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With as many lapses as there have been in this blog I'd never missed an entire month before, until July.  Factors contributing to my delinquency: Too hot to draw, so no work to post. Worked two jobs for a while, seven days a week.  This situation has been remedied. Was out of town for 11 days, with limited interwebs access. Lazy We all know which of those factors should be weighed most heavily, don't we. Consider this post the turning over of a new leaf.  Not only do I intend to post more (famous last words and a dangerous utterance in any blog), but I want to post more about what I'm thinking, as well as what I'm doing. In the meantime, what am I doing? I did these drawings whilst in Elgin, North Dakota: More soon!

Hi All! I'm back from Portland, where I went with Linda for her book tour to support Crochet Adorned (and if you haven't at least visited her blog yet you're off my Christmas list). We stayed with Linda's super-crafty (and amazingly hospitable) friend Susan Beal, her husband Andrew Dickson and their super-cute daughter Pearl. We both had a great time. Linda did a book-signing at the world-famous Powell's City of Books and at a local yarn shop, made a tv appearance on AM Northwest, and the rest of the time we got to enjoy Portland. Susan and Andrew introduced us to some amazing food and cool things to see. So, on with the post: We did the drive there in one day, stopping for lunch at the Milk Bottle in Spokane, Washington. I even did a brief sketch as Linda and I enjoyed our (ok, my ) new favorite peanut-butter milkshake. You will, of course, remember that Spokane is the birthplace of my father (assuming you're clairvoyant, as I'm pretty sure I hav...

I already posted these at Urban Sketchers , but I thought it would be nice to have a post with all the sketches from my trip home to San Antonio over here, too (at least the ones good enough to share).