Hiatus

Since I am having major fail at posting on here or getting anything done to be posted on here; I am putting the blog on hiatus. I leave Saturday morning for a three week vacation and won't want to worry about this while I'm away. I am only going to Texas again to be with family for the holiday, but it is still vacation. :) Since it is warmer there, maybe my seasonal depression will clear out enough for me to want to draw, cross your fingers for me! I truly hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season, and a great new year. See you next year!

It Only Took...Forever

Well...two years later and I finally finished my kitty cross-stitch.

I have the next one started already too. I wonder how long it will take to finish it :D

Wordless Wednesday

Pittsburgh Zoo Trip

About a month ago I had visited the zoo. I went there with high expectations and left feeling a bit empty. They have lost a number of their animals, whether to old age or relocation and just didn't fill in the gaps. We had went first thing in the morning so a lot of them were still sleepy and not ready to face the chilly day. So here is what I could capture of my adventure. (They can all be clicked on for a larger version, just didn't want to stretch the page.)

First off were the lovely big cats. I was shocked to see the snow leopard up and moving about as she is usually asleep when I visit. As you can see the lions were still not fully awake yet, but they will always be my favorite.

The flamingos made me giggle a bit. They were making a huge racket when they all came out and when the keeps came by and feed them, it went completely quiet.

The elephants are my second favorite, they are so large but can be so gentle, it's amazing.

The monkeys are my least liked animal. There were more of them but they were either not wanting their pictures taken or my pictures came out way too blurry and got deleted.

My third favorite place, the aquarium. I just love seeing all the colorful fish and the other strange things that live in the water.

We thought the alligator was possibly dead o.O it just sat under the water and didn't move a bit.

There were a few more animals, but between them hiding or moving too much, no pictures turned out for them. I was most likely the only person there that was taking pictures of the flowers, wonder how weird that looked...

All The Things I Haven't Finished

Ever since I started this job as a stocker, I haven't made much time for any art as I am always tired when I get home. It doesn't help that the holiday season is coming up and it means a larger work load there too. What time I do make isn't much, and this is what I have so far..

This is as far as I have gotten on the eagle. The poor thing has been sitting at this stage for over a month now :(

I started on one mini painting, this is a crappy picture of it. You can't really see that the paint is shiny but it is and that is because it's nail polish. I came up with the idea when I realized I have all these polishes I don't like, won't use and didn't want to just throw out. Re-purposing sounded good.

This however is finished, was finished about a month ago. My first pony that is a crossover from Monster Rancher. I absolutely love the games, and didn't see anyone else doing crossovers with them. I want to do more, but there are a lot of things I want to do and not enough time to do them all at once. Maybe in a month I'll have a little more :/

Wordless Wednesday

I'm Alive!

I know, I know; I sort of dropped for a bit. I started a new job and I kind of let things go. Then when I do have free time, I have SO MANY ideas running through my head I can't settle on anything. I still need to finish the red eagle (which needs a name), I want to cross stitch but should finish the one I started before taking off on another one I just got a pattern for. I have this mini paintings idea with idea doodles here:

I'm talking 2in x 2in mini! :D
I have too many drawing ideas running around too, I just get to a point I feel like my head is going to explode. I need more hours in the day or something o.O

Park Trip

A few weeks ago I had went to the park again (haven't been back since sadly). It was then that I took pictures of all those mushrooms. I couldn't believe all those different types of mushrooms!! I was in my glory :D But here are a few other things I managed to snap when I was going "Oh and another mushroom over there!!"

Oh and some random caterpillars I found in my yard, they got thrown over the fence in case the dog tried to stick his nose on one and get stung.

I really like using the macro setting on the camera :)