Two Toe Design’s First GIVEAWAY!!! July 22, 2009

I know, I’m excited too! There are 3 lovely prizes to win. Take a look…

3 original, signed gouache and ink paintings of each of the main characters from The Hard Shell comic in their element. And holy moly, they’re framed in sweet, shiny silver  8 inch by 6 inch frames!

Tobey seems to have a hangover, poor guy.

Euey’s reading his own comic, what???

Milton tries so hard but babes are hard to come by these days.

Each also includes some fancy hardware pieces to hang the frame on the wall.

Or you can just stick it on a flat surface, if you’re tool phobic.

So, if you’d like to enter, all you have to do is take a peek at my Etsy store and leave a comment replying to this post letting me know what item(s) you like and what you’d like to see more of. Don’t forget to leave me a way to contact you! And then 3 lovely people will be randomly picked and shipped their new art!

All entries need to be in by next Wednesday. Looking forward to hearing from you!

A very personal thing… June 17, 2009

My newest item on Etsy is pretty close to my heart. It’s a listing for a custom pet portrait but as examples, I’ve included 3 portraits of my very own loves that I wanted to share here. 

First is my “nephew” cat, Mr. Tobey. 

 

Next is Mr. Euey, who is my longest running roommate. The dude’s going to live to like 100, so I have a feeling we’re going to be together for awhile now. He really does spend the day trying to pick up chicks but what he doesn’t realize is that he’s looking at a mirror.

 

And then, of course, there’s Milton. This truly describes his personality…

 

Right now, I actually spend more time with these 3 guys than anyone else. It’s nice to have a way to toast their wonderfulness, even if they can’t appreciate art.

More tomorrow!

Ahh, well Monday. June 1, 2009

It is so strange to be making my own schedule now. I’m pretty much working everyday, even on weekends but I take breaks to go bike riding and hanging out with friends. My night owl tendencies are also starting to rear their tired head and I’ve been staying up semi-late working, while the mornings tend to be lazy. But it sucks because I LIKED being an old lady who went to bed early and woke up early. I always feel like I have a sleep hangover when I stay up late. But I go back to sleep after my alarm goes off, instead of springing up and getting to work. I’ll see how it goes, but obviously I’ll never be a drill sergeant. Sad.

Well, I have some new ‘toons that I’ll be posting later on and I’m also planning a bit of a surprise that’s going to be a new part of the blog, which is good fun. This week, I’ll be adding my newest creations to Etsy. They are original inked cartoons by me, in hand painted frames. The Girl is Cat Costume is already up (http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25811284) and here’s a sneak peak of what’s coming this week…

These are extremely amusing for me to create.

The reason I woke up this morning is because I got a phone call from the Center for Cartoon Studies.  They said they could not attend the summer class I signed up for because it’s only for people over 18 (I’m 26, ha). Apparently I had written my birthday down as March 19, 1993. I’m such a friggin space cadet sometimes! I told them about the time I was at the dentist and put my birthday down as March 19, 2009. The receptionist was like, “Uh, ma’am?”. Numbers are not my strong point. I’m constantly mixing them up. As a child, I gave them little personalities and that was how I kept them straight but that got too complicated as soon as my school got into negative numbers and decimals. So now it’s just a big, numbery mess in my brain.

Okay, expect some ‘toons later on today!

I’m in a beautiful treasury!! May 30, 2009

Please take a look! It’s theme is yellow and magenta… Mine is the yellow envelope purse.

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=60916

Also, the Etsian who put the treasury together is super cool and creative. Check out her shop, Bloomsbury Group! I have two favorite items competing for first place in my heart, Simply A Dala Plush Horse ornament and Bloomsbury Snoodibbler plush. Maybe Snoodibbler wins just for the fantastic name! I feel that funky homemade toys like this are so important to level out the amount of plastic junk a lot of us have around. It’s good for our eyes to take in this kind of color and handiwork because I think it inspires us to be a bit more creative and relaxed. Or at least it does for me. I will stop drooling now.