the bird's neck is real plastic.

Narrow streets

I was walking the other day and there was this huge crow walking in front of me. It kept looking back at me and hopping forward as though I were some creep. I tried to walk slower so it would see we just happened to be walking in the same direction. I realized it was silly to be concerned with what the crow thought of me, but it was a scary bird.

Muto is in love with the internet

Congratulations Mary!

My dear friend Mary is having a baby!
Congratulations Ostrems!

B-Day

Beach Party

Went to the beach on Sunday for Lissa's Birthday. We spent the whole day on the sand and lit up a bonfire at night. I scooped out a little chair and read my comic book. Jason dug a really deep hole and stayed in it for most of the day. Every kid that walked by was amazed.

Unrelated, today I thought it would be nice to wear some perfume so I put some on in the morning. Turns out I forgot my deodorant. :(

Guess what day it is?

Hope your Alton Brown cake turns out good,
Love Skippy

Smoky Burbank

There's so much smoke in the air from the fires, it hurts to breathe. I'll just have to make it through the morning with my water and basket of figs

massage

Yesterday I was excited because I signed up for a massage. It was supposed to be a 30 minute chair massage, but didn't end up that way. I was greeted by an asian lady who looked like a roller derby girl. She had on a bright tide shirt and short shorts. I guess that's what makes her comfortable.

Turns out "crunchy" means the little bits of lactic acid built up in my muscles. Later I realized that you're supposed to tip your masseuse. I felt pretty bad and started to stress out, probably undoing the benefits of the massage. This morning I woke up with really sore shoulders.

Bad Dream

Last night I had a dream that I was stuck in a horror movie with kidnappers trying to abduct me from a hotel room. I couldn't wake up in the morning because I needed to find a better hiding place in the dream.

Pretty dumb reason to be late for work.

Cheshire

Ring

In a meeting the other day I was sitting next to one of the directors and my ring flew under his seat. Nobody seemed to notice, so I spent the whole time glancing under his seat trying to think of ways to discretely get it back.

After he got up I
quickly snatched it from the floor. This time I was lucky.
P.S. I had to break up this image into 2 pieces because the first time it was too small to read!

Comic Con!

Adam and I spread out the things we got. 80% of this is his. I also got a She-Ra cel I forgot to show. :)

Lunch

Thanks for lunch Pappy.

Heading to Comic Con this weekend. They're selling Torch Tiger at booth 2302.
See you later!

Dentist

Dr. Lee greeted me this morning at the Dentist's office.
later while they worked on my teeth I was stuck watching the View.

Party Pooper

Last Friday there was a happy hour going on right next to me and I realized I was sitting in my cube cleaning my keyboard with a tissue.

Pastry

Today I was eating lunch and this guy walking past dropped a pastry bag off his tray. He didn't seem to notice he'd dropped anything. The best thing to do would have been to alert him right then that he'd dropped it. But I didn't. I asked if anyone else saw that he'd dropped it. They thought so and we just stared at it trying to decide if we should pick it up. He was sitting near by and hadn't noticed anything missing. We were waiting for him to realize it was gone and then point to it if he looked over. He never did. At this point we had waited long enough that it would have been awkward to approach him about the bag. Then a guy with a cart rolled past and the wheel ran directly over the bag smashing its contents. The guy picked it up and tossed it in the trash. We could have saved that man's pasty, but instead we watched it die.

Black Cat

Yesterday on the radio they said it was an eerie night with the full moon above the staples center. This morning there was a dead black cat on our lawn. Poor thing. I hope it's because M.J. needed a friend.

Why does someone always walk by at the worst possible moment?

Dear Quatty,

Today I was drizzling honey onto some almonds I was eating at my desk. later I noticed I had spilled some on my shirt. I didn't have a napkin on hand so I tried to lick it off. Just as I had my shirt clutched in my hands with my tongue sticking out someone walked by. It was too awkward for them to ask, so they just kept walking.

Too much information

Dear Quatty,

I think I haven't been getting enough sleep lately.
The other day I found out I had my underwear on inside out.

Today I found that I was wearing them with my leg through the wrong hole. I knew something was funny.

Gotta be more careful

Scribbly dog comic

Dear Quatty,

You know the ugly window sill the land lady shoved against the house to try and keep the dog out? Well it's not working. The other day I found a pile of poop right in the middle of the dirt patch where the lady stole my tree.




I called mammy and she said to cut up peppers and sprinkle it on the spot. That would keep the dog away.

I sprinkled those peppers all over the place and went for a drive with Muto. I forgot to wash my hands after cutting the pepper and wiped my eye.

Mutie ran out of the car like a hero and bought me a bottle of water. I held it up to my flaming eyeball. I also splashed the water over my eyes and was thankful I hadn't applied any mascara that day.

This morning there was no poop on the lawn, but a pile right outside the fence. Either the dog was lazy today or the peppers worked. Results are inconclusive.

Pappy's day

Have a good weekend!

Dedication

Graduation

Congratulations Quatty.

Dentist ...almost

( Don't worry, I know when to go now)

Package

The other day I came back to my desk and found a package waiting for me on my chair. I hadn't ordered anything so it was a mystery.


It was a delightful box of Bueno bars from a very generous Canadian named Randeep. Thanks Randeep! .... Thandeep. As soon as I got the box open I ate about 5. Whoops.

Then I freaked out from the sugar.

Then I ate some more.

Good thing they are not sold here.

* WEEKEND BONUS! *

While on the subject of Muto, here's a lovely guest drawing by Pen Ward.


Happy Weekend!

Dapper muto

Careful not to repeat the previous day's blunder, Muto dressed to impress with a real carnation to top it off. Lookin' good mootie!

Muto's new shirt

Muto got himself a set of shirts that are supposed to be the color of the word written on them.
He left happy and came back looking concerned.

Poor Mootie.

Sorry Dilly, It's not gonna work

All Better

Mootie is stressed.

Oil

Book cover

This is the cover painted by Paul Felix.
And here is the description that goes along with it:

"What is Torch Tiger?" is the follow up to the wildly successful "Who is Rocket Johnson?"
A graphic novel anthology being self-published by Walt Disney Animation Studio's Story Artists and Directors.
It's an all-ages book in which every artist answers the question: "What is Torch Tiger?"
It will be sold exclusively at booth 2302 in San Diego (http://www.comic-con.org/) and is a limited edition of 1300 copies.

Parking

Dear Quatty,
This morning I was rushing to work because I had a meeting. I didn't have time look for a better parking spot so I squeezed into a really small one. It was next to a pillar so I couldn't open my door more than about 10 inches. Obviously it didn't work and I got stuck half way out the car. The only thing to do was to squeeze my way back into the car and crawl over the passengers seat. I lost one of my shoes in the process and tumbled out. Thankfully no one else was around and I got to the meeting on time. I guess I'll have to crawl back in to go home :)

For Mammy

It's done!

Not sure exactly when it's coming out but it will be ready for Comic-Con at the end of July. It's gonna be a good book and I'm glad to be included.