Sunday, February 26, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Moving Across The Country Before The Wedding: An Illustrated Adventure
Last I updated about wedding planning, I'd just found the dress! Considerably more has happened since then. Things took a turn. The great news is that we found our photographer! He took a photo of us at a friend's wedding where we were making stupid faces at each other when we think no one's looking. We both knew as soon as we saw the photo that he was it.
This really seriously looks a lot like the picture.
That excitement was a little overshadowed by the fact that my fiancé and I were laid off the day before we met with him. That was terrifying, BTW. The sudden loss of stability and income, not meeting the photographer. He's quite nice and not at all terrifying.
My fiance found a job that offered to partially compensate for a cross country move, so we moved to San Francisco. I'd never actually been to SF, but everyone told me I'd love it. I'm nothing if not optimistic. This is obviously not my real understanding of the US, I just ran out of room for Maine.
The biggest thing is that the moving company we used decided my wedding dress was packing material. Here is a pic.
No wait, that's my ALL CONSUMING RAGE FACE.
This isn't an illustrated example, this is a very real photo of what my dress looked like after I unpacked it.
98% of me is obviously upset and traumatized, but about 2% of me is amazed at their ability to compress such a large dress into such a tiny box shape. I'm still in the process of getting that resolved, so that's to be continued.
There are a wealth of random pitfalls that we encountered and then the company that hired my fiance laid him off 5 months after we moved. And thus, the wedding was postponed. Fortunately our venue and photographer are SUPER wonderful and we got a new date that I think is even better! Next up, we're going to start working on the more DIY parts of the wedding, like my bouquet and invitations and such.
This really seriously looks a lot like the picture.
That excitement was a little overshadowed by the fact that my fiancé and I were laid off the day before we met with him. That was terrifying, BTW. The sudden loss of stability and income, not meeting the photographer. He's quite nice and not at all terrifying.
My fiance found a job that offered to partially compensate for a cross country move, so we moved to San Francisco. I'd never actually been to SF, but everyone told me I'd love it. I'm nothing if not optimistic. This is obviously not my real understanding of the US, I just ran out of room for Maine.
The biggest thing is that the moving company we used decided my wedding dress was packing material. Here is a pic.
No wait, that's my ALL CONSUMING RAGE FACE.
This isn't an illustrated example, this is a very real photo of what my dress looked like after I unpacked it.
98% of me is obviously upset and traumatized, but about 2% of me is amazed at their ability to compress such a large dress into such a tiny box shape. I'm still in the process of getting that resolved, so that's to be continued.
There are a wealth of random pitfalls that we encountered and then the company that hired my fiance laid him off 5 months after we moved. And thus, the wedding was postponed. Fortunately our venue and photographer are SUPER wonderful and we got a new date that I think is even better! Next up, we're going to start working on the more DIY parts of the wedding, like my bouquet and invitations and such.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Thai Iced Tea
I think of asthma as my throat being confused about being a throat.
I think of allergies as my throat getting tricked into being misshapen dinosaurs that attack each other.
Today I drank a Thai Iced Tea that was apparently made with lies instead of the ingredients I was told about. That combined with a steep hill meant that my throat was both confused and dinosaurs. I look fine if not slightly cranky when this happens, so I drew a helpful diagram so that others can understand.
I think of allergies as my throat getting tricked into being misshapen dinosaurs that attack each other.
Today I drank a Thai Iced Tea that was apparently made with lies instead of the ingredients I was told about. That combined with a steep hill meant that my throat was both confused and dinosaurs. I look fine if not slightly cranky when this happens, so I drew a helpful diagram so that others can understand.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Dr. Sketchy's SF: La Chica Boom
I took a pic of this in a different light, but it's still on the same brown paper as the rest of them:
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Girls Drawin' Girls Etsy Store
Hey everyone! Some of my things are available via the GDG Etsy store.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Dr. Sketchy's SF: Talia
My sketch-a-week blog has suffered greatly from my cross-country move. I finally got my stuff and unearthed my Dr. Sketchy's sketchpad, so I went to the San Francisco Dr. Sketchy's. Click for bigger pics.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Girls Drawin' Girls Book Vol IV: The Way Nature Made Her
This is my contribution to GDG Vol IV: The Way Nature Made Her. Pre-orders are happening now! Each pre-order before July 10th comes with a custom book plate from one of our many talented members.
It's the nicest book we've had yet with over 80 artists involved! Click on my pic for more details.
It's the nicest book we've had yet with over 80 artists involved! Click on my pic for more details.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Dr. Sketchy's Tribute to the Beijing Opera
I mostly caught up with friends instead of actually drawing during this Dr. Sketchy's. heh. Dr. Sketchy's tribute to the Beijing Opera w/Dame Cuchifrita and Calamity Chang.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
My Wedding Dress: An Illustrated Adventure
I tried on dresses! I bought a dress! I took notes! I mean, I scribbled out drawings on my iPhone.
I went to Kleinfeld's Blowout Sample Sale in NYC. I didn't really research where to buy wedding dresses in NYC, but a) I work kinda near it, b) I heard it had a show on the TV, and c) Kleinfelds is the fancy princess dress store and I very much wanted a fancy princess dress. Unfortunately I do not have the same budget as a fancy princess, so I bought a VIP pass to the Kleinfeld's Blowout Sample Sale.
At first I wasn't going to go, because when I hear about bridal sample sales, I think of roaming, semi-feral packs of friends all wearing matching tshirts and clubbing each other to death over the first spotting of what might be a Vera Wang.
The VIP pass was on a sample sale website, and it gave me access to the sale before they opened the doors to the public with my own consultant and my own dressing room. Fancy! Instead of rabid bride madness, everyone was so lovely and nice to each other. There was peace across the land of dresses. There was still that vague sense of urgency that all sample sales have, but even then no one seemed to be going for any of the same dresses I liked, so it was okay.
I even got to play dress up with sparkly hair things!
I think the only people there who didn't seem to be having fun was a surly looking mother-like woman in the hallway that seemed to disapprove of All Dresses*.
*Not my mother, obviously, because my mom is super awesome. She loves the pictures I sent her of my dress.
My consultant, Elena, was so great! I brought in a picture and was all "THIS ONE" and she pulled everything that was remotely within my budget and description. She actually found a dress that was so like the picture, I thought it was the same one until I realized a shiny thing was on the other side! That was the one I tried on first, and it was definitely the dress. Still, we tried on allll the other dresses just to make sure. But the first one was it. I pranced around in it for a while in the store and people smiled at me in spite of me quietly singing "I'm a priiiinceeeeess" in high pitched voice. Here it is!
I promise, it's really pretty.
The cameras were around and I saw bits and bobs of television happening, but never came into direct contact with it. I've watched the show a handful of times and recognized a few people, and they were all very nice. Two behind-the-scenes tech guys held the door open for me when I was leaving with my dress, so that was useful.
Everyone was very cheerful and happy for me when I was carrying the dress out. The girls in line, instead of descending upon me with deafening screams of "WHY IS SHE IN THE STORE BEFORE THE SALE STARTED?" started cheering and clapping for me. It was disturbingly sweet and I thank them for accepting me as one of their own.
I went to Kleinfeld's Blowout Sample Sale in NYC. I didn't really research where to buy wedding dresses in NYC, but a) I work kinda near it, b) I heard it had a show on the TV, and c) Kleinfelds is the fancy princess dress store and I very much wanted a fancy princess dress. Unfortunately I do not have the same budget as a fancy princess, so I bought a VIP pass to the Kleinfeld's Blowout Sample Sale.
At first I wasn't going to go, because when I hear about bridal sample sales, I think of roaming, semi-feral packs of friends all wearing matching tshirts and clubbing each other to death over the first spotting of what might be a Vera Wang.
The VIP pass was on a sample sale website, and it gave me access to the sale before they opened the doors to the public with my own consultant and my own dressing room. Fancy! Instead of rabid bride madness, everyone was so lovely and nice to each other. There was peace across the land of dresses. There was still that vague sense of urgency that all sample sales have, but even then no one seemed to be going for any of the same dresses I liked, so it was okay.
I even got to play dress up with sparkly hair things!
I think the only people there who didn't seem to be having fun was a surly looking mother-like woman in the hallway that seemed to disapprove of All Dresses*.
*Not my mother, obviously, because my mom is super awesome. She loves the pictures I sent her of my dress.
My consultant, Elena, was so great! I brought in a picture and was all "THIS ONE" and she pulled everything that was remotely within my budget and description. She actually found a dress that was so like the picture, I thought it was the same one until I realized a shiny thing was on the other side! That was the one I tried on first, and it was definitely the dress. Still, we tried on allll the other dresses just to make sure. But the first one was it. I pranced around in it for a while in the store and people smiled at me in spite of me quietly singing "I'm a priiiinceeeeess" in high pitched voice. Here it is!
I promise, it's really pretty.
The cameras were around and I saw bits and bobs of television happening, but never came into direct contact with it. I've watched the show a handful of times and recognized a few people, and they were all very nice. Two behind-the-scenes tech guys held the door open for me when I was leaving with my dress, so that was useful.
Everyone was very cheerful and happy for me when I was carrying the dress out. The girls in line, instead of descending upon me with deafening screams of "WHY IS SHE IN THE STORE BEFORE THE SALE STARTED?" started cheering and clapping for me. It was disturbingly sweet and I thank them for accepting me as one of their own.
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