Greetings

A few cards of mine you can find at American Greetings shops and your friendly neighborhood Target.

New Baby Girl


Congratulations


Happy Birthday


Here are the icons I designed for the backs of our recycled-content cards. They're pretty cute, if I do say so myself.

Buckets and Cans and Tape, Oh My!

The painting begins!

Endless thanks to my parents for their company and invaluable assistance this week! So happy to have them visit and help us make our house a home :)

The Galosh

An illustration of mine has been used for the paperback cover of Overlook Press Publisher's The Galosh by Mikhail Zoschenko. You can get your hands on it here!
Design by David Shoemaker.

With Cupcakes & Coffee

Thanks to Lucky's in Tremont for inviting Julia, Emily and I to hang our work in their lovely café! The art hangs through the end of August and will be part of the Tremont Art Walk Friday, August 14th.

Lucky in Life

(click for full size)

Love you, Mum & Da!

All in a Day's Work

Soon!

Saturday we'll be lucky enough to have the keys in our pockets. What better celebration than to get a little bottle of wine, some take-out pizza, and sit on the floor in the middle of the house just wondering what in the world we've gotten ourselves into :)


In other news, the very last of the wedding invitations will be in the post on Monday. I keep running out of ribbon, which causes delays.

Hooray for Friday!


P.S.
Any opinions on the new blog banner?

Tonight's the Night!

By this evening, Johnny D and I will own a house of our very own!


But I'm sure it won't feel real until we actually get the keys and are standing in the bare living room this weekend. It's been a whirlwind! I guess this means we're officially adults.


Promise I'll post some photos in the near future once we're getting settled :)

Too Many Raindrops, Not Enough Time

Sorry, friends - not enough time to post new work. Next week will (hopefully, hopefully, hopefully) be less busy!

Why are the sleepy, rainy days always the ones that demand the most of my energy? All I want to do is snuggle up in bed and finish reading The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy.




On a more cheerful note: 10 days till we move into our first home!

Please Hand Deliver

Johnny D and I are the hands-on kind of folk (both being illustrators, that's just how it is), and so when it came to our wedding it was simply a given that we would be creating most everything ourselves. From the decorations to the invitations, and anything we couldn't do ourselves was (thankfully!) taken on by other artspeople and friends and family. We're slowly dropping envelopes into the mail, but as we're doing everything by hand, from addressing the labels to tying the ribbon to sealing the flaps with special adhesive, it's taking some time!
Last night, I wrote out scores of labels, only to realize I had just enough ribbon for 3 invitations.
Off to the craft store I go!


But the act of treating each invitation like it's the only one of its kind and being so personally involved makes it that much more meaningful to us. Of course the carefully chosen stamps will hardly be noticed, and one-of-a-kind envelopes will be torn and thrown away, and little design choices we labored over probably won't matter at all, but that's how we approach most things that are important to us. The minor, silly details are sometimes the most fun and we wouldn't have it any other way!

Check it Out

Original artwork available for purchase!


Many thanks to Steve Brown for all his hard work!

And thanks a bunch to everyone who came to the opening on Saturday :)

Need Some Fun on a Saturday Night?

Show Opening!
Saturday, July 18th
7-10PM
Brigade
1785 Coventry Road
Cleveland Heights, OH

Show runs through August 1st!

Chris Ryniak (Cleveland, OH)
Scott Radke (Cleveland, OH)
Julia Kuo (Cleveland, OH)
Claire Mojher (Cleveland, OH)
Sidney Lo (San Francisco, CA)
Stenvik Mostrom (Atlanta, GA)

See you there :)