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My Birthday Week

If you haven't read my late-night, pre-Birthday rant, please take a look - it would mean SO much to me! I did have a party and it was a lot of fun. It was interesting to note that none of the people that would consider themselves to be my closest

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Comics Camp Day Five

The final assignment was to design our cover!?! That does seem weird to do the cover last, but now it makes sense. I thought designing the last page was really hard, but this was worse. It took me two hours to think what it should look like and what to

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GOrilla's Birthday Bash

We had a great Book Birthday on Saturday for Ready, Set, Gorilla! We took over most of the Velvet Moose Ice Cream shop in downtown Warner, NH and applied a LOT of tattoos... I lost count of how many times I said, "Now press this wet paper towel onto the

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Studio - Yard Sale - the Tail End

I've still got quite a bit left from last weekend's sale - including the darkroom enlarger, big conference table, art supplies, toys, art books, displays, some shopping bags... and a gazillion rubber stamps. (See some photos of stuff HERE). Please please please come and get some of this stuff! I

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Studio (Garage) Sale

If my studio is in the barn... is it a Yard Sale or a Barn Sale... or a Garage Sale...? Or Studio Sale? No matter - I have a lot of stuff to clear out! I had to move out of my big studio in Concord so I have a

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Oh Carousel!

I spent the last five nights staying up very very very late! I binge watched three tv series and built my Lego birthday present! Night One (Drop Dead Diva): the infrastructure ticket booth Night Two (Drop Dead Diva): the platforms and stairs Night Three (The Good Place): the poles for

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Queen Bee!

This was easily one of the most fun Birthdays I've ever had. Birthdays are a huge deal to me - I like to celebrate that I am still here. We had planned to take a trip down South this week - but the Hurricanes - "Florence", out in the real

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GraniteCon!

The Granite State Comicon was this weekend and, as always, is a great way to kick off my Birthday Week! This time I not only had my daughter, Lilah, but I had a whole Tribe... I was able to listen to part of the interview with Caroll Spinney (and his

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A Quick Visit to the Graveyard , part 2

My kid and I were finally able to go to the graveyard to visit my Grandmother and bring her some chocolate cake! She didn't mind that we were a few weeks late for her birthday - and the cake was a teeny bit stale... that didn't keep Lilah from eating

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Sweet Steps

This has been an incredibly intense week... actually, the whole month - if I count the graphic medicine conference and everything. I didn't have time to recuperate or recharge before I tripped over the zip line and went flying down the mountain again. Deciding to leave the big studio in

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A Quick Visit to the Graveyard

I promised her I'd come back to visit with my daughter... We have always celebrated my Grandmother's Birthday in the graveyard, with chocolate cake, but this year I went alone. I brought cake. But it didn't taste as good. I felt so sad. For the first time. I always feel

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Sketch of a Sketch-note

I got distracted by a bunch of things so I didn't post this right after the Graphic Medicine Conference this weekend - as I had planned. I was photographed while sketching David Macaulay's Keynote Presentation on Saturday at Dartmouth - and thought you might like to see a little of

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Graphic Medicine Conference - Day Two

Here are my sketch-notes from today's conference: I was STARVING by lunch - which was also Day Two of the Marketplace. I stuffed bites of sandwich into my mouth between conversations. I did sell a few comics and buttons, but I think I spent a lot of it on other

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The Middlebury Diary, Part 2

I updated the first blog post with the photos, so take a look at that one HERE. Saturday was the BIG event! The Non-fiction Comics Mini-Fest at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, VT. I was surrounded by amazing cartoonists! Marek Bennett (in the hat) was responsible for telling me

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Kids Con 2018

Lilah and I headed down to Nashua on Sunday to roam around the Kids Con comic convention. She had her "Go Away So I Can Read" t-shirt I designed for her, and I had on my Lego Batgirl Earrings and my comic leggings: Yes, my mom actually asked me if

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The BeeHive!

It's starting to look like a real studio! Even divided up, with furniture, it's still really spacious. The classroom area... The Shop area... The resource area... The Mannequins have new aprons (tangled, of course)... My mini studio... Part of the storage room - with a big die cutter and tons

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Bumpity Bump-Bump, Look-it Frosty Go!

This is me lately... You just KNOW that when it warms up around here, for real, that is going to be one truly disgusting pumpkin! Sunday... I was walking through my house and stopped to give Minou a snuffle. When - WHA!!!! I saw The Fireman building a Snowman outside

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The Spidey Code

My friend Debbee and I were leaving a really lively SCBWI illustrator's crit group at BAM! last week. We were the last ones out of the store and we stepped out into a cold, wet, dark, empty parking lot. Some passing headlights glinted off what I thought was a flattened,

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Gory Daze Parade in WRJ

The Gory Daze Parade in White River Junction has become a tradition for me and my daughter. Walking around in the dark with a thousand other freaks - many who GLOW! - is my idea of the best halloween ever! This weird musical instrument runs on FIRE! It's very very

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Back to WRJ

Lilah and I lucked out with the first sunny day in a week as we headed up to White River Junction for a mini-escape. We spent most of the day at the Montshire Museum of Science - there's a new exhibit about the engineering inside toys. Before the sun disappeared,

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It's that time of year again... RUN AWAY!

Sitting on this beach for an hour - or maybe longer (?) - the sounds of the ocean start to soothe me and wash the pain and fear out of my brain. I wanted someplace new - and yet familiar - to escape to. I've never been here before. In the

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Post-Party Check-in

So THAT worked! We had a great party... Guests arrived and left in small groups all afternoon and evening so it never got overwhelming for me. I got to talk to almost everyone. It was unseasonably humid, but still a beautiful evening. My daughter, Lilah, made carrot cake cupcakes that

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I've got an MFA!!

Tons of photos ahead... it's almost like being there! Before and After? Seriously! This picture... ... was taken during orientation - TWO YEARS AGO! And this picture... ...was taken last Saturday morning just before we headed off to the Northern Stage Theatre to get our diplomas! On the far left is

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What the Quo Vadis!?

It's getting near to the end of this blog's run... graduation from CCS is this Saturday! But there's so much going on, I have trouble keeping UP! I went home this weekend to see Lilah's performance in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. She was the Narrator and an

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Thesis... complete?

It IS quite possible that my head might explode... I am So tired. So hungry... but I admit it.. So excited!! I dropped off my Thesis package at the school today. It felt a lot like the first day of preschool - saying goodbye to my kiddos! Here are a