Too Much Hutch

Do we live in a circus?

Yes, we do.

I moved into my very French apartment a week and a half ago. My roommate Vanessa moved in on October 1st. A few days prior to Vanessa's move, the landlord's mother was residing here. She had to move to an assisted living facility due to her Alzheimer's.

We are very fortunate to have a well-stocked apartment, but Vanessa and I agreed that it was a bit too well-stocked. We undertook a massive cleaning and purging effort that took about 15 hours.

We stacked many of the possessions into a large pile right by the front entryway for the landlord to collect. While he collected, we mopped and moved furniture.

Previously, the apartment had been very cramped and visually busy. We scooted around things to get to our seats. Now, our apartment is less traditionally arranged, but we have SO MUCH SPACE.





To allow for this extra space, we maneuvered both hutches against one wall - this was quite a feat for two tiny gals! The apartment still feels as if there is a bit "too much hutch," but at least we won't be bumping up against the hutches so often.






We organized and dusted for seven hours today. Then we ate. Finally, the space feels like our own.

Making Strides Now

I made a second drawing for Femmag. I thought the first one was a little discontinuous in its theme, so I wanted to make something a little more pertinent. I brainstormed a bit and came up with the idea of a girl looking in the mirror. The girl would either be a skeleton or have plastic surgery preparation marker all over her body.

I decided to go with the skeleton, because ribcages look awesome (they also take a lot of time to draw).




So that's that, as you can see. My drawings never turn out just like I envision (which sometimes bothers me, as I am a perfectionist). But, all in all, I think the ribcage looks pretty sweet, and that's all that matters. It took a little over an hour to draw.

Femmag wants me to do another drawing for them, once they figure out what the theme of the zine is going to be.

On an unrelated note, I've been catching up on episodes of Midwest Teen Sex Show. I wanted to post the best of the last four episodes, in my opinion.

http://midwestteensexshow.com/2008/12/01/mtss-21-boobies/

Just click the link, and seriously consider subscribing.

Baby Steps

I always tell myself I'm going to submit to this magazine, or to that journal. It remains a reassuring thought in my head; that I can be creative, that I can produce interesting work. It's a thought that rarely gets realized.

Tonight that changes. I made my first work of art for submission to Femmag, a yearly journal put out by FIFE, or Feminism Is For Everyone. The topic for this year's journal is Our Bodies, Our Lives, and it's about body image. As you probably deduced.

I'm not really involved in FIFE, and I didn't even work especially hard on this cover art submission. On the other hand, it's a start.

Version 1:

Version 2:

I also have an idea in my head for a short story. We'll see what happens.