Scissor Quirk.

Weekend Polaroid + List.

Hi, guys! How was your weekend?

My little sister & her friend happened to be in town from Calgary and stopped by for a quick visit on Saturday (yay!) and we ended up going to the aquarium to check out the beluga whales & sharks & touch sea anemones! :) So fun!

(That would be us with the peanut butter bear outside the aquarium - every hug = a peanut butter jar donated to the food bank + a free polaroid! Win win, hey? We got 3 taken...he he. It made me jones for my own polaroid even more!)

I was *supposed* to be working on illustrations all weekend, but after the aquarium I wanted to keep taking advantage of the lovely sunny day, so I headed down the block out to the beach for a few hours to read & nap. I worked and stitched and drew the rest of the night & well into Sunday, stopping to go grab groceries & yummy baked Capers' breakfast goodies. I stitched and stitched and watched some old True Blood (thank goodness for dvd's, hey?) and we rented 'Date Night' and I worked until I got a massive cut from my needle somehow last night on my stitching finger. lol. Sign to stop.

Not too crazy exciting, but we both had work to catch up on (oh, to be a freelance-worker) & there was enough sun that I was happy. :) Plus, it's always cool to be making progress & working on the same project together!

Anyhoo - work is nuts - I have two ginormous episodes due today and have only just been able to start them, and I somehow have to plan the weekend & call possible places to stay, then when I go home I need to finish the artwork for the illustrations so I can composite them digitally tomorrow. Whew! Wish me luck!

Hope to be back later tonight with a crafty post - I can't wait til a few days from now when my projects are all done & all that's on my plate is crocheting and long-weekend-enjoying! Eeek! :) It can't come soon enough!

Happy busy Monday to you!

Up the Street, Love.

I just realized that I forgot to share the rest of the pages I made for Up the Street, here! Goodness! I am oh-so-behind on my things-to-blog list! lol. :) Luckily, I'm up pretty early this morning, (ready to nearly finish that biiig illustration project!) - so here we go, catch-up! Some new pages!

Up the Street Scrapbooking is also one of my lovely blog sponsors, and has been since the beginning of offered ad space (thanks so much for the support, Tara!).

I made these pages for her lovely kit club using the July kit:

I know I use this photo of my sister & I all the time on pages...lol.
I just love it so much! (plus, grandpa's in it, too). :)

And a little page about camping in our fave place:

The kit I used for these pages is still available (and so yummy & huge & full of vintage-inspired goodness!), and be sure to stop by and see what her other lovely guest designers are doing with her lovely recent kits, too! Just gorgeous!!

Also, Tara's building a scrapbook store that's opening soon - it's been super-fun to watch her progress on her blog. :)  So exciting to see dreams coming true!

Hop on over & say hello if you're looking for some scrapbook inspiration, today!

As for me - I just brewed a fresh batch of coffee & am about to draw the last illustration rough of two so that I can embroider them both all day long & finish the raw-artwork part of things at the beach - cuz the sun is much too lovely today to be cooped up inside. :)

Have a lovely day!

Pirate Friday!

Hello, Pirate Friday - we meet again!

I feel like Monday's are my foe, and Fridays are so friendly. :)
Like a comfy couch full of pillows with your favorite blankie. :) No?

This week: Piratey goodness in the form of a cute bunny scoundrel:

"Yar" by T.M. Boyd of WaterBears, found here.

I just fell in love with this quirky little pirate bunny print when I saw it! Is he jumping into the sea? Is he flying in action toward the opposing pirate ship? Either way, I think he's had a little rum..and I'm down with that. he he. :)

Speaking of - I see a little rum in my future, tonight - even though I'm exhausted! We're heading out to a friends' (cough *sci-fi* cough) birthday party, sans sci-fi outfits (had the best idea to sew toy story alien hats - that's about as sci-fi as I get - but, alas - no time this week!)

What are you up to this fine weekend, friends?

I'm hoping to get lotsa work done to catch up - fun work - (you can embroider on the beach, yeah?) ;) & hit the local market & perhaps even thrift a bit - though hubby might explode if I bring another doily home...lol.

Have a happy one! :)

Little Questions?

Am I quizzical, to you? (I just love that word, quizzical...)

(love this quote to bits!! source).

Is there a question you've been jonesing to ask me, but haven't yet?

Now you can ask me anything, whenever!
(Anonymously, too, if you like!)

I mean, not that you couldn't here, in the first place - but you know. :)

I was having fun sifting through online friends' formspring pages the other day and thought it's time I finally signed up. :) How fun! (I often have little pockets at work to wait for scenes to render, too, but not long enough pockets to blog or answer e-mails - so short little question-answering seems perfect!).

I'll be redesigning the blog in the near future, too, so I have a post/faq page/a few burning questions that have been asked already in the works to post here, too - but any little bit you'd like to quickly have answered by moi or that you've been wondering - feel free to leave her right here for me! :) (a la 'where the heck is that Sabrina Ward workshop post?' or 'what did you do today'? lol). Or leave it here. Or anywhere! :) Ask away to your hearts' content! Scrapbooking, indie bizz, animation - anything! Please, just have a kind anonymous heart. :) lol.

Til next time... :)

Whew! (& Winner...)

Dude - weekend updates never seem to get up here before Wednesday, for me...lol. Is it odd to hear about my past weekend beyond the following Wednesday? Goodness. I'm a slowpoke, sometimes.

Anyhoo - just popping in to say hi! :)

This week is turning out to be waaaay nuttier than I thought, obviously - hello, MIA-ness! Here's a peek at what I've been up to for the past few weekend days
(& nights) - madly trying to stitch an illustration that's due very very soon - it's been on my list since the Spring. lol. No joke. Since April, or so. Ack!

Pretty colors abounds, on my desk at home. :)

The whole illustration is kind of an experiment/hybrid of a drawn line & stitched/embroidered color - hopefully it turns out as pretty as it looks in my head. :) I'm pretty much just winging it! lol...

Also, made the mistake of looking at my calender/planner the other day to help jump-start getting-back-at-it - lol (I like to write stuff in it but rarely reference it during the month). It was quite a shock to write it all down and realize just how busy I am til Sept. 1st (Aah!). Who knew? I mean, you know...but not til it's down on a 12-point list in front of you. It was kind of daunting, but also a good kick-in-the-pants to get a move on. lol.

It feels like our impending September is just the beginning of ramping up for summer, too - so weird. It's been crazy nice & sunny here, and our week's vacation is finally coming up soon! As well as: visits abound, last minute camping, party-throwing, projects projects projects! lol. Fun stuff. :)

And thanks for stopping by & saying hi lately, guys!
And for entering the giveaway...

Speaking of, here's the lucky winner of the $50 CSN gift certificate:

Congrats, Katie! I'll send you a quick note once I track down your e-mail address, but in the meantime - if you see this - please feel free to send me a note at michelle.a.clement@gmail.com!

Kay, guys - tonight will be nuts as I madly finish stitching, but I have so much fun stuff to blog about & I hope to get *something* else up (like the second part of the art journal?) for you by tomorrow! Wish me luck! he he. :)

Also, if you're waiting on an e-mail, my apologies - I'm quite backlogged at the moment but hope to catch up soon!